player's Backpack

Player’s Backpack brings storage, crafting, separate water and lava tanks, a tool rack, automation, a portable furnace and a sleeping roll together in one wearable backpack.

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The worn backpack with selected equipment and visible tank contents

START YOUR JOURNEY

1. Craft a backpack using the recipe below. It starts with 27 storage slots and two tanks that each hold two buckets.
2. Hold the backpack and use it to open its interface. Crafting it does not equip it.
3. Sneak and use the held backpack in the air to equip it in its dedicated back slot. Your chestplate stays equipped.
4. Press E and click the backpack tab to open the pack from your inventory. B is an optional shortcut.

Total ingredients are 5 leather, 2 string, 1 iron ingot and 1 chest.

The backpack tab beside the player inventory

WEAR IT YOUR WAY

The backpack and chestplate use separate slots. The back slot is built into the mod and requires no Curios or Trinkets dependency. Shift-click the backpack tab to equip or remove a pack, or use Wear / Remove in the Furnace / camp panel. Keep the cursor empty for the inventory tab, and leave a free slot when removing the backpack. Close any active backpack session before moving the pack.

Chest armor and backpack worn together

Change shortcuts in Minecraft Controls. While Find items has focus, typing letters enters a search.

ROOM TO GROW

Press Expand with the materials in your player inventory. Each tier keeps your stored items and increases ordinary storage and the capacity of each tank.

The three module sockets and three tool rack slots are separate from ordinary storage. Backpacks cannot be nested. Minecraft’s restrictions on which items fit in containers also apply.

Expanded storage, tool and module slots, crafting, and both tank gauges

ORGANIZE & CRAFT

For example, store some cobblestone before mining and use Stash to put away matching cobblestone afterward. Keep torches on your hotbar and use Refill to top up the stack. The workbench returns leftover ingredients when the screen closes. Shift-click moves items when the destination accepts them.

WATER & LAVA

The two horizontal gauges are also the controls. Hold a bucket on your inventory cursor and click the corresponding gauge.

1. Click Water with a water bucket to deposit one bucket. The pack returns an empty bucket.
2. Click Lava with a lava bucket to deposit lava in the same way.
3. Click a nonempty gauge with an empty bucket to withdraw one bucket. If your cursor holds a stack of empty buckets, leave room for the filled bucket.
4. Repeat to transfer more. You can also focus a gauge with Tab and activate it with Enter.

A full tank refuses additional fluid, and an empty tank cannot fill a bucket. Each tank accepts only its own fluid.

Both reservoirs empty

Both reservoirs full at the final upgrade tier

The wearable model shows the actual fluid levels in the side tubes. Water and lava use Minecraft’s animated textures. The attached hoses respond to movement.

EQUIPMENT ON THE OUTSIDE

The pack can show tools, weapons, ranged gear, food, bottles and useful supplies. It selects eligible examples from the rack first, then backpack storage, then player inventory. The last check skips items currently held in either hand.

The rack accepts supported tools, swords, bows, crossbows, tridents, fishing rods, shears and shields, plus maces on versions with that item. Wear the pack, close the menu and press G to cycle the tools into your main hand. Start with an empty hand or hold a supported tool. The small button above each rack slot swaps that tool directly.

Attached equipment and hoses respond to player movement.

The attachment simulation responds to movement and gravity within the constraints of the straps and mounts. Client settings control the motion, selected decoration categories and draw distance.

AUTOMATION MODULES

Install one of each module in the three attachment sockets. Automation runs when the pack is worn by a living player who is not in spectator mode and the backpack menu is closed. Toggle attachments pauses or resumes automation. Server settings can disable each module separately.

Collection respects pickup delay, ownership and storage space. A food that restores five hunger points needs at least five missing points. Module automation and decorative attachments have separate settings.

Module recipes. Read each row from left to right. A dash means leave the slot empty.

PORTABLE FURNACE

Press Furnace / camp to replace the crafting panel with the camp panel. Add a normal furnace ingredient to the input slot and suitable fuel to the fuel slot. Watch the burn and cooking indicators and collect the result manually to receive the smelting experience.

Working portable furnace in the camp panel

The furnace can cook while the backpack is carried, worn or placed in a loaded chunk. It saves its contents, fuel, cooking progress and experience. Cooking pauses when the world is offline, the placed pack’s chunk unloads or the pack is stored inside another container. Use regular furnace recipes.

SLEEPING ROLL

Craft a sleeping roll with three wool across one row and three leather directly below. Carry it in your inventory or backpack.

1. Face an area with two clear blocks and solid ground beneath them.
2. Press Unroll in the Furnace / camp panel to deploy the roll in front of you.
3. Use it when normal sleeping conditions permit. Your existing respawn point is preserved.
4. Sneak and use the roll with an empty hand to fold it. Breaking either half also returns one roll.

Sleeping roll deployed on the ground

Sleeping follows the world’s time and dimension restrictions.

PLACE & PERSONALIZE

Hold the backpack, sneak and use the top of a block to place it. Use the placed backpack to open it. Sneak and use it with an empty hand to pick it up again. It retains its supplies, upgrades, tanks and furnace state.

Placed backpack beside the sleeping roll

Hoppers interact with ordinary storage. Module sockets and rack tools are separate. Only one player can open a particular backpack at a time.

To dye the cloth, hold the pack in your main hand and dye in your offhand, then use it. Survival consumes one dye. Other players can see the worn pack and its attachments. Dimension travel preserves the backpack state. On death, the pack follows the world’s keepInventory rule and otherwise drops with its contents.

SETTINGS

The server’s config/players-backpack.json controls gameplay automation. Restart after editing configuration files.

Each client controls appearance through config/players-backpack-visuals.json.

Player’s Backpack

Player’s Backpack adds a detailed adventurer backpack to Minecraft with wearable storage, placeable storage, and built-in water and lava tanks.

Wear the backpack on your back, place it on the ground, or open it to store items during mining, building, and exploration.

Features

• Wearable 3D backpack
• Placeable backpack block
• 54 storage slots
• Water and lava tanks
• Animated tank visuals
• Bucket filling and draining
• Survival crafting recipe
• Minecraft-style design

Goal

The mod is designed to give players useful portable storage while keeping the experience simple, clean, and survival-friendly.