diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 844f2722e9..82066bd857 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Agents"
 uuid = "46ada45e-f475-11e8-01d0-f70cc89e6671"
 authors = ["George Datseris", "Tim DuBois", "Aayush Sabharwal", "Ali Vahdati", "Adriano Meligrana"]
-version = "6.1.3"
+version = "6.1.4"
 
 [deps]
 CSV = "336ed68f-0bac-5ca0-87d4-7b16caf5d00b"
diff --git a/src/core/model_event_queue.jl b/src/core/model_event_queue.jl
index 0ef6ae302a..1a4c2214c8 100644
--- a/src/core/model_event_queue.jl
+++ b/src/core/model_event_queue.jl
@@ -160,7 +160,10 @@ function EventQueueABM(
     events = SizedVector{length(events), Union{typeof.(events)...}}(events...)
 
     # the queue stores pairs of (agent ID, event index) mapping them to their trigger time
-    queue = BinaryHeap(Base.By(last), Pair{Tuple{Int, Int}, Float64}[])
+    queue = BinaryHeap(
+                Base.By(last, DataStructures.FasterForward()), 
+                Pair{Tuple{Int, Int}, Float64}[]
+            )
 
     agent_types = is_sumtype(A) ? values(allvariants(A)) : union_types(A)