About Combat Nouveau
From ModrinthThe future of Minecraft combat has arrived! Many tweaks to make your experience more enjoyable.


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Combat Nouveau brings you some of the features from Mojang's Combat Tests right now. Experience refined combat mechanics and not just that! There are also many additional new changes and settings. And of course everything is fully customizable to your desires.


- Switching between items in your hotbar does not trigger the attack cooldown.
- Missing a hit on a target will not trigger the attack cooldown (disabled by default).
- Attacks when the cooldown is too low can be disabled.
- Hold your attack button to repeatedly attack (disabled by default).
- Swords, hoes, and tridents have an increased attack reach, meaning you can hit targets from further away (the default attack reach is not decreased though as in combat test snapshots, it remains at 3.0 instead of 2.5 blocks).
- Tiny mobs such as fish, rabbits, silverfish and baby mobs have their hitbox inflated to at least 0.9 blocks.
- Sweep attacks require the sweeping edge enchantment, they also only deal half the damage they normally do, and are dealt even when missing your target (meaning when hitting air).
- Shields properly knock back attackers (actually a bug fix).
- Stack sizes for snow balls, eggs, and potions are incerased.
- Drinking items such as potions, milk, and bottled liquids is much faster.
- A very brief delay is added to throwing eggs and snowballs.
- Eating and drinking are interrupted when being attacked.
- Shields become usable after activation without any delay (it is usually 0.25 seconds in vanilla).
- Shield protection arc is decreased to 100 degrees.
- Being hit by a projectile no longer grants brief damage immunity.
- Sprinting does not stop when hitting a target, especially nice when fighting while swimming (since swimming is just sprinting, but in water).
- Certain items such as totems of undying can be hidden when passively held in the offhand.
- Using a shield shows an indicator similar to the attack cooldown indicator.





⏩ INSTALLATION REQUIRED ON CLIENT & REQUIRED ON SERVER
⏩ REQUIRES PUZZLES LIB TO BE INSTALLED (FABRIC & NEOFORGE)
⏩ REQUIRES FABRIC API TO BE INSTALLED (FABRIC)
⏩ REQUIRES FORGE CONFIG API PORT TO BE INSTALLED (FABRIC)
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 17 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Combat Nouveau 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
- 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
- 26.3.0, released 2026-09-29
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 26.2 to 26.3 (2 versions) | 26.3 |
| NeoForge | 26.2 to 26.3 (2 versions) | 26.3 |
From 5 recorded builds of Combat Nouveau.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 26.3 | NeoForge |
| 26.3.0 | 2026-09-29 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 26.2.1 | 2026-09-29 | 26.2 | Fabric |
| 26.2.1 | 2026-09-29 | 26.2 | NeoForge |
| 26.2.0 | 2026-06-19 | 26.2 | Fabric |
Run Combat Nouveau 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 catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Combat Nouveau as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 16 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorFuzs, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseMPL-2.0Free












