Sketches & Blueprints is a simple structure copy and paste tool with natural vanilla progression in 1.7.10.

No dependencies required.

Check Out my video tutorial on Youtube!

Sketches & Blueprints adds three new items, the Sketchbook, Architect's Quill, and Blueprints

First, craft a Sketchbook like this:

The Sketchbook allows you to highlight a selection of blocks to record (copy).

While holding the Sketchbook right-click once to see a floating blue block outline.
Right click a second time to "pin" the selection to a block. (Start with the front face of your structure on the bottom-left most corner).
Move your player around to move the second "pin". Right clicking a third time will place the third pin. (Make sure it's the top-right most corner of your structure.)
Now that your selection is highlighted, position your player in front of the front-face of the structure and save it using the in-game chat prompts. (basically the direction you face when you place the first pin will need to be the same direction you face when saving the structure.)

Now that you've drawn your sketch in your Sketchbook (copied it). You'll need to visit an Architect villager so he can turn your sketch into a Blueprint... for a price that is.

Any villager (meaning with a class or not) can be turned into an architect by right clicking it with an Architect's Quill. this will consume the Quill and change the Villager's class to Architect.

The Architect will trade blueprints of any of your sketches for emeralds. (Emerald cost is determined by the size and types of blocks in your structure.)

While holding a blueprint, you can right-click to spawn the saved strucutre and consume the Blueprint (While in creative the Blueprint will not be consumed).

This mod has three in-game chat commands:

"sketchbook_list" - This will list all structure sketches saved in your sketchbook along with the emerald costs.

"sketchbook_erase <yoursketchname>" - this will erase any sketches and blueprints for the entered sketch name (don't include the <> symbols).

"summon_architect" - This command summons a villager at the players position with the Architect class. This command is only available while cheats are enabled.

Please note that when sketches are saved and erased from your sketchbook, they are written to your minecraft folder for each save. the data file can be found at

saves>'yoursavename'>data>BlueprintStorage.dat

Because the data file is saved to disc and local to each save file, the BlueprintStorage.dat file can be copied to other saves for easy accesibility.

Current Bugs:

None of these are gamebreaking but please be aware that currently some blocks do not flow seamlessly with Blueprint placement

Trapdoors, levers, buttons - tend to pop off on Blueprint placement
Pictures - support not yet added, currently will not be saved and loaded.
Chests are not rotated properly on placement.
Tileentity blocks from other mods (non-vanilla tile entities) likely will break on placement. So while chests, furnaces, jukeboxes, hoppers, etc. will work. Custom Pistons, or custom Beehivers for example from other mods may break.

Disclaimer: this mod may be used in your modpacks but may not be directly monetized by itself or in part of any pack. Additionally, although you may copy and distribute the mod freely, it may not be modified without first receiving my permission.