Underlay
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Place any block (such as carpets) inside anything!
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
7,276,294
CurseForge ID
1263531
Modrinth Downloads
709,131
Modrinth ID
iltKD9qU
Last Updated
Jun 12, 2026
Description
**Underlay** is a Minecraft mod that lets you place carpets (and more) under any block with space beneath it (e.g. chests, beds, signs, torches, etc.)!
Just **right click a block face with a block to place it**, (for example, under an upside-down stair), and you're done! Right click again with another item to replace it quickly, or left click it to remove it. Works in **Survival** too!
By default, you can place the following blocks as overlays: carpets, trapdoors, buttons, rails, slabs and pressure plates. **To expand this to other blocks**, such as grass, see "How to add support for more blocks (or exclude some)".
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### How does this work?
**They are not block entities!**
Underlay adds these things called "overlays" ~~but they're really more like underlays xd~~, essentially they are fake versions of the item you place - which lets you place two things in the same block space!
### How to add support for more blocks (or exclude some)
In your Minecraft folder you can find `config/Underlay/underlay.json`. Use `overlay_blocks` to add blocks, and `exclude_blocks` to exclude them, like this:
```
{
"overlay_blocks": [
"minecraft:short_grass",
"mymod:shiny_block"
],
"exclude_blocks": [
"minecraft:oak_button",
"minecraft:rail"
]
}
```
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Fabric
Forge
Neoforge
Game Versions
1.12.2
1.20
1.20.1
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
+9 more
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