Fast Paths Together

Walking or riding over dirt path and polished block types gives a movement speed boost. Vehicles receive the same bonus, and the speed effect is additive with speed potions. The effect can be hidden for polished blocks and slabs placed underground, and players can still build their own path designs and receive the bonus on them.

The auto-path generator converts grass blocks into dirt path after a few steps, and a path that is not walked on for a while can revert to grass. Heavy use of the generator can be limited, and rain can turn paths into mud. The mod can be disabled on large servers, and its features are kept in a datapack, so most behavior is changed through data rather than code. Installation is server side, with the mod running on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt and requiring entity marker and scoreboard support. Clients need nothing beyond the mod itself, which is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 license, so the code is not open source.