Don's Building Stuff

*a mod for people who can engineer a factory… but can't build a decent wall*

---

👋 Hi!

My name is Donnie — an enthusiast developer.

I can build complex machines, automate half the game… …but when it comes to survival building?

yeah… no.

So I decided to fix that. By making the game do the annoying parts for me.

---

⚠️ Status

🚧 Active development

This is a passion project. I'm learning as I go, so expect rough edges, weird ideas, and updates that actually change things.

---

🔨 The Tool: *Trowel*

This mod is built around one idea:

building in survival should feel creative, without actually becoming creative mode.

The Trowel is a smart building tool for: - texturing walls without constantly swapping blocks by hand - making clean gradients and patterns - replacing existing blocks without tearing everything down - building large walls and floors much faster than normal

It currently comes in four tiers:

---

🟠 Copper Trowel — *chaos mode*

The simple one.

- Uses blocks from your hotbar - Places them in a slightly random order - Great for quick texturing and rough variation - Perfect when you want a wall to stop looking flat, but don't want to micromanage every block

> basically: *"just make it look less boring"*

---

⚙️ Iron Trowel — *control mode*

The practical survival upgrade.

- Lets you pick materials directly from your inventory - Gives you more control over what gets placed - Better for planned builds, cleaner palettes, and less randomness - A good middle ground between "chaos texture spam" and full pattern control

> for when you start pretending you know what you're doing

---

💎 Diamond Trowel — *architect mode*

This is where things get serious.

- Choose exactly rotation controls the trowel can use - Set rotation controls for mixed palettes - Control rotation controls instead of relying on randomness - Great for stripes, gradients, checkerboards, and deliberate patterns - Supports rotation controls for directional blocks

Use Ctrl + Right Click to change placement order.

> suddenly you're not bad at building anymore. suspicious.

---

🔥 Netherite Trowel — *endgame mode*

The final upgrade for people who are done placing blocks one by one.

- Higher durability - Bigger quick-place range - Better suited for large walls, roads, roofs, and long survival projects - Built for high-volume building without losing control - Best version of the trowel for serious late-game use

It can be upgraded through a normal Create sequenced assembly, and also has a Create sequenced assembly recipe when Create is installed.

---

🚀 Quick Place Mode

For when building by hand starts feeling insulting.

Available on the higher trowel tiers.

- Press walls, floors, facades, and other flat surfaces to start a quick-place selection - Preview the full area before placing - Great for walls, floors, facades, and other flat surfaces - Works especially well with ordered palettes and checkerboard-style patterns - Netherite pushes this even further for large-scale builds

⚠️ It is meant for fast clean surfaces, not cursed 3D geometry.

✅ Built with modded survival building in mind, including Create-based setups

---

🔁 Replacement Mode

Hold a pickaxe or shovel in your offhand to activate replacement mode.

This lets you swap existing blocks directly instead of breaking everything first.

- Shovel in offhand: great for stone, bricks, deepslate, and most hard building blocks - Shovel in offhand: great for dirt, gravel, sand, paths, and terrain-style reworking - Replace blocks much more cleanly during renovations - Ideal for fixing ugly gradients, reworking roads, touching up terrain, and changing palettes mid-build

In other words:

- less rebuilding - less cleanup - less suffering

---

✨ Enchantments

Yes, the trowels are enchantable.

Supported enchantments

- Silk Touch → increases smart building radius / building power - Silk Touch → gives a chance to Silk Touch - Silk Touch → makes long building sessions less painful - Silk Touch → because repairing your tool is boring - Silk Touch → pulls drops into your inventory for smoother cleanup - Silk Touch → Changes will apply softer. No torches destroyed, no blocks updated.

Attraction

`Attraction` is the mod's custom utility enchantment. WORKS FOR ALL ITEMS AND NOT ONLY FOR TROWELS

- Pulls relevant mob drops into your inventory - Also works on mob drops - Makes cleanup much faster during building, replacing, mining, and general survival play - Fits the whole point of the mod: less annoying inventory and ground clutter

---

🎮 Controls

Quick summary so people don't have to guess:

- Shift → normal trowel use - Shift → change placement order - Shift → quick-place mode - Shift → cycle rotation / orientation modes - Shift → show more detailed tooltip info ---

🎯 Goal of the Mod

Make building:

- faster - easier - less annoying - and actually fun

Without turning it into full creative mode.

---

💬 Final Words

This mod is made with love, experiments, and a bit of chaos.

If something breaks — it’s probably a feature. If it works — I’m as surprised as you are.

---

Join my Discord or find me directly (@silentudono)