BuildAid
by Foxobr
BuildAid is a client-side Fabric utility for pinning reference images, plans and block selections inside the game while building, with a build check against schematics.
What it does
Players keep reference pictures on a floating screen in the world or inside the game window, adjust their opacity, and move, resize, zoom, rotate or fade each panel. Several images can be open at once, and an image can also be placed in the world at a chosen block size, facing a chosen direction, so it stands at real scale.
Building tools cover area selection with two marked corners, which reports the size and a materials list with counts, plus guides for floor grids, a tape measure, symmetry planes, cross and radial layouts, and mob spawn checks. A project build check imports a .litematic file, captures the build, and places a ghost preview; blocks that are missing or wrong show in yellow or red with a progress bar.
Everything is client-side, so it works in singleplayer and on servers without the server needing the mod. Notes, a colour block picker with eight ready-made themes, a searchable image gallery and a menu with a page-by-page guide are included. The mod is available in English and Brazilian Portuguese. It is published for Fabric only, on 26.2, under the MIT License, and is not open source.
Key features
Floating reference images
Images stay open over the screen or stand in the world, with adjustable opacity and controls to move, resize, zoom, rotate and fade them.
Area selection and materials
Two marked corners give the size of an area and a materials list showing how many of each block are needed.
Project build check
A .litematic schematic can be imported, captured and shown as a ghost, with missing or wrong blocks marked in colour and a progress bar.
Building guides
Floor grids, a tape measure, symmetry planes, cross and radial guides, and mob spawn checks help lay out a build.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Builders working on survival, creative or adventure worlds who want reference images, layout guides and material counts inside the game. Players on servers can use it without asking the server owner to install anything.
Questions
Does BuildAid need to be installed on the server?
Which loader and game version does BuildAid support?
Can BuildAid check a build against a schematic file?
In the catalog
BuildAid is one of 3,545 Optimization mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,575 Optimization mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Your building helper: reference images on screen and in the world, 3D shape guides, Litematica-style selection with a build check, and a clean menu you can make your own. Stop alt-tabbing to look at a picture. BuildAid keeps your references inside the game — floating on the screen or standing in the world at real…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/buildaid
- Owner
- Foxobr
- Published
- 2026-08-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-27
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15