
Slow Start
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Slow Start aims to make the early game slower by tweaking recipes, loot tables, but still trying to keep it feeling vanilla and hopefully fun.
This mod takes ideas and inspiration from different Mods and Datapacks such as...
- Eerily Slow by rexrexrexxhere
- Don't Punch Trees by TNT_Blox_0
- Martini´s Cooking and Smelting by Der_Martini
- Overly Realistic by Wilozyx
Go check them out!
If you got issues/bugs to report or features suggestions you can join the Discord server.
Features:
Advancements:
SpoilerThe mod currently adds 19 new advancements to help guide the players on what to do.

Smelting changes:
SpoilerSlow Start does a lot of change on smelting most notable is that campfire can be used to smelt pretty much anything that a normal furnace can,
But another change is how long it takes to smelt some items.
Items are separated in three categories Food, Stones and Ores.
Each of these categories have different smelting/cooking time for each furnace types and campfire.

Tweaked and new crafting recipes:
SpoilerSlow start remove the ability to get wood with your bare hands, so the process of getting your first tools is a bit different.
You'll need to get stick from leaves, bamboo, dead bushes or sapplings.

And use those sticks to make planks.

Stone tools recipes are also changed being only hable to be crafted using stone, deepslate or blackstone, making players rely on wood tools for a bit longer.

Furnaces have a different recipe too.

Iron amors recipes now results in chainmail armors instead.

Now to craft iron armor you need to suround an existing piece of chainmail armor with 4 iron ingots.

Beds will require leather to craft.

- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.11, 26.1, 26.1.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as slow_start_v1_5_0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 182 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.