About Basic Weapons
From Modrinth6 new vanilla+ tiered weapons with an extensible materialpack system
🏷️ This description may not reflect the version of the mod you’re using. If you have questions or need help, ask in the #support channel on my Discord server.

About
Basic Weapons expands on Minecraft's melee offerings with six vanilla-styled weapon types for every vanilla tool material.
- Adds daggers, clubs, hammers, pikes, quarterstaves and glaives
- Balances each weapon around damage, speed, reach, crafting cost and effects
- Install bespoke material packs to add weapons from other mods materials
- Includes built-in Bronze mod compatibility
⚠️ Minecraft Bugs That Affect This Mod
- ❌ Problem: Minecraft 1.21.10 and below has a bug that causes item models in Vanilla Minecraft to have visible gaps.
- 🟢 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, which includes a fix for any weapon that accepts Sharpness or Might.
Basic Weapons adds six new tiered melee weapon types to complement the existing sword, axe and spear 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 | | Pike | Medium | Medium | | Very High | | Quarterstaff | Low | Medium | Sweeping | High | | Glaive | High | Very Slow | Sweeping | High |
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 17 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.1.2.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Basic Weapons on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2.4.2+26.1.x, released 2026-10-01
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 1.21.1 to 26.1.2 (5 versions) | 26.1.2 |
| Fabric | 1.21.11 to 26.1.2 (4 versions) | 26.1.2 |
From 10 recorded builds of Basic Weapons.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4.2+26.1.x | 2026-10-01 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | NeoForge |
| 2.4.2+26.1.x | 2026-10-01 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | Fabric |
| 2.3.8+1.21.11 | 2026-10-01 | 1.21.11 | NeoForge |
| 2.3.8+1.21.11 | 2026-10-01 | 1.21.11 | Fabric |
| 2.1.5+1.21.1 | 2026-10-01 | 1.21.1 | NeoForge |
| 2.4.1+26.1.x | 2026-08-22 | 26.1 to 26.1.2 (3 versions) | NeoForge |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project 336usnuE (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Basic Weapons on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWeapons, items & crafting
New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Basic Weapons as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.1.2 and 16 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓AuthorJune, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree


















