Road Planner
A road laid in vanilla blocks has steps on every slope and right-angled corners. The Road Planner smooths such a road into even slopes and curves, so vehicles drive over it without a bump. It does not build roads from nothing: it reshapes a road you have laid, with the blocks already on it.
Crafting
Diagonally on a crafting table: 1 iron ingot in the top right corner, 1 stick in the middle and 1 in the bottom left corner.
Using it
Holding the Road Planner, the key hints at the top right of the screen change with what the crosshair is on. Left-click does not mine blocks while you hold it.
| Crosshair on | Key | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| the edge of a step in a road (the next road block 1 higher) | right-click | build a slope |
| the same | Sneak + scroll | slope length: 2 to 8 blocks per block of rise, 4 by default |
| the end of a road | right-click | pick it as a curve's start |
| with a start picked, the end of another road | right-click | build the curve |
| with a start picked | left-click | drop the start |
| a slope or curve it built | left-click | remove that piece, as it was before |
| anywhere | Sneak + left-click | undo your last piece |
Slopes
Aimed at a step, the preview shows each block of the slope; blocks too steep (over 45°) are red. Several steps in a row (up to 8 flat blocks apart) become one even slope. A road can be up to 16 blocks wide.
Curves
Pick a start at the end of one road, then aim at the end of another road and build the curve. It is a smooth curve that leaves and joins each road along it; with the two ends at different heights it rises or falls smoothly between them. Below the curve the ground is filled in (up to 16 blocks down) and above it 3 blocks are cleared.
Materials
- In Survival, slopes and curves take the road's own blocks. Above the preview grid a line such as "Needs Stone Bricks ×37 (have 52)" shows how many; with too few blocks only part is built.
- What is cut away drops as blocks.
- Removing a piece puts every block back as it was before.
Removing and mining
- Road blocks it built can be mined one by one with a pickaxe or a shovel, like any block.
- A curve cannot be changed in the middle: remove the whole piece (left-click it) and build it again.