Wearable Backpacks
.. is a Minecraft mod which adds backpacks. But wait! It's not like anything you've seen before. Wearable Backpacks continues the legacy of BetterStorage's backpacks, and brings with it a beautifully designed and balanced alternative backpack option unlike any other!
"Backpacks are love. Backpacks are life." -asiekierka
"copy-who?" -MindlessPuppetz
What's so great?
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There can be only one!
Where other mods store the contents of a backpack on the item itself, WB doesn't. When a backpack is equipped, its contents are actually kept with the player itself. This also means it's impossible to carry around multiple backpacks that contain items.
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Armor up, or storage up?
With the default settings, backpacks will function as armor, taking up the chest armor equipment slot, protecting from as well as taking damage just like leather armor. This way, you have to choose between more protection or more storage. This is fully configurable, though, in case you don't like it. -
Play with friends, share backpacks!
Having a backpack on your back looks cool and all, but if only you could do something with that beauty. Well, lucky you! Other players (hopefully, without ill intentions) can open your backpack and borrow a pick and some torches on a mining trip. This only works as long as your back is facing towards them, though.
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Dying is FUN!
Sick of losing all your valuables when you make a small little misstep into the nearest pool of lava? Don't worry, the items inside your backpack will be... mostly safe. While the backpack itself is not immune to explosions or being broken by other players, after death it will gently place itself down near your point of failure, ready to be retrieved. -
Dyeing is fun~!
Backpacks can be colored using Minecraft's fantastic dyeing system. Unlike some silly mods that only allow the 16 base colors, with our pretties you can mix and match your dyes to customize them in any way you like!
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Configuration Nation
Not sure if WB will fit your play style? Don't worry! This mod is meant to be incredibly configurable with its easy-to-use ingame config menu. This allows backpacks to be balanced, regardless of whether they're used in a personal hand-picked pack, a huge kitchen sink modpack or a deadly hardcore-massacre-of-doom experience with sprinkles on top.
Usage
Think of Wearable Backpacks backpacks as portable, wearable chests. After you've crafted one, simply place it on the ground and fill it with whatever you'd like to take with you. Next, sneak and break the backpack to equip it. You'll notice that equipping is faster than breaking.
Now that the backpack is where it belongs (your back), you can unequip it again by sneaking and right-clicking the ground with an empty hand (specifically, the top of a solid block).
By turning on a config option, it's also possible to open the backpack using a keybind,
which you can find in the controls menu (default: B).
Crafting Recipe
- 7x Leather
- 1x Gold Ingot
- 1x Wool
Download
Available right here through GitHub Releases or on CurseForge.
All profits gained through Curse's reward system go directly to Child's Play charity.
License & Permissions
Wearable Backpacks is licensed under the MIT license, though feel free to consider it public domain. This applies to both the source code and releases, so you are free to redistribute, include in modpacks, modify, fork, release your own versions of this mod as much as you'd like.
If you contribute to this repository, do keep in mind that your contributions will be treated the same.
Credits
Authors: copygirl, asiekierka
Contributors: -
Localizations:
TDarkShadow (nl_NL) -
kirill3345, dangranos (ru_RU)
Special thanks to ...
- asiekierka for being an amazing friend in general, letting me use Charset as a reference and updating the mod to 1.11, so he's getting a co-author mention. ❤
- The Penguins' Retreat server for encouraging me to rework / finish this mod.
Contact
Feature requests and bug reports belong on the issue tracker. For general inqueries, discussions and praise, you can contact copygirl directly at Twitter (@koppeh) or via email, but you're also very welcome to join our little community's IRC channel (#obsidian on Esper.net) and Discord guild.
In the event that this mod becomes self-aware, we are not responsible for any damage it causes.