Allow anonymous analytics?

Our cookieless analytics show us which features get used and store nothing on your device. We never sell your data or use it for advertising.

Privacy choices

Choose what ModDex may collect. You can change this anytime from Privacy choices in the footer.

Read the full privacy policy

Strictly necessary Required for the site to work: login sessions, security tokens, and abuse prevention. Always on and cannot be disabled. Always on
Analytics Cookieless analytics through PostHog's EU servers, used only to see which features get used. Nothing is stored on your device, and the anonymous visitor ID resets every day. Needs your consent because usage data goes to a third party. Never used for advertising or profiling. Off by default in the EU and UK.

Time Checker

Quick rating

Community listing page, reviews may not be monitored by the author.

How listings work Are you the author?

Time Checker

By MutigerAffe

No reviews yet

Displays the current playtime of your world.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
Shockbyte server hosting: 35% off your first server with code MODDEX35 (opens in a new tab)

About

Description

Time Checker

How long has this world been running?

Time Checker puts the age of your world above the hotbar. The clock starts when the world is created and counts every tick since then. I wanted it for GregTech: New Horizons, where a single world easily runs for hundreds of hours and I kept wondering how many of them went into the current tier.

It only runs on the client and needs no other mods. It also doesn't use a coremod or mixins, which matters if your modpack already has a few hundred mods fighting over the same classes.

What it shows

The display gets longer as the world gets older. It starts at minutes and seconds and adds hours and days once they're needed:

World age COLON (default) UNIT_SUFFIX
under an hour 22:36 22m 36s
from the first full hour 14:22:36 14h 22m 36s
from the first full day 02-14:22:36 02d 14h 22m 36s

Once days show up, hours stay visible even when they're zero. 01-00:05:30 is one day, zero hours, five minutes and thirty seconds.

Under the hood this is the world's total tick count, with 20 ticks to a second. In singleplayer it stops while the game is paused. On a server it shows the server world's age and keeps counting as long as the server runs, whether you're online or not.

Features

Press F6 to hide or show the HUD. You can rebind the key under Options → Controls → Time Checker, and the mod remembers your choice after a restart.

You can change how the text looks: any color as a hex value (FFFFFF, #55FF55, or 80FFFFFF for half-transparent white), normal, bold or italic, with or without a shadow, and at any size from 0.25× to 4×.

You can also move it. Anchor it above the hotbar, to a corner, or to the top center, then shift it a few pixels with the X/Y offset. In GTNH that's usually necessary, because NEI and the various overlays already sit on most screen edges.

The HUD hides itself while the F3 debug screen is open. If you'd rather keep it, you can turn that off.

Every option can be changed in game through Mods → Time Checker → Config, or by editing config/Time Checker.cfg.

Configuration

Option Default What it does
hudEnabled true Show the HUD
hideWithDebugScreen true Hide the HUD while F3 is open
textColor FFFFFF Text color as hex (RRGGBB or AARRGGBB)
fontStyle NORMAL NORMAL, BOLD or ITALIC
timeFormat COLON COLON (02-14:22:36) or UNIT_SUFFIX (02d 14h 22m 36s)
drawShadow true Draw a shadow behind the text
textScale 1.0 Text size, 0.25 – 4.0
anchor ABOVE_HOTBAR ABOVE_HOTBAR, TOP_LEFT, TOP_CENTER, TOP_RIGHT, BOTTOM_LEFT, BOTTOM_RIGHT
offsetX / offsetY 0 Shift from the anchor in GUI pixels

If you mistype the color, the game won't crash. The text turns white and the log tells you what went wrong.

Modpacks

I built it for GTNH, but it works just as well with plain Forge 1.7.10. It doesn't use a coremod, ASM, access transformers or mixins. It draws the HUD and reads the key through the regular Forge event bus and nothing else. The config is a normal Forge config file, so pack makers can ship it with their other configs.

Installation

  1. Install Minecraft Forge 10.13.4.1614 for Minecraft 1.7.10. That's the version GTNH uses.
  2. Put the jar in your mods/ folder.

You only need it on your own client. The server doesn't need it, and you can still join servers that don't have it. If it ends up on a dedicated server by accident, it loads and does nothing.