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GTNH allows the player to equip additional gear beyond the four basic vanilla armor slots (helmet, chestplate, leggings, and boots). This page helps new players identify and craft suggested gear at all points of progression.

In the early game, it's recommended to equip whatever mob drops give you. These pieces of armor generally have low durability, but come pre-enchanted which the player cannot do themselves until they have progressed into Thaumcraft. Electric armor is available as early as LV and loses charge instead of durability.

Beyond traditional armor, the helmet can be equipped with Thaumcraft's Goggles of Revealing which can be further upgraded:

Making the Electric Goggles of Revealing before having access to the NanoSuit Helmet may be desirable, since one will have unbreakable armor (at the cost of energy) before having a cleanroom set up.

The infinity helmet also combines from the Draconic Helm (Draconic Evolution), the Life Imbued Helmet (Blood Arsenal), the Sanguine Helmet (Blood Magic), the SpaceSuit Sensor Glasses (GalaxySpace), and the Cowl of the Abyssal Depths (Thaumic Tinkerer).

The Space Suit is gated by an implosion compressor (i.e. HV), and can be combined with the Sensor Glasses in EV assembler to make the SpaceSuit Sensor Glasses which provide x-ray capabilities.

The Life Imbued Helmet is easily accessible after having the third tier of blood altar, being upgraded from the Thaumium Helmet. It has high 100k durability, and 4 protection, and is part of the Living Armor set.

The Sanguine Helmet is obtained through a binding ritual over the Goggles of Revealing. While being an ingredient in the Infinity Helmet, it's also used for crafting the Wyvern Helm (10% vis discount, 5 warping), which is again used to craft the Draconic Helm (15% vis discount, no warp).

The last armor of the infinity armor is the Cowl of the Abyssal Depths, which by itself gives 10% vis discount, 3 protection and 3 warp. It is crafted by combining the Thaumium Helm and the Goggles of Revelaing with an assortment of ingredients. While "only" gated by MV, it does requires a fair bit of Thaumcraft research progress.

Dark Steel, available in MV, provides first access to EnderIO armor, which can take special upgrades. This armor still uses durability, but can be quite powerful nonetheless.

Absorption is similar to the unbreakable enchantment, transforming durability damage into energy loss instead.

Once the player has access to end steel and an TPV-tiered EBF in EV, one can make the End Steel Helm instead. The final tier, Stellar Helm, is unlocked with Naquadah coils in LuV.^{[verification needed]}

Holo Glasses can be equipped in the head slot, but is better placed in the mask slot! These allow the player to see into inventories without opening them. Enabling the inventory search filter in NEI applies to these glasses too, providing an alternative to t-search.

Other than the Infinity Breastplate route, there is also the Electro-Magic Tools wing route:

All Draconic Evolution armor can be interacted with in the Tool & Armor Config GUI (unbound in the default GTNH installation) to enable or disable hazmat capabilities and additional effects. The inventory button in the UI can be used to remove enchantments, turning them into books. Each armor slot has different additional effects:

• The Draconic Helmet can toggle night vision, magic sense (the effect of Goggles of Revealing), and naturalist's vision (the effect of Spectacles).
• The Draconic Chestplate can modify horizontal speed by up to +600%, and vertical speed by up to +800%. Can also disable the ability to land or cancelling the extra movement that occurs during creative flight after letting go of a movement key.
• Draconic Evolution leggings can modify their speed boost.
• Draconic Evolution boots can modify their jump boost. Draconic Boots can additionally toggle Step Assist.

All Draconic Evolution armor also come with an innate shield capacity, which acts as additional health. The shield uses charge to recover at the rate of 1/3rd the shield capacity per second, but damage increases EN, or Entropy. Entropy directly decreases the speed that the shield can recover over time, but decreases over time at a base rate of 1 entropy per second. Draconic Evolution items can also be upgraded using cores with an Upgrade Modifier:

• 1 point can be used to upgrade the maximum charge by 500k. Draconic armor increases by 5m per point instead.
• 1 point can be used to increase shield capacity by 20.
• 1 point can be used to increase entropy recovery rate by 0.2/s.
• A Draconic Core can be used to spend 1 point. A Wyvern Core can be used to spend 2 points. Draconic armor can also use Awakened Cores, and can be used to spend 4 points each. Cores can be removed at any time from an Upgrade Modifier.
• Wyvern armor have a point cap of 24. Draconic armor have a point cap of 37.

