Image to Ground

By
Hardmuscle

Turn any image into block art instantly. Built for creative map builders.

Paste a local file, set a size, and place it as massive flat pixel art on superflat. No schematics, no external programs, no WorldEdit needed. Works in Singleplayer, Creative, and LAN.

Features:

Instant for Creative: 25,000 blocks/tick, 500k blocks in 1 tick in Creative. No block updates, no lighting lag.
LAN Ready: Permission level 0 - works for anyone in Open to LAN > Allow Cheats: ON, no OP needed.
Smart Palette: 180+ building blocks only. No beds, slabs, stairs, cobwebs. Auto-generates clean palette.
Preview Border: White concrete + red corners shows exact footprint before placing.
Undo / Clear: /itg undo with full block restore, /itg clear to remove border.
Dithering: Floyd-Steinberg for photos (true), off for logos/text (false).
GUI: Black & Green terminal - /itg or /itg gui

Commands:

/itg gui - Open GUI
/itg preview <path> <w> <h> <dither> - Show border preview
/itg place <path> <w> <h> <dither> - Place image
/itg convert <path> <w> <h> <dither> - Alias for place
/itg undo - Undo last placement
/itg clear - Clear preview border
/itg palette - Show palette size
/itg palette full / regen - Regenerate building palette

Supports quotes for spaces: /itg place "my image.png" 512 512 true

Recommended Setup:

Superflat world (Classic Flat)
Creative mode
Open to LAN if building with friends
Run /itg palette full once
Place: /itg place my-image.png 512 512 true or use /itg gui
Sizes: 16-64 icon, 128 crisp, 256 poster, 512 big, 1024 max.

Installation:

Put in mods/ folder. Requires NeoForge. Images go in config/itg/images/*

Optional URL Support (Opt-in, Disabled by Default):

By default, URL downloads are DISABLED. Local files in config/itg/images/ work without network.

To enable URLs:

Open config/itg/itg-common.toml
Set allowUrlDownloads = true
Restart game
When enabled, you can use /itg place https://i.imgur.com/...png 512 512 true. Images are cached to config/itg/cache/ as image files only. No executables are downloaded. You can whitelist domains via allowedDomains in the same config.

For Map Makers: Built specifically for Creative + LAN workflow. Designed to replace the Spritecraft + Litematica + WorldEdit pipeline with one command.

Notch