How to Use Easy Place in Litematica

Easy Place is off until you enable easyPlaceMode on the Generic tab (M+C). Then right-click places a block you already hold into the hologram position you are looking at. The on/off hotkey ships unbound.

Why a normal right-click misses the stair

Vanilla use places the item in your hand with the facing your crosshair would produce. A stair, slab, door, or glass pane in the schematic already has a state. Easy Place tries to request that state. The option comment in the mod says it places the schematic block in that position when you use an item on it. It does not grant the item. Gather from the material list first.

Creative paste is a different tool mode, and ToolMode.PASTE_SCHEMATIC is creative-only. Survival stays on Easy Place or on hand placement. WorldEdit //paste writes a .schem and skips this mode entirely.

Steps

1. Place the hologram and select that placement.
2. Press M+C, open Generic, and turn on easyPlaceMode. It defaults to off.
3. Leave easyPlaceUseKey on right-click (BUTTON_2) unless you rebound it.
4. Hold the block the ghost wants and look at that position. Right-click, or hold the button if easyPlaceHoldEnabled is still on.
5. If the chat says the action was prevented, the item, the facing, or the reach does not match. Place that block by hand.

Related Generic defaults on the 1.21.4 build: easyPlaceFirst true (closest block first), easyPlaceHoldEnabled true (hold use to keep placing), easyPlaceSinglePlayerHandling true, easyPlaceVanillaReach false, easyPlaceProtocolVersion Auto. The status HUD prints “Easy Place mode ON” when the boolean is true. Bind easyPlaceToggle if you want a key; the pretty name in the Hotkeys list is Easy Place.

Protocol, reach, and the prevented message

Auto is not a single protocol. PlacementHandler picks Version 3 in single-player or when Servux is present, Version 2 when the client has seen a Carpet server, and Slabs only otherwise. Version 2 expects Carpet Extra with accurate block placement. Version 3 expects the matching server support. Forcing either version on a server that rejects the packet produces ghost clicks: the client thinks the block went down, the server drops it. Slabs only is the setting that still helps top slabs without that packet.

easyPlaceVanillaReach is off by default. The placement code then ray-traces out to 6 blocks. Turning the option on shortens that trace to 4.5 so a server is less likely to reject a far click. Standing closer also fixes a miss. Claims, adventure mode, and spawn protection still apply; the mod does not bypass them. Protocol None skips the Version 2, Version 3, and slab hit-position adjustments. Slabs only runs the slab adjustment and not the full rotation protocols.

Look at the ghost block, not at empty air beside it. The mode places into the schematic position under the crosshair. The HUD line is the reliable on switch. If it never appears, the Generic boolean is still false no matter which mouse button you press. Rebinding use to a keyboard key works, but then right-click goes back to vanilla until you press that key. easyPlaceSwingHand defaults on, so the arm swings when a placement is accepted.easyPlaceSinglePlayerValidation also defaults on and checks the block in single-player before it sticks. The hotkey named Easy Place First only toggles the closest versus farthest boolean; it is unbound, and the boolean itself already defaults to closest first. Hold-to-place is the separate boolean easyPlaceHoldEnabled. Turn that off if a long hold keeps eating a stack you meant to place one at a time.

There is no printer control next to Easy Place. That name is Litematica printer.

Limits

Waterlogged and powered properties are reset toward their default in the placement handler’s blacklist, so a waterlogged slab may not come back waterlogged from Easy Place. Doors on houses from this site are two blocks on the low-Z face; put the door item in the lower opening if the mode refuses the upper half. A single render layer keeps the use key from hitting a floor you cannot see — that control is Render Layers, not an Easy Place checkbox.

If right-click does nothing at all and the HUD never says the mode is on, the boolean is still false or the use key was cleared. Set easyPlaceUseKey back to BUTTON_2 with a right-click on that row in Hotkeys. If the M menu itself is missing, the mod did not load. That is MaLiLib missing, not this toggle.

Easy place only clicks blocks the hologram already contains. The shapes are on Schematics Minecraft, and the file you load is the Litematica schematics download.

Reviewed 2026-09-27. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.