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Better Combat Wiki & Guide

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The community wiki and guide for Better Combat — recipes, items, tags and mechanics, kept current for every Minecraft version the mod supports.

0recipes · MC 1.21.1
0recipes · MC 1.20.1
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About this mod

!Better Combat

Easy, spectacular and fun melee combat system from Minecraft Dungeons.

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✨ Looking for vanilla-friendly content? Try these!

ArchersPaladinsWizards Rogues Jewelry Arsenal

🗡 Features

!slash !stab !slam

Fancy attack animations

This mod includes several one-handed, two-handed and dual wielded attack animation resources.

Accurate weapon collision detection

No more pixel hunting with your cursor, you can now just swing your weapon and hit whatever is in the way. Enjoy playing in third person view. :)

Natural look and feel

Attacks have an upswing phase before the hit is actually performed, like in real life.

Weapon combos

Some weapons have a sequence of different attacks.

Dual wielding

Dual wield any one handed weapons! Use the attack hotkey to alternately attack with main-hand and off-hand.

Reworked Sweeping Edge

Weapon swing hitting multiple enemies deal reduced damage. To deal full weapon damage against all targets, you need to have Sweeping Edge enchantment.

Hold to attack

Hold the attack hotkey to spam attacks on cooldown (configurable).

Swing thru grass

Attack instead of mining zero hardness blocks (configurable).

Support any item from any mod (with data files)

Automatic compatibility with most mods (weapons without attribute file, will be automatically assigned a matching weapon preset, based on item id).

Super easy to add dedicated compatibility, support via Discord for partnering modders.

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🔨 Add compatibility to any weapon

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Add uniquely created or out of the box behaviour to any weapon from any mod, by just creating JSON data files.

Check out our integration guide here.

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🔧 Configuration

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Client side settings can be accessed via the Mod Menu.

Server side config can be found at:

  • General properties: config/bettercombat/server.conf
  • Fallback compatibility: config/bettercombat/fallback_config.conf

Automatically created with default values, upon loading any game world for the first time.

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⛓ Compatibility

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With an open source and modular mindset, this project is aiming for maximal compatibility. However, mods trying to change the same mechanics will never be compatible (such as dual wielding mods).

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🤝 Partnerships

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We partnered up with the following mods, to fully utilise the JSON API of Better Combat:

  • MC Dungeons Weapons
  • MCDoom
  • MedievalWeapons
  • Mythic Metals
  • Simply Swords
  • Spectrum

Compatibility

Which Minecraft versions and mod loaders the mod supports.

LoaderMC 26.2MC 26.1.2MC 26.1.1MC 26.1MC 1.21.11MC 1.21.10MC 1.21.9MC 1.21.8MC 1.21.7MC 1.21.6MC 1.21.4MC 1.21.1
Fabric
Forge
Neoforge

Dependencies

Other mods required (or optional) to run this mod.

Player Animation Library (required)Fabric API (required)Cloth Config API (required)

Recent updates

Latest releases with the author's changelog notes.

3.2.2+26.2-fabric 2026-07-22 · fabric · MC 26.2

3.2.2

  • Fix attacking with spears
3.2.2+26.2-neoforge 2026-07-22 · neoforge · MC 26.2

3.2.2

  • Fix attacking with spears
3.2.2+26.1.2-fabric 2026-07-22 · fabric · MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2

3.2.2

  • Fix attacking with spears
3.2.2+26.1.2-neoforge 2026-07-22 · neoforge · MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2

3.2.2

  • Fix attacking with spears
3.2.2+26.1.2-neoforge 2026-07-22 · neoforge · MC 26.1, 26.1.1, 26.1.2

3.2.2

  • Fix attacking with spears
One handed slash
One handed slash
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One handed slam
One handed slam
One handed stab
One handed stab

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Developer resources

Source codeReport an issue

Version history

Better Combat 1.9.0+1.20.1-forge (MC 1.20.1) → 2.4.0+1.21.1-neoforge (MC 1.21.1): 0 recipes added · 0 recipes removed · 0 recipes updated.