Tick Rate (Entity Action Type)

Sets, freezes, steps or resets the tick rate of the entity, of the chunk it stands in, or of its whole dimension. This is the one-off form of apoli:modify_tick_rate. What it sets stays set until something clears it, so pair it with duration or with a matching reset call. The console equivalent is /tick entity and /tick chunk.

Type ID: apoli:tick_rate

Fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
`scope`	String (`entity`, `chunk`, `dimension` or `server`)	`entity`	What the change applies to. `chunk` and `dimension` use the entity's current position. `server` drives Minecraft's own tick rate (see Server scope is vanilla's `/tick`).
`rate`	Integer or Expression	unchanged	Logical ticks per second. `20` is normal speed, and `0` stops everything.
`frozen`	Boolean	unchanged	Stops ticking entirely, whatever the `rate`.
`step`	Integer or Expression	unchanged	Lets a frozen scope run this many ticks and then freeze again, like `/tick step` for one scope.
`sprint`	Integer or Expression	unchanged	Runs the scope at full speed for this many ticks, ignoring its rate.
`reset`	Boolean	`false`	Clears every override on that scope and gives it back the normal flow of time. Every other field is ignored.
`duration`	Integer	`0`	How long the override lasts in ticks, after which the scope goes back to what it was. `0` means until something clears it.

Fields you leave out stay as they were, so a second call with only frozen: false unfreezes without touching the rate.

Server scope is vanilla's `/tick`

scope: server skips Apoli's own gate and calls the same code /tick does, so rate is /tick rate, frozen is /tick freeze, step is /tick step and sprint is /tick sprint. Minecraft syncs that state to every client itself, so rendering, particles and sounds all slow down with the world and nothing stutters. Use this scope for a global slow motion effect.

It is also global and isn't reference-counted, so the last thing to set it wins. Apoli remembers the rate and freeze state the server had before it first touched them, and duration and reset: true both restore that instead of assuming 20 TPS. That matters when an operator has already run /tick rate themselves.

note

scope: server isn't available on Minecraft 1.20.1, which has no /tick command. Use dimension there.

Examples

{
    "type": "apoli:tick_rate",
    "rate": 5,
    "duration": 100
}

This runs the entity at a quarter of normal speed for five seconds, then lets it go back to normal on its own.

{
    "type": "apoli:area_of_effect",
    "shape": "sphere",
    "radius": 6,
    "bientity_action": {
        "type": "apoli:target_action",
        "action": {
            "type": "apoli:tick_rate",
            "frozen": true,
            "duration": 60
        }
    }
}

This freezes every entity within six blocks for three seconds, like a time-stop shockwave.

Fields

Server scope is vanilla's /tick

Examples

Server scope is vanilla's `/tick`