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How to Craft and Dye Different Colored Backpacks

Every vanilla shulker box color has a matching travel bag texture in this pack, letting you color-code your supplies for different trips or match your character skin.

Crafting and Dyeing Your Backpack

Because this resource pack replaces standard shulker boxes, you obtain and recolor your travel bags using regular vanilla crafting recipes:

1. Craft a standard shulker box in a crafting table by placing a chest vertically between two shulker shells. Its inventory sprite will immediately display as a travel backpack.

2. Gather any regular vanilla dye shade—for example, black dye for a dark look, or bright shades like red, yellow, or cyan for easy sorting.

3. Open your 2x2 inventory crafting grid or a crafting table and place both the backpack and your chosen dye into the slots.

4. Take the newly dyed backpack from the output slot. Recoloring a shulker box in the crafting grid safely keeps all stored items inside it.

Where the New Color Shows Up

Applying a dye updates the backpack across every view in the game: the item sprite inside inventory menus, the 3D block when placed in your world, and the wearable model shown on your back from the offhand slot.