MonoView

Turn any real monitor or app window into a working display block inside Minecraft.

MonoView adds a single block — the Screen Block — that mirrors your actual desktop in real time. Point it at one of your monitors or any open window, and it shows up live in-game, updating as you work. Build a single screen, or tile a whole wall of them into one giant video display.

▎ ⚠️ Windows only. MonoView captures the desktop through native Windows APIs, so it does not work on macOS or Linux.

Features

• 🖥️ Live screen & window capture — display a full monitor or a specific application window on a block, refreshing in real time.
• 🧱 Multi-block video walls — place several Screen Blocks edge-to-edge (same facing, same source) and the image automatically spans across them as one seamless display.
• ✨ Auto-tiling on placement — set up one screen, then place more blocks right next to it. New blocks instantly inherit the source and orientation, so the wall just grows as you build.
• ⚙️ In-game settings — a MonoView button in the vanilla Options screen (and the Mods config menu) lets you tune:
  • Capture FPS (5–120) — how smoothly the display updates.
  • Resolution (25–100%) — trade quality for performance on big walls.
  • Quality — Smooth (bilinear) or Sharp (nearest-neighbour) filtering.
• 🚀 Optimized pipeline — a fast, low-garbage capture-and-upload path keeps frame rates high even at 60 FPS and native resolution.
• 💡 Always readable — screens render full-bright, so they look like powered displays regardless of in-game lighting.

How to use

1. Craft/obtain the Screen Block (found in the Functional Blocks creative tab).
2. Place it and right-click to open the source picker.
3. Choose a Monitor or a Window from the list, then confirm.
4. (Optional) Place more blocks flush against it to extend the display into a larger wall.
5. Adjust FPS and quality any time via Options → MonoView.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.3.0+
• Windows (10/11)

Everything needed is bundled in the jar — just drop it into your mods/ folder.

Known limitations

• Some hardware-accelerated / GPU-composited windows (certain browsers, games, video players) may capture as black when targeted as a window. Capturing the whole monitor instead usually works in those cases.
• Captured displays are visible to anyone who can see the block — only point it at content you're comfortable showing.