Every 5 Minutes
Every 5 Minutes is a Fabric minigame in which a random challenge fires on a fixed timer, and the mod gives players a GUI to pick, pause and resume it.
What it does
Players choose from a set of challenges that activate at a fixed interval, normally every five minutes but adjustable. Challenges include teleporting entities to players, raising the tick rate, giving players random effects, sending mobs to swarm players, removing maximum health and duplicating mobs. An optional on-screen display shows how long remains before the next event fires, and an option allows several challenges to activate at once.
The game is controlled by typing FiveMinutes to open a GUI, where a challenge can be selected, its frequency changed, and the mode started, stopped, paused or resumed. Pausing is useful when something comes up in the middle of a challenge. The mod runs on Fabric for 1.21 and 1.21.11, and its behavior is defined by the shared client and server environment, so both the server and every player need it. It is released under the MIT License and is open source, with a public source code repository and issue tracker. Commands from older builds, which lacked the GUI, are obsolete.
Key features
Timed random challenges
Each event is a challenge chosen from a list, such as entity teleporting, a faster tick rate or random effects.
Adjustable interval
The time between challenges can be changed, so the mode is not limited to five-minute intervals.
Pause and resume
The mode can be paused and resumed mid-challenge, and started or stopped from the same GUI.
Optional countdown display
A UI element shows how long until the next event activates, which helps players prepare.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players and server owners who want a simple timed minigame with random events, and creators who want to build content on top of the mod.
Questions
Does the server need Every 5 Minutes installed?
How is a challenge chosen?
Which game versions does the mod support?
In the catalog
Every 5 Minutes is one of 2,135 Minigame mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,454 Minigame mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Every 5 Minutes is a gamemode I created, though I'm certainly not the first to come up with the concept. The mode is simple: Every five minutes a special event will happen, and your goal is to try to beat the game (or whatever other goal you have in mind) with these events happening. You can choose between multiple…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/every-5-minutes
- Owner
- VioletUnderscore
- Published
- 2026-01-11
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
