About DualWield
From SpigotMCOff-hand attacking and tool usage, use your weapons and tools in the off-hand.
A lightweight and unintrusive plugin to add vanilla friendly attacking and mining with off-hand weapons and tools.
Supports:
- 1.9., 1.10., 1.11., 1.12., 1.13., 1.14., 1.15., 1.16., 1.17., 1.18., 1.19., 1.20.
- Spigot, Paper, Purpur, Pufferfish, Airplane, Tuinity, CraftBukkit, Mohist, Magma, CatServer, MultiPaper
- GeyserMC (Bedrock Players)
- Forge/Bukkit Hybrid servers (Mohist, Magma, CatServer)
This plugin should be compatible with all protection plugins, plugins that prevent damage events and block break events. It is also compatible with all third party enchantment and skill plugins like McMMO.
Geyser:
Attacking works but without an animation for Bedrock clients.
See GitHub issues:
Geyser/issues/3480
GeyserOptionalPack/issues/40
Event API:
OffHandAttackEvent
OffHandBlockBreakEvent
Maven:
<id>ranull-repo</id>
<url>https://repo.ranull.com/maven/ranull/</url>
</repository>
<groupId>com.ranull</groupId>
<artifactId>dualwield</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
Permissions:
dualwield.attack (Default)
dualwield.mine (Default)
dualwield.reload (OP)
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Video by: OG Vampire
VIDEO OF THE PLUGIN
Attacking with the off-hand
Mining with the off-hand
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 12 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.
Loaders
Runs on Spigot and Paper.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
DualWield on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers, for Paper servers. We download it from SpigotMC, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- Spigot, Paper
- 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
- 3.1, released 2023-08-21
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Paper | 1.9 to 1.20 (12 versions) | 1.20 |
| Spigot | 1.9 to 1.20 (12 versions) | 1.20 |
From 10 recorded builds of DualWield.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 2023-08-21 | 1.9 to 1.20 (12 versions) | Spigot, Paper |
| 3.0 | 2022-12-12 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.9 | 2022-06-07 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.8 | 2022-05-30 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.7 | 2022-03-01 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
| 2.6 | 2022-03-01 | n/a | Spigot, Paper |
Run DualWield 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 supportSpigotMC lists DualWield as required on the server. Check its SpigotMC page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- SpigotPaper
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.20 and 11 earlier
- Requires
- One-click install needs a Paper server.
Verified at the source
- ✓SpigotMCOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorRanull, as published on SpigotMC
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
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