
Hot Potato
This mod adds a simple hot potato gamemode for you to play around with.
Installation
Make sure fabric is installed on your minecraft instance and simply add the .jar file to your mods folder.
Usage
Once installed, hop on the game and write the command "/hot-potato start" in chat to begin the game. It will pick someone at random and they become the bearer of the "hot potato." Per default, it will set a timer of 30 seconds, to amend this just write the wished time as arguments on the "/hot-potato start" command. The arguments are as follows: "/hot-potato start <minutes> <seconds> <player>". The player argument can be used if you want to force a specific player to become the hot potato.
If you want to stop the game before it ends, run the "/hot-potato stop" command. Providing "true" as an argument to the stop command pardons all doomed players.
If you leave as the bearer of the hot potato and the timer runs out, you will become doomed, this will initiate a countdown whenever you join and when that countdown runs out, you will die immediately.
Once the hot-potato right-clicks another player, the hot potato gets transfered. Hot potato transfers may be blocked by a shield but at a great cooldown.
Credits
Thorminate - Coder
MegaNibby - Artist
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- 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 Hot-Potato-1.21.11-1.3.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 51 KB
- Download link checked 5 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.