
Traveler's Journal
Part of the Traveler's Series; provide a player with a book upon joining, with its content dynamically managed and continuously updated by the admin from…
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The Travelers Journal can be given to a player on join and its contents can be managed by the server admin. This allows for welcome instructions as well as avenues for setting up adventures for your new players.
Features
- Dynamic journal content that updates when used
- Automatic distribution to new players
- Server-side implementation for multiplayer compatibility
- Customizable content through configuration
- Real-time preview system for journal formatting
Configuration
The mod can be configured through files in the config/travelers-journal/ directory:
Basic Settings (config.txt)
title=Traveler's Journal
author=Server
give_at_spawn=true
debug_logging=false
legacy_titles=Traveller's Journal,Travelers Journal
Journal Content
Create or edit config/travelers-journal/travelers_journal.md to set your journal's content. The mod supports standard Minecraft text formatting:
- Markdown-style formatting:
- Bold:
**text** - Italic:
*text* - Underline:
_text_
- Bold:
- Color codes:
<color>text<>where color is one of:black,dark_blue,dark_green,dark_aquadark_red,dark_purple,gold,graydark_gray,blue,green,aquared,light_purple,yellow,white
- Page breaks: Use
[page]to start a new page
Preview Your Journal
After installing the mod, you can preview how your journal will look in-game:
- Navigate to
config/travelers-journal/preview/ - Open
index.htmlin your web browser - Edit your journal content in the left panel
- See a real-time preview on the right
This makes it easy to format and test your journal content before players see it in-game!
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License
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as travelers-journal-1.2.6.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 32 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.