ArchitectureCraft: Renovated

Keeping the sawbench turning. This fork is kept by one person, standing on other people's shoulders: the original ArchitectureCraft by Greg Ewing, the 1.12 port by the TridentMC contributors, and others. The siding, wall, fence and wedge sets, the menus and the packaging are what the evenings go into now.

If it has saved you a wall, a roof or an entire cathedral, you can keep the tea coffee flowing here:

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ArchitectureCraft: Renovated is a 1.12.2 continuation of TridentMC's ArchitectureCraft. The sawbench turns a block into architectural shapes that keep its material, and this fork adds to that set with many more features including improved rendering, shader support, improved shape collision, new UI, bugfixes, and much more! Here are some:

Roofing. Nine slope families (A, B and C, in 1x2, 1x3 and 1x4 runs), each as start, middle and end pieces that interlock, plus self-emissive versions of all nine, a Glow Roof Tile, Glow Square and Glow Slab, an Angled Roof Ridge and a Double Roof Tile. Slopes collide as eight slices, so you walk up them smoothly.

Corner wedges. Nine pieces in the same three families, each cut from one corner pyramid: the base band fills the block, the bands above shrink toward the apex, and the apex sits on the top corner of the tip block, so a set joins into one straight hip. Glow duplicates included.

Wall and fence. A connection-driven wall: a slim core for straight runs, a full post at corners, T junctions and crossings, with collision that follows the visible arms. A fence built the vanilla way: 4x16x4 post, rails to every connected side, 1.5-block collision so it cannot be jumped, and no cladding.

Walls and interiors. Siding: the roof tile and the nine slopes mounted upright, with the grain turned so the material does not read sideways. Paneling: a 3 px panel flush with the block boundary, cladding on the room-facing side. Double Siding: a full block split down the middle, one half taking the cladding material. A GregTech plaque with a 2 px plate.

Rendering and behaviour. Seams are dropped between translucent shapes, light opacity follows how much of the block a shape fills, shader packs no longer double-light custom geometry, placement previews are stable, and shapes sound like the material they were cut from. Mobs path around fences and walls.

Requirements. Minecraft 1.12.2, Forge 14.23.4.2747 or newer (built against 14.23.5.2860), Java 8. Cleanroom 0.7.x works too. No dependencies: drop the jar into mods/.

On AI assistance. The upstream code is entirely human-written. The fork's own additions - the shape families from 117 upward, their placement and collision logic, the sawbench pages and the tooling - were written with assistance from DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in OpenCode, working under my direction, and every change is reviewed, tested and understood by me before it ships.

Credits and licence. MIT. Original ArchitectureCraft by Greg Ewing (gcewing); 1.12 port by darkevilmac, unascribed and the TridentMC contributors; shapes 94-116 and several menu assets from GTNewHorizons' fork. See CREDITS.md in the repository. Not an official TridentMC release.