Building Wands FAQ

Craft a Wooden Wand first, since it's the cheapest tier and lets you try the placement mechanic. Hold it, aim at a surface, and right-click to place blocks in the wand's pattern. Once you're comfortable, work your way up through the material tiers.

Wands pull blocks from your inventory, so just keep the block type you want to place in your hotbar or inventory. Some setups let you bind a specific block to the wand, and Magic Bags can hold blocks for the wand to draw from.

Higher tiers generally increase the maximum number of blocks you can place at once and may unlock larger placement shapes. Wooden is the smallest, and tiers like Netherite or Creative give the biggest reach and block limits.

Most wands let you cycle through placement modes (such as line, wall, cube, or plane) using a keybind or by sneaking and scrolling. Check your controls menu for the wand mode key if the default doesn't work.

Common causes are an empty inventory of the needed block, being out of range, or the target area being blocked by existing blocks or protected by claims. Make sure you're holding the wand and that the block you want is actually in your inventory.

Magic Bags store large amounts of a single block type so your wand can place them without cluttering your inventory. Put blocks into a bag, then have the wand draw from it while building. Higher tiers hold more blocks.

Yes, wands can typically be upgraded to the next tier by combining them with the appropriate material in a crafting grid or similar recipe. Check the upgrade guide for the exact steps, since the process varies by tier.

It generally works alongside most building and decoration mods since it just places vanilla-style blocks. Mods that add protected regions, claim systems, or custom block placement rules may block wand placement in those areas.

Placing many blocks at once can cause a brief spike, especially with large tiers or fast repeated use. Lower your block limit in the config or use smaller tiers if you notice lag, and avoid spamming placements in quick succession.

Yes, the mod has a configuration file where you can adjust things like maximum block placement, range, and other behavior. Edit the config and reload or restart so the changes take effect.

It adds building wands that let you place blocks from a distance, making large-scale construction easier. The wands support many building modes such as directional, row/column, fill, area, grid, line, circle, copy, paste, and blast.

It adds twelve items: wooden wand, stone wand, copper wand, iron wand, gold wand, diamond wand, netherite wand, creative wand, palette, and magic bag tiers 1, 2, and 3.

The Modrinth project page lists Minecraft versions 1.21.8, 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, and 26.2.

It supports Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, and Quilt.

The stone wand has a 16 block limit, iron 32, diamond 64, and netherite 256. These limits are configurable in wands.json.

Wand limits are configurable in wands.json.

Yes, block placement can optionally consume experience points. This is configured in wands.json using blocks_per_xp, where 0 disables XP consumption.

Blocks can be destroyed if a tool is placed inside the wand via its menu. In Creative mode any tool can break any block, while in Survival mode the tool must match the block type, such as an axe for wood or a pickaxe for stone.

Yes, blast mode destroys blocks using an explosion effect. In Survival mode, TNT must be present in your inventory.

Yes, in Survival mode blocks are consumed from Shulker Boxes first.