1.16/20w06 update: It seems like the 1.15 version of the mod works as well, as long as you update the Fabric API (hint: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fabric-api/files/2875599)
There are versions for Forge 1.12, Rift 1.13, and Fabric 1.14/1.15. Please use the Files tab to select the one you want, the Download button will always give you Forge 1.12 unfortunately.
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 1.15).
All keys can be reconfigured using the standard Controls UI.
Hey,
do You plan on making a Forge 1.15.2 version? If yes, do You have an ETA?
Best wishes
TajemnikTV
In reply to TajemnikTTV:
Sorry, won't happen anytime soon. There are so many things missing from Forge since 1.14, for example, a way to register commands to be executed on the client, not server. See for example https://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/topic/72332-client-side-commands-in-114/ and https://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/topic/85196-1152-client-command/ and https://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/topic/82918-registering-client-only-commands/.
Which means Forge just doesn't provide me with what I need to make the Grid commands work.
In reply to thorgeig:
Oh, sorry to hear that. Maybe in the future they'll provide the things that You need.
But from what I read in one of the topic You linked, there's a way to get it working on single-player by using
FMLServerStartingEvent. (And I'm probably wrong, since I know nothing about modding) I guess that people wouldn't mind a singleplayer version.
So anyways, I wish You good luck with everything!
Take care
TajemnikTV
I've been working on many of my own turret designs and have often struggled with making the most space-effective design for my builds: The circle. When you make a turret, you have to make room in-house for the widest radial measurement in order for your turret to rotate the full 360. In a square/rectangle turret, that measurement is from corner to corner across the center. But as a result of that, you have lots of space not being used when the turret is in it's resting position. This is just boring, wasteful empty space that could be replaced with armour or weapons, or could be removed entirely to keep your craft more diminutive.
The circle, however, has the same radius throughout. When you build a housing for a circular turret, you can stay completely flush to your turret and not worry about jamming.
Here's a square in a square. The inner one with the diagonal line represents the turret in the housing.
The diagonal is the same length as the length between inner sides of the turret housing. That's the largest possible square turret you can make in a square housing. You can certainly fill in the corners, but at rest there is a large gap between the turret and the housing.
And now the circle.
Here, we don't have that issue!
Now you're wondering "How do we make a circle with square parts?" Well, you don't. However, there is a template I used to use in my Minecraft days that does the job extremely well.
https://www.minecraftcirclegenerator.com
You go down to the "Circle Generator", check off the square marked "Centered" if you want your radius offset by one (You probably do, we pretty much all center our builds off the middle of a middle block) then enter your radius. It will generate a circle for you to build out of squares, and you can go from there!
I have found this template incredibly useful in my builds. From turrets, to radar dishes, to cool looking missile batteries. Enjoy!
Could you please make Forge version for 1.15.2？
Okay, so i strangely have some kind of rendering issue when using this mod. I have also optifine, optifabric, fabric API and Bounding Box Outline Reloaded installed as main "rendering" mods (also there is a big list of other mods, i'll send it if you need it). Here's screenshots. It's not limiting my expirience using this mod, but its having quite a bad look. :D
How it should look (i guess :D):
How it actually look for me:
Upd: it literally can be fixed if i look in certain direction with a certain angle. but i really want to see this like on first screenshot all the time :D
In reply to Yeqqi:
Yes, the first screenshot is what it should look like, and I haven't seen it look like the second one, yet.
As you say it can be fixed when you look an a certain direction/angle, I guess BoundingBoxReloaded will do some changes to the render state that it doesn't revert when finished, so as long as BBR has nothing to render, Grid renders normally, but as soon as BBR does render something itself, Grid starts rendering in some other state, breaking stuff. Need to look closer what's happening here.
Update: It doesn't seem like it's Grid and BBR. They work together nicely:
I can only ask you to identify which mod it is, as BBR doesn't seem to be the one.
