Swap

Every few minutes, everybody changes places.

Your inventory comes with you. Your health comes with you. What you lose is the situation you were standing in, and what you gain is whatever somebody else had got themselves into.

Beat the game anyway.

For Minecraft 26.2 (Fabric).

Installing

1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.2.
2. Put swap-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.

Needs at least two players. Works on an existing world.

How it works

Somewhere between 90 seconds and 5 minutes — the wait is random, so you can never quite plan around it — everyone is rotated onto somebody else's spot. You get five seconds of warning first.

The rotation is a single cycle rather than a plain shuffle, which guarantees nobody is left standing where they started. A naive shuffle would occasionally swap nobody at all, which is a very anticlimactic thing to have happen on camera.

Swapping works across dimensions. If somebody is in the nether, somebody is about to be.

Playing it

• You are responsible for everyone's safety, not just your own. The hole you dug, the mob you aggroed and the lava you are standing next to are all about to be someone else's problem.
• Announce what you are standing in. The teams that survive this are the ones that talk.
• Never be mid-jump over anything. Fall distance is reset on arrival by default so you do not inherit someone else's plummet, but you do inherit the drop below you.
• Beds and portals get tense, because both take long enough for the timer to fire.
• warnSeconds: 0 removes the warning entirely. Much funnier, much meaner.

Commands

Settings

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