⚠️ Please Read First

• Item models in Vanilla Minecraft have visible gaps. Until Mojang fixes this bug (MC-73186), I strongly recommend using the Model Gap Fix mod.
• Minecraft 1.21+ has a bug (MC-271840) that stops damage increase enchantments (like Sharpness and Might) from showing the damage increase in a weapon's tooltip. Hopefully this bug is fixed soon.

About

Basic Weapons adds 6 new melee weapon types of every vanilla tool material to complement the existing sword and axe in Minecraft. Each weapon is balanced around damage, attack speed, crafting costs, attack reach and special effects.
If you have Better Combat installed, the weapons are also balanced around number of enemies hit and combos.

Weapons should feel unique, powerful, easy to use and fair. I made Basic Weapons because I was looking around for weapon mods that would fit seamlessly into vanilla gameplay, and didn't quite find what I was looking for. I hope that in creating Basic Weapons, I've made that search a little easier for those of you who've had a similar experience.

This high level overview should give you an idea of what each weapon is good and bad at:

Weapon	Damage	Speed	Baseline Effect	Reach
Vanilla Sword	Medium	Medium	Sweeping	Medium
Vanilla Axe	High	Slow	Shield Break	Medium
Dagger	Low	Fast		Medium
Club	High	Slow	Slow target	Medium
Hammer	High	Very Slow	Knock target upwards	Medium
Spear	Medium	Medium		Very High
Quarterstaff	Low	Medium	Sweeping	High
Glaive	High	Very Slow	Sweeping	High

Material Pack System

Do you want compatibility with another mod's material? Check the Public Material Pack List to see if a material pack for that mod has been created.
If it doesn't exist? No problem! You can create materialpacks yourself with the Material Pack Creator web application, and submit them to the public list if you wish.

Material Packs are loaded at the start of the game from the basicweapons_materialpacks folder in your Minecraft root directory. Make sure you add packs before loading the game up, if you add them after, they won't load.

Mod Integrations

Basic Weapons can be enhanced by installing other mods alongside it. The following are mods that Basic Weapons has in-built support for.

Bronze

My Bronze mod adds bronze basic weapons automatically when both mods are installed together. No material pack required.

Better Combat

Basic Weapons works well as a drop-in mod to spice up the weapon variety in your adventures, but it plays especially well when paired with Better Combat.

With Better Combat installed, quarterstaves receive exciting new attack combos, daggers and clubs can be paired with other weapons for dual-wielding mayhem, and the hammer even features a fully custom attack animation.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, I recommend you try the two mods out together. Better Combat can take some getting used to at first, but it's well worth your time investment in the long term, bringing a new layer of strategy and fun to your weapon choices and fights.

For weapon stats with Better Combat integration, see below:

Weapon	Damage	Speed	Baseline Effect	Targets	Reach	Weapon-Type
Vanilla Sword	Medium	Medium	Vanilla Sweeping	Multi	Medium	One-handed
Vanilla Axe	High	Slow	Vanilla Shield Break	Single	Medium	One-handed
Dagger	Low	Very Fast		Single	Medium	One-handed
Club	High	Slow	Slow target	Single	Medium	One-handed
Hammer	High	Very Slow	Knock target upwards	Single	Medium	One-handed
Spear	Medium	Slow		Single	Very High	Two-handed
Quarterstaff	Low	Fast	Vanilla Sweeping	Multi	High	Two-handed
Glaive	High	Very Slow	Vanilla Sweeping	Multi	High	Two-handed

Community Mods

• Bonded with their compatibility module

• Kev's Equipment Sets

  If you have a project that includes Basic Weapons let me know! I love seeing what people create, and can add your project to this list if you wish.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the "Might" enchantmenet do?

Might functions exactly the same as vanilla Sharpness.
It increases the damage of your weapon by a flat amount based on the enchantment level.
I felt that blunt weapons having Sharpness didn't make much sense, hence Might.

What are the recipes?

Recipes are unlocked in the vanilla recipe book
when obtaining the requisite materials (e.g. picking up an iron ingot).
You can also use a mod like EMI to view all recipes.

What are the mod's dependencies?

Basic Weapons has no extra dependencies, just plug and play!

Is there a neoforge/fabric/quilt version?

Basic Weapons officially supports Neoforge & Fabric. If you're running Quilt, use the Fabric jar.

Can you backport the mod to Minecraft 1.X.X?

Unfortunately I don't have the time to backport Basic Weapons to earlier versions.
The mod will however support each new major version of Minecraft.

I found a bug / my game crashed

If you find any problems with Basic Weapons, please feel encouraged
to create an issue on the GitHub repository issue tracker.
Bug reports are incredibly helpful, and help make Basic Weapons the best it can be.

Thank you to all the wonderful people who have contributed translations!

junshengxie	FirePhantom	goofy_boyd	nimbXnumb
Alexander	Hexasan	GumIsNoob	Pituto
Stefan	Germinecraft	Singlain	Yes20name
Darkwhite	Danio	Ardufish	Harjjw
lotl	DarkEclipse	dungpc	Emrys
EnderKTS	Gavis	Jakub	Stargazer
Zwaluw	Артём	ejfour15	_Kiwo__