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License
No license, free for any use / rehosting / reusing as long as you do not charge for it.

Long description
SimpleMover allows you to move all selectable (so no background grass / dirt) non-player entities around.

Rock in the way of where you want to build? Just move it to the side, it'll make a nice ornament.
Or... you just made this huge train station but then found out that two pieces of rails we're slightly overlapping and you would have to rebuild a huge section by hand, probably taking like 4 hours by hand? Just move it! (This is actually what prompted me to make this).

Example (Moving a small iron mine):

I want to move this iron to my electricity source. (Don't judge the reason, just for example)

Select the first position.

Select the second position.
And then move relative to the second position to where you want to place it now.



All you need to do is break and replace one of the electricity poles to make them re-attach, and you're done!
This is an example which you can not do by hand, but there are other reasons like a big machine that will take a lot of time to move by hand.

Known caveats
I'm just making this mod to solve a problem of my own, which it did, but I haven't handled all edge cases perhaps as well as is possible knowing the entire API.
So here's a few caveats I encountered myself / read as replies:

Moved entities don't update to their new location, ie. electricity poles don't connect to other poles.
Items on conveyor belts will stay where they were before you moved, I recommend draining your belt before moving.
Underground belts seem to mess up their direction sometimes. (Not sure if this is fixable, as I do respawn belts with the same rotation)
You can move train tracks on physically impossible to place positions, normally they can only be placed every 2 blocks, but you can move it to a position that is not allowed when placing it by hand.
I left this in because otherwise you could mess up moving by miss positioning and having rails chop off half of your other entities.