Getting started

Install

1. Install Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer for Minecraft 26.3. Minecraft 26.3 needs Java 25.
2. Put the Billboard Engine jar and Fabric API into the mods folder.
3. On a server: install both on the server and on every client.

CC: Tweaked is optional. Everything except the ComputerCraft peripheral works without it.

Recipes

Selector Wand: a redstone torch above a stick.

	Redstone torch
	Stick

Billboard Engine

Iron ingot	Redstone	Iron ingot
Redstone	Glass pane	Redstone
Iron ingot	Redstone	Iron ingot

Script Box: the engine recipe with paper in the middle instead of the glass pane.

Iron ingot	Redstone	Iron ingot
Redstone	Paper	Redstone
Iron ingot	Redstone	Iron ingot

With JEI or REI installed you can look them up in game, as usual.

Your first billboard

1. Build a flat wall, one block thick, for example 40 wide and 9 high out of stone.
2. Right-click one corner of the wall with the Selector Wand, then the opposite corner. The action bar shows the size while you hold the wand.
3. Go behind the wall and place the Billboard Engine so that it touches the back of one wall block with a full face. The text is read from the front, so the engine stays hidden.
4. Open the engine. Put the wand into the left slot. Click the right slot with a block, for example a gold block. The slot only copies it; you keep your block.
5. Type HELLO WORLD and press Go. The text scrolls from right to left.

Stop freezes the text, Restore puts the wall back.

Next: Walls and the Selector Wand has all the rules for walls, The engine screen every button.