Architect Block
Design and visualize your builds in 3D before placing a single block!
🏗️ Overview
The Architect Block is a powerful building assistant that lets you plan, preview, and execute complex structures with ease. Simply place the block, design your build in a virtual 3D grid, load your materials, and watch your creation come to life!
✨ Features
📐 3D Grid Design System
- Choose between 16x16x16 or 32x32x32 building grids
- Navigate through layers with intuitive up/down controls
- Color-coded blocks show your design at a glance
- Gray cells indicate existing terrain that can't be overwritten
🎨 Visual Block Selection
- 9-slot inventory for different block types
- Right-click any slot to select it for drawing
- Each slot displays with a unique color in the grid
- Left-click or drag to place your selected block
- If you want to draw multiple lines or blocks then drag with left click, and if you want to remove multiple selection then drag with right click
⚡ One-Click Building
- Click BUILD to construct your entire design instantly
- Blocks are automatically consumed from the inventory
- Clear error messages if you don't have enough materials
- Design resets after building, ready for your next creation!
🗺️ Terrain Awareness
- Automatically scans the area in front of the block
- Shows existing blocks as obstacles in your grid
- Prevents accidental overwrites of existing structures
- Perfect for building additions to existing builds
- Also after you have build something, the block shall rescan and then gray out those occupied blocks also
📖 How to Use
- Craft the Architect Block (recipe unlocks when you craft a Crafting Table)
- Place the block facing the direction you want to build
- Right-click to open the design interface
- Select a grid size (16×16×16 or 32×32×32)
- Load building materials into the 9-slot inventory
- Right-click a material slot to select it
- Left-click on the grid to place blocks in your design
- Right-click drag on the grid to erase blocks
- Click BUILD when ready!
🔧 Crafting Recipe
📦 Installation
- Install Fabric Loader
- Install Fabric API
- Download the Architect Block JAR for your Minecraft version
- Place the JAR in your
mods folder
- Launch Minecraft!
📜 License
This mod is released under the MIT License. Feel free to include it in modpacks!
