Campfire Resting | Time-Skip Campfire Mod

Campfire Resting is a small Minecraft mod that turns the vanilla campfire into a fast-forward button for the day/night cycle. Skip the bed, skip the time command, and skip the wait. You walk up to a lit campfire, right-click it, and pick the hour you want from a simple GUI. The idea borrows the rest-at-a-campfire feel from The Legend of Zelda (and the sites of grace from Elden Ring) and drops it into survival Minecraft, and it works on both regular and soul campfires.

What Campfire Resting Adds

The mod adds no new blocks. It layers behaviour onto the campfires already in your world, so there is nothing to craft and no recipe to learn. The feature list is short and focused:

• Right-click a lit campfire, regular or soul variant, to open the time GUI
• Pick any time of day from the menu and confirm to jump straight there
• The campfire is extinguished after use, so keep a Flint and Steel handy to relight it
• A cooldown gamerule lets server owners limit how often players can rest
• A weather gamerule controls whether resting also clears the weather
• A cooldown reset command is available for admins
• No required dependencies, just a matching Forge or NeoForge loader

At heart it is a utility mod, filed under adventure, game mechanics, and utility. It slots cleanly into survival worlds, modpacks, and roleplay servers, and it has turned up in over a hundred RPG-style packs.

How the Campfire Rest GUI Works

Walk up to a lit campfire and right-click it. A small menu opens showing the time of day, and you pick the value you want. Confirm it and the world skips straight to that moment. The campfire goes out as part of the cost, which is a nice touch of realism and gives the Flint and Steel a reason to live in your hotbar.

Because the mod works by running the vanilla time commands under the hood, there is one known quirk: the day counter in your F3 screen or statistics can reset when you rest. The author has confirmed there is no fix for this right now, so if you track days precisely, treat resting as a soft reset on that counter.

Back Pain, the Catch to Resting

Resting at a campfire is not always comfortable. Every time you use it, there is a 1 in 10 chance you wake up with a "back pain" status effect, a small penalty that simulates sleeping on hard ground next to a fire. It is a flavourful drawback rather than a real punishment, and it gives the mod a bit of personality that a pure cheat-style time-skip would lack.

If you run a server, the cooldown and weather gamerules let you tune how generous the mechanic is. Set a long cooldown and players will think twice before skipping every night. Turn the weather rule off and resting stays purely about time.

Installing Campfire Resting

To install it:

1. Install Minecraft Forge or the NeoForge project for your Minecraft version. Our NeoForge install guide walks through the steps if you have not done it before.
2. Grab the jar that matches your version and loader from the table on this page.
3. Drop the jar into your mods folder.
4. Launch the game with your Forge or NeoForge profile.

The mod runs on both the client and the server, so make sure every player on a multiplayer world has it installed.

Campfire Resting FAQ

Does it work with soul campfires?

Yes. Both regular campfires and soul campfires open the time GUI when you right-click them.

Is there a Fabric version?

No, and the author has said a Fabric port is unlikely. If you are on Fabric and want a similar feel, look at mods like Sleep Tight that expand sleeping instead.

Does it need any other mods installed?

No. There are no required dependencies, just a matching Forge or NeoForge loader.

Will the day counter reset?

It can. Because the mod works by issuing in-game time commands, the day counter in statistics or the debug screen may reset when you rest. There is no known fix yet.

Why Campfire Resting Earns a Slot

It is a tiny mod with a clear idea, and it earns its place by making an existing block more useful without bloating your world. Whether you want to skip a long night, set up a roleplay rest scene, or just avoid waiting out a thunderstorm, Campfire Resting gives you a clean, in-world way to do it. Pair it with survival and immersion mods and it fits right in. Drop it into a modpack and it fills the gap between beds and cheats without anyone needing a command.