Gravity Shift

Gravity Shift

Walk on walls. Stand on ceilings. Fall sideways.

Gravity Shift lets players change which way their own gravity pulls, in any of six directions. Walking, sprinting, jumping, sneaking, stepping up blocks and fall damage all work relative to your new floor. Mobs and items keep normal gravity, so the world stays the same and only you are turned around.

New in 0.2.0: Gravity Blocks

You can now change gravity in survival without commands.

• Gravity Blocks (×6, one per direction): touch one and you start falling the way it points. Sneak to walk past without triggering it.
• Magnet Block: whatever face you touch becomes your floor. Walk off an edge and you roll onto the next face, with the camera turning as you go. Jump or sneak to step off without rolling. You can build a magnet cube and walk all the way around it.

Crafting

Gravity Block

Iron ingots in the corners, amethyst shards on the sides and an ender pearl in the centre make 4 Down Gravity Blocks.

Changing the direction

Put a Gravity Block alone in the crafting grid to turn it into the next direction. Keep doing this to cycle through all six:

Down → Up → North → South → East → West → Down

Down becomes Up

Up becomes North

Magnet Block

Iron ingots in the corners, redstone on the sides and a Gravity Block of any direction in the centre make a Magnet Block.

Commands

• /gravity set <direction> [players]: set gravity to up, down, north, south, east or west
• /gravity get [player]: show a player’s current gravity
• /gravity reset [players]: set gravity back to normal

Commands need operator permission (level 2) by default. With the server config option Allow Self Use turned on, any player can change their own gravity.

Multiplayer

Every player has their own gravity, and it syncs to everyone on the server. The server and every player need the mod installed.

Game rules and behaviour

• gravityshift:keep_gravity_on_death (default on): players respawn with the gravity they had when they died.
• With up gravity there is a void above the world. Fall more than 64 blocks above the highest block and you start taking void damage.
• Riding a vehicle or sleeping in a bed puts normal gravity back on hold. Your own gravity returns when you get off or wake up.
• Blocks you place face you in the direction you’re looking, even when you’re standing on a wall.

Known limitations

• Water and lava, ladders and vines still work on normal world gravity.
• Teleports, nether portals and ender pearls can leave you slightly stuck in a block for a moment until you fall clear.
• Ranged mobs aim less accurately at a player standing on a wall.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.3
• NeoForge 26.3 (26.3.0.48-beta or newer)

Credits

The physics approach is adapted from GravityChanger (MIT).