{"id":63559,"date":"2026-06-03T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/encumbered-player-weight\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:06:04","slug":"encumbered-player-weight","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/encumbered-player-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Encumbered (Player Weight)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>### Overview<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThis mod lets you add weight to items. The more items you carry, the more you weigh.<br \/>\n![Inventory User Interface](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/058bec1001f429f47c73a5eafe8193b926b036af.png)<br \/>\n![Weight Tooltip](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/6a9df3248d50e939a4c7e14098f9e8d59215ec99.png)<br \/>\n### How It Works<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThere are three stages of encumberment:<\/p>\n<p>Unencumbered: You can move normally.<br \/>\n![Hotbar Weight Icon](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/3a225794aae0a120926c25bc7c942f51ed3c8720.png)    <\/p>\n<p>Encumbered: You can no longer sprint.<br \/>\n![Encumbered Hotbar Icon](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/6e1f18bba972bc35d5fba092144769c6074dce2e.png)   <\/p>\n<p>Over Encumbered: You can barely move (no sprinting, jumping, slower movement, and sinking in fluids).<br \/>\n![Over Encumbered Hotbar Icon](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/25210cfd643edca84b5cc540695ac13c51f69f87.png)    <\/p>\n<p>### Features<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83d\udd27 Configurable weights, encumberment thresholds, and UI.<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83c\udf92 Support for shulker boxes and some backpack mods (Sophisticated Backpacks).<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83d\udc0e Riding entities takes into account your weight<br \/>\n&#8211; \u2708\ufe0f Elytra considers weight<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f User-friendly GUI with a helpful weight indicator icon.<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83c\udf0d Multiplayer support!<\/p>\n<p>### Planned Features<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8211; \ud83d\udd04 Further mod support (Curios Slot, Backpacks, etc.).<br \/>\n&#8211; Version back\/forward porting (1.20.x and above. Others upon request to popular versions)<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nMore updates to come! Questions? Check us out on Discord \ud83c\udfae<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Mod Setup<\/summary>\n<p>In order to modify weight values, you must create a datapack to override or add your own mod&#8217;s weight values. The datapack should be dropped in the world&#8217;s datapacks folder.<\/p>\n<p>  Datapack Example:<br \/>\n  &#8220;`<br \/>\n  -DataPackName<br \/>\n  |-pack.mcmeta<br \/>\n  |-data<br \/>\n   |-encumbered<br \/>\n    |-data_maps<br \/>\n     |-item<br \/>\n      |-item_weights.json<br \/>\n  &#8220;`<\/p>\n<p>  item_weights.json should be in the format:<br \/>\n  &#8220;`json<br \/>\n  {<br \/>\n    &#8220;values&#8221;: {<br \/>\n      &#8220;minecraft:stone&#8221;: {<br \/>\n        &#8220;replace&#8221;: true,<br \/>\n        &#8220;value&#8221;: {<br \/>\n          &#8220;weight&#8221;: 12.0<br \/>\n        }<br \/>\n      },<br \/>\n      &#8220;modid:item&#8221;: {<br \/>\n        &#8220;replace&#8221;: true,<br \/>\n        &#8220;value&#8221;: {<br \/>\n          &#8220;weight&#8221;: 1.0<br \/>\n        }<br \/>\n      },<br \/>\n      &#8220;#minecraft:logs&#8221;: {<br \/>\n        &#8220;replace&#8221;: true,<br \/>\n        &#8220;value&#8221;: {<br \/>\n          &#8220;weight&#8221;: 10.0<br \/>\n        }<br \/>\n      }<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  &#8220;`<\/p>\n<p>  The pack.mcmeta file should look like this:<br \/>\n  &#8220;`json<br \/>\n  {<br \/>\n      &#8220;pack&#8221;: {<br \/>\n          &#8220;pack_format&#8221;: 34,<br \/>\n          &#8220;description&#8221;: &#8220;Pack Description Here&#8221;<br \/>\n      }<br \/>\n  }<br \/>\n  &#8220;`<\/p>\n<p>###   Configs<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\n  Config\/encumbered-client.toml:<br \/>\n  &#8211; Contains configs that are independent of the server. Each player can modify these values at will on their client<br \/>\n  &#8211; Config\/encumbered-server.toml: Contains configs that are consistent across all players. Anything changed here will change for all players.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A configurable weight mod that lets you add weight to every item in the game. 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