Keep Going

Stand still and it starts hurting.

You get three seconds. After that, damage every second, and it gets worse the longer you stay put. Move and everything resets.

For Minecraft 26.2 (Fabric).

Installing

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.2.
2. Put keepgoing-1.0.0.jar and Fabric API in your mods folder:
   • Windows: %appdata%\.minecraft\mods
   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/mods
   • Linux: ~/.minecraft/mods

Only the server needs it. Vanilla clients can connect and play normally.

Works on an existing world.

How it works

Only horizontal movement counts. Falling down a hole is not a rest, and neither is standing in a boat that is not going anywhere — but riding one that is moving counts, which feels right.

The first hit is half a heart. Each one after that, while you stay put, lands harder, up to three hearts a second. The moment you move, the counter goes back to zero and you are forgiven entirely.

You get a warning on the action bar the instant the grace period runs out, so you always know why it started.

Playing it

• Crafting is now a hazard. So is reading a chest, sorting your inventory, or typing in chat. Learn to walk in circles while you think.
• Mining works fine — you shuffle constantly without noticing.
• Movement is measured against where you actually were last tick. Reading the position the entity itself remembers looks like it should work and does not: your movement arrives in a packet and is applied before the entity ticks, and ticking is what updates that record. By the end of the tick the two are always identical, so every player looks permanently motionless and the damage never stops.
• Fighting works fine. Standing and trading hits does not.
• Sleeping is the interesting one. You are not moving. Bring a plan.
• It stacks horrifically with Speedy Minecraft, which drains your hunger faster while you are forced to keep burning it.

Commands

Settings

A file appears at config/keepgoing.json the first time you run the mod.

graceSeconds: 1 with damageRamp: 1.5 is the unplayable version, if that is the video.