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TheArchitect Beta
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Features

From idea to finished build

Describe a building in a chat inside Minecraft Java. The Architect shows it as a ghost in your world, and you build it. Follow the path from idea to finished build.

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  • Works on any server
  • Survival and creative
  • Ghost and material list
A floating island with a timber house, a wheat field and a tree, a stone keep half built with its upper floors shown as a cyan see-through ghost, and the next house waiting as a ghost outline.

Start here

  1. A terminal on a desk with a chat typed in it, and the idea beside it as a cyan ghost outline of a house.

    Ask in plain words

    Press B in the game and describe what you want: a castle, a cottage, a harbor town. You can add a screenshot of your world or an idea. Turn screenshots off any time with /screenshots off. Your messages, the part of the world needed for a design and screenshots go to the cloud; details are in the privacy policy.

  2. A cyan see-through ghost of a building sitting on a hillside above a lake.

    It reads your terrain

    The Architect reads the terrain around you, so it can fit a build to a slope or a shoreline.

  3. A see-through ghost of a walled town standing on a river bank in a Minecraft world.

    A ghost in your world

    The design appears as a see-through Litematica schematic. You walk around it, look at it from every side and decide before you place a single block. Nothing is changed in your world. See the first build guide for the full walkthrough, and the builds for what it can make.

  4. A material list with stone bricks, cobblestone, andesite and spruce planks counted in stacks, next to a Download .litematic button.

    An exact material list

    Every build comes with a material list counted in stacks. You see it in the game with /materials, in a panel in the terminal, and in Litematica. Each of our example builds shows one too.

  5. A stone castle with red banners being built in a Minecraft world.

    Build it in survival

    You get the ghost and the list, and you build by hand. The survival guide shows a layer-by-layer workflow.

  6. The finished house on a floating island with a tree, a chest and a torch beside it.

    Or place it in creative

    Place the whole build in one go with /approve. The Architect saves an undo snapshot first, so /undo restores the area.

  7. A log cabin with a stone chimney after an edit, in a Minecraft world.

    Change it, step back

    Ask for a change and you get a new version. Step through them with /undo, /redo and /versions, and keep several builds with /builds. Read edit and version your build.

  8. A 3D view of a blue ghost castle on a small island, with a slider for how much is built so far.

    Studio in the browser

    Design in your browser, turn the build around in 3D, then send it to the game or download a .litematic. See Studio.

  9. A Japanese pagoda and temple among cherry trees in a Minecraft world.

    Styles, parts and memory

    • /style <name> builds in a style, and /style base matches your existing builds.
    • /parts splits a build into parts you can hide or show.
    • /remember <rule> stores a rule for this world, such as "always use spruce roofs".
  10. The download page with the Complete pack and the Mod only card.

    Works on your setup

    It runs on your own computer, so it works in singleplayer, on Aternos and on other servers with nothing to install on the server. See compatibility for the supported Minecraft versions.

Honest limits

The Architect can get a design wrong: a size, a block choice, a detail. Look at the ghost before you gather blocks. The material list itself is counted from the exact blocks in the design, so it always matches the ghost. Designing builds needs a plan, credits or your own key; see plans and credits.

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