Building Gizmos
Building Gizmos adds shape and curve tools for building, including Bezier curves that can be placed and reshaped with control points.
What it does
Building Gizmos provides tools for drawing shapes and curves in a build. Bezier curves can be placed, and their control points set by Shift-right-clicking a selected shape, then dragging each point to the wanted location before pressing the build key, which defaults to X. Shape parameters and the hotkey instructions appear in a tooltip on the gizmo. Dependency: Architectury API is required. Both sides need the mod, since the environment is client and server. Files exist for Fabric and Forge, for 1.19.2 and 1.20.1, under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and the project is open source.
Key features
Shape and curve tools
Shapes and Bezier curves can be drawn in the world, giving builders a way to place curved forms.
Control point editing
Shift-right-click selects control points on a shape, and dragging moves them before the build key is pressed.
Random block palettes
Shapes can be retextured with a user-defined block palette or a gradient blended between two colours.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
How it compares
Independent Gizmo is client-side only, open source under the MIT License and available for Fabric alone across 1.16 – 1.21.10. Building But Better uses a custom license, is not open source, and is built for Fabric and Forge on 1.20.1 with the client and server environment.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Gizmos | Fabric and Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-07-21 |
| Independent Gizmo | Fabric | 1.16 – 1.21.10 | Client-side only | 2025-10-02 |
| Building But Better | Fabric and Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-15 |
Questions
Does Building Gizmos need Architectury API?
In the catalog
Building Gizmos is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Shift-Right Click to set control points for the selected shape. Click and drag the control points to your desired location, and press the build key (default: x) to build your shape. The parameters of your current shape, with hotkey instructions, can be seen in the tooltip of the gizmo.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/building-gizmos
- Owner
- woodenscalpel
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-07-21
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15