Getting Started¶
Install the jar for your loader and you are done. There is nothing to craft, nothing to unlock and no config file to edit.
Carving¶
Left-click a log with a sword. Any sword, including one from another mod, and any log, including one from another mod. The carving screen opens on the face you clicked.
Type up to four lines of twenty characters, and confirm. The message is cut into that face.
The sword still chops
Sneak + left-click breaks the log exactly as it always did. Carving is what a plain click does; sneaking is the way back to ordinary behaviour.
Nothing is spent when the screen opens — no durability, no item. Open one by accident, close it, and nothing has happened.
Editing¶
Left-click a face that already carries a message and the screen opens with that message in it, ready to change. Clearing every line and confirming removes the carving.
Symbols¶
The screen has a symbol picker. A message can be wrapped in:
| Symbol | Reads as |
|---|---|
| ♥ Heart | a declaration |
| ☂ Umbrella | shelter, a camp, somewhere to come back to |
| ☠ Skull | a warning — a drop, a spawner, a place you died |
A symbol is optional; a carving with none is just the words.
What it looks like¶
The bark is not repainted. A carved log looks like the log it is, and only the lettering reads as fresh-cut timber — in a shade taken from that species' own stripped wood. An oak carving and a warped stem carving look like their own trees rather than the same paint on two backgrounds.
Removing a carving¶
Strip the log with an axe. It strips exactly as vanilla does and the message goes with the bark.
Stripping converts the whole block, not the face you were pointing at, so every message on that log is gone — not only the one in front of you. An axe on a log with nothing carved on it behaves as it always has.
What a carving does not survive¶
- Breaking the log. Fell the tree and the message goes with it.
- Building over the spot. Whatever was there is cleared with the block.
There is no way to move a carving, and nothing keeps one alive past the block it was cut into.