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Field Guide
Discover Plants, Animals and Monsters with a Spyglass. Collect them all and take notes in your personal Field Guide!
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Includes mods that provide maps, minimaps, and informational tools for navigation.
Includes a custom backstory, written world-building, or narrative writing within the project or through external content.
Ideal for small groups of players or cooperative gameplay.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
Neoforge is a fork of the Minecraft Forge available for versions 1.20.1+ of Minecraft. Many Forge mods are compatible with Neoforge and vice versa.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Ever wondered what makes a Creeper tick? Or what that weird glowing block deep in the caves is? Grab your spyglass, adventurer: it's time to start taking notes!
Field Guide is an exploration-focused mod that lets you scan and discover monsters, animals and plants with your trusty spyglass to unlock them in your own in-game Field Guide!
Features
- Finally, Spyglasses have a use! Scan plants and critters at a distance using a spyglass.
- Your own personal encyclopedia! Every successful scan unlocks a brand-new entry in your Field Guide.
- Reward your curiosity! Gives true explorers a reason to seek out every rare creature and biome.
- Gotta scan 'em all! Works seamlessly with almost every modded entity, no configuration necessary!
- Multiplayer-friendly! Your progress is saved on a per-server basis. Build your Field Guide with friends!
- Take notes! Write your own notes for each entry, or add Item Descriptions to prefill them with useful information!
Easily Configurable, Made for Modpacks!
Whether you are using it for your personal game or designing a modpack, Field Guide can be configured how you want it!
- Categories and their contents are fully controlled by datapacks, and can contain any entity, block or even multiblock structures like trees!
- Allow scanning without a spyglass or require players to defeat a monster to discover it.
- Grant XP or run commands when a player makes a discovery.
- Add your own descriptions to provide players with clues and lore.
- Hide names, entries or whole categories until they are discovered.
- And much more…
For full information, tutorials, and examples, please refer to the Field Guide Wiki.
Recommended Mods
Field Guide stands on the shoulders of giants! To get the full, feature-complete experience, you'll want the following mods:
| Icon | Link | Feature Added |
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Immersive Overlays | Biome Displays — Shows beautiful spawn details for entities. |
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Item Descriptions | Entry Descriptions — Automatically fills in entry lore. |
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Mod Descriptions | Modded Support — Adds automatic descriptions for modded entries. |
Future Plans
Expanded integration with other mods
We've got exciting features planned for integrations with mods like Jade/WAILA, EMI, and Scholar - Stay tuned!
More features…
More configuration options, logbook, more multiplayer features - We've got a lot of ideas!
License
If you're thinking about using the code or assets from Field Guide, please note the mod's licensing. All assets of Field Guide are all rights reserved by their respective creators, unless specified otherwise. The source code of the mod is available under the MIT license.
Credits
This mod was created as a collaboration between evanbones and Kobber. Assets were made by Kobber and evanbones, with additional contributions from Nekomaster.
The book texture is modified from mortuusar's Scholar, with permission, which also works well when used alongside Field Guide!
The banner image uses textures from the Bare Bones texture pack.
Ever wondered what makes a Creeper tick? Or what that weird glowing block deep in the caves is? Grab your spyglass, adventurer: it's time to start taking notes!
Field Guide is an exploration-focused mod that lets you scan and discover monsters, animals and plants with your trusty spyglass to unlock them in your own in-game Field Guide!
Features
- Finally, Spyglasses have a use! Scan plants and critters at a distance using a spyglass.
- Your own personal encyclopedia! Every successful scan unlocks a brand-new entry in your Field Guide.
- Reward your curiosity! Gives true explorers a reason to seek out every rare creature and biome.
- Gotta scan 'em all! Works seamlessly with almost every modded entity, no configuration necessary!
- Multiplayer-friendly! Your progress is saved on a per-server basis. Build your Field Guide with friends!
- Take notes! Write your own notes for each entry, or add Item Descriptions to prefill them with useful information!
Easily Configurable. Made for modpacks!
Whether you are using it for your personal game or designing a modpack, Field Guide can be configured how you want it!
- Categories and their contents are fully controlled by datapacks, and can contain any entity, block or even multiblock structures like trees!
- Allow scanning without a spyglass or require players to defeat a monster to discover it.
- Grant XP or run commands when a player makes a discovery.
- Add your own descriptions to provide players with clues and lore.
- Hide names, entries or whole categories until they are discovered.
- And much more...
For full information, tutorials, and examples, please refer to the Field Guide Wiki.
Recommended Mods
Field Guide stands on the shoulders of giants! To get the full, feature-complete experience, you'll want the following mods:
| Icon | Link | Feature Added |
|---|---|---|
|
Immersive Overlays | Biome Displays — Shows beautiful spawn details for entities. |
|
Item Descriptions | Entry Descriptions — Automatically fills in entry lore. |
|
Mod Descriptions | Modded Support — Adds automatic descriptions for modded entries. |
Future Plans
Expanded integration with other mods
We've got exciting features planned for integrations with mods like Jade/WAILA, EMI, and Scholar - Stay tuned!
More features...
More configuration options, logbook, more multiplayer features - We've got a lot of ideas!
License
If you are thinking about using the code or assets from Field Guide, please note the mod's licensing. All assets of Field Guide are all rights reserved by their respective creators, unless specified otherwise. The source code of the mod is available under the MIT license.
Credits
This mod was created as a collaboration between evanbones and Kobber. Assets were made by Kobber and evanbones, with additional contributions from Nekomaster.
The book texture is modified from mortuusar's Scholar, with permission, which also works well when used alongside Field Guide!
The banner image uses textures from the Bare Bones texture pack.
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Category Pages The pages of each category will show you what you have discovered so far, as well as everything you have yet to find! -
Strider An example of what a mob page looks like -
Exposure Entries can be unlocked using the camera from Exposure, and photographs can be added to their pages! -
Trees An example of a Tree entry -
Plants An example of the plants category -
Monsters An example of the Monsters category -
Plants An additional screenshot of the Recent Discoveries page in the Plants category -
Drops A page showing mobs that drop Feathers
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Exposure Integration Photographs can be added directly to your unlocked entries! -
Using Spyglass to Scan Use your spyglass on trees, plants, animals and monsters to discover them and unlock their pages in your Field Guide! -
Category Pages The pages of each category will show you what you have discovered so far, as well as everything you have yet to find! -
Animal Entry Once discovered, the page for an animal or monster will show useful information like date of discovery, health, loot, spawn biome (Requires Immersive Overlays mod) and a description (If you have the Item Descriptions mod) -
Works perfectly with other mods! Got a lot of modded mobs? Use a datapack to configure the categories and sort them any way you want! Then use the advanced search features to find them by loot, biome, mod or tags! -
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