Minecraft just handed Bedrock players a way to carry an absurd amount of loot. The Herschel Backpack Trials add-on drops a wearable backpack into your world, and as you complete in-game challenges it grows from a modest 24 slots into a 288-slot monster. That works out to 442,368 items when every slot is fully stacked, far beyond the 40 slots a standard player inventory gives you.
Quick answer: Download the free Herschel Backpack Trials add-on from the Minecraft Marketplace on Bedrock Edition, equip the backpack, then complete Herschel Trials to unlock 24 more slots each time, up to 16 pages and 288 total slots.
How to get the Herschel Backpack Trials add-on
The add-on is free and lives in the Minecraft Marketplace. There’s no purchase step, so the whole point is just to install it and load it into a world.
How the Herschel Trials upgrade your backpack
You don’t get all that space for free. The backpack starts at 24 slots, and every page of extra storage is locked behind a trial. Each trial asks you to gather specific blocks and items and stash them inside the backpack. Finish one and you unlock another page worth 24 more slots.
The bag tops out at 16 pages. That’s where the 288-slot figure comes from, and with full stacks in every slot it holds 442,368 items. By comparison, a normal inventory caps out far lower, so the backpack becomes the easiest single place to dump everything you collect.
| State | Pages | Slots | Max items (fully stacked) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting backpack | 1 | 24 | — |
| Each trial completed | +1 | +24 | — |
| Fully upgraded | 16 | 288 | 442,368 |
| Normal player inventory | — | 40 | — |
You can clear every trial solo, but they go faster with friends. Playing in multiplayer lets a group knock out trials together, and each player upgrades their own backpack as you go.
Backpack features: Auto Sort, Auto Restock, repair, and smelting
Capacity is only part of the appeal. Once you’ve unlocked certain upgrades, the backpack handles a lot of busywork for you while you keep playing.
- Auto Sort arranges items automatically as you drop them into the backpack.
- Auto Restock refills your hand from the backpack when you run out of a matching block while building.
- Tool repair mends gear as you travel, which makes carrying a Mending tool far less essential.
- On-the-go smelting processes items without setting down a furnace, so you can get ingots while you move.
The backpack can also deposit items for you, turning it into a portable storage and crafting station rolled into one bag.
Bedrock only: Java players miss out
One catch matters before you go hunting for it. The Herschel Backpack Trials add-on runs on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition only. If you play Java Edition, there’s no version of this backpack to download, so this update passes you by entirely.
The real-life Herschel x Minecraft collection
The in-game bag mirrors a physical Herschel Supply line built around Minecraft. The collection runs more than 30 products, including backpacks, hip packs, crossbody slings, beanies, caps, pencil cases, and lunchboxes. Six custom prints pull from the game, with adult designs themed around the Overworld, the Nether, and the End, while the junior range leans on mobs like the Creeper, the Enderman, and Pink Sheep.
The standout is the ultra-limited Herschel Little America Cube Backpack, which copies a block straight off the screen in finishes like Black Block, Orange Block, and Grass Block. The physical range is sold through Herschel and select retailers, and the bag that inspired the in-game Trials, the Little America Cube in Orange Block, also featured in a giveaway of three backpacks.
For most players the draw is simpler than any of that. If hoarding spare blocks usually forces you to build sprawling storage rooms, a single 288-slot backpack that sorts, restocks, repairs, and smelts on the move quietly solves one of Minecraft’s oldest headaches, as long as you’re on Bedrock.
