Architect's Table - A new job block that lets players plan builds in survival Minecraft
Something I've always felt was missing from the survival Minecraft experience is the ability to plan larger builds without having painstakingly gather the resources first. This is made worse by the inability to see if those resources will even provide the desired aesthetic before collecting and placing them first.
While you can make a copy of your survival world and change the game mode to creative, I find this solution to be inelegant, cumbersome.. and potentially dangerous if you accidentally convert the wrong world to creative. Testing structures in a separate creative world also means that you have to take multiple actual photos or switch between worlds in order to reliably transfer the build from your creative world to your survival world.
Instead, I propose: the Architect's Table.
Ideally, this table would have any/all of the following features:
- Using the table would immerse the player in a creative-style mirror dimension or flat world with the ability to use any legitimately obtainable blocks.
- Number and kind of placed blocks would be recorded in an itemized list, e.g. Cobblestone x72, Oak Logs x32, Glass panes x12, Oak door x1.
- Placed blocks could be recorded layer by layer in a blueprint-style, paginated book.
- Alternatively (to item 3), placed blocks/structures could be recorded and placed as a ghostly overlay in the survival game (I remember seeing someone playing with a mod that did this, might have been Litematica?)
- A bonus/potential feature if you have a maxed-out Architect villager maybe? could be the ability to auto-place the build if you have all the materials. But I'm not sure about this one—it feels like a neat feature, but thematically outside the scope of survival Minecraft.