LetsBuild

Lets Build

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A builder's hammer that never wears out, precision building with the hammer, and planting in rows and columns.

The mod speaks the game's language: German in a German game, English in every other one.

Works with BetrValheim by DezzyCode: fully compatible, every setting of Lets Build in a tab of its own in BetrValheim's F11 window, and its bee boxes make plants grow faster too.

Made by DezzyCode.

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At a glance

| | | | --- | --- | | Builder's hammer | Never wears out; for admins, free building and flight while it is in your hands | | Loose camera | P frees the camera to build from any angle | | Precision building | Grid from 0.125 to 2 m and rotation steps down to 1°, for every piece in the build menu | | Area repair | Repair one piece and everything damaged around it is repaired too, 10 m around | | Planting in rows | Rows and columns with the cultivator, as tight as the game lets plants grow | | More to plant | Berry bushes, mushrooms, flowers, branches, flint, young trees and four new saplings | | Bulk harvest | Shift + E picks everything ripe within 5 m | | Rain and bees | Plants grow twice as fast in the rain and 1.5 times as fast near working beehives and BetrValheim's bee boxes | | Growth in the hover text | How far a plant has grown, when it is ready and what speeds it up | | Alone or together | In single player your own settings count; on a server the server's, for everyone | | BetrValheim | Fully compatible; with it, every setting in a tab of its own in the F11 window, the server's for admins only |

Every number here is a default and can be changed in the settings.

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The builder's hammer

Make it at the workbench for 1 wood. (A server can switch the recipe off.)

Never wears out. Not by having a huge durability number — by having none at all, so there is no bar quietly draining either.

Free building and flight while held - if you want it, and if you are an admin. With creative building on, equipping it switches on the game's own devcommands, debug mode, free placement and flight, and unequipping puts every one of them back. Press O with the hammer in hand to switch creative building off: then it is an ordinary hammer that never wears out, and you build and walk like everyone else. Your choice is kept.

Back, not off. If you had flight or free building on before you picked the hammer up, putting it away leaves them on. It restores what it found rather than switching things off, so it cannot cancel something you asked for yourself.

Flight ends when you land. Cutting flight in mid air would be a fall you did not agree to, so it waits for solid ground. Until then you build normally and can still fly.

A loose camera for building. With the hammer in hand, press P and the camera comes loose - with creative building on or off. Fly it with WASD, jump and crouch, and build exactly as you always do. Press P again, or put the hammer away, and the camera is back behind you. For an admin the character goes along unseen, so building reaches from wherever the camera is. For everyone else the character stays where it stood, visible to all, the camera goes up to 64 m from it, and building reaches as far as from the character.

It comes back if it was lost. The game throws away any item whose mod is not loaded when a character is loaded — one session in a mod profile without Lets Build, and the hammer was gone for good. The mod now remembers how many hammers you carried and hands back any that were lost that way.

Your normal hammer is untouched. This is a separate item; the game's own hammer stays as it is.

Area repair. With the hammer - the game's and the builder's - repairing a piece also repairs every damaged piece around it, nearest first. The radius (10 m by default) is set in the settings, and area repair can be switched off there - on a server, by the server. No workbench or other crafting station needs to be near. The extra pieces are free, or, if the server sets it so, each costs the stamina and wear of a single repair.

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Precision building

With the hammer (the game's and the builder's hammer):

| Key | What it does | | --- | --- | | H | Grid on / off | | N | Grid size: 0.125 · 0.25 · 0.5 · 1 · 2 m | | J | Rotation step: 90° · 45° · 22.5° · 15° · 5° · 1° | | U | Snap to grid corners or to cell centres |

• With the grid off, building is exactly the game's own: its 22.5° rotation step, and

N, J and U do nothing. Your choices are kept for the next time you switch it on.

• The keys are shown on the right of the screen, centred top to bottom, in the game's own key

hint style.

• Every piece in the build menu snaps to it. The grid lies on whatever you aim at: floors and

terrain, and along walls too - but not on water.

• It follows what you look at: aimed at a building piece it takes that piece's turn and tilt

and lines up with its edges - a turned floor, a roof slope, a slanted wall. Aimed at terrain it runs north/south and east/west from the world's centre, so foundations placed far apart still line up.

• While the grid is on, pieces snap to the grid only - not onto neighbouring pieces. Q/E

still choose which point of the piece sits on the grid.

• The grid lies flat in the plane of the surface you aim at and never runs over anything else.

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Planting

With the cultivator and a plant selected:

| Key | What it does | | --- | --- | | ↑ / ↓ | More or fewer rows | | → / ← | More or fewer columns | | H | Line up with the plants already standing: on / off |