Boots of the Traveller and its upgrades (Electric, Nano and Quantum) can be further modified into one of three variants:

• Meteor - Immune to fall damage. Can press jump while holding down shift to launch in the direction the camera is facing (this is not effected by increased jump or speed values). Can also press shift while in the air to slam down, causing 1 damage to entities a tile away. Also gains additional jump height depending on the number of main upgrades done (+0.5 for basic, +2 for Electric, +3 for Nano, +2.5 for Quantum). Protection remains at 1 regardless of upgrades.
• Comet - Innate Frost Walker, and increases speed by +37.5% over the course of moving for 5 seconds. Also has additional base speed depending on the number of main upgrades done (Basic is unchanged, Electric is 165%, Nano is 385%, Quantum is 730%). Protection remains at 1 regardless of upgrades.
• Voidwalker - Decreased damage from all sources. Magic, fire and explosion damage is further reduced. ^{[verification needed]} Also grants +300% speed boost, +0.5 jump boost, Hazmat and SpaceSuit capabilites and +5% vis discount (stacks with main upgrades), but has Warping 5. Also gains additional base speed and jump height depending on the number of main upgrades done (unchanged (300%) speed and 4.5 blocks for Electric, 550% speed and 7.5 blocks for Nano, 1250% speed and 11 blocks for Quantum). Wearing the Voidwalker's Sash of Runic Shielding further increases speed and jump boosts by +400% to the speed multiplier and +1.5 blocks, respectively (eg, Quantum Boots of the Voidwalker have 1650% speed boost).

The basic Boots of the Traveller can also be upgraded into having two of these three variants at the same time, but this prevents the boots from being able to be upgraded into Electric and beyond.

All upgrades from Boots of the Traveller also have keys (unbound in the default GTNH installation) that can modify the effects of the armor:

• Modulate Jump Boost - Changes the percentage of the boots' jump boost that is applied to movement. This is set to 0% after being crafted.
• Modulate Speed Boost - Changes the percentage of the boots' speed boost that is applied to movement. This is set to 0% after being crafted.
• Modulation Increment Counter - When held, decreases the percentage amount of change for Modulate Jump Boost and Modulate Speed Boost from 25% to 10% per button press.
• Toggle Canceling Flight Inertia - When on, cancels the extra movement that occurs during creative flight after letting go of a movement key. Disabled after being crafted.
• Toggle Omnidirectional Movement - When off, the speed boost from the boots only apply when the forward movement key is pressed. Disabled after being crafted.
• Toggle Step Assist - When on, can walk over single blocks without needing to jump. Default state after being crafted depends on the boot.

There are three types of backpacks, from three mods:

• Backpack (Forestry)
• Adventure Backpacks
• Backpack (Edited for ModdedNetwork)

Forestry backpacks are the first backpacks the player will have access to. While they only accept specific types of items, they do allow both automatic pickup and refill from the player's inventory. Forestry backpacks have 15 slots and can be upgraded to 45 slots after the player has obtained access to Silky Combs from Bees. These backpacks are not equippable.

With access to aluminum (generally in MV, although can be obtained in LV by getting a single Aluminum Ingot from Kobolds in the Twilight Forest) the Adventure Backpack can be crafted. This equippable backpack can be upgraded to give passive bonuses to the player and doubles as a portable bed.

The basic Backpack Editted for ModdedNetwork requires access to steel and has 36 inventory slots. This backpack can be equipped and later accessed via keybind and can automatically pickup specified items in its filter. The basic Backpack can be upgraded twice, requiring stainless steel for 63 slots (HV) and titanium for 90 slots (post Moon). Can be colored with any of the 16 standard Minecraft dyes Limited to four of these backpacks in the inventory at any point, extras will be dropped.

There is also the Knapsack, with a dedicated slot in the Tinker's Construct inventory tab (diamond chestplate) that is deliberately uncraftable and cannot be obtained.

Tinker's Construct offers the Traveller's Belt which is craftable after the player gets a single HV circuit. This adds a whole extra hotbar row (excluding the offhand) through a keybind. Effects from items (i.e. backpacks, magnets, supertank debuffs...) are not active when items are on the inactive hotbar. If the player enchants this item with Soulbound, the entire row can be immediately accessed after returning from death.

For food rotation, the player can first store food in the Lunch Bag (3 slots), and soon after in the Lunch Box (6 slots). The player normally needs to rotate 5 foods. Both of these have an open and a closed state. When open, food will be consumed when holding right click; when closed, the player can access their inventories. To toggle the state, hold Shift when attempting to open it.

Similar to the lunch box, we also have the Tool Box, which offers 9 slots for tools. One can use this to fix maintenance hatches with all tools within it simultaneously. While not exactly inventories, one can also make the Pocket Multitool and the Universal Spade to save some inventory space.

After HV, the player can make the Compressed Chest and the Draconic Chest; both of which retain items when broken.

Charge Packs can be used to recharge items in inventory automatically. Higher tiers can charge lower tiers, but not the other way around^{[verification needed]}. These are placed in the Belt slot, under the baubles inventory. Charges EU-charged equipped armor and items on hotbar. Does not charge Dark Steel armor^{[why not?]}.

While the charge packs can output any tier, they must be charged by the corresponding energy tier they belong to. It's advised to use Wireless Chargers MK for this, placed in the player's base. Keep in mind that in order to craft a specific tier of wireless charger, players will generally need to be two tiers higher in progression due to the recipe required to make Field Generators.