Description:
Litematica is a new schematic mod written from scratch, and it is primarily targeting light mod loaders like LiteLoader on 1.12.x, Rift on 1.13.x and Fabric on 1.14+. There is also a Forge version for 1.12.2, but not yet for 1.14.4+ (but Forge ports for 1.14.4+ are also planned, see below).
It has all the features of the old Schematica mod except for the printer (which is also planned), plus a bunch more.
- The main feature of a schematic mod is to display a "hologram" version of a structure, which shows you exactly how to build the structure and where to place the blocks. It also includes a (configurable) overlay to highlight missing, extra or wrongly placed blocks.
- Litematica also includes a nice Material List, including a Material List HUD, to help you collect the materials needed for the build.
- There is also a Schematic Verifier feature, including an overlay, which you can use to scan the entire schematic area and look for any mistakes. This can be extremely useful especially with technical/redstone builds, where tiny mistakes can break everything.
- There are also several Creative-mode-only helper features, such as Fill, Replace, Delete and also a Paste mode for "pasting" schematics into the world (immediate/direct in single player, using /setblock commands in multiplayer).
NOTE: Litematica also requires the MaLiLib library mod:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/malilib
About Forge ports for 1.14.4+
Forge versions for 1.14.4 and later (possibly only for 1.16.5+) are planned.
Still no ETA about the "official port", which will only be done from the still being worked on new development code. But ZacSharp already ported the current 1.16.4 Fabric version to 1.16.5 Forge. I have one build of that available here: https://masa.dy.fi/tmp/minecraft/mods/misc_test_versions/unsupported_temporary_forge_1.16.5/
Some more info and discussion about the Forge port/builds is here: https://github.com/maruohon/litematica/issues/234
The default hotkey to open the in-game config GUI is M + C. If you are for example on AZERTY keyboard layout instead, then the keys are different, and M + C becomes , + C instead, etc.
If you have Optifine installed, then there are some options that you most likely will need to disable in Optifine, or otherwise it will break the schematic rendering:
- If you get glitchy weird triangles, then in 1.16+ first try updating to the latest Litematica version. If that doesn't work, then set shaders to OFF (not Internal) and restart the game.
- Render Regions probably needs to be disabled to prevent weird rendering issues (the schematic (partially?) rendering in weird places)
- Fast Render might also need to be disabled if there are still some weird HUD/GUI rendering issues
Snapshot versions and latest development builds
There are (at least at times) versions of my mods available for the latest Minecraft snapshots here: https://masa.dy.fi/mcmods/client_mods/
That page also often includes newer development builds than what is available here on CurseForge.
If you encounter bugs, then try to update all the mods (from the ones that you use) from that page to see if the issue has been fixed already.
(There are at times changes in malilib or the dependent mods that require both malilib and the mods to be updated at the same time!)
FAQ - please read first if you have questions
- Q: The main menu and the config menu don't open with M and M + C
- A: 1.) Check that the mod is installed and working: check if you see the orange Litematica text on the F3 screen.
2.) If you are on a non-QWERTY keyboard layout, then the default hotkeys are different. For example on AZERTY the M key is , (comma) instead, so the config menu hotkey for example is , + C. I'm looking for a solution to this issue. - Q: How do I rotate a schematic (placement)?
- A: In the Placement configuration GUI. You can open it (for the currently selected Placement) with a hotkey, or you can go via the Main menu -> Schematic Placements -> Configure.
- Q: How do I only render one layer at a time
- A: You can control the rendered layers on the Render Layers tab inside the in-game config menu (via the Main menu -> Configuration Menu, or the default hotkey M + C
- Q: How do I change blocks in the schematic? Is there a /schematicaReplace command?
- A: There is no command, but there is the Schematic Rebuild mode (should be called Schematic Edit mode...). See the wiki here for more details: https://github.com/maruohon/litematica/wiki/schematic_editing
- Q: Is there a printer like in Schematica?
- A: 1.) There is no printer for survival yet. It is on my TODO-list and will be added at some point.
2.) For Creative mode there is the Paste Schematic in world tool mode, which places the entire schematic at once in a single player world, or using setblock commands in multiplayer. - Q: I get an error "Failed to load schematic" when trying to load a '*.schematic' file in 1.13+.
