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Field Guide

by evanbones · for Minecraft

Discover Plants, Animals and Monsters with a Spyglass. Collect them all and take notes in your personal Field Guide!

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About Field Guide

From Modrinth

Discover Plants, Animals and Monsters with a Spyglass. Collect them all and take notes in your personal Field Guide!

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_Ever wondered what makes a Creeper tick? Or what that weird glowing block deep in the caves is? Grab your spyglass, adventurer: it's time to start taking notes!_

Field Guide is an exploration-focused mod that lets you scan and discover monsters, animals and plants with your trusty spyglass to unlock them in your own in-game Field Guide!

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Features

Scanning view
  • Finally, Spyglasses have a use! Scan plants and critters at a distance using a spyglass.
  • Your own personal encyclopedia! Every successful scan unlocks a brand-new entry in your Field Guide.
  • Reward your curiosity! Gives true explorers a reason to seek out every rare creature and biome.
  • Gotta scan 'em all! Works seamlessly with almost _every_ modded entity, no configuration necessary!
  • Multiplayer-friendly! Your progress is saved on a per-server basis. Build your Field Guide with friends!
  • Take notes! Write your own notes for each entry, or add Item Descriptions to prefill them with useful information!
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Easily Configurable. Made for modpacks!

Whether you are using it for your personal game or designing a modpack, Field Guide can be configured how you want it!

  • Categories and their contents are fully controlled by datapacks, and can contain any entity, block or even multiblock structures like trees!
  • Allow scanning without a spyglass or require players to defeat a monster to discover it.
  • Grant XP or run commands when a player makes a discovery.
  • Add your own descriptions to provide players with clues and lore.
  • Hide names, entries or whole categories until they are discovered.
  • And much more...

For full information, tutorials, and examples, please refer to the Field Guide Wiki.

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Recommended Mods

Field Guide stands on the shoulders of giants! To get the full, feature-complete experience, you'll want the following mods:

| Icon | Link | Feature Added | |------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------| | | Immersive Overlays | Biome Displays — Shows beautiful spawn details for entities. | | | Item Descriptions | Entry Descriptions — Automatically fills in entry lore. | | | Mod Descriptions | Modded Support — Adds automatic descriptions for modded entries. |

Future Plans

Expanded integration with other mods

We've got exciting features planned for integrations with mods like Jade/WAILA, EMI, and Scholar - Stay tuned!

More features...

More configuration options, logbook, more multiplayer features - We've got a lot of ideas!

License

Assets license (ARR) Code license (MIT)

If you are thinking about using the code or assets from Field Guide, please note the mod's licensing. All assets of Field Guide are all rights reserved by their respective creators, unless specified otherwise. The source code of the mod is available under the MIT license.

Credits

This mod was created as a collaboration between evanbones and Kobber. Assets were made by Kobber and evanbones, with additional contributions from Nekomaster.

The book texture is modified from mortuusar's Scholar, with permission, which also works well when used alongside Field Guide!

The banner image uses textures from the Bare Bones texture pack.


Read the full description on Modrinth →

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 8 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Field Guide on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.23.0+26.3-neoforge, released 2026-10-29

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions)26.3
NeoForge1.21 to 26.3 (4 versions)26.3
Forge1.20.11.20.1

From 30 recorded builds of Field Guide.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.23.0+26.3-neoforge2026-10-2926.3NeoForge
1.23.0+26.3-fabric2026-10-2926.3Fabric
1.23.0+1.21.1-fabric2026-10-291.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions)Fabric
1.23.0+1.20.1-fabric2026-10-291.20.1Fabric
1.23.0+26.2-neoforge2026-10-2926.2NeoForge
1.22.4+1.20.1-forge2026-10-241.20.1Forge

Dependencies

  • Required: modrinth project PKoLkD98 (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Required: modrinth project UaizcMKP (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project nvQzSEkH (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project 5VolwT6c (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
  • Optional: modrinth project 1eAoo2KR (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Field Guide on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Field Guide as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 7 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-30Open ↗
  • ✓Authorevanbones, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Field Guide, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Field Guide?

Modrinth lists Field Guide as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Field Guide is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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Run Field Guide on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Field Guide in one click.