Structure Gel API Wiki & Guide

An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.

Structure Gel is an API mod designed to make creating structures easier on the developers, specifically ones using the jigsaw system. All code is open source and documented.

📚 Read the Structure Gel API Documentation Here

For an open source working example of this api, check out Dungeons Plus

You can find detailed information on how to develop and use this API by Minecraft version.

Latest Documentation

• https://gitlab.com/modding-legacy/structure-gel-api/-/blob/1.21.4/README.md?ref_type=heads

🧪 Latest Features

🛠️ Building Tools

The Building Tool is a new creative mode only item used to perform various large scale block alterations.

• It can be found in the Structure Items creative mode tab.
• Right click the Building Tool in the air to open the GUI. Once open, you can select what mode you want to use, undo, redo, select your position, and more.
  

  

  
  

GUI

The GUI contains various buttons to modify the Building Tool's settings, as well as some convienent tools.

• Pressing, enter, e, escape, or clicking anywhere on the screen that isn't a button will close the GUI.
• Hovering over any item on the GUI will display a tooltip on the right side to explain what it does and how to use it.
• Using the radial menu, you can select which mode you want to use.
• Some modes support positions. If they do, a button will appear on the top left to select a position based on your current location. This is mainly useful when right clicking a block isn't possible or is highly inconvenient.
• The Undo and Redo buttons on the left exist to do exactly what they say. They attempt to undo or redo the last action you performed with the Building Tool. Up to 32 actions are saved and can be undone.
• Some modes have additional settings, these settings will appear below the undo and redo buttons.
• The button in the middle is used to select what block you want to use. When you click it, a text box will open for you to type a block state. This can be done in game as well, but some blocks like water are more than difficult to click on.

Controls

• Middle Click: Selects the current block state you're looking at (also can be done in the GUI).
• Left Click: This is the general key for "do the thing" depending on what mode you're in.
• Right Click Air: Opens the GUI.
• Right Click Block: Some modes use this to set positions, but ones that don't also allow this to "do the thing" as well.
• Shift + Right Click: Clears the currently selected positions.

Modes

Building Tool Modes are different operations that the Building Tool can perform.

• Extend: Detects a pattern based on the side of the block you click, and attempts to place blocks in front of that to continue that pattern. If you're familiar with the old Builder's Wands mod, it's essentially the same idea.

  
  

  

  
  
  
  

• Flood: Fills all air blocks within the y level slice that you click, until it hits a border, then continues to fill going downward. This is useful for filling a lake with water for example.
  
  

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