Balanced Combat

Balanced Combat is a vanilla-friendly combat rebalance for Minecraft 1.16.5–1.21.4. It makes targeted changes to existing weapons, shields, and ranged combat while keeping the vanilla combat system intact.

⚔️ Weapons

• Swords — attack cooldown set to 0.65 seconds.
• Axes — attack cooldown set to 1.05 seconds.
• Tridents — attack cooldown set to 0.95 seconds.
• Crossbows — projectile speed increased to 3.3075 blocks/tick.

🛡️ Shields

• Shield raise time increased from 0.25 seconds to 0.30 seconds.
• Shields block attacks only within a 75° frontal angle.
• Critical axe hits against shields reduce the blocked damage to 10% of the normal blocked amount.

🔨 Mace — Minecraft 1.21.1 & 1.21.4

• Attack cooldown set to 0.80 seconds.
• Smash attack damage reduced to 80% of vanilla damage.
• Smash bounce strength adjusted to 0.245.

📦 Supported Versions

1.16.5 · 1.17.1 · 1.18.2 · 1.19.2 · 1.19.4 · 1.20.1 · 1.20.4 · 1.20.6 · 1.21.1 · 1.21.4