About Placement Utilities
From ModrinthUtilities 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.
Recipes: 
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Highlights
From source dataGame 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
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.18.2 to 1.19.2 (4 versions) | 1.19.2 |
From 3 recorded builds of Placement Utilities.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| forge-1.1-1.19 | 2022-12-12 | 1.19 to 1.19.2 (3 versions) | Forge |
| forge-1.0-1.19.X | 2022-09-26 | 1.19 to 1.19.2 (3 versions) | Forge |
| forge-1.0-1.18.2 | 2022-09-26 | 1.18.2 | Forge |
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 catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth 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













