DROPKICKS?

🦶 Dropkick

Fight with your feet. Kick mobs across the room, dropkick doors off their hinges, pick enemies up and throw them, craft spiked boots, and finish fights with an anime-style cinematic ultimate. Everything has custom animations, in first and third person.

⚠️ Requires Player Animator (Forge 1.20.1), on the client and the server.

✋ Kicks, dropkicks and grabs need an empty main hand (configurable).

🥾 Kick: V

A fast front kick that knocks mobs back.

• Barefoot it hits like a punch. Wear Spike Boots to make it hurt.
• In first person you see your leg swing up into view.
• Kicks wooden doors off their hinges: the door topples over like a ragdoll and slams flat.
• Iron doors take 2 kicks to swing open. The first one dents them.
• Trapdoors and fence gates get kicked open or shut.

🚀 Dropkick: G

Sprint, then launch yourself forward feet-first, body flat in the air.

• Hit a mob and it goes flying while you bounce off it.
• Dropkick a door and it goes flying, tumbling through the air and hurting every mob or player it hits.
• Iron doors take 5 dropkicks to rip off: they crack more each hit, and you bounce off until they give. Then they fly too and hit twice as hard.
• No fall damage from your own dropkick. One per jump.

🧱 Doors break walls

Kicked and dropkicked doors crack the blocks they slam into. Cracked blocks mine faster, and after 6 hits they break and drop. Iron doors crack blocks twice as fast.

👢 Spike Boots

Boots with metal spikes on the soles. Same armor as normal boots, but your kicks and dropkicks hit much harder.

Boots in the middle of the top row, the 3 materials across the row below.

🤼 Grab & Throw: Z

Look at a mob and press Z to lift it over your head. Press Z again to throw it wherever you’re looking.

• Anything it crashes into gets hurt and knocked away.
• It takes impact damage when it slams into the ground or a wall (harder throws hurt more) and cracks the block it hits.
• Bosses and huge mobs are too heavy. You drop it after 15 seconds.

💥 Ultimate Dropkick: B

Unlock it with /dropkick unlock, look at a mob, and press B for a ~10 second cutscene:

1. You appear behind your target and shove it back.
2. Low angle from behind the mob: you’re hanging in the air right in front of its face.
3. Slow zoom on the mob’s face as it looks up at you.
4. A close-up of you glaring down.
5. DROPKICK TO THE FACE. Black/white/red impact frames, hit-stop, and a title slam.
6. The mob is launched through every block in its path while the camera chases it with speed lines…
7. …until it explodes.

Letterbox bars, camera shake, fades: the full cinematic treatment. You’re invulnerable during the cutscene. Bedrock stops the flight.

⌨️ Default keys

V Kick · G Dropkick · Z Grab / Throw · B Ultimate. Rebind them in Options → Controls → Dropkick.

🛠️ Commands

* Server owners can require op for self-unlocking.

⚙️ Config (for servers & modpacks)

Per world in serverconfig/dropkick-server.toml, synced to clients:

• Kicks & dropkicks: damage, knockback, reach, lunge speed, cooldowns, sprint requirement, empty-hand requirement
• Doors: whether wooden doors fall, kicks/dropkicks needed for iron doors, flying-door damage, block cracking (hits to break, damage per door, mining speed boost)
• Grab: range, max mob size, grabbing players (off by default), hold time, throw strength and damage
• Ultimate: unlockByDefault (everyone has it), ultimateNeedsEmptyHand, range, cooldown, flight speed and length, block breaking and drops, crash damage
• Entity blacklists:
  • blacklistedEntities: fully immune (no kicks, grabs or ultimate)
  • kickBlacklist, grabBlacklist, ultimateBlacklist: block just one action
  • Defaults: the Warden can’t be grabbed, the Ender Dragon can’t be targeted by the ultimate

Client side, in config/dropkick-client.toml: move, resize or hide the HUD (or bind Toggle Dropkick HUD), and toggle the first-person legs.

Compatibility

• Forge 1.20.1 (47.x), needed on both client and server.
• First Person Model: supported. Dropkick hides its own first-person legs when it’s installed.
• TACZ: kicking with a gun in hand leaves the gun’s first-person rendering alone.
• The impact frames use a post-processing shader. With some shader packs they fall back to a simple flash.

Credits

Animations are played with Player Animator by KosmX.

Suggestions welcome in the comments: a lot of this mod came from them!