
Patience
Adds crafting time to your workstations, transforming instant items into a deliberate process.
About this Mod
Adds crafting time to your workstations — clicking the output slot starts a timed process instead of completing the craft instantly. Progress is shown as a visual overlay with sounds and feedback. Fully server-authoritative: the config is synced to all clients on join and reload.
⚙️ Features
Crafting Delay — Base time scales with the number of ingredients and is modified by a stack of multipliers (global, per-container, per-ingredient, per-output, per-recipe). Crafting is blocked while moving. Creative mode bypasses the delay entirely.
Experience Scaling — Crafting speed increases with XP level through a custom patience:crafting_speed attribute. The attribute is exposed to other mods for integration.
Progress Decay — When enabled, moving during a craft causes progress to drain instead of cancelling outright. Leftover progress from an interrupted craft also decays over time. When decay is disabled, any movement immediately cancels the craft and resets progress.
Minigame — An optional skill check that can trigger mid-craft. A random section of the progress overlay is designated as the success zone. When progress reaches that zone, the overlay turns yellow — clicking the output slot during this completes the craft instantly. Missing it applies a time penalty. Clicking the output slot early when no minigame zone is active also applies a penalty. Green indicates success, red indicates failure.
Hunger — Each completed craft adds exhaustion. When hunger drops below a threshold, crafting speed is penalized.
Sounds — Each workstation has a unique looping crafting sound and a completion sound. Sounds can be overridden at three levels: per container, per item, or per tag.
Screen Shake — Optional camera shake during crafting. Disabled by default.
🔨 Supported Containers
Ships with preconfigured support for 17 workstations. All can be disabled, customized, or extended via config.
| Containers | |
|---|---|
| Vanilla | Player inventory (2×2), Crafting table, Smithing table, Anvil, Grindstone, Stonecutter, Cartography table, Loom |
| Modded | Curios, Inventorio, Sawmill, Woodworks, Easel Does It, Galosphere, Clayworks, Cold Sweat, Hexerei |
🛠️ Configuration
Config is stored in patience.json in the game's config directory. A GUI screen is available when Cloth Config is installed (Fabric/Quilt via Mod Menu, NeoForge/Forge via the mods screen). The GUI covers general settings — multiplier maps and container definitions are JSON-only.
General
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
debug |
false |
Log slot clicks, screen names, crafting state changes, and movement checks to the console |
enable_sounds |
true |
Play crafting and completion sounds |
default_crafting_sound |
patience:crafting |
Sound played during crafting |
default_finish_sound |
patience:finish |
Sound played on completion |
default_penalty_sound |
patience:penalty |
Sound played on penalty click |
default_success_sound |
patience:success |
Sound played on minigame success |
global_time_multiplier |
1.0 |
Multiplier applied to all craft times (0.0 - 100.0) |
Experience
Speed formula: (attributeValue × baseSpeed) + (speedPerLevel × min(xpLevel, maxLevelCap))
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
true |
Enable XP-based crafting speed scaling |
multiplier |
1.0 |
Overall crafting speed multiplier (0.0 - 100.0) |
base_speed |
1.0 |
Base speed before XP bonus (0.01 - 100.0) |
speed_per_level |
0.02 |
Bonus speed per XP level (0.0 - 10.0) |
max_level_cap |
200 |
Levels above this are ignored (0 - 30000) |
Decay
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
true |
Moving drains progress instead of cancelling the craft |
rate |
2.0 |
Progress lost per tick while moving or idle (0.0 - 100.0) |
Screen Shake
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
false |
Camera shake during crafting |
intensity |
0.5 |
Shake strength (0.0 - 5.0) |
Hunger
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
true |
Enable hunger exhaustion and speed penalty |
exhaustion_cost |
0.1 |
Exhaustion added per completed craft (0.0 - 40.0) |
penalty.enabled |
true |
Slow crafting at low hunger |
penalty.threshold |
6 |
Hunger level that triggers the penalty (0 - 20) |
penalty.multiplier |
0.5 |
Speed multiplier when below threshold (0.0 - 10.0) |
Minigame
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
true |
Enable the skill-check minigame |
chance |
0.5 |
Probability of triggering per craft (0.0 - 1.0) |
window_width |
0.15 |
Success zone size as a fraction of total progress (0.01 - 0.5) |
penalty_percent |
0.25 |
Progress lost on failure as a fraction of remaining (0.0 - 1.0) |
penalty_cancels_craft |
true |
Cancel the craft when penalty clicks reduce progress to zero |
Multipliers
Multiplier maps allow fine-grained control over craft time. All are Map<String, Float> in the JSON. Tag keys use the # prefix (e.g., "#minecraft:planks": 1.5).
by_mod— scale time by mod namespace (e.g.,"minecraft": 1.0)by_item— scale time by item ID (e.g.,"minecraft:stick": 0.5)by_tag— scale time by item tag (e.g.,"#minecraft:planks": 1.5)by_type— scale time by recipe type (e.g.,"minecraft:crafting": 2.0)by_recipe— scale time by specific recipe ID
These are grouped under ingredient_multipliers, output_multipliers, and recipe_multipliers objects in the JSON. Ingredient and output multipliers support by_mod, by_item, by_tag. Recipe multipliers support by_type, by_recipe.
Item Sounds
item_sounds is a Map<String, String> that overrides the crafting sound per item or tag (e.g., "minecraft:stick": "patience:crafting", "#minecraft:planks": "patience:sawmill").
Containers
The containers array holds per-workstation configuration. Each entry supports:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
enabled |
boolean | Toggle crafting time for this container |
screen_class |
string | Full Java class path of the container screen (e.g., net.minecraft.client.gui.screens.inventory.CraftingScreen) |
recipe_type |
string | Recipe type ID used for recipe multiplier lookup (e.g., minecraft:crafting). If omitted, inferred from the menu type |
time_multiplier |
float | Container-specific time multiplier |
output_slot |
int | Slot index the player clicks to start crafting (where the output preview appears) |
result_slot |
int | Slot index where the finished item is placed after completion (-1 = first available inventory slot) |
ingredient_slots |
string | Slot range defining which slots are scanned for ingredients — e.g., "1-9", "0,2,4", "0-2,4,6-8" |
ingredient_mode |
string | How ingredients contribute to craft time: "slot" counts each occupied slot once, "stack" multiplies by stack size, "custom" uses hardcoded mod-specific compatibility logic |
show_overlay |
boolean | Render the progress bar |
overlay_texture |
string | Texture path for the overlay |
overlay_direction |
string | Fill direction: "right", "left", "up", "down" |
overlay_x / overlay_y |
int | Overlay position offset |
overlay_width / overlay_height |
int | Overlay dimensions |
crafting_sound |
string | Override crafting sound for this container |
finish_sound |
string | Override completion sound for this container |
💬 Commands
| Command | Permission | Description |
|---|---|---|
/patience reload |
Op (level 2) | Reload config from disk and sync to all connected players |
Available Versions
How to Install Patience on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.1).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Patience". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.1, 1.20.1
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Patience server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.1). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Patience compatible with fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Patience officially supports fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.20.1. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Patience – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Patience consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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