MeepleCraft

MeepleCraft adds physical board-game boxes to Minecraft Java 1.21.1. You craft the boxes, design the games, and stand them on cube shelves. The games are decorative in this version.

The games

There are four games, each a box you can hold and display:

• Settlers of the Overworld
• Terraformers of the End
• Cobblestonne
• Minecarts of the Overworld

They are different widths, so a cubby holds several thin boxes or fewer thick ones. Each cubby has 14 units of usable width.

Cube Shelf

A Cube Shelf is one open cubby. Place several with the same facing and they join into a shelf. Supported groups, measured width by height from the opening, are 1×1, 2×3, 3×2, 3×4, 4×3, 4×4, and 5×5. A 2×2 is four separate cubbies, not one shelf. Only cubbies in the same plane, facing the same way, can connect. Shared borders inside a group are thin. The edge of a group stays thick, so two shelves that touch still look separate.

Right-click a cubby with a game to put it there. Click the left or right half of a box to insert before or after it, or click a gap to use that gap. Games shift only as far as they need to. Shift-right-click places one game in the first free cubby of that group, scanning top to bottom and left to right. It never spills into the next group. Click a game with an empty hand to take that game back. Breaking a filled cubby drops the games.

Game Design Table

Right-click the table. Put one Blank Game Box in the left slot and the game’s ingredients in the four middle slots. Order does not matter, and unused slots stay empty. The matching game appears in the output. Taking it uses one blank box and one of each ingredient.

The table does not have the games hard-coded. Each game is a meeplecraft:game_design recipe. The four that ship with the mod are:

• Cobblestonne: cobblestone, wheat, and yellow dye
• Minecarts of the Overworld: rail, minecart, and map
• Settlers of the Overworld: brick, wheat, and oak sapling
• Terraformers of the End: end stone, chorus fruit, and ender pearl

Game Design Handbook

Craft a book with a Blank Game Box to get a Game Design Handbook. Right-click it to open a read-only book. Every game design recipe that is currently loaded is listed with the game’s name and icon, and each ingredient’s icon and name. If more recipes are added later, they show up in the book on their own.

Crafting

All of these are crafting-table recipes, and they appear in the recipe book once you have the materials.

• Blank Game Box: a row of three paper over a row of three planks.
• Game Design Table: paper across the top, planks, a crafting table, and planks in the middle, and planks across the bottom.
• Cube Shelf: a plank frame with the middle left empty, and a stick in the centre of the top row and the centre of the bottom row. A frame of planks alone is a chest, so the sticks keep that recipe as it is.
• Game Design Handbook: a book and a Blank Game Box, in any order.

The games, the blank box, the handbook, the table, and the cube shelf are in the MeepleCraft creative tab. The shelf and the table are mined with an axe.

Requirements

MeepleCraft needs Fabric Loader and Fabric API on Minecraft Java 1.21.1. Install it on the client and on the server.

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