Time in a bottle in All the Mods 10

Time in a bottle lets you speed up blocks that tick, so you spend less time waiting. Furnaces, crops and brewing stands are the examples the mod lists, but it works on tickable blocks in general. If you've ever stared at a furnace or watched wheat grow, this mod is for you.^[1]

The idea is simple. The bottle passively collects time, and you spend that stored time on blocks. Once it has built up, right click a block to speed it up. Shift right click blocks like the furnace. Each click doubles the speed applied, and each boost lasts 30 seconds.^[1]

How much time each boost costs

Every doubling needs stored time. By default, the mod lists these costs per click:^[1]

• x2 costs 30 seconds and x4 costs 30 seconds.^[1]
• x8 costs 60 seconds and x16 costs 120 seconds.^[1]
• x32 costs 240 seconds and x64 costs 480 seconds, and the pattern keeps doubling after that.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Time in a bottle 6.5.4 as the NeoForge build. It has been included since version 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Unverified The sources don't confirm whether the pack changes the mod's config values (stored time limit, boost duration or maximum speed multiplier), so check the server config in your world before relying on the default numbers above. The sources also don't place the mod in a specific progression stage.

Your first step with this mod is making Time in a Bottle itself. It lets you speed up tickable blocks like furnaces, crops and brewing stands, so it saves you a lot of waiting once you have it.^[1]

The pack adds its own crafting recipe for the bottle with KubeJS, so don't expect the mod's standard recipe. Here is the exact one used in this pack:^[3]

Time in a BottleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Fluix Pickaxe
Upgrade Productivity 4	Upgrade Time	Upgrade Productivity 4
Iesnium Pickaxe	Blazegold Pickaxe	Experience Bottle

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/tiab_time_in_a_bottle

This is a recipe added by the pack through KubeJS.

This recipe asks for items from several other mods, so look at the recipe card before you start gathering.^[3]

Using it for the first time

1. Craft the bottle with the recipe above.^[3]
2. Wait for it to build up time. The mod collects time passively, and the item tooltip shows both the stored time and the total accumulated time, so you can check how much you have.^[1][4]
3. Right click a tickable block to speed it up. For blocks like the furnace, use Shift right click instead.^[1]
4. Click again to stack the boost. Per the mod's own description, each click doubles the speed applied and lasts 30 seconds.^[1]

How much time each click costs

The mod's project page lists these costs per click: x2 costs 30 seconds of stored time and x4 costs another 30 seconds. After that the cost doubles each step: x8 costs 60 seconds, x16 costs 120 seconds, x32 costs 240 seconds and x64 costs 480 seconds. So it's worth saving up before you go for the big multipliers.^[1]

Time in a Bottle doesn't have machines, multiblocks, power or fluids. It's one item, Time in a Bottle, that stores time and then spends it to speed up blocks that tick, like furnaces, crops and brewing stands. This section covers how that works.^[1][3]

Getting the bottle

In this pack the bottle has a custom crafting recipe added through KubeJS, so don't expect the mod's own recipe. Here's the in-pack version:^[3]

Time in a BottleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Fluix Pickaxe
Upgrade Productivity 4	Upgrade Time	Upgrade Productivity 4
Iesnium Pickaxe	Blazegold Pickaxe	Experience Bottle

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/tiab_time_in_a_bottle

Storing time

Once you have a bottle, you just wait. It passively collects time, and the amount keeps growing as you carry it.^[1]

The item tooltip shows the stored time you can spend right now and the total accumulated time, both in hours:minutes:seconds format.^[4]

Using it on blocks

1. Wait until the bottle has gathered enough time.^[1]
2. Right click a tickable block with the bottle. For blocks like the furnace, use Shift + right click instead.^[1]
3. The block is now sped up. Each click doubles the speed applied, and each click lasts 30 seconds.^[1]

Time cost per click

Each doubling costs stored time. The project page lists these costs per click:^[1]

• x2 costs 30 seconds.^[1]
• x4 costs 30 seconds.^[1]
• x8 costs 60 seconds.^[1]
• x16 costs 120 seconds.^[1]
• x32 costs 240 seconds.^[1]
• x64 costs 480 seconds.^[1]

The page continues the pattern with "etc" past x64, but it doesn't spell out any further values.^[1]

Adding or removing time

There's a single admin command for changing the time in a bottle: /tiab addTime <seconds> or /tiab removeTime <seconds>. It's handy for testing or fixing a bottle.^[1]

