About Field Guide
From ModrinthDiscover Plants, Animals and Monsters with a Spyglass. Collect them all and take notes in your personal Field Guide!
_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!
Features
- 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!
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.
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
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.
Highlights
From source dataGame 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
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (8 versions) | 26.3 |
| NeoForge | 1.21 to 26.3 (4 versions) | 26.3 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 30 recorded builds of Field Guide.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.23.0+26.3-neoforge | 2026-10-29 | 26.3 | NeoForge |
| 1.23.0+26.3-fabric | 2026-10-29 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 1.23.0+1.21.1-fabric | 2026-10-29 | 1.21 to 1.21.1 (2 versions) | Fabric |
| 1.23.0+1.20.1-fabric | 2026-10-29 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 1.23.0+26.2-neoforge | 2026-10-29 | 26.2 | NeoForge |
| 1.22.4+1.20.1-forge | 2026-10-24 | 1.20.1 | Forge |
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 catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth 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












