About Crossbow
From ModrinthBackports the Crossbow from the Village and Pillage update!
A mod that backports the Crossbow from the Village and Pillage update!
Dependencies: AssetMover (required on client)
If you're a modpack developer wanting to add Crossbow to a modpack distributed outside of CurseForge or Modrinth, use File Director to avoid reuploading Crossbow's files.
This mod backports crossbows from the Village and Pillage update, including enchantments and animations!
Crossbow is designed to serve as a library for anyone wanting to add custom crossbows, or wanting to add entities that use crossbows! To add a custom crossbow item, have your item class extend ItemCrossbow or implement ICrossbow.
This mod also makes some small changes to fireworks:
- Fireworks credit damage (caused by the explosion) to their user, the same way other projectiles credit damage to their user.
- Fireworks dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired. This is an opt-in config setting, and is backported from Snapshot 19w36a.
- Fireworks explode immediately when impacting a block or entity. This change comes with a new event:
FireworkImpactEvent, which is fired when a firework entity impacts something.
Direct contact: jbred.dev@gmail.com
This mod will not be ported
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Built for Minecraft 1.12.2.
Loaders
Runs on Forge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Crossbow 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
- Forge
- 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
- 1.2.0, released 2025-12-14
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Forge | 1.12.2 | 1.12.2 |
From 3 recorded builds of Crossbow.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2.0 | 2025-12-14 | 1.12.2 | Forge |
| 1.1.0 | 2023-08-14 | 1.12.2 | Forge |
| 1.0.0 | 2023-08-11 | 1.12.2 | Forge |
Dependencies
- Required: modrinth project oTG4U7ur (modrinth, not in our catalogue)
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Crossbow 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 catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Crossbow as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Forge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.12.2
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓Authorjbredwards, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-Custom-LicenseFree














