Melee Expansion

Melee Expansion is a Minecraft mod that expands vanilla-style melee combat with carefully designed weapons, deeper mechanics, and broad mod compatibility — all while staying balanced and immersive.
This mod focuses on quality, progression, and clean integration, making it ideal for both vanilla-plus and heavily modded setups.

Weapons & Mechanics

🔹 Katana –  A fast and precise blade built for aggressive playstyles. 

• Successful hits grant a temporary attack speed boost.

🔹 Mace – A heavy weapon designed to break defenses. 
• Built-in attack knockback.
• When Better Combat is installed, the third strike deals more damage
• Impact Enchantment:

Increases base damage (similar to Sharpness).
Increases the chance to disable enemy shields: No Impact: 15% – Impact V: 65%

🔹 Scythe – A versatile tool for both combat and farming.
• Right-click crops to harvest and replant automatically.
• Reaper Enchantment:

Pulls mob drops and harvested items directly into the player’s inventory.

World Integration

• Piglins and Zombified Piglins have a 50% chance to spawn holding a Mace instead of a sword
• Wither Skeletons have a 25% chance to spawn holding a Katana instead of a sword
• Weapons can be found in villager trades and vanilla structure loot chests.

Mod Compatibility (Optional & Clean)

Melee Expansion dynamically registers content only if the corresponding mod is installed, ensuring zero clutter and perfect integration.
Supported mods:

• Deeper and Darker –
• Miscellaneous Metals (Marbled’s Core) –
• Oreganized –
• The Twilight Forest –
• The Midnight –

Existing weapon types (Katana, Mace, Scythe) automatically support expanded material sets from these mods.

Localization

Supported languages:

• English (en_us)
• German (de_de)
• Chinese Simplified (zh_cn)
• Brazilian Portuguese (pt_br)
• Russian (ru_ru)
• Arabic (ar_sa)
• Persian (fa_ir)

Translations were generated using AI.
If you notice any mistakes or have better wording suggestions, feedback is greatly appreciated!

Balance & Recommendations

• Designed around Better Combat for the intended experience.

                       

• Playable as a standalone mod, but Better Combat is highly recommended.

Notes

• Suggestions, balance feedback, and bug reports are always welcome!
• You are free to include Melee Expansion in your modpack, but all rights are reserved. Redistribution or sale is not allowed.