Effortless Building

Effortless Building

Achievements Friendly & Survival Friendly Lightweight Performance - Full Custom Block Support - 13 Languages Build smarter, not harder.

Effortless Building is a Bedrock addon inspired by the iconic Java mod of the same name by Requioss. Instead of placing blocks one at a time, you pick a build mode, click two or three times, and entire structures appear: lines, walls, floors, spheres, cones, diagonal ramps, and more, all while consuming the correct blocks from your survival inventory. A live Coach teaches you the addon step by step, a Tutorial Book opens right in your world, and all of it speaks 13 languages.

TUTORIAL

PC Gameplay (By Eckosoldier)

Mobile Gameplay (Android/IOS)

✦ New in v5

• Floating Menus: the menu, settings, palette, modifiers, clipboard and help now hang in the air in front of you. Look at a button and click it.

• Quick Switch Wheel: hold right-click with the Building Book, aim at a shape on the wheel and let go. Your shape changes without opening a menu.

• Customize Wheel: choose which shapes sit on the wheel, slot by slot, or go back to the automatic layout.

• Live Coach: 15 short lessons that teach the addon while you play. A card beside you shows one step at a time and waits until you have actually done it.

• Tutorial Book: hold it and it opens in front of you as a real book with pictures of every shape, modifier and tool. Right-click turns the page.

• 13 Languages: English, Español, Deutsch, Português, Nederlands, Bahasa Indonesia, Shqip, Русский, 日本語, 한국어, हिन्दी, తెలుగు and اردو, for the menus, the coach, the tutorial book and every message.

• Hold to repeat: hold the click on a number in any menu and it keeps counting, faster the longer you hold.

• Comfort settings: menu size, which side the coach card hangs on, menu sound volume, and an optional aiming cursor for touch screens.

• Your choice of menus: prefer the game's standard menus? Set Menu Style to Plain. Admins can switch everyone to plain menus at once.

✦ 14 Build Modes

Every mode works in both Survival and Creative. 2-step modes take two right-clicks (anchor then build). 3-step modes take three (anchor, XZ footprint, then height + build). Each mode has its own options on the right of the menu.

2-Step Modes

• Line - Straight or Bezier curve

• Wall - Filled or Hollow

• Floor - Filled or Hollow

• Circle - Filled/Hollow, Even or Uneven (ellipse)

• Sphere - Filled or Hollow

• Semicircle - Horizontal, Arch, or Dome orientation; Filled or Hollow

• Diagonal Line - Straight or Bezier curve

3-Step Modes

• Cube - Filled, Hollow, or Skeleton

• Cylinder - Filled/Hollow, Even or Uneven (ellipse)

• Cone - Filled or Hollow; set the axis to Diagonal to lean the tip any way you like

• Diagonal Wall - Filled or Hollow
• Slope Floor - Filled or Hollow
• Copy / Paste - 3-click region selection

Special

• Air Build - Single right-click to place one block in midair, no surface needed

Bezier curves (Line & Diagonal Line): right-click to add waypoints one by one, sneak+click to confirm; the addon traces a smooth 3D Catmull-Rom spline through all your points.

Starter Shapes: new players can start with just Line, Wall, Floor and Cube, and open the full list with + More Modes whenever they are ready.

Air Building

Cube Shape

Line Mode

Circle Shape

Destroy Mode

Custom Blocks Support

✦ The Building Book

Everything starts from the Building Book. Hold it and the action bar shows its controls.

• Right-click: open the menu
• Hold right-click: Quick Switch Wheel
• Left-click: Block Palette
• Sneak + Right-click: Settings
• Sneak + Left-click: Build Modifiers
• Sneak twice: turn your build mode off and back on

Prefer the palette on right-click? Turn on Swap Book Clicks in Settings > Controls.

✦ The Menu

Open with right-click on the Building Book or /menu.

• Shapes on the left, with the active one lit in gold. Pin a shape to keep it near the top.
• Options for the chosen shape on the right (Filled/Hollow, Even/Uneven, Bezier and so on), applied instantly.
• Tools along the bottom: Palette, Modifiers, Clipboard, Undo, Redo, Settings and Help.
• Customize Wheel to choose the shapes on your Quick Switch Wheel.
• A hint line along the bottom explains whatever you are looking at.

✦ Coach & Tutorial Book (new in v5)

The Coach is a live tutorial: 15 lessons, from your first line to copy and paste and the Quick Switch Wheel. Its card floats beside you and moves on only once you have done the step. Put it away with its X and bring it back where you left off with /guide or the Help button. Pick any lesson again from the lesson list.

