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Time Lapse
"Fast forward the grind, slow down the good bit."
How do I install Time Lapse?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Time Lapse for Zad Archery in one click.
</>What does Time Lapse do?
Zad Archery is an incremental game, which is a polite way of saying a lot of it is spent watching numbers climb on their own. Time Lapse lets you decide how long that takes. Slide Game Speed up to eight times normal and a farming session that would have eaten your evening is done while you make a cup of tea. Everything scales together, so monsters, drops, skills and the mine all keep pace with each other rather than falling out of step. It works the other way too. Drop below normal speed to watch a guardian fight properly, line up a tricky bit of shaping, or just see what your build actually does when it is not a blur. Switch it off and the game returns to its normal pace straight away.
</>What is Time Lapse?
Zad Archery is an incremental game, which is a polite way of saying much of it is spent watching numbers climb on their own. Time Lapse puts the whole game on a speed dial running from a quarter speed up to eight times normal, so you decide how long that takes. Free-tier in the ProjectMods desktop app, a community-first game modding platform for 400+ games.
</>Common questions about Time Lapse
What does Time Lapse do in Zad Archery?
Time Lapse is a speed dial for the whole of Zad Archery, running from a quarter of normal speed up to eight times normal. Slide it up and a farming session that would have eaten your evening finishes while you make a cup of tea. Slide it below 1 and everything drops into slow motion instead. A Change The Pace switch sits above the dial, and turning it off returns the game to its normal speed straight away. Since this is an incremental game where much of the time is spent watching numbers climb, it decides how long that takes.
Does everything speed up together, or do parts fall out of step?
Everything moves together. Monsters, your arrows, job skills, drops and the mining site all run at the same Time Lapse dial setting in Zad Archery, so the balance between them stays where it was and the game simply happens faster. That is what makes the high settings usable rather than chaotic: a run at eight times speed plays out the same way it would have at normal, only compressed. The one practical limit is you, because picking things up off the ground at that speed is not realistic, which is where Clean Sweep earns its place.
What is slow motion good for in an incremental game?
More than you would expect. Dropping Zad Archery below normal speed lets you watch a guardian fight properly instead of seeing it resolve in a blur, line up a fiddly piece of shaping without rushing, and actually see what your build does when the screen is not a wall of numbers. It is also the honest way to check whether a change to your setup did anything, since at normal speed a lot of the detail is lost. The Time Lapse dial goes down to a quarter speed, which is slow enough to follow individual hits.
How high can I push the speed, and what does 8x feel like?
Eight times normal is the top of the Time Lapse dial. At that setting Zad Archery stops being something you play moment to moment and becomes something you supervise: waves disappear, the monster level climbs, and wallets fill while you are doing something else. Most players find somewhere between two and four times more comfortable for ordinary play, fast enough to skip the boring stretches while still leaving the fights readable. The dial moves while the game is running, so the usual pattern is to push it up for farming and pull it back down for anything worth watching.
How does Time Lapse pair with the farming mods?
It multiplies whatever they are doing. Golden Hour makes each wave in Zad Archery pay more, Motherlode makes the mine produce faster, and Time Lapse runs all of it at up to eight times the rate, so an evening of farming collapses into a short session. Clean Sweep becomes close to essential in that combination, since at high speed the drops land faster than anyone can walk over them. Pull the dial back to normal when you want to actually play, and everything returns to the pace the game intended.
What options does Time Lapse include?
Game Speed
How fast the whole game runs. 1 is normal, below that is slow motion, above it is fast forward.
Change The Pace
Master switch for the speed dial.
Time Lapse is a free-tier ProjectMods mod for Zad Archery that sets the whole game speed anywhere from 0.25x to 8x, so you can fast forward a farming session or slow a guardian fight down to watch it properly.
System Requirements
What features does Time Lapse include?
- Runs the whole game anywhere from a quarter speed up to eight times normal.
- Everything keeps pace together, so monsters, drops, skills and the mine never fall out of step.
- Drop below normal for slow motion when a guardian fight is actually worth watching properly.
- One slider, live while you play, and off again the moment you want the normal pace back.
Best For
- Long farming stretches where the numbers climb on their own and you would rather they climbed faster.
- Studying a guardian's pattern at half speed before you go and try to beat it at full speed.
- Players with one spare hour who want a whole evening's worth of monster levels out of it.
- Creators capturing footage who need a slow, readable shot of what a finished build actually does.
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