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

‌

☕️ Support me on Ko-Fi, if you like my project

‌

⚠️ This mod does not work on Vanilla Minecraft servers.

⚠️ Backports below 1.18.2 will not be implemented. Any unofficial forks will not be supported either. Please update your Minecraft version and stop asking for legacy work.

‌

🗡 Features

‌

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 wield any combination

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

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.

‌

‌

🔨 Add compatibility to any weapon

‌

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.

‌

🔧 Configuration

‌

Client side settings can be accessed via the Mod Menu.

Server side config can be found at:

General properties: config/bettercombat/server.json5

Fallback compatibility: config/bettercombat/fallback_compatibility.json

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

‌

⛓ Compatibility

‌

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).

‌

🤝 Partnerships

‌

These mods have dedicated compatibility with Better Combat, to fully utilise the all different attack styles:

Epic Knights - Forge

Marium's Soulslike Weaponry - Fabric

MC Dungeons Weapons - Fabric

MCDoom - Fabric & Forge

MedievalWeapons - Fabric

Mythic Metals - Fabric

Simply Swords - Fabric & Forge

Spectrum - Fabric

‌

👀 Check out my other projects

‌

🧶 Ever wanted to roll/dodge/dash in Minecraft? Here is your chance!

‌

☠️ Increase the difficulty and get matching rewards