(I have Optifabric and Optifine enabled, as well!)
In reply to thorgeig:
Okay, so i checked all my mods, by loading them one by one, for a couple of hours of eternal loading screen. And here what i got:
1. it's not any of the mods which i got from curseforge.
2. it's fabritone fork of baritone mining bot (which i dont even remember using from the past 4 month at all and forgot it was there).
Issue here has been fixed with deletion of fabritone mod from the mods folder. Rendering got normal and now its no issues with grid.
Beyond that, i took further investigation and got information, that the baritone itself make the most of the game rendering strange and wobbly in some ways. Dunno who need to fix that - baritone developer (who are not supporting fabritone mod), fabritone developer (who are just forking it to fabric) or someone else. Anyways thank you for the reply and involving in this comment section.
P.S. your mod is great. my base somehow managed to stop having weird dark patches and random spawned mobs all around :D
I could be being extremely dumb, but I wanted to use this mod as a guide to building giant circles in the game. Except that the grid moves with me and doesn't stay anchored to the spot I used /grid here at. Is there a way to fix x and z along with y?
In reply to kirinelf:
The circle center shouldn't move when you do, but grid will only show a certain distance from where you are. Try /grid distance to increase that, typically to 2-3x the size of the circle you're building.
In reply to thorgeig:
Yup, that worked! It looks like I was mistaken, it wasn't that the circle wa smoving, but because the distance was too short, the circle I wanted de-rendered when I moved too far away and the next one rendered, making it look like it was moving. I set the distance to some crazy number and now there're circles everywhere.
is there a way to make this work on servers? i installed it and it works great in singleplayer but no markers show up on servers :(
edit: nvm i tried a different version and it worked
In reply to Sweatyspxghetti:
It's a purely client side mod, installing it on a server won't change anything. But installing it on the client should work with any kind of server - internal single user, vanilla, spigot, paper, fabric modpack .. whatever you want.
the linear grid of 5 for torches isn't optimal - instead a diagonal grid of 6 is what i determined. is there a way to do something like this with this mod?
In reply to torzod:
Sorry, but no. The only thing I can think of is using a grid size of 3, and omitting every other block.
Why is there no current working version for forge? The only forge versions are old, and don't work with newer versions.
In reply to solid777:
Because supporting both modloaders is hard, and I consider Fabric superior in many ways, especially the update time. You can typically use Fabric and mods a few hours after a new version comes out, and this applies even to weekly versions.
That said, the source code is available, and I have zero problem if anyone wants to step in with a Forge port and
a) send me a pull request to publish the version here
or
b) distribute that Forge version on their own.
It's just that I don't want to spend the additional time and energy.
In reply to thorgeig:
OK. I'm not a fan of Fabric, since I've already got all my mods on Forge. I don't code for Minecraft, so I can't help.
Thanks, anyway.
P.S. - if anyone can recommend a similar mod that runs under forge, please let me know.
Hello
I can't get grids to turn off. The /hide command and the toggle key don't turn them off. It seems that only relaunching the instance (not just disconnect/reconnect) gets them to turn off. Playing 1.15.1 with the latest jar, though it happened with the previous jar as well. Have confirmed it happens when it is the only mod installed along side the fabric api.
Also, would love to see this be able to show the grids for water spawns. Working on a drowned farm, I could have used the ability to see water that was at the proper light level.
Useful mod, hope the show/hide issue gets fixed soon. I will try to report it on github soon, but it's giving me trouble logging in.
In reply to Emberwyck:
The issue with not being able to turn the grid off is a bit strange, never had that. You are using /grid hide, not /hide, right?
Are there any entries in the log file? Maybe post it to pastebin or a similar service?
Drowned farm: You do know about /grid biome river, or maybe /grid biome "river|ocean" ? Showing the grid in water is hard as water doesn't count as transparent in this respect. But if you're building a farm, you should cover up the area with blocks anyway.