Save States
Every Minecraft player knows the sting of a lost inventory. You emerge from a cave run with a stack of diamonds, a surprise creeper detonates behind you, and your hard-earned loot scatters across the stone. Or you misjudge a jump in the Nether and sink into a lava lake. Or you take one wrong step near the edge of The End and plummet into the void. Save States is a mod built specifically to soften those brutal moments by letting you mark a location and teleport back to it whenever disaster strikes.
What Does Save States Do?
The mod revolves around a single handheld item: the Floppy Disk. Each disk stores a location, functioning as a personal checkpoint you can carry in your inventory. To set a save state, sneak-use the Floppy Disk while standing where you want to record your position. Later, a simple use of the item teleports you straight back to that spot. Sneak-using the disk again overwrites the stored location, so you can reuse the same disk for new checkpoints as your journey progresses.
Because save states are stored on the item itself rather than in a global menu, the system opens up some genuinely creative possibilities. You can drop a loaded Floppy Disk into a chest, trade it with a friend, or hand a deadly trap checkpoint to an unsuspecting player. The mod is fully multiplayer compatible, which makes it as much a social tool as a survival one.
Floppy Disk Colors and Cooldowns
Floppy Disks come in multiple colors, and the cooldown system actively encourages you to carry several. When you load a save state, every Floppy Disk of that same color receives a three-second cooldown. Mixing colors lets you chain teleports without waiting, which matters when you are fleeing a mob or escaping a collapsing ravine.
There is one important limitation to remember: you can only load a save state that was set in the dimension you are currently standing in. A disk marked in the Overworld will not respond while you are wandering the Nether, so plan your checkpoint colors around the dimensions you visit most.
How to Craft Floppy Disks
Crafting starts with a basic Disk, which requires four iron nuggets arranged in a 2x2 formation. From there, combine that Disk with five dye, an ender pearl, and a nether star to produce a Floppy Disk. The nether star requirement makes these items a mid-to-late game investment, so expect to spend some time in the Nether before you can build a full set of colored disks.
Crafting Materials at a Glance
- Four iron nuggets for the base Disk
- Five dye of any single color for the Floppy Disk shell
- One ender pearl for the teleportation effect
- One nether star to finalize the craft
Practical Uses in Survival and Multiplayer
Save States shines brightest as a safety net. Set a checkpoint before you tackle an ancient city, a bastion remnant, or a deep dark expedition, and you have a guaranteed escape route if things go wrong. Just remember to load rather than save when you are running for your life, since sneak-using the disk mid-chase would overwrite your checkpoint with your current, very dangerous position.
Beyond survival, players use Floppy Disks as improvised waypoints between bases, villages, and farms. In multiplayer servers, they become tools for pranks and traps, letting you gift a friend a checkpoint that drops them somewhere unpleasant. The mod is intentionally more of a novelty than a serious transport overhaul, and its balance shifts depending on what other mods you have installed alongside it.
Supported Versions and Installation
Save States is a lightweight mod built with MCreator, and it runs on Forge for modern Minecraft releases, including the 1.20.x branch. Before you download Save States, check that your mod loader matches the version listed on the project page, since mixing loaders is the most common cause of a failed launch.
If you would rather skip the manual file shuffling, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process for you, offering one-click installation of Save States alongside automatic version checks so your add-ons stay compatible after every game update. That said, how to install manually is straightforward: grab the correct Forge build for your Minecraft version, drop the mod file into your mods folder, and launch the game through your loader profile.
Quick Installation Steps
- Install the matching Forge version for your Minecraft release
- Place the Save States mod file in the mods directory
- Launch Minecraft using the Forge profile
- Craft a Disk, then a Floppy Disk, and sneak-use it to set your first checkpoint
Save States will not replace your favorite teleportation or waypoint mod, and it does not try to. What it offers is a charming, item-based checkpoint system that rewards planning, encourages collecting colored disks, and adds a genuine layer of tension relief to dangerous expeditions. For players who want a second chance after a creeper ambush or a lava mishap, a pocket full of Floppy Disks is a surprisingly satisfying answer.