# Slowdown **Stop speedrunning. Start playing.** Slowdown turns Minecraft into a journey through the ages. You start with **wooden tools only**, and every new tier of gear (and every dimension) unlocks once you've **completed real early-game goals**. No rushing iron in 10 minutes or a Nether portal in 20. Build, farm, explore, and *earn* your progress. ## The Ages Click an age to see the goals that unlock it. **🌱 Exploration**: you start here with wooden tools only.

🪨 Stone Age: unlocks stone tools

- **Minecraft**: get a crafting table - **Stone Age**: mine stone with a wooden pickaxe - **A Seedy Place**: plant a seed - **Sweet Dreams**: sleep in a bed

🟠 Copper Age: unlocks copper tools & armor

- **Getting an Upgrade**: craft a stone pickaxe - **Monster Hunter**: kill a hostile mob - **Fishy Business**: catch a fish - **The Parrots and the Bats**: breed two animals - **Shiny Find**: get raw copper

⚙️ Iron Age: unlocks iron tools & armor

- **Copper Clad**: wear a piece of copper armor - **Acquire Hardware**: smelt an iron ingot - **Best Friends Forever**: tame an animal - **Wax On**: wax a copper block with honeycomb

💎 Diamond Age: unlocks diamond tools & armor

- **Isn't It Iron Pick**: craft an iron pickaxe - **Suit Up**: wear a piece of iron armor - **Hot Stuff**: fill a bucket with lava - **Diamonds!**: mine a diamond - **Armored Companion**: put Wolf Armor on your tamed wolf - **Uh Oh**: let a Sulfur Cube absorb TNT - **Tactical Fishing**: catch a fish with a bucket - **The Cutest Predator**: catch an axolotl in a bucket

🔥 The Nether: unlocks Nether portals

- **Cover Me with Diamonds**: wear a piece of diamond armor - **Ice Bucket Challenge**: get obsidian - **Enchanter**: enchant an item - **Under Lock and Key**: open a vault with a Trial Key

🌌 The End: unlocks the End portal

- **A Terrible Fortress**: find a Nether Fortress - **Those Were the Days**: find a Bastion Remnant - **Into Fire**: get a blaze rod - **Local Brewery**: brew a potion - **What a Deal!**: trade with a villager - **Sneak 100**: sneak near a Sculk Sensor or Warden - **A Throwaway Joke**: throw a trident at something - **Hero of the Village**: win a raid - **Crafting a New Look**: trim a piece of armor - **Bring Home the Beacon**: build a beacon

## Features - **Gear tiers are locked**: you can't craft stone, copper, iron or diamond tools & armor until you reach that age. Ores can still be mined and smelted. - **Portals turn you away** until you've unlocked their dimension. No early Nether/End trips and no advancements for getting in. - **`/trigger slowdown`** shows your current age and a ✔/✘ checklist of what's left. - **Own advancement tab** with a title, sound and chat message for every new age. - **Configurable**: turn off the gear locks, or enable shared progress (when one player reaches an age, everyone does). - Creative & spectator players are never blocked. ## Setup Drop the zip into your world's `datapacks` folder and run `/reload`. Server ops can run `/function slowdown:admin/help` for settings and admin commands. ## Notes - Gold gear, shields, buckets and shears are never locked. - Crafter is also locked, it is unlocked in diamond phase.

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Minecraft: Java Edition

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