Andy's Portable Campsite

Overview

Bring a complete base camp anywhere without carrying a pile of loose building blocks. Andy's Portable Campsite turns one reusable kit into a tall, intact expedition tent with a functional vanilla bed, persistent chest, three lanterns, and a campfire. When the trip continues, interact with the campfire and pack the entire campsite back into the kit.

This is the standalone edition of the deployable campsite developed for Andy's Explorers Backpack — the backpack version remains available and unchanged; this release is for players who want the campsite as its own focused add-on. The camp uses native Minecraft blocks and lighting, so it fits naturally into survival worlds and works with Vibrant Visuals.

Crafting the Reusable Campsite Kit

Craft the kit in a normal crafting table with this exact pattern — all six wool blocks must be the same color:

Wool | Lantern  | Wool
Wool | Bed      | Wool
Wool | Campfire | Wool

The recipe consumes six wool blocks, one lantern, one bed, and one campfire — no special workstation, command, or menu. The kit remembers the materials used:

• The wool color becomes the tent canvas.
• The selected bed supplies the camp's functional sleeping area.
• A normal Lantern creates warm lantern lighting; a Soul Lantern creates soul-flame lighting; a Copper Lantern creates the copper-lighting version.
• A regular Campfire creates a regular campfire; a Soul Campfire creates a soul campfire.

Deploying the camp

Move the kit into your hotbar, face the direction the tent should open, and use it on the ground — the clicked block becomes the center reference for the five-block-long tent floor. Deployment follows the reliable placement behavior from Andy's Explorers Backpack rather than a fragile artificial flat-area scan. The deployed campsite contains:

• A tall stepped wool tent with an open front.
• A functional native Minecraft bed for sleeping and spawn-setting.
• A native chest for ordinary inventory interaction.
• Two lantern posts outside the entrance and one hanging lantern inside the rear.
• A center entrance support, with a campfire two blocks in front of it.

Minecraft remains responsible for normal bed rules — night, nearby monsters, dimension restrictions, spawn setting, and multiplayer sleep behavior.

Owner-linked persistent chest

The campsite chest is linked to the player who crafted the kit. Its contents are archived while the camp is deployed and immediately before pack-up, and they return inside the chest the next time that owner deploys the campsite. If the packed kit is lost, burned, dropped into the void, or otherwise destroyed, crafting a replacement reconnects to the same player-owned chest archive instead of starting over. Recrafting never duplicates an actively deployed campsite — each player may have only one active camp, and other players cannot pack up your campsite or use its protected owner chest.

Packing up

Interact with the campsite's campfire to open the pack-up prompt, then choose Pack Up Campsite. The add-on secures the chest first, removes the temporary camp, and returns the reusable kit to your inventory (dropping it safely at your feet if your inventory is full). The campsite's temporary blocks cannot be harvested for free wool, lanterns, beds, fences, chests, or campfires — use the campfire control whenever you're ready to move.

Vibrant Visuals

The campsite is Vibrant Visuals compatible. It uses Minecraft's native wool, bed, chest, fence, lantern, and campfire blocks with no replacement shader or global lighting system, so lantern and fire appearance follows the active Minecraft renderer and compatible resource packs.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from CurseForge and open the .mcaddon with Minecraft Bedrock.
2. Edit the target world and activate Andy's Portable Campsite — its paired behavior and resource packs are linked as dependencies.
3. Enter the world and craft the kit at a normal crafting table.

CurseForge is the authoritative source for supported versions and files.

Troubleshooting

• The recipe doesn't appear — confirm both packs imported successfully and the behavior pack is active, then arrange the ingredients in the exact pattern above using six matching wool blocks.
• The kit won't deploy — pack up your existing active campsite first, then select the kit and use it on the ground with enough open space for the tent.
• The kit didn't return after pack-up — check the ground at your feet; a full inventory drops the returned kit safely.
• The chest is empty after making a replacement — make sure the replacement was crafted and deployed by the same Minecraft player identity that owned the original campsite.
• The tent faces the wrong direction — face the direction you want the entrance aligned before using the kit.

Credits & license

Created by Andy The Maker. Copyright © Andy — All Rights Reserved. Players are welcome to use Andy's Portable Campsite in personal worlds, multiplayer worlds, Realms, and servers, and content creators are welcome to use, review, stream, and showcase the add-on in videos, livestreams, screenshots, articles, and social posts, including monetized content. No one may modify, reverse engineer, extract, repackage, re-upload, sell, mirror, or redistribute the add-on or any of its files without prior written permission — link viewers and players to the official CurseForge release.

Minecraft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft or Mojang Studios.