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Placement Utilities

by LaidBackSloth · for Minecraft

Utilities and gadgets to help you place blocks and make building far less painful

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4 yr agoLast updated
MITLicense
ForgeLoaders

About Placement Utilities

From Modrinth

Utilities and gadgets to help you place blocks and make building far less painful

Are you one of the people using dirt as temporary blocks for building? Stop doing that! This mod adds instantly breakable temporary blocks as well as upgrades of them. The mod also adds a tool called Angel Wand, which lets you place many blocks in midair and rotate them to make your next build less painful.

This GIF is showing how the Angel Wand works

A list of things the mod adds (you can find these descriptions in-game while hovering over the item and pressing CTRL + SHIFT):

  • Temporary Block (Default): A block that you can walk through and break instantly. It's used to place other blocks while building.
  • Temporary Block (Returning): Just like a default Temporary Block, but it will go straight into your inventory after breaking.
  • Temporary Block (Self Destructing): Just like a default Temporary Block, but it automatically disappears after 10 seconds (alternatively disappears on Random Tick if you configure it that way). Only used by the Temporary Wand.
  • Temporary Wand: Right click to place a self-destructing Temporary Block. Unlimited uses
  • Temporary Block (Angel): Just like a returning Temporary Block, but you can place it midair.
  • Angel Wand: While holding in your offhand, you can place many blocks as if they were angel Temporary Blocks. The distance you place the block is changeable. Upgradeable
  • Angel Add-on: Break: An add-on for the Angel Wand to remove the Mining Fatigue effect while holding an Angel Wand in your offhand.
  • Angel Add-on: Range: An add-on for the Angel Wand to increase its max reach by 1 Block each (max amount is configurable).
  • Angel Add-on: Rotate: An add-on for the Angel Wand to add a feature to rotate blocks you are looking at.

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Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 4 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.19.2.

Loaders

Runs on Forge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Placement Utilities on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Forge
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
forge-1.1-1.19, released 2022-12-12

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Forge1.18.2 to 1.19.2 (4 versions)1.19.2

From 3 recorded builds of Placement Utilities.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
forge-1.1-1.192022-12-121.19 to 1.19.2 (3 versions)Forge
forge-1.0-1.19.X2022-09-261.19 to 1.19.2 (3 versions)Forge
forge-1.0-1.18.22022-09-261.18.2Forge

Run Placement Utilities on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Placement Utilities as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Forge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.19.2 and 3 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorLaidBackSloth, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Placement Utilities, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Placement Utilities?

Modrinth lists Placement Utilities as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Forge.

Is it free?

Yes. Placement Utilities is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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