- A: 1.) The 1.13+ versions of Litematica can't currently load the new Sponge schematic format yet. That format is used for example by World Edit in 1.13+. Although those schematics should preferably be named with the *.schem file name extension, many web sites use the *.schematic extension, which makes them hard to tell apart from the old, completely different MCEdit/Schematica format, which Litematica can already load. Support for the Sponge format already exists in the main development version in 1.12.2, and it will come to the other versions with the next bigger update.
2.) Currently the way to load Sponge schematics with Litematica is:
- Create a temporary (flat) world.
- Place the schematic there using World Edit (quick guide: https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kt2znv/convert_schem_file_to_litematic_file/gilwla8/)
- Make a new Litematica schematic from the placed structure from that world
The mod is still under development, and some of the planned "extra" features (for example some of the "tool modes") haven't yet been implemented fully or at all.
Currently it has everything else Schematica had, except the "full/automatic" printer hasn't been implemented yet, but it's on my TODO-list.
Here is a Reddit post that explains the very basics of the mod:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/cqdmkk/anyone_can_help_me_how_do_i_make_schematics_with/exeug78/
Here are some tutorial videos for the basics of the mod. A more detailed, "official" tutorial video is planned after I finish some changes and still missing features I'm still working on for the mod.
A short, quick tutorial of the basics of the mod:
Another, a bit longer tutorial that also covers some other things like the Rebuild mode:
A couple of more tutorials:
If you have questions or need help with something, the best/fastest way to get answers is currently the #masas-mods channel on the SciCraft Discord server.
hey, wassup. Any way to place blocks around me automatically, like baritone bot Cheat? easy place not enough quickly to me :(((
In reply to mark_drip:
There is a separate printer extension mod here: https://github.com/jensvh/litematica-printer/releases
Here is also another different printer extension mod if you want to test which one works better for you: https://github.com/aleksilassila/litematica-printer/releases
In reply to masady:
im installed printer, but how enable it in game?
In reply to mark_drip:
I don't know, I haven't used them. Read the readme files (front pages) on the GitHub repositories.
Any update for the printer edition? XD No rush I appreciate the work you do and you must have some serious patience! <3
In reply to SUBWOOFA:
I'm not working on it any time soon, especially since there are already separate printer extension mods, such as this: https://github.com/jensvh/litematica-printer/releases
Would it be possible to make schematics visible within other blocks? Sometimes I find it difficult to replicate what the schematic is showing when I'm building it underground, for example, and don't really have a space cleared out. Most of the time in this situation I have to dig around to allow the blocks of the schematic to appear. I would love an option to display the schematic visuals above all other layers to help see better in a situation like this.
In reply to SsquillyY:
In the Visuals config category there is an option called renderCollidingSchematicBlocks which will make the schematic blocks render even if there is an existing block in the way. But that still won't make the schematic render through the vanilla terrain, it would only allow you to see the "surface blocks" that are inside blocks. There is an option to render the overlay through blocks, and there is also a hotkey to temporarily do that, which should be by default bound to right Ctrl, so that you can tap/hold it to see any mistakes or still missing blocks a bit easier by rendering the overlay through blocks and a bit thicker.
But as far as I can remember there isn't an option to render the entire schematic through blocks atm. That type of rendering usually kind of loses all perspective, and IMO isn't actually that useful in most cases. If the schematic is saved pretty tightly using sub-regions (if necessary), then usually I would just clear the area more or less up to the placement bounding box outlines.
Or if the build has blocks that are more or less touching (ie. no lone blocks floating around somewhere further hidden inside the ground), then turning off the schematic block rendering, and the missing type overlay (blue) and probably also the extra type overlay (pink) in Visuals, you would be left with the red/orange overlay for wrong blocks or block states. That works as a pretty nice guide for digging out the necessary area, as it will essentially highlight all the blocks that need to be removed, without having other junk on your face blocking the view.
how do i load something like meteor with this? ive tried but it didnt seem to work
In reply to firegalaxy101:
What is meteor?
I do apologized for my ignorance is this a SERVER or CLIENT mod?
