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Balanced Weapons Data pack for Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.19.2

Buffs Smite and Bane of Arthropods to be viable compared to Sharpness.

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Updated 04.08.2023

About the Balanced Weapons data pack

There are three primary enchantments you can put on swords and axes: Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods. In practice, however, only Sharpness is ever used, with the occasional Smite for use in wither skeleton or wither farming.

To rectify this, this datapack/mod adds the following features:

  • Hitting an entity with a Smite weapon grants Haste 1 for 2-6 seconds (scaling with level), which increases your attack speed by 10%.
  • Hitting an entity with a Bane of Arthropods weapon grants Speed 1 for 1-3 seconds (scaling with level).

The goal here is to provide some uses cases for these enchantments, in addition to their existing effects - for example, Smite axes will do a lot more damage as they have high damage but low attack speed, while a Bane of Arthropods sword has plenty of use in chasing down fleeing players or kiting them with while bowing them down.

This datapack isn't perfect (I made it in one night), so feel free to go inside and edit the values for the buffs as you see fit.

How to install Balanced Weapons

With Millida Launcher

  1. Install Millida Launcher

    The launcher is free: download it at millida.net/launcher and sign in with any nickname.

  2. Click “Install” on this page

    The launcher opens and installs the data pack for Minecraft 1.17–1.20.4 automatically.

  3. Launch the game

    A profile with it appears in the launcher: click “Play”.

On a server

  1. Archive goes into the server world’s datapacks

    The world/datapacks folder on the server; players do not need to install anything.

  2. Reload the data

    Type /reload in the server console or restart the server.

  3. Or use the “To hosting” button

    On Millida Hosting, the button at the top of the page uploads the file to your server and restarts it for you.

Versions

With dependencies

MinecraftLoaderFileDateActions
1.19.2Data pack1.19.212.7 KB
1.18.2Data pack1.18.212.7 KB
1.17.1Data pack1.17.112.7 KB

FAQ

Which Minecraft versions does Balanced Weapons work on?

There are files for 1.17–1.20.4, 15 versions in total. The newest is 1.20.4.

Does Balanced Weapons work on a server?

Yes: the data pack goes into the datapacks folder of the server world, and players do not need to install anything.

How do I download Balanced Weapons?

With Millida Launcher: it installs Balanced Weapons into a modpack by itself, for the right game version and loader. The launcher is free.

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