Better With Bags
Players who run out of room in a cave can carry more with Better With Bags, which adds wearable and placeable storage backpacks to BTA Babric.
What it does
A backpack is equipped in the chestplate armor slot, and right-clicking it opens its inventory. Sneaking and right-clicking places the backpack as a block that works like a chest, and breaking it picks it up again with everything still inside. In both first-person and third-person views, the backpack appears on the player as a 3D model, and its inventory screen and item icons match the look of BTA.
Five tiers are crafted in order, each from the previous one, so a small leather satchel can be upgraded toward the endgame pack that adds 36 extra slots. Large and Reinforced backpacks slow the player down only while they are filled: an empty Large backpack has no penalty, a full one with 27 slots costs 10% movement speed, and the Reinforced tier lowers that penalty. The Nether penalty applies to all backpacks.
The mod is distributed as a bundled DragonFly jar and is licensed under the MIT License, so the source code and issue tracker are public. Snapshot builds are published, and the files target b1.7.3 only. Client and server both need it, so the server and every player must run the same version.
Key features
Wearable backpacks
Backpacks are equipped in the chestplate armor slot and opened with a right-click.
Placeable storage blocks
Sneak and right-click places a backpack as a block that holds items like a chest, and breaking it returns the backpack with its contents.
Five crafting tiers
Each tier is crafted from the one before it, from a small leather satchel up to a 36-slot endgame backpack.
Movement penalty on heavy tiers
Large and Reinforced backpacks slow the player only when they hold items, and the Nether adds its own penalty.
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Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who collect a lot of material in BTA Babric survival worlds, and server owners who want storage that fits the BTA style without extra chests.
How it compares
Better With Backpacks is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, for the same loader and version b1.7.3, with the same client and server environment. BTA PocketCrafting is also client and server and open source, under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, but it adds a crafting grid rather than storage. BTA Graves is open source under CC0 1.0 Universal and addresses items left after death, not carried storage.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Better With Bags | BTA Babric | b1.7.3 | Client and server | 2026-08-04 |
| Better With Backpacks | BTA Babric | b1.7.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-06 |
| BTA PocketCrafting | BTA Babric | b1.7.3 | Client and server | 2026-04-08 |
| BTA Graves | BTA Babric | b1.7.3 | Client and server | 2025-09-27 |
Questions
Does Better With Bags need to be installed on the server?
Does the backpack slow the player down?
Which game version does Better With Bags support?
In the catalog
Better With Bags is one of 4,058 Storage mods on ModsFinder. 567 mods support Minecraft b1.7.3.
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What the author says
You know what's annoying? Having 27 stacks of cobblestone, 4 different pickaxes, some redstone you'll "use later," and absolutely nowhere to put any of it. Your inventory is full before you even leave the cave. Better With Bags adds wearable, placeable storage to Better Than Adventure. Craft a small leather satchel…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/better-with-bags
- Owner
- SajmonOriginal
- Published
- 2026-02-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15