CollectionMaster

CollectionMaster

CollectionMaster adds collectible item collections to Minecraft. Discover a collection by finding its target item, contribute items to complete progressively larger milestones, and claim item rewards as you advance.

✅ Features

• Ready-to-play collections for common vanilla items. (Work in progress, more collections will be added)
• Twenty-three default milestones, from 10 items up to 500,000, with configurable shared fallback rewards.
• The included collections have their own themed reward tables. Custom collections can inherit the global milestones and rewards or define their own.
• Progress and pending rewards are stored per player in the world save and validated by the server.

📖 Opening the catalog

Open the catalog with K by default. The key can be changed in Minecraft’s Controls settings. You can also use either command:

• /collectionmaster
• /cmaster

In multiplayer, install the mod on both the server and each connecting client.

The catalog groups discovered collections by category. It shows each collection’s target item, current progress, milestone requirements, and rewards. Undiscovered collections are not listed individually; the catalog can show an aggregate count of how many remain. Use the mouse wheel over the milestone area to browse milestones.

Choose 1, Stack, or All to deliver items from your inventory. A delivery is limited to the amount needed by the remaining milestones. Completed milestone rewards appear on their cards and can be claimed there. If the inventory cannot fit a reward, it remains pending.

⚙️ Collection definitions

Collection definitions are JSON files in:

config/collectionmaster/collections/

The directory is scanned recursively, so you can organize definitions in subfolders. On first launch, the mod installs ten example collection files. Existing files are preserved.

A minimal custom collection can omit both milestone fields and inherit the global milestone amounts and rewards:

{
  "id": "collectionmaster:amethyst",
  "name": "Amethyst",
  "category": "Ores",
  "target_item_ids": ["minecraft:amethyst_shard"],
  "enabled": true
}

Every definition requires a unique collection id, a name, a category, and exactly one target item in target_item_ids. Item IDs use Minecraft’s namespace:path format. The enabled field is optional and defaults to true.

Using the global defaults

The global options file is config/collectionmaster.json. It contains:

• default_milestone_amounts: 23 positive, strictly increasing item requirements. The built-in sequence is 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000, 10000, 20000, 30000, 40000, 50000, 60000, 70000, 80000, 90000, 100000, 200000, 300000, 400000, 500000.
• default_milestone_rewards: 23 reward groups, one for each default milestone. Each reward has an item_id and a positive count. A group may contain more than one reward.
• show_locked_collections: controls whether the catalog displays the aggregate count of undiscovered collections; defaults to true.

The global reward table is shared by collections that do not provide their own reward definition. Edit the options file to change the defaults for newly defined collections that inherit them.

Overriding rewards for a collection

Use milestone_rewards when a collection should keep the global milestone amounts but use a different reward table. It replaces the entire global reward table and must contain exactly 23 reward groups, in milestone order:

"milestone_rewards": [
  [{"item_id": "minecraft:amethyst_block", "count": 2}],
  [{"item_id": "minecraft:experience_bottle", "count": 4}]
]

The snippet shows the shape only: a complete collection definition must provide all 23 groups. Each group is a list so a milestone can grant multiple item types.

Defining custom milestones

Use milestones to define a collection’s milestone numbers, requirements, and rewards directly:

"milestones": [
  {
    "number": 1,
    "required_amount": 32,
    "rewards": [{"item_id": "minecraft:amethyst_block", "count": 2}]
  },
  {
    "number": 2,
    "required_amount": 128,
    "rewards": [
      {"item_id": "minecraft:amethyst_block", "count": 4},
      {"item_id": "minecraft:experience_bottle", "count": 8}
    ]
  }
]

Milestone numbers must start at 1 and be consecutive; requirements must be positive and increase from one milestone to the next. Each milestone needs at least one reward. Use either milestones or milestone_rewards in a collection file, not both.