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Minecraft: Java Edition
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a mod for people who can engineer a factory… but can't build a decent wall
👋 Hi!
My name is Donnie — an enthusiast developer.
I can build complex machines, automate half the game…
…but when it comes to survival building?
yeah… no.
So I decided to fix that.
By making the game do the annoying parts for me.
⚠️ Status
🚧 Active development
This is a passion project. I'm learning as I go, so expect rough edges, weird ideas, and updates that actually change things.
🔨 The Tool: Trowel
This mod is built around one idea:
building in survival should feel creative, without actually becoming creative mode.
The Trowel is a smart building tool for:
- texturing walls without constantly swapping blocks by hand
- making clean gradients and patterns
- replacing existing blocks without tearing everything down
- building large walls and floors much faster than normal
It currently comes in four tiers:
🟠 Copper Trowel — chaos mode
The simple one.
- Uses blocks from your hotbar
- Places them in a slightly random order
- Great for quick texturing and rough variation
- Perfect when you want a wall to stop looking flat, but don't want to micromanage every block
basically: "just make it look less boring"
⚙️ Iron Trowel — control mode
The practical survival upgrade.
- Lets you pick materials directly from your inventory
- Gives you more control over what gets placed
- Better for planned builds, cleaner palettes, and less randomness
- A good middle ground between "chaos texture spam" and full pattern control
for when you start pretending you know what you're doing
💎 Diamond Trowel — architect mode
This is where things get serious.
- Choose exactly which blocks the trowel can use
- Set block ratios for mixed palettes
- Control placement order instead of relying on randomness
- Great for stripes, gradients, checkerboards, and deliberate patterns
- Supports rotation controls for directional blocks
Use Ctrl + Right Click to change placement order.
suddenly you're not bad at building anymore. suspicious.
🔥 Netherite Trowel — endgame mode
The final upgrade for people who are done placing blocks one by one.
- Higher durability
- Bigger quick-place range
- Better suited for large walls, roads, roofs, and long survival projects
- Built for high-volume building without losing control
- Best version of the trowel for serious late-game use
It can be upgraded through a normal smithing recipe, and also has a Create sequenced assembly recipe when Create is installed.
🚀 Quick Place Mode
For when building by hand starts feeling insulting.
Available on the higher trowel tiers.
- Press Alt + Right Click to start a quick-place selection
- Preview the full area before placing
- Great for walls, floors, facades, and other flat surfaces
- Works especially well with ordered palettes and checkerboard-style patterns
- Netherite pushes this even further for large-scale builds
⚠️ It is meant for fast clean surfaces, not cursed 3D geometry.
✅ Built with modded survival building in mind, including Create-based setups
🔁 Replacement Mode
Hold a pickaxe or shovel in your offhand to activate replacement mode.
This lets you swap existing blocks directly instead of breaking everything first.
- Pickaxe in offhand: great for stone, bricks, deepslate, and most hard building blocks
- Shovel in offhand: great for dirt, gravel, sand, paths, and terrain-style reworking
- Replace blocks much more cleanly during renovations
- Ideal for fixing ugly gradients, reworking roads, touching up terrain, and changing palettes mid-build
In other words:
- less rebuilding
- less cleanup
- less suffering
✨ Enchantments
Yes, the trowels are enchantable.
Supported enchantments
- Efficiency → increases smart building radius / building power
- Fortune → gives a chance to not consume blocks
- Unbreaking → makes long building sessions less painful
- Mending → because repairing your tool is boring
- Attraction → pulls drops into your inventory for smoother cleanup
- Silk Touch → Changes will apply softer. No torches destroyed, no blocks updated.
Attraction
Attraction is the mod's custom utility enchantment. WORKS FOR ALL ITEMS AND NOT ONLY FOR TROWELS
- Pulls relevant block drops into your inventory
- Also works on mob drops
- Makes cleanup much faster during building, replacing, mining, and general survival play
- Fits the whole point of the mod: less annoying inventory and ground clutter
🎮 Controls
Quick summary so people don't have to guess:
- Right Click → normal trowel use
- Ctrl + Right Click → change placement order
- Alt + Right Click → quick-place mode
- Tab → cycle rotation / orientation modes
- Shift → show more detailed tooltip info
🎯 Goal of the Mod
Make building:
- faster
- easier
- less annoying
- and actually fun
Without turning it into full creative mode.
💬 Final Words
This mod is made with love, experiments, and a bit of chaos.
If something breaks — it’s probably a feature.
If it works — I’m as surprised as you are.
Join my Discord or find me directly (@silentudono)