Building Tool

The Building Tool appears in the player's hotbar. It allows the player to place blocks that are in their inventory. When launching the boat, this tool will disappear. The player can place blocks inside a configurable grid. Placing blocks on top of other blocks that have special shapes or geometry will cause block placement outside of the grid.

The blocks that the player owns appear in a list on the left of the screen upon selecting the Building Tool. The GUI can be resized by using the small arrow on the bottom right of the box. Block placement can be rotated by pressing  and   (PC), tapping on the images (mobile), or the   and   buttons (Xbox).

Following the 1/18/20 update, the tool allows players to search blocks by categories and names. Pressing the [+] sign at the farthest right will open up a menu with anchoring, Merging, placement levels, rotation levels, a match rotation feature, the block name, and how many hit points it has. Clicking after changing the rotate levels from any point will reset it back to its original position.

Anchor block
Toggles whether blocks are anchored to the position they are first placed in. Once the boat is launched, all parts un-anchor. Un-anchoring can be used to build boats that don't need to be launched to move. The default setting is.


 * Toggling anchor mode does not affect blocks that have already been placed. The Property Tool allows blocks to be anchored and un-anchored after placement.

Match rotation
Toggles whether the tool attempts to align blocks to the surface they are placed on. The default setting is.

Merging level
Cycles between 3 merging levels: Red (no merging), Yellow (2-block merging) and Green (infinite merging). Material blocks placed adjacent to other material blocks will merge to create Multiblocks. The larger the merged block, the more hitpoints it has. The default Merging level is Yellow.

Move
Adjusts the size of the block placement grid. Allows the player to place blocks that are not snapped to the regular half-block grid. The default Move setting is 1, and can be changed to 1, 0.5, 0.2, 0 (0.05) and 2.


 * Measurements are in studs, not blocks. BABFT's blocks are 2x2x2 in terms of studs.

Rotate
Adjusts how many degrees the blocks are rotated when pressing "T" or "R", pressing on the images on mobile, or using the "X" and "B" buttons on Xbox. The default setting is 90°, and can be toggled between 90°, 45°, 15°, 5° and 1°.


 * Block rotation is reset every time the tool is equipped, but the rotation increment is not.