RoadArchitect

     

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RoadArchitect

RoadArchitect is a mod that automatically scans the world for villages and other structures and connects them with roads to form a persistent travel network. Roads adapt their style to the biome, and the network is saved between game sessions.

> Wiki: RoadArchitect Wiki

✨ Features

• 🏘 Automatic detection of villages and other structures
• 🎨 Biome-aware road styles for better immersion
• 🧭 Smart pathfinding using A* with terrain caching
• 💾 Persistent network — roads remain between sessions
• 🔄 Fully automated, minimal setup
• 🧰 Configurable via Cloth Config (required on Fabric / Quilt / NeoForge)
• 🌐 Localization included: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, French, German, Chinese
• 🛰 Visual road-graph debugger with pan/zoom, tooltips, and a color legend; in singleplayer, clicking a node teleports to it (default hotkey H)
• 🗺 Terralith-ready — works out of the box with the Terralith world-generation datapack

🧩 Add-ons

• RoadArchitect Encounters: Modrinth / Curseforge / Github

📷 Screenshots

Plains (with lamp decorations)

Plains

Savanna

Desert

Forest

Cherry grove

Cherry grove (with lamp decorations)

Taiga

Swamp

Old growth spruce taiga

River

🗒️ Recent changes

v1.6.0 — performance improvements, biome styles, more flexible configuration

Highlights

• ⚡ Performance: significant speedup (up to ~2×) in structure scanning and pathfinding;
• 🌲 Route clearing: automatic removal of trees from the road corridor;
• 🎨 Biome styles: more default presets for vanilla biomes; broad coverage for Biomes O' Plenty;
• 🧰 Configuration:
• works across dimensions;
• road style customization;
• lamppost customization;
• road width customization;
• 🔧 Debugging: new “Debug & Diagnostics (Advanced)” tab in the config; outputs debug messages and pipeline profiler results;
• 🐞 Fixes: corrected translation keys for NeoForge.

Compatibility: no world reset required. Save format unchanged. Existing settings are preserved. Biomes O' Plenty support is optional and activates when the mod is present. The “Detailed debug logging” flag is off by default.

v1.5.0 — Smarter pathfinding, Terrain Analyzer (beta)

Highlights