⚠️ Minecraft Bugs That Affect This Mod

• 🚩Problem: Item models in Vanilla Minecraft have visible gaps in versions up to and including 1.21.10.
• 🟢 Solution:
  • 1.21.10 and earlier: I strongly recommend using the Model Gap Fix mod
  • 1.21.11+: Mojang has fixed this bug in 1.21.11 (MC-73186)
• 🚩Problem: 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.
• 🟢 Solution:
  • 1.21 - 1.21.4: Install Legendary Tooltips
  • 1.21.10: Make sure you're using Basic Weapons 2.2.2+1.21.10 or later

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. Treat them as if they are mod files rather than resource or datapacks.

Mod Integrations

Basic Weapons can be enhanced by installing other mods alongside it. The following are mods that Basic Weapons has built-in 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 new 'major' versions of Minecraft.

Check This handy table to see what I count as a 'major' version

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 DanioMalinowy ArduFish123 Harjjw lotl DarkEclipse dungpc EmrysAkalp EnderKTS Gavis Jakub Michalski Stargazer Zwaluw Артём Шориков ejfour15 Kiwo_ Axel Barron Damijan Dzijanski Jam kyuri90A1 Lapsiluco Lengyel Mukola Lucas Michyt Nguyễn Bảo Khang observr Pedro QueDoom ! Saul snaiper20a2 taguima toyo unnamed_sk8er Horang ivan sssehnsuchttt