Getting Started

Getting Started

1. Install the mod and start the game. Joining a world says in chat which key opens the BlockCompanion menu (B by default).
2. A short guide opens by itself the first time you are in a world. The Guide button in the menu opens it again.
3. Put a schematic in <game folder>/blockcompanion/schematics, press B, pick it and click Load. It appears in front of you as ghost blocks.
4. Hold a stick (the selection tool), look at the schematic's box and Shift+scroll to move it, Ctrl+scroll to turn it.
5. Build. Ghosts show only what differs from the world: missing blocks, red for a wrong block, orange for something in the way.

The tutorial world

The title screen has a BlockCompanion tutorial button (under Minecraft Realms). It opens a world where each step asks you to do one thing and says when you have.

• Chapter 1, the basics: open the menu, hold the stick, move a hut onto its floor, lock it, fix a wrong block, clear a block in the way, build a porch with easy place, step through layers, open the resource list.
• Chapter 2, your own schematics: load, turn, mirror and lock one, pick a ghost's block, link a chest, AutoBuild, share it on a server, and the live link to BlockDesigner.

Every step stays up at least 20 seconds. Enter goes on, Backspace goes back.

The guide's first page also has a short camera tour with a demo schematic in any world. Nothing in the world changes.

Keys

All keys can be rebound in Options > Controls > BlockCompanion or on the settings screen's Keys tab.

Key	What it does
B	Schematic screen (load, placements, resources, BlockDesigner link)
N	Resource list
Shift+scroll	Move the box you look at (stick in hand)
Ctrl+scroll	Turn it 90 degrees
Ctrl+Shift+scroll	Switch the stick between Move and Mirror
M	Mirror (stick in hand)
V	Cycle the view: everything, layers up to here, this layer only, only this schematic, hidden
PgUp / PgDn	Step through layers
Insert	Layers: build up or one level at a time
Y	Lock the box you look at
H	Easy place on or off
K	Mark a selection corner
O	Save the selection (or the loaded schematic's box) as .schem
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y	Undo / redo
Middle click	Pick the block of the ghost you look at
Alt+left / right-click (stick)	Mark corners
Shift+right-click (stick)	Clear the selection
Ctrl+right-click (stick)	Link or unlink a chest

No key is bound by default for: auto place, next placement, grab from BlockDesigner, settings, showing or hiding a schematic, and the toggles for the HUD, ghost shimmer, block entity ghosts, boxes and material helper.