The Tutorial Book explains everything with pictures. Hold it and it opens in front of you; right-click for the next page, hit the book to go back, sneak to jump a chapter. Lost it? Get it again from Help or with /tutorial.

Both, and all the floating menus, follow your Book Language, which you can change any time in Settings or with /language.

✦ Performance

Deferred Shape Calculation: working out a large shape means running the geometry, the modifier pipeline, and a block check for every single position, and that res

Instead of always building with the block you right-clicked, you can source blocks from your hotbar, your full inventory, or both, and paint them across your placement using one of 24 distribution patterns:

• Dissolve - Dithered noise-blended gradient (Best One)
• Dissolve X / Y / Z - The same scattered fade along one axis
• Random - Randomly distributed by block weight
• Spread - Evenly repeating sequence
• Gradient X / Y / Z - Smooth color transition along an axis
• Radial Gradient - Transitions from center outward
• Diagonal Gradient - Transitions along a diagonal
• Concentric Rings - Block A core, Block B ring, Block C outer, and so on
• Checker - Alternating 3D checkerboard
• Horizontal Stripes - Rows by Y level
• Vertical Stripes - Columns along the dominant axis
• Diagonal Stripes - Slanted column bands
• Brick - Offset column stripes like real masonry
• Herringbone - Alternating 45° zigzag
• Value Noise - Smooth organic blobs
• Cell Noise - Voronoi / stone-cell organic patches
• Marble - Sine-warped streaks through noise
• Border - Depth-based rings from outer edge inward
• Wave - Sine wave across the shape
• Spiral - Angle + distance spiral from center

Weight can be calculated by item count, slot count, or unique block (equal weight regardless of quantity). Open the palette with Left-click on the Building Book or /palette.

✦ Copy, Cut & Paste

Select a region with 3 clicks (XZ corner 1, XZ corner 2, then height). Works on blocks or in the air. Sneaking on click targets the block itself rather than its face, giving precise control in tight spaces. Once the region is marked, choose Copy or Cut.

• Copy leaves the blocks where they are and saves them to your clipboard.
• Cut removes the blocks instantly with no drops and no tool required, and you carry them with you. In Survival, pasting a cut region is one-time use; the clipboard clears after the paste.
• Paste by right-clicking anywhere. The structure automatically rotates to match your facing direction (N/E/S/W), including proper rotation of stairs, logs, doors, trapdoors, signs, and more.
• Ghost Preview: hold your cursor still for 0.5 s and a countdown appears in the action bar (●●● → ●●○ → ●○○). At 3 s a transparent ghost of the copied structure appears at the target position; right-click while it's visible to confirm the paste.
• Sneak + right-click clears the clipboard at any point.
• In Survival, paste consumes blocks from your inventory.

✦ Clipboard Manager

Never lose a copied build again. Your newest copy always waits in Last Copy, and you can keep up to 19 more in named save slots that persist across sessions and world reloads.

• Every copy and cut lands in Last Copy automatically
• Save a Copy moves it into a free slot, where future copies will never overwrite it
• Click any slot to make it active, then paste it in Copy/Paste mode
• See each copy's size and block count at a glance
• Rename any slot (up to 32 characters) or delete it
• Open with /clipboard or the Clipboard button in the menu

✦ Destroy Mode

Hold a pickaxe, axe, or shovel and right-click to set a destroy anchor, then right-click again to destroy every block in the shape. Works with any active build mode.

• Tool-aware: the correct tool is required per block type in Survival (a stone pickaxe can't mine iron ore, etc.)
• Enchantment support: Fortune, Silk Touch, and Unbreaking are all respected and behave correctly
• Durability tracking: the addon counts each block against your tool's durability and automatically switches to a spare tool of the same type when the active one breaks
• XP drops: ore types correctly award XP on destruction
• Survival drops: for large operations, drops are collected in bulk and spawned near your feet with a magnet pull effect
• Admins can restrict Destroy Mode to Creative only, or disable it entirely per server/world

✦ Live Preview & Selection Zoom

While an anchor is set, the addon renders a real-time preview of exactly what will be placed before you confirm. Four preview styles to choose from:

• Outline - full rendered block outline of the shape
• Corner Outline - lightweight outline showing only the bounding box corners
• Particles - particle cloud approximating the shape
• Disabled - no preview for best performance

Destroy Mode has its own separate preview style setting.

