About Better Beacon Placement
From Modrinth✔️ Easily place beacon bases by right-clicking the beacons with mineral blocks.
Better Beacon Placement is a minimalistic configurable mod which allows player to easily place beacon bases by right-clicking the beacon with a mineral block. Sneak/crouch+right-clicking places the entire stack in hand. Breaking the beacon will also break all the base blocks and drop them at the beacon's location. Replaced blocks are dropped on top of the beacon.
Bedrock won't be replaced.
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All available config options:
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breakBeaconBaseBlocks default true
If enabled, drops all beacon base blocks when the beacon itself is broken.
dropReplacedBlockTopBeacon default true
If enabled, when a mineral block replaces a normal block that block is dropped on top of the beacon.
You can right-click a beacon with a mineral block in hand and it will place it in the next base position:
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You can also sneak+right-click to place an entire stack of mineral blocks:
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Configurably you can set to drop the replaced blocks on top of the beacon:
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Breaking the beacon block will also break all the base blocks:
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You may freely use this mod in any modpack, as long as the download remains hosted within the CurseForge or Modrinth ecosystem.
Serilum.com contains an overview and more information on all mods available.
For issues, ideas, suggestions or anything else there is the Github repo. Thanks!
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 29 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Beacon Placement as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 28 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
