# Field Notes<\/p>\n
> Auto-record your achievements with timestamp, location, and context \u2014 your own field journal that builds itself as you play.<\/p>\n
## What it does<\/p>\n
Every time you earn an advancement (vanilla or modded), Field Notes captures the moment in a personal chronicle:<\/p>\n
– \u23f0 **Timestamp** (real-time + in-world day)
\n– \ud83d\udccd **Coordinates + dimension + biome**
\n– \ud83c\udfc6 **Advancement icon, title, description, frame type** (task \/ goal \/ challenge)<\/p>\n
Open your chronicle two ways:
\n– Press **K** (rebindable; defaults to K to avoid JourneyMap’s J binding)
\n– Right-click the **Field Notes** journal item<\/p>\n
Browse via a **spread-page book viewer** styled after Patchouli \u2014 4 entries per spread, vanilla page-turn arrows, search by keyword, filter by frame type. Biome and dimension names auto-localize to your client language (e.g. `Day 0 \u00b7 \u7802\u6f20` in Japanese).<\/p>\n
## Getting the journal<\/p>\n
The journal item is the door to your chronicle. You can get it three ways:<\/p>\n
1. **Auto-granted on world join** via the “Welcome to Field Notes” advancement \u2014 appears in your inventory the first time you spawn
\n2. **Craft it**: shapeless recipe `book + leather` *or* `book + rabbit_hide`
\n3. **Creative tab**: Tools & Utilities<\/p>\n
## Why?<\/p>\n
Long playthroughs blur together. You remember “I beat the Ender Dragon” but not “I was in a swamp at world day 47, in the rain, with iron armor and a bow”. Field Notes makes those details persistent \u2014 your own quiet record of how the journey unfolded.<\/p>\n
## Design philosophy<\/p>\n
Field Notes is **observation only**. It does not change advancement requirements, difficulty, rewards, or any gameplay mechanic. It surfaces information the game already tracks internally \u2014 same philosophy as AppleSkin for hunger.<\/p>\n
Works with **any mod that uses the vanilla advancement system** (Twilight Forest, Botania, Apotheosis, Cobblemon, …) \u2014 no per-mod integration needed.<\/p>\n
## Supported Loaders \/ Versions (v0.2.2)<\/p>\n
| Minecraft | NeoForge | Forge | Fabric |
\n|—|:—:|:—:|:—:|
\n| 1.21.1 | \u2705 | \u2014 | \u2705 |
\n| 1.20.1 | \u2014 | \u2705 | \u2705 |<\/p>\n
> *Forge 1.21.1 build was dropped in v0.2.0 \u2014 Patchouli has no Forge 1.21.1 release. The NeoForge 1.21.1 build covers the same Minecraft version (NeoForge is the de-facto loader for 1.21+).*<\/p>\n
## Dependencies<\/p>\n
– **Patchouli** is required (it ships the book texture this mod renders). Same dependency used by Botania, Hex Casting, and others.
\n– Fabric users: also requires Fabric API.<\/p>\n
## Installation<\/p>\n
1. Install your loader (NeoForge \/ Forge \/ Fabric) for your MC version
\n2. Install **Patchouli** for your loader\/version
\n3. **Fabric only**: install Fabric API
\n4. Drop `fieldnotes-X.Y.Z-{loader}-{mc}.jar` into `mods\/`
\n5. Join a world \u2014 the Welcome advancement grants you a Journal automatically<\/p>\n
## License<\/p>\n
MIT \u2014 modpack inclusion welcome, no credit required.<\/p>\n
## Credits<\/p>\n
– Author: KURONAMI
\n– Source: github.com\/KURONAMI333\/field-notes
\n– Book texture: Patchouli by Vazkii<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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