The Block Keeps Ticking [Forge Port]

🧱 TL;DR — Your iron farm keeps running. Your crops keep growing. Your furnaces finish smelting. Without a chunk loader. Without being online.

⚡ At a Glance

• Offline farms — crops, furnaces, hoppers, animals, and more progress while you're away
• No full chunk-loading — catch-up simulation runs only when a chunk is loaded, not in real-time
• Server-friendly — config-tunable, lazy tax, capped transfers; clients do NOT need this installed

What It Does

A Forge port of The Block Keeps Ticking by MagicJinn_ (originally for Fabric).

When you log off and chunks unload, vanilla Minecraft pauses most block processing. This mod simulates that missed time — AFK farms, offline progress, chunk ticking behavior — the moment a chunk reloads. Think of it as offline progress without the server overhead of keeping chunks ticking 24/7.

Real use-cases:

• Iron farm still produces while you're exploring the Nether
• Furnace smelts a full stack overnight — done when you log back in
• ProjectE EMC farm keeps building up while you sleep
• Animals breed and crops mature without you babysitting

Supported Blocks

Vanilla:

• ✅ Hoppers (item transfer with lazy tax)
• ✅ Furnaces, Blast Furnaces, Smokers
• ✅ Crops (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, nether wart, etc.)
• ✅ Dripstone (stalactite drip fill)
• ✅ Composters
• ✅ Animals (breeding, growth, hunger)
• ✅ Farmland moisture

Modded:

• ✅ ProjectE (EMC relay/collector)
• ❌ Leaves disabled by default (configurable, high performance impact)

Performance & Safety

Designed with server admins in mind:

• Lazy tax on hoppers — simulated transfers are slightly slower than real-time to prevent economy exploits
• Capped transfers — max items processed per catch-up tick is configurable
• Leaves disabled by default — re-enable in config if you want it, but it's off for a reason
• Config file: config/theblockkeepsticking-common.toml

⚠️ Server Note: This is a server-side only mod. Clients do not need to install it. Drop it in your server's mods folder and it works.

Version Support

Credits & License

Forge port of the original Fabric mod "The Block Keeps Ticking" by MagicJinn_. All core logic credit goes to the original author. Ported with attribution under the original license.