Mind Your Own Block

You place a fence post and it joins the fence next to it. You place a stair and it bends into a corner. You place a lantern post in a pond and it fills with water. Hold your mouse’s side button while you place, and the block stays exactly as you put it, minding its own business.

What it does

• Fences, walls, glass panes and iron bars stand on their own instead of joining their neighbours.
• Stairs stay straight instead of bending into an inner or outer corner.
• Blocks placed into water stay dry. A bucket of water still fills them if you want it later.
• They stay that way while you build around them, until you break them. Break one and place it again to go back to normal. A block pushed by a piston goes back to normal too.

Made for building

• It’s its own button, not sneak, so it works while you stand on scaffolding and while you sneak along a roof edge.
• No side button, or on a touchpad? Pick any key in Controls, under Mind Your Own Block.
• A small padlock beside the crosshair shows while you’re holding it.
• No new blocks, no new items, no settings to learn. Let go and placing is vanilla again.

Works with

• Modded fences and walls built on vanilla’s, like Macaw’s Fences and Walls (tested).
• Build Better (tested together).
• Install it on both the server and your game. On a server without it, the button just does nothing, and players without it can still join a server that has it.

I made this for my own worlds and am sharing it in case it suits yours. It’s open source under the MIT License, so you’re welcome to read it, fork it or include it in a modpack.

Found a bug or have an idea? Tell me on GitHub.

More of my mods, in short videos: youtube.com/@gabmaybelle