Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows Keep a Changelog. One mod version covers every Minecraft version it is built for: 1.2.0 is released as one set of jars, and each jar reports MCVERSION-MODVERSION (1.20.1-1.2.0) because that is what Forge's update checker compares.

This file feeds three places at once — the GitHub release notes, the CurseForge file changelog, and the per-version strings in update.json. Write it once here.

[1.2.0] - 2026-09-01

A way to tell me when something is wrong, from the screen where you noticed it.

Added

• A Report a bug or an idea button at the bottom of the playtime screen, on every Minecraft version. It opens the issue tracker through the same confirmation Minecraft shows for a link in chat: the address is printed before anything opens, and the "Copy to clipboard" button is there for the machines where no browser will start.
• The button is translated in all 27 languages the mod ships.

Notes

• Clicking through to the browser takes the focus away from the game, so the session turns AFK with the usual rollback. That is deliberate: you have left.

[1.1.0] — 2026-08-31

Minecraft 1.7.10, 1.16.5, 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and two fixes to activity detection that also reach 1.12.2.

Added

• Minecraft 1.7.10 on Forge, 1.16.5 and 1.20.1 on Forge and Fabric, and 1.21.1 on NeoForge and Fabric. Every jar is self-contained: no library to install alongside it, on any loader.
• Your history moves with you. The data file has the same format on every version and every loader, so switching either one keeps your recorded time.

Changed

• Activity is now also read by polling the input devices on every client tick, alongside the existing events. A state cannot be cancelled by another mod, so a player using a controller mod or an inventory-tweak mod is no longer recorded as AFK while actively playing.
• A focus loss is held for 1.5 seconds before it counts. Other applications steal focus for a fraction of a second and hand it straight back — launchers, chat overlays, notification popups — and each steal used to split the session and charge AFK time to a player sitting at their keyboard. The pause menu is exempt and still takes effect at once.

Fixed

• The state no longer flickers between playing and AFK while the singleplayer pause menu is open. Accounting was never affected; only the reported state was unstable.

Notes for the versions other than 1.12.2

• Settings live in config/actuallyplayed/actuallyplayed.properties, edited with the game closed. There is no settings screen: providing one on Fabric would mean requiring two more mods to change five values.
• /played and the key binding are 1.12.2 only. The statistics screen is reachable from Esc → Statistics everywhere.

[1.12.2-1.0.0] — never published

Written and tested, but 1.1.0 landed before it was uploaded anywhere. Kept here because it is what the mod does, and 1.1.0 above only says what changed since.

First release.

Added

• Measures time spent on each multiplayer server and each singleplayer world, separating time actually played from time spent AFK.
• Retroactive rollback: when inactivity reaches the threshold, the idle minutes already counted are taken back out of the played total rather than left there.
• Immediate AFK on alt-tab and on the singleplayer pause menu, without waiting for the threshold.
• Activity is read from movement intent rather than position, so being carried by a water current, a minecart or a mount does not count as playing.
• A statistics screen reachable from Esc → Statistics, showing the current destination only: the running session, the totals here, and the details.
• /played (alias /ap) prints the same figures to chat, and /played reset clears the current destination after confirmation.
• A key binding to open the screen, registered unbound.
• Five settings, editable in game and applied without a restart: AFK threshold, shortest session kept, autosave interval, detailed-history retention, and a diagnostic log.
• Translated into 27 languages, settings screen included: English, French, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (simplified and traditional).
• Crash resistance: the running session is pre-recorded on every autosave, so a crash costs at most the autosave interval rather than the whole session.
• Data is stored as readable, hand-editable JSON, written atomically. A damaged file is set aside rather than deleted, and a file from a newer version of the mod is never overwritten.