The pack that packs itself.

You know the drill: twenty stacks of loot, one bag, and five minutes of dragging things into rows. Packwork does that part for you. Drop an item in and it goes somewhere — stamped leather tabs down the side are compartments, and a rules engine files every item into the right one the instant it lands. A Loose tab catches anything no rule wanted, so nothing you drop in ever disappears.

🎒 Sorting is the soul

• Auto-tabs out of the box — Food, Combat, Tools & Utility, Ores & Valuables, Brewing & Alchemy, Nature & Farming, Blocks & Building, and Loose. They sort by what an item is, so any mod's pickaxe is a Tool and any mod's stew is Food — no config, no per-mod support. Two more compartments (Charts & Bearings, The Catch) open up when you fit the trinket that earns them, and every category list is a datapack tag, so packs can retune them without code.
• Make your own compartments — name a tab, stamp it with any item's icon, dye the leather, reorder the rail. The stamp is a live filter: a pickaxe stamp gathers tools, a bread stamp gathers food.
• Pin an item by putting it where you want it — drop it into any compartment it wouldn't sort to and the pack pins it there on the spot (a stitched note tells you so). Pinned items wear a red ribbon and beat every rule. Hover + P toggles a pin too.
• Every compartment picks its arrangement — Tidy (the pack arranges it) or keep my layout (items stay in the exact cells you drop them; new arrivals fill the gaps; Tidy Up still re-sorts once when you ask).
• Tidy Up, search, flatten — merge and re-sort with one button, find anything across every tab, or collapse it all into one grid when you just want to rummage.

⛏️ It files what you mine

Fit a Lodestone Charm and the pack doesn't just magnet nearby drops — it takes over your pickups. Anything you pick up that the pack knows where to put (it sorts to a compartment, it's pinned, or the pack already holds some) goes straight into the pack, filed under the right tab, while new, unknown finds still land in your pockets. Mine a vein of cobble and your inventory stays clean. A small switch on the pack turns pack-first pickup off per pack.

🧳 Six tiers, and the slots go DEEP

Canvas → Leather → Studded → Reinforced → Runed → Sculkhide. Every tier is crafted as a full ring around the pack before it — its hide or plating on the edges, its fittings on the corners: copper buckles, iron studs, gold with diamonds, diamond bound in netherite, and finally amethyst cornered with echo shards from the Deep Dark. The upgrade carries everything inside straight up — contents, compartments, pins, trinkets, name, every store. No recipe in this mod can eat a filled pack.

And every step cuts the slots deeper: one vanilla stack per slot on Canvas, up to six stacks in a single slot (384 cobble) on Sculkhide — filed under one tab, while your cursor, hoppers, and fittings only ever pull legal stacks back out.

🔧 Brass sockets, eighteen trinkets

Craftable fittings slot into the brass rail — and pull back out any time:

New to the pack? Craft the Outfitter's Handbook — five in-game chapters on sorting, trinkets, tiers, and the stores, with every number pulled live from the code.

🏕️ Set it down, pipe it up

Sneak-right-click to stand a pack in the world — leather and brass, wearing its tier's own trim (twine, studs, plates, glowing runes, or the Sculkhide's echo-lit hide). Break it and you get the pack back with everything still inside. A placed pack speaks NeoForge's own item, fluid, and energy capabilities, so hoppers, pipes, and cables feed it with no bridge block — and piped-in items auto-file into the right compartment, because the sorting is virtual over one store.

🤝 Needs nothing, plays with everything

Zero hard dependencies. Every cross-mod touch lights up only when its mod is present:

• JEI — every craft renders as a real recipe (the tier rings included), plus info pages for every pack, trinket, and the handbook.
• Curios — wear the pack in the back slot and open it right off your shoulders: B finds it when your pockets hold no pack, Shift-B opens the worn one outright, and its trinkets keep working worn.
• Mekanism — the Flask Harness becomes a real chemical tank its pipes can fill.
• Forgework — Flux cables charge a placed pack, 1 Flux = 1 FE, and the Charge Crystal tops up carried Forgework terminals.
• Pantrywork — its food tags fold into the Food tab.

Remove any of them and Packwork carries on without it.

⚙️ Requirements & honest notes

• 1.21.1 / NeoForge (21.1.235+). No other dependencies, ever. Other loaders and versions may follow based on demand.
• The pack never voids anything on failure. The only trash path is the Compass Rose, and it's opt-in per item.