Linked chests and materials

Linking chests

Holobuild only ever takes items from chests you've linked to your build, never from anyone else's chests that happen to be nearby.

• Sneak and use the wand on a chest to link it. Do it again to unlink it.
• Barrels and other containers work too. A double chest counts as one.
• While you hold the wand, linked chests have a green outline.
• Linked chests are used however far away they are, as long as someone is close enough to keep that area loaded. The Printer and What do I need? screens say if any are out of reach.
• Unlink all chests in What do I need? unlinks them all at once.

What do I need?

Choose What do I need? on the menu. It lists the blocks still to place, for your layer or the whole build, in colour:

• Red: you still need to find them.
• Aqua: a friend building with you has them.
• Yellow: they're in your linked chests.
• Green: you have enough.

Take it from the chests puts what you're missing from your linked chests into your inventory.

The wand on a chest

Use the wand on a linked chest, without sneaking, and what your layer still needs comes out of it into your inventory. A chest that isn't linked just opens as usual.

Refill from chests

Turn on Refill from chests in Settings. When you run out of a block your layer needs, up to a stack comes out of your linked chests. It works in survival; in creative you never run out.

If it's missing

Operators can turn each of these off for the world in Admin settings. If a button or setting isn't there, that's probably why.