Scouts

The uniform

The campaign hat with its Montana peak, the khaki shirt with neckerchief and woggle, shorts with a leather belt, and long socks with green garter tabs. Your rank badge sits on the left breast pocket, your proficiency badges on the sleeves, and with six badges you earn the All-Round Cord.

Install

Install on iPad, phone, console or Windows (Bedrock)

1. Download Scouts.mcaddon on your Windows PC, Android phone or tablet, or iPhone or iPad.
2. Open the file. Minecraft starts and imports both packs.
3. Create or edit a world. Under Behavior Packs, turn on Scouts. The resource pack is added automatically.
4. Open your Scout Handbook: you get one when you join. It shows every badge and what your next rank takes.

Running a server? Use the separate behavior pack and resource pack. Xbox, PlayStation and Switch can’t import add-ons from files, but you can join a world or Realm that has the add-on.

Install on Mac or PC (Java Edition)

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3.
2. Download Scouts-fabric.jar, plus Fabric API and GeckoLib.
3. Put all three files in your mods folder and start Minecraft with the Fabric profile.
4. Find the gear in the Scouts creative tab, or craft it.

Upgrading to a new version

1. Download the new version and open the file. A newer version replaces the one you have, and your worlds use it the next time you load them.
2. Still running the old version? (or Minecraft says it is already installed): go to Settings → Storage, delete Scouts under both Resource Packs and Behavior Packs, then open the new file again.
3. Check the world: in the world’s Edit screen, under Behavior Packs and Resource Packs, make sure Scouts is active. A world you imported or downloaded can carry its own old copy: deactivate it there, save, and activate the new one.

On a server, replace the add-on’s folders in behavior_packs and resource_packs with the new ones and restart it.

Delete the old Scouts jar from your mods folder and put the new one in its place. Keep only one version in the folder. If the new version needs a newer Fabric API or GeckoLib, update those too.

Proficiency badges

Fourteen badges, each earned by doing the real thing in your world. The Scout Handbook keeps track of how far you have come.

Knife

Whittle with your scout knife: use it with sticks in your pack to carve tent pegs (sneak for toggles), and use it on a log to shave a feather stick.

• Things whittled: 16
• Kinds (peg, toggle, feather stick): 3

Axeman

Fell trees with the hatchet, and replant saplings for the trees you took.

• Logs cut with the hatchet: 32
• Saplings planted: 8

Firelighter

Build a fire lay (sticks round a feather stick) and light it with the bow drill: use the drill on it eight times in a row. Light fires in three places, and put fires out with a shovel or water.

• Fires lit with a bow drill: 3
• Fires put out: 3

Cook

Fill a billycan with water and hang it over a lit campfire with the ingredients in your pack: sweet berries for tea, meat and a carrot or potato for stew, wheat for porridge, fish and a potato for chowder. Stay by the fire until it is cooked.

• Meals cooked: 8
• Different meals: 4

Pioneer

Build with spars: use rope where two spars cross to lash them together. Then raise the troop flag on a pole of at least five upright spars with a lashing in it.

• Lashings: 8
• Flagpole raised: 1

Pathfinder

Use the scout compass to get a bearing and a distance, then walk it on foot. Hold the compass to see your heading and how far you have paced.

• Compass legs walked: 3

Naturalist

Learn the plants and animals around you: sneak and use the Handbook on a plant, or use it on an animal, to note it down.

• Plants identified: 10
• Animals identified: 6

Swimmer

Swim a long way, and tread water in deep water without touching the bottom.

• Blocks swum: 200
• Seconds treading water: 30

Lifesaver

Throw a rope to someone in the water (use it while looking at them) and pull them out onto dry land.

• Rescues: 3

First Aid

Use the first aid kit on hurt animals and people to patch them up. It also cures poison.

• Different casualties treated: 5
• Poison cured: 1

Signaller

Learn semaphore in the Handbook and pass the quiz with the flags in your pack. Then signal with the flags to a flagpole you raised, from at least 32 blocks away where you can see it.

• Semaphore quizzes passed: 3
• Signal sent to your flagpole: 1

Camper

Pitch a tent at least 64 blocks from your spawn, light a campfire nearby, and spend the night in the tent with a bedroll in your pack.

• Nights in camp: 3

Stalker

Creep up on shy animals: sneak for a while, approach slowly while the animal is still, and touch it with an empty hand.

• Species stalked: 4

Star-man

On a clear night, find the Pole Star (look north, well above the horizon, and hold still), and watch the moon on four nights with different phases.

• Pole Star found: 1
• Moon phases seen: 4

From Recruit to King’s Scout

Ranks are earned in order. Each one changes the badge on your shirt pocket.

Recruit

• Where every Scout starts.

Tenderfoot

• Pass the Promise and Law test (Handbook)
• Knots learned: 4
• Wear the full uniform: hat, shirt, shorts, socks and boots

Second Class Scout

• Days in your present rank: 3
• Proficiency badges: 2
• Hold one of: Firelighter, Cook

First Class Scout

• Proficiency badges: 6
• Hold every one of: Swimmer, Pathfinder, First Aid
• The First Class journey: a night in camp at least 500 blocks from your spawn

King's Scout

• Proficiency badges: 10
• Hold every one of: Pathfinder, Signaller, First Aid, Lifesaver

Scoutcraft

Gear

• Scout Handbook
• Scout Knife
• Hatchet
• Bow Drill
• Rope
• Semaphore Flags
• First Aid Kit
• Scout Compass
• Bedroll
• Scout Stave
• Billycan
• Billycan of Water
• Billy Tea
• Camp Stew
• Porridge
• Fish Chowder
• Feather Stick
• Tent Peg
• Toggle
• Campaign Hat
• Scout Shirt
• Scout Shorts
• Scout Socks and Boots
• Fire Lay
• Spar
• Troop Flag
• Tent