Preview refresh rate is adjustable across 7 levels from Smooth (every tick) to Minimal (every 20 ticks), tunable per player in Settings > Preview or via /config.

Selection Zoom: while your anchor is placed, the camera smoothly zooms in as your selection grows so you can see exactly where you're building. Zoom start distance (1-50 blocks) and max zoom level (1-200) are configurable per player. The camera resets automatically when you confirm, cancel, or rejoin.

✦ Undo & Redo

Made a mistake? In Creative mode, the Undo and Redo buttons in the menu (or /undo and /redo) step back up to 10 operations and forward again.

• Operations under your undo threshold (default: 200 blocks) are saved to player data and survive rejoins and world reloads
• Operations over the threshold are kept in memory only for the current session
• Threshold is configurable per player: Disabled, 200, 500, or 1,000 blocks

✦ Per-Player Settings

All settings are saved per player and persist across sessions. Open with /settings or Sneak + Right-click the Building Book. They are grouped into Quick Setup, Building, Preview and Controls; tap a setting to change it and the line at the bottom explains it.

Building

• Starter Shapes Only: on/off
• Build speed: Instant, Fast, Normal, or Slow
• Max blocks per operation (default 50,000, up to the admin-set ceiling)
• Replace existing blocks: on/off
• Infinite reach: toggle on/off and set custom distance
• Air Build reach: 1 to 64 blocks
• Destroy drops items: on/off
• Undo threshold: Disabled, 200, 500, or 1,000 blocks

Preview

• Build preview: Particles, Outline, Corner Outline, or Disabled
• Break preview: Outline, Corner Outline, or Disabled
• Preview quality: 7 levels from Smooth (1 tick) to Minimal (20 ticks)
• Defer Shape Calculation and Flick Preview: on/off

Controls (new in v5)

• Swap Book Clicks: menu and palette trade places
• Selection Zoom: on/off, zoom start distance, and max zoom level
• Hints: one-line tips the first time you open a menu or pick a mode
• Menu Style: Floating or Plain
• Cursor, Menu Size, Coach Card Side and Menu Sounds
• Book Language

✦ Admin & Server Controls

(Visible only to operators and players with the eb:admin tag)

The first player who joins a new world is automatically granted admin. On servers, run /tag @s add eb:admin once to access the admin section.

• Tag restriction: require a specific tag before players can use the addon
• Custom required tag name (default: admin)

• /menu - Open the menu
• /settings - Open player settings
• /palette - Open the block palette
• /clipboard - Open the Clipboard Manager
• /config - Open personal config (preview quality)
• /setup - Run Quick Setup again
• /guide - Start or stop the Coach
• /tutorial - Get the Tutorial Book
• /language - Choose the language of the book, the coach and the menus
• /undo - Undo last operation (Creative only)
• /redo - Redo last operation (Creative only)
• /getbook - Get a new Building Book (costs 5 XP levels)

✦ Showcase

Is this addon achievements friendly? Yes.

Does this work in Survival? Yes. The addon checks your inventory before every placement and only places as many blocks as you're carrying. Undo and Redo are Creative-only, but all build modes and Destroy Mode work fully in Survival.

Does it work on Realms and servers? Yes, as long as the Behavior Pack is applied to the world. Admin controls let you restrict access by tag and limit which features players can use.

I don't like the floating menus. Set Menu Style to Plain in Settings > Controls and the addon uses the game's standard menus instead. Admins can do it for everyone with Plain Menus For All.

What languages are supported? English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Indonesian, Albanian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Telugu and Urdu. Choose yours with /language or Book Language in Settings.

Will it conflict with other addons? Effortless Building only interacts with its own custom items (the Building Book and the Tutorial Book) and does not modify any vanilla blocks, entities, or recipes. Conflicts are very unlikely.

What is the maximum blocks per operation? The default cap is 50,000 blocks. Admins can raise the server-wide ceiling up to 300,000. Players can set their personal limit anywhere up to the admin cap.

Are enchantments respected in Destroy Mode? Yes. Fortune, Silk Touch, and Unbreaking all work correctly. Fortune multiplies ore drops, Silk Touch changes what drops, and Unbreaking slows tool wear.

My preview looks slow, is the addon lagging my world? Check the number in the action bar while selecting - that is your live tick rate. If it sits near 20.00 the world is running fine, and the preview is simply drawing at the rate your quality setting asks for.

What Minecraft version is required? Bedrock Edition 1.21.100 or later. Left-click (swing) to open the palette requires 1.26.0+.

Inspired by the original Effortless Building Java mod by Requioss.

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