Field Guide
An offline in-game handbook for birds, items, and gameplay.
guaniao:bird_guideObtaining
Craft at a crafting table with a book, paper, an ink sac, and a vanilla feather.
Crafting recipes
How to use
Browse birds, items, and gameplay
Hold the Field Guide and right-click to open it. Switch between birds, items and chapters, or search the guide. The catalog contains 17 birds and is bundled with the mod.
Viewing models and animations
Drag with the left mouse button in the model preview to rotate it; hold Ctrl while scrolling to zoom. Use the animation buttons to preview behavior. The text lists activity times, food, habitats, and behavior.
Font size, history, and recipes
Click A− / A+ to change the text size, and Back to return to the previous entry. Recipes use current-world data. Ingredients have hover tooltips and links to related items; smelting recipes include fuel examples, time, and XP.
Opening settings
The configuration button at the bottom of the handbook opens the mod settings. In multiplayer, server permissions determine which settings you can change.
Based on local code · 2026-10-02
BirdGuideItem.java ↗BirdGuideClient.java ↗bird_guide.json ↗Related source files: BirdHandbookScreen.java · HandbookPreview.java · HandbookData.java