Thom's Wandering Collector
by ThomasMTT
Lost items from death, void, explosions or fire can be bought back from a Wandering Trader that Thom's Wandering Collector summons from a village.
What it does
The mod tracks items a player loses through death, the void, explosions, fire and similar causes. A village can then call a Wandering Trader by ringing an emerald bell, and the trader arrives with a special trade inventory that offers the lost items back for purchase. Calls are limited by a cooldown kept per village, which the server owner can configure to prevent overuse.
Thom's Wandering Collector is a server-side only Forge mod, so players join without installing anything. Files are published for Forge across five release versions, 1.16.5 – 1.20.6, with 1.0 for 1.20.6 as the latest file. The code is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and is open source, and the source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Lost loot tracking
Items a player loses to death, the void, explosions or fire are recorded so they can be recovered later.
Village bell summons
Ringing an emerald bell in a village calls a Wandering Trader to that settlement.
Buy-back trade inventory
The arriving trader sells the tracked items back, making hard-to-replace treasures recoverable through trade.
Configurable cooldown
A cooldown is kept per village, and the time between trader calls can be set to limit how often the trader appears.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Refresh Trades is a Forge and NeoForge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 that runs on client and server and is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Wandering Trader + covers Forge and NeoForge for 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 under the MIT License, and it needs both sides. More Trades and Bartering is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, with a server-required, client-optional environment and builds for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thom's Wandering Collector | Forge | 1.16.5 – 1.20.6 | Server-side only | 2024-10-06 |
| Refresh Trades | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-10-08 |
| Wandering Trader + | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-19 |
| More Trades and Bartering | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-03-28 |
Questions
Does Thom's Wandering Collector need to be installed on clients?
Which loader is the mod built for?
Can server owners limit how often the trader comes?
In the catalog
Thom's Wandering Collector is one of 2,072 Economy mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,010 Economy mods for Forge. 11,154 mods support Minecraft 1.20.6.
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What the author says
Thom's Wandering Collector is a forge mod that allows you to recover lost loot, it doesn't matter how it was lost. Players can trade with the Wandering Trader to recover their lost items, making those hard-to-replace treasures recoverable.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/wandering-collector-forge
- Owner
- ThomasMTT
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2024-10-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15