Minecraft, but You Get an Item Every 30 Seconds

A scoreboard clock ticks down in the corner of your screen, and when it hits zero everybody online gets an item. The table holds 108 possibilities weighted like a real loot chest: mountains of dirt and rotten flesh most of the time, iron and food often enough to survive on, and a whisper of a chance at an elytra, a nether star or a mace. It also hands out TNT, lava buckets and creeper spawn eggs, so the drop is not always a gift. Every player rolls separately, every tenth drop is a guaranteed jackpot, and the interval is switchable from 5 seconds to 2 minutes.

How it works

• A dummy scoreboard clock counts ticks in the tick function and fires the drop the moment it reaches the interval, then resets itself to zero.
• The drop runs as @a at @s, so the 108-entry loot table is rolled once per player - two friends standing in the same block get completely different items.
• Weights are tiered like a real chest: junk is roughly 26% of rolls, food and blocks fill the middle, and the ten legendary items share about 0.7% between them.
• A separate counter tracks each player's drops, and every tenth one pulls from the jackpot table instead - netherite, totems, shulker shells, plus a guaranteed stack of XP bottles.
• An 8% random_chance predicate grants a bonus second roll on the same table, announced on the action bar as a DOUBLE DROP.
• The last five seconds show a countdown on the action bar with three rising note-block ticks, and the whole thing can be paused, resumed or re-timed from 5 seconds to 2 minutes with one function.

Installing it

1. 1.Download the zip below. Do not unzip it — Minecraft reads the zip directly.
2. 2.In Minecraft, click your world, then Edit, then Open World Folder.
3. 3.Drop the zip into the datapacks folder inside that world.
4. 4.Load the world. Run /datapack list to confirm it is enabled.

Written by MineSpecs and released under CC0 — public domain. Use it, change it, ship it in a modpack, no attribution required. Pairs well with our mods, shaders and resource packs.