Explorer's Kit is a modular adventure utility mod for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1.

It adds practical tools for exploration, survival, storage, and navigation while keeping each system lightweight and configurable.

Features:
- Tiered backpacks: Basic, Iron, Gold, Diamond, and Netherite
- Backpack inventory with sorting, deposit, withdraw, slot locks, and filters
- Backpack auto-pickup with server-side validation
- Personal waypoints with names, colors, visibility toggles, and death points
- Basic minimap with terrain, mobs, player direction, and waypoint markers
- Distant waypoint initials on the minimap edge
- Mob Health HUD for viewing nearby target health information
- Adventure HUD with coordinates, biome, time, direction, durability, inventory space, backpack status, minimap status, and nearest waypoint
- In-game Explorer's Kit Hub and settings screen
- Forge common and client configuration files

Explorer's Kit is designed as a clean, expandable adventure companion. It does not add teleportation, global waypoint sharing, or fullscreen maps yet.

Compatibility:
- Minecraft 1.20.1
- Forge 47+
- Java 17

Current release type:
This is the first public release, so feedback and bug reports are welcome.

Explorer's Kit

Explorer's Kit is a Forge exploration and survival utility mod for Minecraft 1.20.1. It adds a modular set of tools designed for adventurers, travelers, builders, and survival players who want useful information without turning the game into creative mode.

Features

• Configurable MiniMap with player direction, nearby mobs, waypoints, and surface/cave awareness.
• Personal waypoints with names, visibility toggles, editing, deletion, death points, and local sharing.
• Fullscreen Explorer Map for larger navigation.
• Adventure HUD with coordinates, biome, time, direction, durability, inventory space, backpack status, minimap status, and nearest waypoint.
• Mob Health HUD with entity classification and configurable size/position.
• Functional backpacks with tiers, persistent inventory, sorting, deposit, withdraw, filters, lock mode, and auto-pickup.
• Backpack upgrade system that preserves contents and settings.
• Camping Bed that skips the night without changing your respawn point.
• In-game configuration screens and HUD layout tools.

Current Version

Version 1.2.0 focuses on quality-of-life improvements, better waypoint management, the new Camping Bed, and stricter Explorer Map requirements for minimap features.

Compatibility

• Minecraft: 1.20.1
• Mod Loader: Forge
• Java: 17
• Client and server supported

Explorer's Kit is built to stay lightweight, configurable, and modular, making it suitable for survival worlds, modpacks, and exploration-focused gameplay.