Exploring: Places (Backrooms)
Java modpack listed for Minecraft 1.20. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
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Stumble upon the backrooms dimension in Minecraft with Places and explore until you go mad. Find the exit, if you can... if you will...
Intended for multiplayer so play with your friends! Pack your stuff with Reliable Backpacks, build your on-the-go bases with Simply Tents, enjoy newer Minecraft features like Bundles with Vanilla Backport, capture the places with Exposure cameras and recover lost photos along the way.
Riding your horse across the plains while looking for a settlement, an unusual mound of dirt catches your eye. You get closer to investigate and find a wooden house in ruins. Time has eroded the traces left by the previous resident. Rummaging through the leftovers, you discover a basement, and down there is a door.
You enter and find... a place. Bathed in fluorescent lights, stale carpet, and walls adorned in yellow wallpaper stretching to mazes of corridors and halls. The curiousity and awe wells up within you. Only until you turn back and realize — there's no leaving.
This is version 1.0.x, to see other changes from 1.1.x and above, check the suggestions below and the changelogs for tweaks.
Overview
Mods mainly (17):Places
Vanilla Backport
Reliable Backpacks
Simply Tents
Simply Tents BlackList
Corpse
Exposure
Immersive Overlays
Chalk
Paxi (for datapacks)
Supplementaries
Amendments
Explorer’s Compass
Nature’s Compass
EMI
Distraction-Free Recipe
Not Enough Recipe Book
HT’s TreeChop
Easy Anvils
Easy Magic
Scholar
Spyglass Improvements
Global XP
Audio Improvements
Simple Voice Chat
RyoamicLights
Curious Lanterns
Carry On
Better Than Mending
Paxi
- places + exposure:polaroid integration
- bundles recipe fix (made by me)
- reliable backpacks simply tents restriction (made by me)
Carry On - add “reliable_backpacks:backpack” to blacklist tiles
SimplyTents - change to VANILLA spawn point logic
NERB - change to ENABLED
EMI
- Searchbar not in middle
- Left Side-bar heading off
- Right Side-bar 9 columns
- Hide config and recipe tree buttons
Distraction-free Recipe
- Removed the guide text and button.
- Search bar is more transparent.
Immersive Overlays
- Disable biome
- time pos 90
- coordinates pos 140
Easy Magic
- Removed chiseled bookshelf tooltip
- Note: you can remove the tooltip from Easy Magic or Scholar whichever you prefer
Simply Tents BlackList
- Reliable Backpacks can't be picked up by tents
- Shulker boxes can't be picked up by tents
- Blacklisted all the tents (this should be taken care of by the datapack)
Simple Voice Chat - Freecam mode to Player
Carry On - change from Left Shift to B
EMI - favorites keybind from A to V
Rebind Narrator - narrator keybind to Esc (get rid of it)
Simple Voice Chat - Group Management to J, Voice Chat Menu to K, Whisper to C, Push to Talk to R
HT's TreeChop - Open Settings Overlay to Not Bound
Suggestions
Mods you can add:Field Guide w/ Item Descriptions (added in 1.1+)
Horseman
Parcool
Piggyback
Domestication Innovation
Callable Horses
Dap ur Homies
Boat Break Fix
Lootr (added in 1.1+)
Alternate Current (added in 1.1+)
Environmental (added in 1.2)
Atmospheric (added in 1.2)
Mimicked
AppleSkin
Particle Rain
Shoulder Surfing Reloaded (added in 1.1+)
Mouse Tweaks
Chat Heads
Controlling
Rebind Narrator (added in 1.1+)
Insanity Shaders
Immersive Damage Indicators
Radium
Embeddium
Ferrite Core
All The Leaks
EntityCulling
ImmediatelyFast
ModernFix
Clumps
ServerCore
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DISCLAIMER
- I did not participate in the creation of any of the content featured in this modpack unless explicitly stated! Full credits belong to their respective authors.
- I made sure that no AI-generated content is included in any of the mods listed in this modpack, and I did not use AI for any of the content I published related to this project.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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.
- Downloads as Exploring Places 1.2.1.mrpack
- Download size: 1.5 MB
- Download link checked 7 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.