Bundles!

Inventory management is one of the oldest challenges in Minecraft. Before you ever set foot in the End and claim your first shulker box, every mining trip or exploration run ends with a cluttered backpack and tough decisions about what to leave behind. The Bundles! add-on solves that problem by backporting the beloved Bundle item from the Caves & Cliffs update into earlier versions of the game, giving you a portable, craftable storage solution right from the start.

What Is the Bundles! Add-On?

Bundles! introduces a single, game-changing item: the Bundle. Originally planned for Minecraft 1.17, the Bundle lets you store multiple types of items inside a single inventory slot, freeing up space when you are out exploring. Unlike a shulker box, a bundle does not require you to place it down to access its contents. You can simply right-click with the bundle in hand to add items, or right-click the bundle in your inventory to retrieve them one by one. It is the perfect companion for gathering small quantities of different resources, like flowers, saplings, or ores, without clogging your entire backpack.

How to Get a Bundle

Crafting a Bundle is straightforward and uses materials you can find early in the game. You will need five pieces of rabbit hide and two strings. Rabbit hide drops from rabbits, which spawn in deserts, taigas, and snowy plains, while string is easily obtained from spiders or by breaking cobwebs. This low-cost recipe means you can start using Bundles! long before you ever see a shulker, making it an essential tool for any survival world.

How the Bundle Works

Using a Bundle is intuitive. Select it from your hotbar and right-click on a stack of items in your inventory to place them inside. Alternatively, right-click the Bundle itself to open its interface and drag items in. To retrieve items, right-click the Bundle in your inventory to pull out one item at a time, starting with the last one you put in. If you right-click the Bundle while holding it outside any inventory screen, all contents will drop onto the ground. The mod faithfully recreates the behavior from the 1.17 snapshots, so you can check the official Minecraft Wiki for more details on how Bundles function in vanilla.

What Can You Store Inside?

Not every item fits into a Bundle. By default, the mod prevents you from storing other Bundles, chests, trapped chests, ender chests, and shulker boxes. This is controlled through two tags: bundle_ignored_blocks and bundle_ignored_items. You can customize these tags to add or remove items from the blacklist, giving you full control over what goes in your Bundle. Want to create a black hole of nested storage? Just remove the restrictions. Prefer to keep certain rare items out? Add them to the tag. The only limit is your creativity.

Supported Versions and Loader

Bundles! is built for Minecraft 1.16.5 and requires the Forge mod loader. This makes it a perfect addition to any modded or vanilla-style world on that version, especially if you are not ready to update to 1.17 or want to keep your existing mods. The mod is also featured in Boodlyneck's Mods of the Week series, highlighting its quality and usefulness.

How to Install Bundles!

Installing Bundles! is simple. First, make sure you have Forge installed for Minecraft 1.16.5. Then, download Bundles! from the official mod page on CurseForge. Place the downloaded .jar file into your mods folder, and you are ready to go. If you use the foxygame.net launcher, you can skip the manual steps entirely—just find Bundles! in the launcher's add-on catalog and install it with one click. The launcher also handles version compatibility and auto-updates, so you never have to worry about mismatched files when you download Bundles! for Minecraft.

Tips and Tricks for Using Bundles!

• Keep a Bundle in your hotbar while caving to collect ores, redstone, and lapis without filling your inventory.
• Use multiple Bundles to organize items by type—one for building blocks, one for food, one for tools.
• Remember that a Bundle can hold up to 64 items in total, but non-stackable items like tools or ender pearls take up more space. A single sword, for example, counts as a full stack.
• If you want to empty a Bundle quickly, right-click it while holding it over the ground to drop everything.

Customization and Advanced Use

The real power of Bundles! lies in its tag system. By editing the bundle_ignored_blocks and bundle_ignored_items tags, you can tailor the mod to your playstyle. For instance, if you are running a modpack with many custom containers, you can blacklist them all to prevent exploits. Conversely, you can whitelist everything and use Bundles as a universal portable storage. The mod also pairs well with Iron Bundles, a related add-on that introduces upgraded Bundle tiers, so keep an eye out for that if you want even more capacity.

Why Bundles! Is a Must-Have

Minecraft 1.17 brought many long-awaited features, but not everyone wants to leave their 1.16.5 worlds behind. Bundles! bridges that gap perfectly, delivering a polished, vanilla-accurate Bundle mechanic without forcing a version update. Whether you are a builder, explorer, or redstone engineer, the ability to compress your inventory early game is a game-changer. The mod is lightweight, easy to configure, and fits seamlessly into any Forge setup.

So if you are tired of juggling half-stacks of diorite and random seeds, give Bundles! a try. Download Bundles! today and reclaim your inventory space—one rabbit hide at a time.