Configuration

The mod has a server config at tiab-server.toml inside the world's serverconfig folder. These are the mod's defaults from its project page: a maximum stored time of 622,080,000 ticks, a tick constant of 20, a use duration of 30 seconds and a maximum rate multiplier of 8. That multiplier corresponds to 2^8 = 256 times faster.^[1]

What we couldn't confirm

The recipe viewer has a category called "TIAB Blacklisted Blocks", which suggests some blocks can't be accelerated.^[4]

Time in a Bottle is simple in this pack. There is one recipe for Time in a Bottle, and the pack adds it itself through KubeJS, so don't rely on the mod's default recipe.^[3]

It is a shaped crafting recipe. Here is exactly what the pack uses:^[3]

Time in a BottleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Fluix Pickaxe
Upgrade Productivity 4	Upgrade Time	Upgrade Productivity 4
Iesnium Pickaxe	Blazegold Pickaxe	Experience Bottle

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/tiab_time_in_a_bottle

This shaped recipe is added by the pack, so it is the pack's version and not the mod default.

The ingredients come from several different mods, and one of them is an experience bottle. You will want to be well into your modded progression before you can craft it, so check the recipe block above and plan your route to each item.^[3]

Unverified The sources here do not show any quest for this mod, so this section cannot place it in a quest chapter or say what comes before or after it. If you want to know whether the quest book mentions it, check the quest book in game.

The way Time in a Bottle connects to other mods in this pack is through its crafting recipe. The pack adds its own shaped recipe for the bottle with a KubeJS script, and that recipe pulls in items from several different mods, so you will be touching other mods' progression before you can craft it.^[3]

Time in a BottleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Empty slot	Fluix Pickaxe
Upgrade Productivity 4	Upgrade Time	Upgrade Productivity 4
Iesnium Pickaxe	Blazegold Pickaxe	Experience Bottle

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/tiab_time_in_a_bottle

This recipe is added by the pack, so this is the one to follow when you gather materials.

The pack's quest book doesn't give Time in a Bottle its own chapter in the material I have. It shows up through a neighbour: the Time Wand quest in the Just Dire Things chapter, which compares itself to it.^[5]

The Time Wand quest

The quest a quest in "Just Dire Things" asks you to get the Time Wand. Its text calls the wand a cousin of the Time in a Bottle. It can accelerate blocks in a similar way, up to x128 speed.^[5]

The big difference is fuel. The wand uses FE and Time Fluid instead of stored time, so the quest says it is considerably easier to refill. It is blacklisted for fake players, so you can't automate it.^[5]

What comes before it

The Time Wand quest sits after several others in the chapter: "Time Crystal" quest, "Blazegold" quest, "Ferricore" quest and a quest in "Just Dire Things". It also follows one untitled quest. Here is what each of those asks for:^[5]

1. "Ferricore" quest asks for raw Ferricore and a Ferricore ingot, which you get by performing Goo Spread on Iron Blocks with tier one goo or higher.^[5]
2. "Blazegold" quest asks for raw Blazegold and a Blazegold ingot, which you get by performing Goo Spread on Gold Blocks with tier two goo or higher.^[5]
3. "Time Crystal" quest asks for a Time Crystal. It comes after a quest in "Just Dire Things", the fourth and final goo tier.^[5]
4. a quest in "Just Dire Things" asks for the Time Fluid Bucket. It comes after the Time Crystal and a quest in "Just Dire Things". You make Time Fluid by dropping a Time Crystal into Polymorphic Fluid.^[5]

Unverified Whether any other quest in the pack asks for the Time in a Bottle item itself is not confirmed by the quest material available here.

Time in a Bottle has been part of All the Mods 10 for a long time, and the pack's changelogs show it getting a few version bumps along the way. All the Mods 10 8.1 ships with version 6.5.4 of the mod, using the file tiab-neoforge-6.5.4.jar. It was first included in All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Pack release history

• All the Mods 10 4.1: updated from 6.4.0 to 6.5.0.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 5.5: updated from 6.5.0 to 6.5.4.^[7]

Since 5.5, the version has stayed at 6.5.4 through to 8.1, going by the pack's mod list.^[2][7]

Unverified What actually changed inside the mod between 6.4.0, 6.5.0 and 6.5.4 is unverified. The pack changelogs only record the version bumps, and there are no stored changelogs for the shipped jars, so I can't tell you about specific fixes, features or balance changes.