Pool Table 🎱

Pool Table

A proper pool table for Minecraft. Play a friend, play the bot, or just knock some balls about.

The balls behave like real ones. They spin, bounce off the cushions, rattle in the pockets and roll into the ball return under the table. Put follow or draw on the cue ball and watch it work, and every clack and thud sounds the part.

What's in it

• Eight games: American 8-Ball, English 8-Ball (Blackball), 9-Ball, 10-Ball, 14.1 Straight Pool, One-Pocket, Bank Pool and three-player Cutthroat.
• A bot to play when no one's around, from Easy to Expert.
• A ball camera that puts you right behind the cue ball, and a table camera that follows the shot.
• Six woods for the table, and any colour you like for the cloth.
• Nine lamps to hang over it, from a Tiffany shade to a hovering drone.
• Cue racks for the wall or the floor.
• Cube balls for the Minecraft purists: one button in the menu, and only you see them.

Getting started

The planks pick the wood: oak, spruce, birch, dark oak or cherry make a table in that wood, and any other planks make the classic mahogany. Dye the cloth any colour by right-clicking the table with a dye.

The table is 3 x 5 blocks and goes down in front of you, so make sure there's room. Everything is in the creative menu too.

How to play

• Right-click the table with an empty hand to open its menu. Pick a game, then press Sit here. When the seats are full, the game starts.
• On your go, right-click with your cue to step up to the ball. Left-click steps back.
• Move the mouse to aim, hold right-click to pull the cue back, and let go to shoot. The longer you hold, the harder you hit.
• Sneak for finer aim. Scroll to hit higher or lower on the ball for follow or draw.

A line shows where the cue ball will go and where the ball you hit will head. After the break you aim from behind the cue ball, and when you shoot the camera rises to show the whole table. You can turn the camera off in the menu.

Until the seats are full, the table is in practice mode and anyone can have a go.

The games

• American 8-Ball: pot your group, solids or stripes, then the 8 in the pocket you call.
• English 8-Ball (Blackball): red and yellow balls and the black, with Blackball rules.
• 9-Ball: always hit the lowest ball first. The 9 wins.
• 10-Ball: like 9-ball, but every shot is called.
• 14.1 Straight Pool: a point for every ball you call and make, racked again and again. First to 25, 50, 100 or 150.
• One-Pocket: you each own a corner pocket. First to 8 balls in yours.
• Bank Pool: only called banks count. First to 8.
• Cutthroat: three players with five balls each. Knock the others' balls in and keep yours; the last one with a ball left wins.

In the games that call shots, your aim calls the pocket for you and a ring shows it. Middle-click to call a different one.

Play the bot

No one to play? Press Play the bot in the table menu. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert. The easy bot misses plenty; the expert hardly ever does, plays for position and plays safe when it has to. It plays every game by the same rules as you, and in cutthroat bots can fill both of the other seats.

Lamps

Right-click the table with a lamp and it hangs over the middle at just the right height. Its chain or cord reaches up to your ceiling, however high (up to 24 blocks), so any room at least 3 blocks tall will do. The Halo Ring and Hover Drone float.

Cue racks

Hang one on a wall or stand one on the floor. Right-click it with a cue to put the cue away, and with an empty hand to take one out.

Good to know

• For Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge or Fabric, and Minecraft 1.20.1 on Forge or Fabric. Get the file for your version and loader. The Fabric versions need Fabric API; the others need nothing else.
• Install it on the server and on everyone's game.
• Works with Sodium and Iris.
• Server owners can turn the aiming line down or off in the config.
• You're welcome to use it in modpacks.

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