In reply to Wolfren696:
It's a client-side mod.
why was this built for fabric first and forge second? what is so special about fabric? this leaves a lot of forge users out in the cold here, cause schematica dosnt have any version higher than 1.12
In reply to jotarokujo279:
The main reason why the mod was even started in the first place, was to have a schematic mod made for LiteLoader on 1.12.x, instead of having to use Schematica which required using Forge. (The reason for that is that Forge does a lot of small changes to vanilla code and behavior and takes it onto itself to fix various bugs, without any way to disable that. Those types of things matter a lot for the "technical Minecraft" community, which relies very heavily on the exact vanilla behavior of the game.) Of course porting Schematica to LiteLoader would have been another option, but due to a few different reasons I decided to write the mod from scratch instead.
The main development version/code of Litematica is still in 1.12.2 LiteLoader even now. It's just occasionally ported from that to the later MC versions. And the Rift and Fabric versions are a bit closer in code to that "original" LiteLoader code base, plus the "main target audience" of the mod prefers Fabric over Forge, due to the above mentioned reasons. Plus Fabric itself is a bunch lighter than Forge (game starts quicker etc.). And personally I vastly prefer working with Fabric over Forge, due to various issues and differences in the development environment.
There will be Forge versions of the mod, but currently I don't want to waste extra time porting the current old code base to any other platforms. All the 1.13+ versions are already over 2 years behind the main 1.12.2 code, and I'm currently rewriting and cleaning up tons of code in the 1.12.2 code base. So any time spent on the current 1.13+ code base is wasted in the long term, and just delays that upcoming major update from 1.12.2 even further. Once all of that is ready and ported to the later MC versions again (on Fabric first), then Forge ports will be made of those new-code Fabric versions. In the mean time, there is an unofficial Forge port for 1.16.5 made by another user, see issue number #234 on Github for the links. One thing to note about that port, is that if you change any hotkey configs, you will need to log out of the world and back in for those changes to take effect. (Not sure why it's broken like that, and the way the ports were made it's not practical for me to even have a development environment for that version set up to try to quickly fix that issue.)
In reply to masady:
so in other words, forge alters the game code while fabric dosnt, and by extension is easier to work with?
In reply to jotarokujo279:
Forge making some changes to the game code doesn't directly affect Litematica much at all. I was just explaining that being the difference to LiteLoader back in 1.12 being the initial push for why the mod started being developed at all in the first place. And since LiteLoader, Rift and Fabric (or at least the first two) didn't really have any built-in events like Forge does, the Litematica ports between those mod loaders, and by extension the further ports to Fabric don't have any real changes in how some of the things are hooked into vanilla code. But with Forge having events that should be used when possible, it means that those parts (such as some keyboard/mouse handling and rendering hooks) need to be changed compared the other versions.
But none of that is a reason why the mod would be inherently hard to make for Forge. The main reason it's for Fabric is that the "main target audience" and also I myself use Fabric instead of Forge. And then just additionally Fabric is simpler and nicer to work with, making it more enjoyable to work on. But that's maybe also just my personal opinion and experience.
So Forge versions will also come, but they will always be the secondary target after the Fabric versions are done first. And currently I'm working on the above mentioned rewrites so I don't want to waste time porting the current old code and fixing issues there, as all that effort will be thrown away later on anyway.
In reply to masady:
thats logical. wait until the primary fabric versions are done first, then make about forge versions later after everything else is done. i would probably do the same too, if i were making a mod that was for both fabric and forge
For a couple days the mod hasn't seemed to be working correctly, when I hold a stick the little thing in the bottom left only shows up for edit schematic and It doesnt seem although I can use the area selection or schematic placement tools. any ideas?
In reply to audielli:
Are you saying the "tool item" still works, but you just don't see the HUD? Normally for the tool to be enabled/working and the HUD to show up, you need main rendering and the tool item functionality enabled (M + R and M + T), and be holding the correct tool item ofc. If you don't see the HUD while holding the item, then the item also shouldn't be working. Unless something is just breaking the HUD rendering, but that doesn't seem to be the case if you still see it in the Edit mode.
where can i download for forge?