Orbis Mod 1.12.2 (Have You Ever Wanted to Play God?)

To access the new gamemode, you must type the following in your in-game chat:

/gamemode 4

OR

/gamemode designer

OR

/toggledesigner

There is currently no “Designer” option in the Gamemode button for world creation, but it’s something we’ll be adding in the future. For now, activate the Gamemode as shown above.

Orbis gives you a selection of different “Powers” to place around with. When you activate the Gamemode, you’ll notice that there’s a new interface above your hotbar. This interface shows you the current Power you are using. By default, you are in the “Creative” Power, which is for all intents and purposes just like standard Creative function.

To switch to other Powers, you’ll want to access the pivotal “Power Wheel”. This can be brought up by holding TAB. You’ll see a selection of different tabs and icons representing each Power. The first tab of this Power Wheel is detailed lower down, but first, let’s talk about selecting.

Many Powers in the mod require you to select a region in the world. This is done by holding down the Left or Right Mouse Button and dragging a selection in-world. When you are actively selecting an area (and holding down the mouse button), you can use the Scroll Wheel on your mouse to change the reach of your 3D cursor temporarily. If you want to permanently change your reach, you can hold CTRL while using the Scroll Wheel.

You can also select things underground by holding down CTRL. Holding CTRL also activates “xray” vision for regions behind other blocks.

TAB 1: Powers

Clicking or letting go of TAB while hovering on one of the Power icons will make it so you select that particular Power. Each Power has their own function:

When you’ve selected a region, you can also press Delete on your keyboard to delete the contents of the selected region.

TAB 2: Selection Shapes

This tab has an array of Shapes you can use to dictate your selection with the various Powers. This tab is fairly self-explanatory – you choose a shape, and you’ll start selecting with that shape instead of the default “Cuboid”. These are the current shape choices:

In the future we’ll allow users to script their own shape types.

TAB 3: Selection Methods

The third tab has a few different Selection Methods you can choose from. These methods dictate HOW you select regions.

Block Palettes are an important aspect of the mod. Let’s say you want to Delete 2 or more specific Block types – you can do so by combining those blocks together into one “Block Palette”, holding it in your hand, then selecting with the Delete Power.

So how do you create a Block Palette?

First you’ll want to go to your Creative Inventory and click on the new button called “Combine Blocks”. This will bring you to a whole new interface where you can combine blocks together in the matrix to the right.

As you can see, you can combine blocks together with different stacksizes. This is to define the “ratio” or “chance” for specific blocks when filling with that Block Palette.

Block Palettes are extremely useful and can be used with Fill, Delete and Replace in various ways. Give it a try!

Ever wanted to have a flat, blank canvas to work with in Minecraft? Say no more – the dimension the mod is named after is just the solution for you. Orbis is a pocket dimension unique to each player, and acts as a getaway to be creative without destroying your original world.