Better Building Tools 0.0.4

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge

Every item has been redrawn, the Gradient Tool can now remember and show your gradients, and the hammer options are easier to read.

General

• New textures for every item. All tools, hammers and magnets are redrawn in a consistent 16×16 pixel style, and the Steel Toed Boots have a new armor texture when worn.
• New look for the mod's menus. The hammer options and Gradient Tool screens share a dark theme with matching buttons and sliders.
• Mod logo now shows in the mods list.
• Controls: keybinds are grouped under Better Building Tools. Open Hammer Options defaults to B, and the new Toggle Magnet defaults to V.
• Creative tab reorganized: hammers first, then the rest of the tools.

Building Hammers

• Option buttons are easier to read: the setting name is gray and the chosen value is color-coded.
• The Matching tooltips explain exactly what each mode does. Similar now lists every block family it treats as one: dirt, stone (with granite, andesite and diorite), deepslate, terracotta, concrete, planks and logs, including their slabs, stairs and walls. More families can be added in the config.
• Restriction now starts on None.
• Hammers set to unbreakable in the config no longer try to take durability damage.

Gradient Tool

Choosing gradients

• Select several gradients at once with Ctrl+click in the gradient selection menu. The first one you pick goes on the tool, and all of them are saved to your history.
• Gradient History: a new History button lists your last 10 confirmed gradients, with the one on the tool marked Active. Pick one or several and confirm to use them again, or press Back to return.
• The selection menu no longer squeezes its buttons when the gradients are short.
• The Custom Gradient button is now labeled Custom.
• Start and End blocks are no longer remembered on the tool between uses.

Seeing which blocks you need

• While you hold the tool, a strip next to your hotbar shows the active gradient's blocks and how many of each you're carrying. Blocks you're out of are dimmed with a red 0.
• The tool's tooltip shows its gradient, axis and height, with block icons.
• The tool's menu has an Active gradient panel. Click a block to look up its recipe in EMI or JEI.
• In creative, Give all hands you a stack of every block in the gradient.

Magnets

• New Toggle Magnet keybind (V) turns your magnet on or off whether it's in your inventory, armor, offhand or a Curios slot.
• New Basic Magnet recipe:
  • Top: Redstone, empty, Lapis Lazuli
  • Middle: Copper Ingot, Slime Ball, Copper Ingot
  • Bottom: Copper Ingot, Copper Ingot, Copper Ingot
• New Advanced Magnet recipe:
  • Top: Block of Redstone, Ender Pearl, Block of Lapis Lazuli
  • Middle: Diamond, Basic Magnet, Diamond
  • Bottom: Diamond, Diamond, Diamond

Other items

• Extendo-Grip: fixed how it looks in hand and in the inventory with the new texture.
• Invisible Light Block: the recipe now makes 4 instead of 1.
• Steel Toed Boots: new item texture and a new armor texture when worn.
• Trowel: can now place blocks into replaceable spots like tall grass and snow.