Carry On Mod (1.21.11, 1.20.6) – Pick Up Blocks, Mobs in Your Hand

Carry On is a utility mod that lets you physically pick up, carry, and place tile entities and mobs with your bare hands in Minecraft, available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.

There's a strange contradiction at the heart of vanilla Minecraft. You can stuff 64 iron blocks into a single inventory slot — roughly 147,000 kilograms of metal in your back pocket — but you can't slide a furnace two tiles to the left without smashing it first. Carry On fixes this absurdity with an elegant solution: just crouch, right-click with empty hands, and pick the whole thing up. Chests keep their contents, spawners keep their mob type, and modded machines keep all their stored data intact. With over 17 million downloads on Modrinth alone, this is one of the most widely adopted quality-of-life mods in the Minecraft ecosystem, and for good reason — once you try it, vanilla movement feels permanently broken.

Key Features of Carry On

• Pick Up and Place Any Tile Entity — Shift + right-click with empty hands to grab chests, furnaces, spawners, hoppers, and even complex machines from tech mods like Mekanism or Thermal Expansion. All NBT data, inventory contents, and metadata are fully preserved, so nothing is lost in transit. This single feature eliminates the tedious break-collect-replace cycle that plagues base reorganization.
• Carry Mobs and Entities — You can physically pick up passive mobs like chickens, cows, and villagers and carry them to a new location. In survival mode, hostile mobs are excluded by default to prevent exploits, though server admins can toggle this in the config. It's a far more immersive alternative to lead-dragging a reluctant cow across three biomes.
• Entity Stacking — Smaller entities can be stacked on top of larger ones, letting you create amusing creature towers or efficiently transport multiple animals at once. The mod enforces size logic so only smaller mobs can ride on larger ones, keeping things balanced and preventing visual glitches.
• Full Cross-Mod Compatibility — Carry On works with single-block tile entities from virtually any mod without requiring patches or compatibility layers. Whether you're moving an Applied Energistics terminal or a Create gearbox, the mod handles data preservation automatically. This universal approach is a big reason it appears in so many modpacks.
• Balanced Movement Penalties — Carrying a tile entity or mob slows your player down, with heavier inventories and larger mobs causing greater slowdown. This prevents the mechanic from being overpowered — you can't just sprint across the map with a fully loaded storage system. The weight-based penalty adds a layer of strategic thinking to base logistics.
• Powerful Blacklist and Config System — Server admins and modpack creators get fine-grained control over what can and cannot be carried. You can blacklist entire mods, specific blocks, or individual entities through the config file. Advanced scripting support lets modpack creators write custom pickup rules, making Carry On adaptable to any gameplay balance philosophy.
• Player Carrying — Yes, you can pick up other players. This opens up creative multiplayer interactions, from rescuing a stuck teammate to launching coordinated building maneuvers. It's a small feature that generates outsized entertainment value on multiplayer servers.

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How to Install Carry On

1. Choose and install your preferred mod loader: Fabric, Forge, or NeoForge. Carry On supports all three, so pick whichever matches your existing modpack setup.
2. If using Fabric, make sure you also have the Fabric API installed, as most Fabric mods depend on it for core functionality.
3. Download the correct Carry On file for your Minecraft version and mod loader from the official Modrinth page or CurseForge.
4. Place the downloaded .jar file into your .minecraft/mods folder. If the folder doesn't exist, launch Minecraft once with your mod loader profile to generate it.
5. Launch Minecraft with your mod loader profile. Once in-game, crouch and right-click any tile entity with empty hands to verify the mod is working correctly.

Requirements & Compatibility

What's New

• Fixed several bugs related to the player carrying mechanic, improving stability when picking up and placing down other players.
• Overhauled the internal storage system to be more compatible with other mods. Existing worlds with older Carry On versions should remain fully compatible.
• Added new scripting capabilities that allow modpack creators to override certain pickup checks, giving more granular control over what can be carried.

Pros and Cons

Alternatives to Carry On

• Carpet Mod — A server-side utility mod that offers deep game mechanic tweaks including block placement and entity manipulation tools, though with a more technical focus than Carry On's pick-up-and-go simplicity.
• Easy Villagers — Lets you pick up villagers and store them in blocks, solving one of the most frustrating parts of villager management with a more specialized approach.
• Quark — A large vanilla-plus mod that includes chest-related quality-of-life features like inventory sorting and transfer, complementing Carry On's physical carrying mechanic.

Download Carry On

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Carry On work with modded machines and tile entities?

Yes — Carry On automatically works with any single-block tile entity from any mod, including machines from tech mods like Mekanism, Thermal Expansion, and Applied Energistics. All stored data, inventories, and configurations are preserved when you pick up and place the block. No compatibility patches or additional setup is needed.

Can I carry hostile mobs with Carry On?

No, not by default in survival mode. Hostile mob carrying is disabled to prevent gameplay exploits, but server admins and modpack creators can enable it through the configuration file. In creative mode, all restrictions are typically relaxed.

Will Carry On cause item loss if I pick up a chest full of items?

No — all inventory contents, NBT data, and metadata are fully preserved when you pick up and place a tile entity. The mod was specifically designed to retain every piece of data associated with the block. If you ever get stuck and cannot place a carried block, the /carryon clear command safely returns it to your inventory.

Is Carry On available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge?

Yes — Carry On officially supports all three major mod loaders. Each version is maintained in parallel by the developer Tschipp, with coverage spanning from Minecraft 1.12.2 all the way to the latest 1.21.11 release. Simply download the correct file matching your loader and Minecraft version.

Can other players steal my locked chests using Carry On?

No — Carry On respects the vanilla lock functionality on tile entities. If a chest or container has been locked, other players cannot pick it up. This makes the mod safe for multiplayer servers where block protection is important, and server admins can further restrict carrying behavior through the blacklist config.

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