Crystal Draft

Crystal Draft is a guided-building Mod.

Instead of turning building into one-click printing, Crystal Draft gives you tools to plan structures, preview them in-world, verify progress, and place blocks by hand with much better control.

What the mod adds

Crystal Draft is built around two core systems:

Trowels for palette-based placement, presets, previews, and controlled building modes
Crystal Projector for hologram blueprints, slice views, verification, schematic capture, and collaborative building

Trowels

Trowels are building tools designed for real survival use.

They support:

multiple placement modes
per-item presets
weighted palette mixing
ghost previews
inventory-backed placement
durability and cooldown
tier-based scaling

Available building workflows include:

single block placement
face extension
row / column placement
line placement
exposed surface patching
projector-assisted completion with Project Fill

Trowels are meant to speed up repetitive building without removing the need to actually build.

Crystal Projector

The Crystal Projector previews a local blueprint directly in the world as a hologram.

It supports:

local blueprint library loading from .nbt structure files
transform controls
anchor and XYZ nudge
ghost / wire / mismatch projection styles
full build, single-layer, below-layer, and auto-slice projection modes
progress verification against the real world
auto-advance through slices
optional auto-off when the full project is complete

The projector is built to help with real construction, cleanup, and precision alignment.

Schematic Capture

Crystal Draft can also capture a section of the world and turn it into a local blueprint.

Capture tools include:

custom output name
width / height / depth controls
anchor selection
XYZ nudge
in-world capture bounds overlay

This makes it easy to create reusable local schematics from your own builds.

Multiplayer

Projector state is shared, so multiple players can work on the same build.

Crystal Draft also includes an optional blueprint sync flow: if one player opens a projector for a blueprint they do not have locally, they can download that blueprint to their own client when the feature is enabled in config.

This makes cooperative building much smoother without turning the server into a permanent schematic host.

Creative Utilities

In Creative mode, the projector can also Place All and force-match the projected structure in the world.

This is useful for fast setup, testing, and map or scene preparation.

Config and Feature Gating

Crystal Draft uses one main config file:

config/crystaldraft/crystaldraft-config.json

From there you can enable or disable major features, including:

the trowel system
specific trowel modes
projector preview
projector capture
capture overlay
creative projector build
blueprint download sync
auto-off on completion
GOML claim protection integration

Compatibility

Loader: Fabric
Requires: Fabric API
Optional compatibility: GOML claim protection support

Design Goals

Crystal Draft is built for players who want help with structure building without removing the building process itself.

It focuses on:

planning
readability
controlled placement
multiplayer cooperation
configurable workflows
survival-friendly guardrails

If you want a mod that helps you build better, not just build instantly, Crystal Draft is made for that.