Effortless Building

This addon swaps block-by-block placing for shape tools. You choose a mode, then click two or three times to set an anchor, a footprint, or a height, and a completed shape lands in the world. Lines, walls, floors, circles, spheres, semicircles, cubes, cylinders, cones, diagonal walls, slope floors and copy/paste regions are all here, and each one carries its own toggles for filled, hollow or skeleton styles. Bezier and diagonal line modes let you drop waypoints for smooth Catmull-Rom curves, and an air build option places a single block with one click with no surface beneath it.

It plays like a building shortcut that still respects survival inventories. Blocks are drawn from what you carry, so a shape only appears if you have the material to cover it. Three modifiers multiply what you place: mirror reflects across chosen axes around a center point, array repeats a shape along an offset, and radial spins copies around a point, with an alternate option to mirror every other slice. All three also affect ordinary placing and breaking, so they work outside shape modes too. A palette system takes blocks from your hotbar or whole inventory and applies them with distribution patterns such as noise, gradient, ring, checker or stripe arrangements.

The current release leans hard on keeping previews cheap. While you aim, the geometry work is skipped and a bounding box stands in, and the full shape is only solved once you stop moving or commit to placing. Preview quality is treated literally, so a minimal setting redraws less often and matches particle lifetime to that pace, while larger selections draw less frequently. A tick rate figure sits on the action bar during selection and shifts colour with server load. First time you join, a short wizard asks about your hardware and applies matching defaults, all of which stay editable afterwards.

Features

• Fourteen shape tools covering lines, walls, floors, circles, spheres, cubes, cones, cylinders and more
• Bezier support in line and diagonal line modes using waypoints you confirm
• Air build places one floating block from a single click
• Mirror, array and radial modifiers that multiply every placement across patterns
• Twenty-one palette distributions including noise, gradients, rings and stripes
• Preview deferral, quality matching and a live tick rate readout while selecting
• Retextures items, particles at 16x resolution
• Also includes custom UI tweaks
• Effortless Building Tutorial

How to install Effortless Building

1. Download the .mcaddon file from this page.
2. Open the file: Minecraft starts and imports it by itself.
3. Create or edit a world, then turn the pack on under Behavior Packs and Resource Packs.

Requirements

• Minecraft Bedrock / PE 1.21.100 or newer
• Both packs active in the same world (behavior + resource)

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