Slow Start

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1.21.8

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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:

 

The mod currently adds 16 new advancements to help guide the players on what to do.

The 13 advancements added by Slow Start.

Smelting changes:

 

Slow 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 multiple categories.

Each of these categories have different smelting/cooking time for each furnace types and campfire.


Tweaked and new crafting recipes:

 

Slow 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.

crafting recipe showing a sappling being turned into sticks.

And use those sticks to make planks.

crafting recipe showing sticks being turned into 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.

crafting recipe showing which blocks can be used to craft a stone pickaxe

Furnaces have a different recipe too.

crafting recipe showing new furnace recipe.

Iron amors recipes now results in chainmail armors instead.

crafting recipe showing new chainmail armor recipe.

Now to craft iron armor you need to suround an existing piece of chainmail armor with 8 iron ingots.

crafting recipe showing new iron armor recipe.

Bed require leather to craft.

Bed crafting recipe

Minecraft mod files
slow_start_v1_3_0.jar Uploaded on: 09/28/2025 - 07:20   File size: 182.19 KB
slow_start_v1_2_0.jar Uploaded on: 09/24/2025 - 16:32   File size: 165.75 KB
slow_start_v1_1_1.jar Uploaded on: 09/23/2025 - 15:00   File size: 159.41 KB
Changelog

Version 1.3.0

 

New Features:


Advancements:
Added one new advancement "I Can Wait".

Crafting:
Added a bunch of smelting recipe to the campfire. Such as...

All Glazed Terracotta recipes
Smooth Quartz, Smooth Sandstone, ect...
Cracked bricks recipes.
And a few more...

 

Version 1.2.0

 

New Features:
 

Crafting recipes:
Beds now require leather to craft.

Advancements:
Added two new advancements "Some Comfort" and "Comfy at last".
 

Tweaks:
Completly changed smelt/cooked time for most items and blocks.
Ores have been separated in four categories, based on how hard to get they are, rarer ores take longer to smelt while the common ones have shorter smelt times.