RealmFinder

Take a picture of part of your Minecraft world, carry it elsewhere, and place what is in the picture as real blocks. Photograph a bridge to cross a gap, move a staircase, or bring a house into a new landscape. Living mobs can appear in your photos too, including tamed pets.

Development Status: Discontinued Realm Finder is no longer under active development and will not receive any further updates, bug fixes, or compatibility patches. The mod will remain available for download in its current state. Thank you to everyone who has supported and enjoyed this project. (unless it got more users)

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Getting started

1. Craft a Viewfinder Camera and some Empty Photographs, or find them in the RealmFinder creative tab.
2. Keep the Empty Photographs in your inventory. Hold the Camera, aim at the area you want, and right-click to take a picture. The result is a Photograph item. A Camera click takes a picture even when you aim at a chest, villager, or pet.
3. Hold the Photograph and move or turn until its preview lines up where you want it. The colored block outlines show where the blocks will appear. Right-click to place it.
4. Press Z to undo your most recent placement and get the Photograph back. Undo works in the dimension where you placed it. It may refuse if someone has replaced one of its blocks with a different block.

In Survival, a successful picture normally uses one Empty Photograph and one of the Camera's 100 shots. Placing a Photograph uses that item once; Undo returns it. Creative mode does not use blanks or Camera durability. These rules can be changed in Settings.

Aim and placement controls

Photograph distance has 0.5x, 1x, 2x, and 3x choices. The 0.5x choice moves the whole picture farther away and does not clear terrain. Normal placement can clear obstacles inside the photographed structure; Shift placement adds the photographed blocks without clearing space. You can rebind Z, O, and the bracket keys in Minecraft Controls.

Mobs, storage, and display

Photographed mobs keep their saved appearance and state. Villagers keep their profession and trades. Tamed pets keep their original owner, even if the pet you photographed later dies. By default, copies also keep armor, held items, inventories, and the contents of photographed chests. Turn off chest item or mob gear copying in Settings if you want a more balanced world.

The Photo Album holds 18 Photographs. Right-click it to store and inspect your pictures. The Photo Display Stand shows one Photograph in the world: right-click it with a Photograph to mount it, then right-click with an empty hand to take the Photograph back. The stand is decorative; hold the Photograph itself to place its contents.

Press O to open Settings and hover over an option for a short explanation. You can change capture costs, mob capture, chest and mob copying, obstacle clearing, capture limits, Undo history, zoom, HUD hints, and Undo confirmation. In multiplayer, server operators control gameplay rules; each player controls their own personal settings.

If a picture cannot be taken, check that you are in first-person view, have the required Empty Photograph, and have Camera durability left. If placement says blocked, move the preview to a loaded area. Photographs cannot replace bedrock or a chest already at the target position.

Crafting recipes

Camera:

Empty Photograph:

Picture Album

Photo Stand