How to Rotate a Schematic in Litematica

To rotate a schematic in Litematica, select the placement (press M, then P, click your schematic, or middle-click the hologram with the stick), click Configure (or press Numpad Minus), then click Rotation. Each click turns it 90° clockwise: none → 90 → 180 → 270. Mirror on the same screen flips it instead. There is no default rotate key. Bind schematicPlacementRotation under M+C → Hotkeys if you want one.

To move the placement instead, see how to move a schematic in Litematica.

Steps

Select the placement. Press M, then P (openGuiSchematicPlacements) and click the row, or middle-click the hologram with the stick in Schematic Placement mode (toolSelectElements).
Click Configure on that row, or press Numpad Minus (openGuiPlacementSettings). A laptop with no numpad can just click Configure. On 1.21.x the default string is KP_SUBTRACT; on 26.3 it is KP_MINUS. Both are the numpad minus. Check M+C → Hotkeys if yours differs.
Left-click Rotation. Each click turns the placement 90° clockwise. The label runs NONE, CW_90, CW_180, then CCW_90 (the same facing as 270°), then NONE. Right-click walks those labels backward. The action bar says “Placement rotated to …”.
Click Mirror on the same screen to flip instead of turn. schematicPlacementRotation and schematicPlacementMirror ship unbound, so there is no default rotate key. Bind one under M+C → Hotkeys if you want it.

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Rotation and Mirror

The on-screen label is Rotation: NONE, then CW_90, CW_180, and CCW_90. That last step is a quarter turn counter-clockwise from the start, which is the same facing as 270° clockwise. Right-click the button to walk backward. The downloaded .litematic is not rewritten. The turn stays on the placement in this world.

Mirror is the other button on that screen. Left-right versus front-back, and why a 180° turn is not a flip, is how to mirror a schematic. WorldEdit //rotate edits a .schem clipboard, not this hologram. That split is Litematica vs WorldEdit rotate.

A locked placement prints “The placement is locked and can't be modified”. Turn Locked off on the same screen, then click Rotation again. If a sub-region row is selected, Configure opens that region instead of the whole placement. Click the placement so no sub-region is selected, then open Configure again.

Rotate only part of the build

Rotation turns the whole placement. To turn a roof or a wing and leave the rest, save that piece as its own schematic and rotate the new placement. That is how to rotate only part of a schematic. If the action bar never confirms the click, use Litematica rotate not working.

No vertical rotate

Litematica cannot tip a schematic onto its side. The four steps are yaw only. A vertical rotate is still open on the maintainer tracker as issue 190.

Key names on 1.21.x and 26.3

Checked 2026-10-13. openGuiPlacementSettings is KP_SUBTRACT on the 1.21.4, 1.21.5, 1.21.11, and 26.2 branches, and KP_MINUS on 26.3. MaLiLib 26.3 maps the old name KP_SUBTRACT to the numpad minus (SDLK_KP_MINUS), not the hyphen beside 0. schematicPlacementRotation and schematicPlacementMirror are empty strings on those branches. The buttons work without a bind. Those rows are edited with M+C on the Hotkeys tab, not in vanilla Controls. The rest of the defaults are on Litematica hotkeys.

The same Configure screen works after you load the schematic on a server, because the menu is on your client. The shapes are on Schematics Minecraft, and saving one is the Litematica schematics download.

FAQ

Is there a hotkey to rotate in Litematica?

Not until you set one. schematicPlacementRotation rotates 90° clockwise when pressed, but the default bind is empty on 1.21.x and on 26.3. Open M+C → Hotkeys and set it. Until then, use the Rotation button.

How do I rotate without a numpad?

Click Configure on the Schematic Placements screen (M, then P). Numpad Minus is only the default shortcut for openGuiPlacementSettings. Bind that hotkey to a key the laptop has if you want a shortcut. Check M+C → Hotkeys if yours differs.

How do I rotate a schematic vertically?

You can't. Rotation only turns the placement in the horizontal plane: none, 90, 180, and 270. There is no pitch control. A vertical rotate is still an open request on the maintainer tracker. Litematica issue 190

Why won't my schematic rotate?

The placement is locked (the button reads Locked), the row is not selected, or you pressed schematicPlacementRotation when that hotkey was never bound. Unlock it, select the row, and click Rotation. Litematica rotate not working

Can I rotate by 15 or 45 degrees?

No. The button and the rotate hotkey only walk the four vanilla Rotation values. There is no degree field.

Why does the house jump sideways when I rotate it?

The turn uses the placement origin as the pivot, so the hologram can leave the plot even though the click worked. Move it back onto the ground afterward.

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Reviewed 2026-10-15. Not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.