About Critical Strike
From Modrinth🍀 Chance based critical hits for melee and ranged attacks!
Critical Strike
A Minecraft mod that adds chance-based critical hit mechanics for melee and ranged combat, complete with flashy visual and audio feedback. Replicates Critical Hit mechanics from Minecraft Dungeons.
Features
Chance-Based Critical Strikes
- RNG-based critical hit system that replaces vanilla jump criticals
- Melee critical strikes - Weapons have a chance to deal bonus damage on hit
- Ranged critical strikes - Arrows and projectiles can critically hit targets
- Configurable mechanics - Toggle vanilla jump crits and customize critical chance/damage
- Batching option - Cache critical chance calculations per tick for performance
Particle and Sound Effects
- Fancy particle effect are shown on critical strikes:
- Sparkle - Burst of small sparkles radiating from impact
- Skull - Floating skull particles that ascend and fade
- Circle - Expanding animated ring at the center of impact
- with customizable colors
- Dynamic sound effects - Two critical hit sound variants with randomized pitch
- Configurable volume - Separate volume controls for melee and ranged crits
Content
Attributes
- Critical Hit Chance (
critical_strike:chance) - Determines probability of landing a critical hit - Base innate bonus: +5%
- Increased by enchantments and status effects
- Critical Hit Damage (
critical_strike:damage) - Multiplier for critical hit damage - Base innate bonus: +50% (1.5x damage)
- Increased by enchantments and status effects
Enchantments
- Critical Hit (Max level 5) - Increases critical strike chance by +4% per level
- Critical Impact (Max level 5) - Increases critical damage by +10% per level
- Both enchantments work on swords, axes, bows, crossbows, and other weapons
Status Effects
- Critical Hit Effect - Beneficial potion effect that boosts critical chance (+5% per level)
- Critical Impact Effect - Beneficial potion effect that boosts critical damage (+10% per level)
- Available as potions, splash potions, lingering potions, and tipped arrows
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 8 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Critical Strike 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
- 1.0.6+26.3-fabric, released 2026-09-28
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (3 versions) | 26.3 |
| NeoForge | 1.20.1 to 26.3 (2 versions) | 26.3 |
| Forge | 1.20.1 | 1.20.1 |
From 5 recorded builds of Critical Strike.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.6+26.3-fabric | 2026-09-28 | 26.3 | Fabric |
| 1.0.6+26.3-neoforge | 2026-09-28 | 26.3 | NeoForge |
| 1.0.4+1.20.1-fabric | 2026-09-15 | 1.20.1 | Fabric |
| 1.0.4+1.20.1-forge | 2026-09-15 | 1.20.1 | Forge, NeoForge |
| 1.0.6+26.2-fabric | 2026-09-12 | 26.2 | Fabric |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project P7dR8mSH (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Critical Strike 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 catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Critical Strike 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 7 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorZsoltMolnarrr, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree











