Fabric mod · Minecraft 26.2

LiDAR Scanner

The world goes black. The only thing left is what you scan: hold right mouse button and the scanner sprays raycasts into the dark, painting every surface it touches as a temporary point cloud that fades on its own.

Download v1.0.0 All versions
Version
1.0.0
Minecraft
26.2
Loader
0.19.3+
Size
31 KB
lidar_scanner.exe — live demo

Move your cursor inside to scan

LiDAR scanner body texture
body.png
LiDAR scanner handle texture
hande.png

A single item — lidar:lidar_scanner — added to the vanilla Tools & Utilities creative tab. Equipping it is what plunges the world into darkness.

What it does

Point cloud memory

Up to 200 000 points are kept in flat primitive arrays with a ring cursor, so a scanned room stays readable as a temporary map for about five minutes before fading out.

Pulsing sweep

110 raycasts a tick ride an expanding ring that restarts every 8 ticks — the red pulse you see and the rays that generate points share one clock, so they never drift apart.

Mob silhouettes

Living entities are sampled from their own render model, part tree and pose included. A spider keeps its legs, a creeper its four feet — no texture is ever reproduced.

Depth colouring

Distance drives hue across a 32-block gradient, red through violet, from a pre-built colour table. Close geometry reads warm, far geometry reads cold.

Scanner HUD

A compact top-left readout while the scanner is held: status, range, live point count and a memory bar showing how full the cloud is.

Client-side only

Everything is drawn on the client and nothing is persisted. The mod reads the world and writes points — it never modifies, moves or interacts with an entity.

Controls

  • RMB Hold to scan — beam, pulse and point sampling run while held
  • R Toggle LiDAR vision mode
  • Hold item Equipping the scanner is what plunges the world into darkness

Install

  1. Install Fabric Loader 0.19.3+ for Minecraft 26.2.
  2. Drop Fabric API 0.156.0+26.2 into mods/.
  3. Drop lidar-scanner-1.0.0.jar in next to it.
  4. Launch, grab the scanner from the Tools & Utilities tab, and hold RMB.

Running an older Minecraft? Check the version archive for a matching build.

Specs

Mod ID
lidar
Version
1.0.0
Minecraft
26.2
Loader
Fabric 0.19.3+
Fabric API
0.156.0+26.2
Java
25
Environment
Client rendering, universal jar
Scan range
32 blocks (48 draw)
Point lifetime
6000 ticks
License
CC0-1.0
Sources jar