An order every 45 seconds, and sometimes the name at the front is not Bullet
Bullet Says drops a banner across your screen every 45 seconds with an order on it and a countdown: stand on a wooden block, hold a sword, jump three times. Complete it in time and you get a short buff. Miss it and you lose health. The catch is the name at the front of the banner, because sometimes it is not Bullet, it is Bucket, and Bucket has no authority here. Obey an impostor and you take three hearts on the spot; ignore it until the timer runs out and you pass.
You are halfway through a nether trip when the banner drops and you have fourteen seconds, so you learn to move fast, and moving fast is exactly the habit the mod is built to punish. The tenth banner says Buffet Says: Take off your armor, in the same font, with the same countdown, and your hands are already on the armor slots before your eyes get back to the first word. Then Bullet tells you to stop moving, and you discover the space bar is muscle memory. Playing it well means reading everything twice while a timer eats your margin, and the pass jingle starts to feel earned.
Install on server and clients; every player gets their own orders, timers and penalties
New to this mod? Do these in order and you will have seen the point of it.
Every 45 seconds (configurable, 10 to 300) an order arrives with a ticking countdown of 6 to 22 seconds. Complete it in time and you pass; fail and you lose between 1 and 5 hearts, scaled to how hard the order was. The easy reflex ones are cheap and fast; the ones that make you go and find something give you longer and hurt more.
Some banners are not from Bullet. The layout, countdown and penalty tag are pixel-identical; the only difference is the name, swapped for a near-miss: Bucket, Buffet, Butter, Button, Bulletin, Bullseye or Bulldog. Obey one and you take 3 hearts immediately, plus the buzzer. Ignore it until the timer expires and you pass, buff included. There is no warning label, no colour change and no different sound.
Ten orders invert the reflex: Bullet tells you not to do something. Do NOT jump. STOP MOVING. Perform the forbidden action inside the window and you take 3 hearts on the spot; hold still for the full duration and you pass. These arrive from the real Bullet, which is somehow worse.
Orders are not pulled from a flat list. Before each one, the mod inspects the blocks around you, the mobs near you, your inventory and your dimension, then rolls something you could actually do right now. Stand in the End and you may be told to break end stone; carry no bucket and you will never be told to hold one. There are 206 commands in total, 98 real orders, a fake twin of every one, and 10 restraint traps, across 108 distinct tasks.
Passing anything, a completed order, an ignored impostor, an unbroken restraint, grants a random 10-second buff: Regeneration, Speed or Haste. It can be switched off with /bs rewards false if you want the challenge pure.
Two audio cues exist, one for passing and one for failing, and that is all. There is deliberately no sound when an order arrives: the banner is the only announcement. The mod also speaks two languages fully, English as Bullet Says and Turkish as Bullet Derki, each with its own impostor cast.
/bulletsays (also /bs and /bullet) controls everything at runtime: interval, trap chance (default 0.20), a difficulty multiplier from 0.1x to 5x on all damage, rewards on or off, and clear to cancel the active order without penalty. The start, pause, stop and status subcommands need no operator rights, so a singleplayer world with cheats off can still run it. /bs trigger forces a specific order immediately.
Flavour, not rules. None of this changes how the mod behaves.
Nobody has met Bullet. There is no mob, no voice, no face, only a banner with a name, an order and a deadline, arriving on a schedule that does not care what you were doing. Compliance is rewarded in ten-second increments. Non-compliance is billed in hearts. It is best understood as management.
Bucket, Buffet, Butter, Button, Bulletin, Bullseye and Bulldog have no authority whatsoever. Their banners carry the same font, the same countdown, the same penalty tag. The only thing they lack is the right to be obeyed, and they are counting on you not to check.
From CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bullet-says. Pick the file matching your Minecraft version (1.21.1, 1.20.1 or 26.1) and loader (NeoForge, Forge or Fabric).
That is correct behaviour. The mod does nothing until someone runs /bs start, and it can be paused any time with /bs pause. Neither needs operator rights.
Read the name. That is the entire tell. The banner, countdown, sound (none) and penalty tag are identical; only Bullet has authority, and Bucket, Buffet, Butter and friends do not.
Both. The logic runs server-side and the HUD banner renders client-side. In singleplayer, installing it normally covers both. On a server, every player runs their own separate orders.
Yes, live: /bs interval for how often orders come, /bs trapchance for how many are traps, /bs difficulty to scale all damage from 0.1x to 5x, and /bs rewards to toggle the buffs.
Status: Published or running on a live server. Safe to try.
.jar file into your mods folder.This wiki documents the mods; it does
not host them. Builds live in the project's own repository under
mc-bullet-says/build/libs/.
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