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Mod description
For a quick overview, see the screenshots!
Sometimes you want to place blocks in a regular pattern, so you need to count blocks, and if you mess up once, the error propagates to all subsequent blocks.
This mod displays a grid-like overlay over the world, with configurable spacing, so the blocks you're interested in get highlighted automatically.
For example, you're building a railroad and want to place a powered rail ever 20th block. Type /grid 20, walk to the first powered rail, type /grid here (or press the c button, can be configured), and the mod will highlight every 20th block from where you're standing.
Or, if you want to place torches in an area to prevent spawns, type /grid 5 - this highlights every 5th block; placing torches on each of them will light everything up enough.
You can switch between block mode (to highlight blocks to place stuff on) or line mode (to display borders; for example /grid chunks followed by grid lines will turn Grid into a chunk border highlighter), have the y-coordinate of the display floating with the player or fixed, and choose different X and Z spacings if you want that.
Commands:
/grid show and /grid hide: show/hide the grid, bound to the B key.
/grid here: set the origin of the grid to where the player is standing. Bound to C (for center)
/grid blocks: set Block mode: show blue squares above marked blocks
/grid lines: set Line mode: show yellow lines to the N/W of marked blocks
/grid chunks: set X and Y spacing to 16 and the origin to chunk borders. Use together with /grid lines to get a chunk border display that's less intrusive than F3-G
/grid <n> <m>: <n> and <m> are numbers; set the grid spacing to n in X direction and m in Y direction
/grid <n>: set the grid spacing to n in both horizontal directions
/grid fixy: toggle between floating the y coordinate of the grid with the player, or fixing it to where the player stands when you use the command. Bound to the Y key.
/grid spawns: show possible mob spawn locations
/grid circles: shows circle overlays. In line mode, this shows regular circles; in block mode, it tries to find and mark the blocks you should build on to get a circle. Obviously, this can't work well with very small diameters, for example, trying to mark a 3x3 circle will give you a square.
/grid distance <n>: sets the range in blocks, that the grid is rendered around you. If you use very large spacings/circle diameters, you need to adjust this too. Be careful though, high values for distance absolutely kill your framerate when you turn spawn locations on.
/grid biome <name>: draw a marker on all blocks in a certain biome. For example, /grid biome river helps when you want to build a drowned or squid farm. (Only with Grid version 1.5+).
/grid hex: Draw a hex grid. In block mode, you get the corners of each hex; in line mode, you get lines around the hexes. (Only with Grid version 1.6+)
All keys can be reconfigured using the standard Controls UI.
Fabulous Graphics Warning
In the 1.16.x versions, Grid has a bug where things get drawn, even when they should be invisible behind blocks. This doesn't happen with Fast or Fancy graphics, it's just Fabulous that has this bug. I'm at a loss what the cause may be, so I probably won't be able to fix this without help. In the meantime, if this bothers you, please set Graphics Quality to Fast/Fancy as a workaround.
Seems to not currently work with Canvas, which is weird because Block Meter Fabric *does*.
Originally, when I made BlockMeterFabric, I "copied" the line rendering stuff from Grid to BlockMeter. But, with 1.16, that method had lots of problems with the fabulous setting, so I converted the newer versions of Grid to use a VertexConsumer, change the mixin point, and use
RenderLayer.getLines()for that VertexConsumer. On the other hand, I gave future development of BlockMeterFabric to someone who was quite active in adding new features, so that change to the rendering code never made it there.I'll put checking canvas compatibility on my todo list, but I don't know if I'm competent enough to find the problem.
This is the new mixin btw:
https://github.com/gbl/Grid/blob/fabric_1_16/src/main/java/de/guntram/mcmod/grid/mixin/MixinWorldRenderer.javaAbout your issues with the Fabulous setting: in the RenderSystem class there’s a helper method runAsFancy. I think that’s what you’re looking for. It’s just a workaround, but since vanilla uses it I guess it’s ok to do so as well.
Thank you so much for doing this mod, helped me a lot ^^
Is there going to be a 1.16.2 Forge version?
There is, here: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/grid/files/3035204
This version might have bugs in fabulous graphics mode, just like the first 1.16.2 version for Fabric has. The current version for Fabric should resolve these, but I'm waiting for feedback from users, as it seems to matter which other mods you do/don't use. Also, I'm adding a config menu (done) that has a color selector (not done) and a gui as an alternative to the grid commands (not done). Once those are working, they'll be ported to Forge as well.
Right now, you can use Grid 1.6.1 for Forge 1.16.2, and if there's problems with fabulous mode, switch back to fast or fancy.
"/grid distance" command does nothing, distance is still the same.
Deleted old 1.16.1 config just in case
Mods installed:
- grid-1.16.2-fabric0.17.2-1.6.jar
- fabric-api-0.18.0+build.397-1.16
Edit: updated some mods and now it works
This is quite a nice mod, but within the first few minutes of using it, I found an interesting issue: https://imgur.com/2FMQWrc
Being in a perspective other than first-person creates that mess; hopefully this can be fixed!
I also recommend adding a feature similar to Light Overlay that renders mob spawning spaces within 12 blocks of the player instead of globally (from what it seems). A config menu would be very helpful as well. This is a great mod nevertheless!
Thanks, going to check into the issue. Is that the Fabric or the Forge version, and for which version of MC? It doesn't do that for me (I just verified the 1.16.1 Forge and Fabric versions)? I hope you're not using Fabritone, as that's known to cause issues with rendering that I can't fix on my side.
The render distance (generally, not just for mob spawns) can be set by /grid distance.
In reply to thorgeig:
Ah that makes more sense, sorry I forgot to mention I had other mods. Mistake on my part! I did have fabritone.
I was using the fabric version, 1.16.2. I do have some other mods as well such as phosphor and thallium which I imagine may also conflict but I'm not too sure
Clear description! Thank you.
Very simple and useful mod, the only two issues I found (fabric 1.16.1):
1. Each time I launch the game, control settings for that mod become default. (Opened issue on Github: #13)
2. With fixy mode when you press shift, squares twitch a bit.
In reply to i0xhex:
Going to look into that next week, I'm not at home and can't do any coding this week, unfortunately.
- Just uploaded a version that fixes the problem
The hotkeys in grid-1.16-fabric0.13.1-1.6 seems to reset every time I launch the game. But still a very useful tool especially when branch mining and counting blocks.
In reply to TheSamekichi:
Just uploaded a version that fixes this problem.
Could you please make 1.15 version as well?
In reply to lumbrius:
Yes.
In reply to thorgeig:
Thank you so much~
Do you plan on making a 1.16 Forge version soon?????
In reply to xXNamelessKillerXx:
Unlikely, unless Forge adds some support for client-side commands.
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Update : There is a 1.16.1 version for Forge now. It has the limitation that /grid commands won't pass the syntax checker, so they show up in red while typing. There's nothing I can do about that with Forge. But if you type the command out correctly, it will work.