Lazy Placing

A Minecraft Fabric & Forge mod which changes one of the main mechanics in game - block placement timing.

In vanilla Minecraft, any block will be placed instantly, but now you'll have to wait a bit before a block will be placed.

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Info

By default, the time needed to place a block will be 0.6 seconds (see "configuration" section).

The mod

works in singleplayer, LAN and dedicated server
should be compatible with most of the other mods, it should work with all block-items, which do not have custom block placement mechanics
affects only survival gamemode

Dependencies

This mod requires:

Fabric

Minecraft Java Edition >=1.20.1 <=1.20.4
Fabric Loader ^0.16.9
Fabric API ^0.92.2

(Version resolution from Fabric Documentation)

Forge

Minecraft Java Edition >=1.20.1 <=1.20.4
Forge >47

Uninstallation

To uninstall the mod, remove it from the mods folder.

Configuration

When the game starts for the first time, the mod will generate a configuration file in config/lazyplacing.json (in root folder of Minecraft, not mods folder).

The file will have the following content:

{
  "stablePlacingDuration": 12,
  "maxRandomAdditionDuration": 0
}

You can create this file by hand if you want to change the default without starting the game.

If the configuration file was deleted, mod will generate a new one with default values.

Properties:

stablePlacingDuration - default value is 12 ticks (0.6 seconds). The minimum time needed to place a block
maxRandomAdditionDuration - default value is 0 ticks (0 seconds). The maximum clamp for random time, which may to the stablePlacingDuration