Enlighten Editor 0.9.0 — Release Announcement

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.x · Creative building editor

0.9.0 introduces Quick Build, creative flight no-clip, a fully reorganised settings screen, and complete English/Chinese localisation for every new feature.

New: Quick Build (Z)

Press Z to open the Quick Build menu. The menu lists build functions with their shortcuts, descriptions, previews, animations, and sounds.

Two-Point Box — Z+1

• Place a block to set the first corner;
• Place a second block to set the opposite corner;
• The held block at the second point fills the box between them;
• Fill shapes (configured in M → Quick Build):
  • Solid — the whole cuboid;
  • Hollow — shell only;
  • Frame — the 12 edges only;
• Shows a live semi-transparent box preview from the first point to the crosshair;
• The whole operation is one undo step.

Two-Point Line — Z+2

• Same placement flow as the box;
• Connects the two points with a 3D DDA line, so diagonals stay continuous;
• Shows a live cyan block-line preview;
• Also one undo step.

Controls

• Z while a function is active exits Quick Build immediately;
• Pressing the same shortcut again cancels;
• Z+1 / Z+2 switch between functions;
• Mouse buttons are no longer intercepted — you place the corner blocks normally.

Feedback

• Menu fade-in, pulsing title underline, twinkling background;
• Hover tooltips for each function;
• Open, point-set, completion, and cancel sounds;
• Pulsing green marker on the first corner.

New: Creative Flight No-Clip

Located in M → Other, disabled by default.

• While flying in creative mode, blocks no longer collide — fly through walls, floors, and ceilings of any thickness;
• Implemented like spectator movement (noPhysics re-applied after the vanilla reset every tick, plus a movement-level collision bypass);
• Collision returns immediately when flight is cancelled;
• The player keeps the normal standing pose instead of crawling under low ceilings;
• State is synchronised to the server and validated as “enabled + creative + flying” on both sides;
• Disabled automatically outside creative mode and in spectator mode.

Settings Screen Rework

• Categories in a left sidebar:
  • General — toolbar mode, permanent tool slot;
  • Quick Build — fill shape;
  • Other — gamma override, creative flight no-clip;
• Each option has a description below it;
• The Show tool slot option is hidden entirely in 0-key mode;
• Opening and closing now use a correct fade animation;
• M closes the screen when it is already open;
• Category selection is remembered between openings;
• Category switches and option changes play UI sounds.

Improvements

Multi-Block Placement

The surface, noise, and quick build tools now place complete multi-block structures:

• Doors — both halves, keeping facing, hinge, and powered state;
• Tall flowers / rose bushes / large ferns — lower and upper halves;
• Beds — foot and head in the correct direction.

Smooth Brush (from 0.8.1)

• Floating platforms and sky builds no longer pull terrain upward or get deleted;
• Brushing in open air changes nothing;
• Floating structures can be smoothed normally;
• Client preview and server execution share the same calculation, so red previews match the actual result.

RGB Palette

Included from 0.8.x:

• Single-page RGB picker (V) with SV square, hue bar, RGB inputs, and hex preview;
• Lists every full block with ≥70% colour similarity, with per-block percentages;
• Colour Lookup panel imports a block's average texture colour;
• Session colour memory resets to white on restart;
• Major-triad hover chords with rising pitch.

Localisation

• All new features are fully localised in English (en_us) and Simplified Chinese (zh_cn);
• Includes Quick Build functions, descriptions, shortcuts, errors, config categories, descriptions, no-clip labels, and keybind names.

Fixes

• Fixed the config screen fading to black instead of fading in;
• Fixed the config screen crashing on startup from an invalid mixin injection;
• Fixed M reopening the settings screen instead of closing it;
• Fixed the “Show tool slot” option still appearing in 0-key mode;
• Fixed quick build menu text overlapping its buttons;
• Fixed noPhysics being reset by Player.tick every tick;
• Fixed no-clip remaining active after flight was cancelled.

Installation

1. Install NeoForge 21.1.x for Minecraft 1.21.1;
2. Put Enlighten-0.9.0-neoforge-1.21.1.jar into mods;
3. Single-player works directly. For multiplayer, install on the server and give yourself OP (or enable allowNonOpEditing);
4. Quick Build and the palette are creative mode only;
5. Restart the game completely after updating, because this version includes mixin changes.

⚠️ This mod overrides world height (Overworld max build Y = 1039). Back up your worlds before use and avoid combining it with other world-height mods or datapacks.