Hot Potato

Creator notes

🥔 Hot Potato — Minecraft's Deadliest Party Game Imagine this: you're holding the Hot Potato, the timer's hitting zero, and the only way out is killing someone with it before it turns into fireworks — with you in the blast radius. Hot Potato is a mod for Minecraft 1.21.8 that turns any multiplayer server into a last-player-standing showdown: one player at a time holds the Hot Potato, and if time runs out before it's passed on, it explodes and eliminates whoever's holding it. ⚙️ How It Works Pre-game (10 minutes): when the match starts, all players are set to Adventure mode, the world border is centered on spawn at 1000 blocks wide (shrinking down to 50 blocks over 50 minutes to force encounters), and an on-screen countdown shows time until the first potato drops. Rounds: once the pre-game ends, the Hot Potato is handed to a random survivor. Round timers shrink as the game progresses: Rounds 1–2: 10 minutes Rounds 3–4: 6 minutes Round 5 onward: 3 minutes ("the potato's getting hotter") Passing the potato: the only way to get rid of it is to kill another player while holding it — a direct hit also sets the target on fire for 5 seconds. Landing the kill instantly passes the potato to t