Traveler’s Backpacks – Complete Guide

Traveler’s Backpacks is one of the most useful utility mods in modded Minecraft, adding powerful, upgradable backpacks with built-in storage, fluid tanks, crafting utilities, and a huge range of special ability variants. It even includes sleeping bags for early-game convenience.

This guide walks you through everything: crafting, upgrading, backpack mechanics, special backpacks, and advanced tools.

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Sleeping Bags – Early Game Essential

Before even crafting a backpack, Traveler’s Backpacks introduces sleeping bags.

• Allows you to sleep and skip the night
• Does NOT reset your spawn point
• Comes in multiple colors
• Extremely useful for exploration and early progression

Crafting the Standard Backpack

The Standard Traveler’s Backpack is the foundation of the mod.

Once crafted:

• It starts at Leather Tier
• Can be equipped like armor
• Stores items, fluids, tools, and upgrades

Fluid Tanks

Each backpack includes:

• Two fluid tanks (left & right)
• Supports water, lava, and other fluids
• Fluids can be inserted manually or via interface buttons

You can:

• Fill tanks by clicking fluids in
• Extract fluids back into buckets
• Swap backpacks instantly when equipping a new one

Backpack Interface & Storage Controls

Traveler’s Backpacks includes a very powerful sorting and filtering system.

Key Features

• Tool slots for pickaxes, axes, etc.
• Sort items automatically
• Quickly transfer items in or out
• Stack items from inventory

Slot Control & Filtering

You can:

• Exclude specific slots from sorting
• Reserve slots so they always hold the same item
• Create automatic filters for frequently used items
• Lock water buckets, tools, or building blocks into specific slots

This makes backpacks extremely efficient for mining, building, and automation.

Backpack Upgrades

Tier Upgrades (Storage Size)

Backpacks can be upgraded via a Smithing Table:

Tier progression:

• Leather
• Iron
• Gold
• Diamond
• Netherite

Upgrading preserves contents and greatly expands storage.

Functional Upgrades

Traveler’s Backpacks supports many functional upgrades, including:

• Furnace Upgrade – Smelt items on the go
• Smoker / Blast Furnace Upgrades
• Crafting Table Upgrade
• Tank Upgrade – Adds extra fluid tanks
• Feeding Upgrade – Automatically feeds you
• Refill Upgrade – Refills inventory items (e.g. blocks)
• Pickup / Magnet Upgrade
• Void Upgrade
• Jukebox Upgrade

These upgrades transform the backpack into a portable base.

Special Ability Backpacks

Beyond tier upgrades, Traveler’s Backpacks adds dozens of themed backpacks, each with unique abilities.

Material Backpacks

• Iron – +2 Armor
• Gold – +2 Armor
• Diamond – +3 Armor
• Netherite – +4 Armor
• Emerald – Luck bonus
• Lapis – Chance to double XP
• Redstone – Emits strong redstone signal
• Quartz – Haste effect
• Bookshelf – Acts as enchanting bookshelf

Environmental & Utility Backpacks

• Sponge – Absorbs water into tanks
• Cactus – Generates water when raining
• Hay – Chance to multiply crop drops
• Melon – Extra melon slice drops
• Pumpkin – Prevents Endermen aggro

Mob-Themed Backpacks

These backpacks grant powerful mob-based abilities:

• Creeper – Emergency explosion + buffs on near-death
• Dragon – Regeneration & Strength
• Enderman – Extended block reach
• Blaze – Fire resistance & fall damage immunity
• Ghast – Ghasts ignore you
• Magma – Fire resistance
• Spider – Wall climbing
• Wither – Wither immunity + offensive effects
• Bat – Night vision
• Fox – Speed & jump boost
• Squid – Water breathing & night vision
• Chicken – Periodically lays eggs

Some backpacks are:

• Found in dungeons or mineshafts
• Purchased from villagers
• Found in special loot chests

The Hose Tool

Traveler’s Backpacks also adds the Hose, a fluid-handling tool.

Hose Features

• Sucks up fluids directly into backpack tanks
• Switch between left and right tank
• Supports different hose modes
• Ideal for collecting water or lava quickly

Controls are configurable via keybinds, including:

• Toggle hose mode
• Switch tank selection
• Enable/disable backpack abilities
• Open backpack
• Sort backpack contents

Always check keybinds, as they may differ from defaults.