Backpacks and hammers
Two quality-of-life mods that arrived with 0.5.2-birch-4. Both are in every pack, and the recipes are in JEI.
Backpacks
Section titled “Backpacks”Sophisticated Backpacks gives you a backpack you can wear, hold or place as a block. It starts modest and grows as you upgrade it.
- Tiers. Leather, then iron, gold, diamond and netherite: more slots and more upgrade slots each step.
- Upgrades go in the backpack’s own slots: pickup (vacuums drops into the pack), magnet, feeding, crafting, tanks, auto-smelting and more. Start with pickup; it changes mining and farming.
- Place it to use it like a chest, pick it back up and nothing is lost.
- Jukebox upgrade: load a disc and the backpack plays it, including the discs you make yourself. Music on the move.
- A backpack drops like any item when you die. Keep that in mind with a netherite one.
Hammers
Section titled “Hammers”Just Hammers adds area-mining hammers. Swing once and you mine a square in front of you: 3x3 on the basic tiers and up to 5x5 and bigger as you move up. They are heavy on durability, so pair one with a backpack full of ore and a furnace at home.
- Mines whatever a pickaxe of that tier would; stone and ores, not dirt or sand.
- Fine inside your own claim and in the open. In someone else’s claim they do nothing, like any tool.
- Combined with a mining vehicle you can clear ground very quickly. Be a good neighbour about where.