Build Assist Wands is a small Minecraft mod that adds three types of building-assist wands.

When you place a block while holding a wand in your offhand, the wand automatically searches for a placement position based on its type.

This makes it easy to build pillars, walls, floors, bridges, and stairs, making building and exploration more convenient.

✨Wands

Each wand has material tiers similar to vanilla Minecraft tools.

Wooden
Stone
Iron
Golden
Diamond
Netherite

Netherite wands cannot be crafted directly in a crafting table.

To obtain a Netherite wand, upgrade the corresponding Diamond wand using a Smithing Table.

Higher-tier wands have a larger maximum block placement range.

Wall Wand

Searches upward and places a block at the first available space.

Useful for building walls, pillars, and vertical structures.

Wall Wand

Bridge Wand

Searches horizontally and places a block at the first available space.

Useful for extending bridges, floors, platforms, and straight paths.

Bridge Wand

Stair Wand

Searches diagonally upward and places a block at the first available space.

Useful for building stair-like paths and diagonal upward structures.

Stair Wand

📖Enchantment

Extension

A wand-specific enchantment that increases the maximum search range.

Extension I: +3 blocks
Extension II: +6 blocks
Extension III: +9 blocks
Extension IV: +12 blocks
Extension V: +15 block

💡How to Use

Hold a wand in your offhand.
Hold the block you want to place in your main hand.
Right-click to place a block.
The wand searches in its direction and places the block at the first available empty space.

Sneaking disables the wand effect and allows normal block placement.

⚙️Configuration

You can configure the maximum search range for each material tier and the bonus range of the Extension enchantment.

Generated config file:

config/buildassistwands-common.toml

Notes

Some special blocks may not behave exactly the same as normal manual placement.
If you encounter an issue, please report the block type and the situation where it happened.