Nanonaitor’s Arsenal

Specialized weapons with distinct combat roles, active abilities, and defensive techniques!

Nanonaitor’s Arsenal re-imagines weapons from history, fantasy, and legend as mechanically unique Minecraft equipment. Every weapon introduces a different way to attack, defend, move, charge, reflect, weaken, or control groups of enemies.

Ice and Fire | Scape & Run Weapon Tiers Included!

🔨 Morning Stars

A 1-handed weapon capable of reducing armor of a small group of enemies. Good for dungeons and beefy enemy groups.

• Reaches full charge after 2 seconds.
• Each 1/4 charge adds +10% damage with max +40% damage.
• Charging expands AOE hit 2 blocks on each side.
• Full charge: applies Armor Fracture & 20% chance to inflict Stunned for 3 seconds.

Armor Fracture

Each Armor Fracture level reduces armor by 20%.

Armor Fracture lasts:

• 30 seconds against mobs
• 10 seconds against players

🗡️ Scimitars

Scimitars are faster and weaker swords that have special abilities.

• Can attack from the offhand.
• Dual wielding 2 Scimitars enables auto-attacks.
• Each Scimitar takes its own attack turn while dual wielding.
• Right-Click while dual wielding to shield by crossing blades!
• Attack while shielding to perform a Dual Slash!
• Inflict Weakness on enemies hit for 10 seconds.

Minecraft 1.12.2 and 1.20.1

Minecraft 26.1.2

• Successful Scimitar hits inflict Weakness II for 10 seconds.

🐯 Paired Claws

High Risk & High Reward weapons meant to quickly decimate single-target enemies.

• Holding the Claw in the Main hand generates a linked off-hand claw.
• Generated Claw Shares Enchantments and durability with main claw.
• Hold Left and Right-Click to auto-attack with respective Claw [2 Handed Only].
• Fully charged hits pierce invulnerability frames [2 Handed Only].
• Each hand follows its own attack timing while sharing a minimum per-target hit interval.
• 50% less knockback than regular weapons for easier combos.

⛓️ Flails

A weapon intended to hit surrounding groups of enemies in a circle around the player. Good versus land mobs around the player, exchanging aim for utility.

• Hold attack to spin continuously.
• Hits every visible, non-allied enemy within 4 blocks.
• Reach modifiers and Long Chain expand the horizontal attack area.
• Attack Speed Increases Rotation Speed and Attacks.
• Cannot mine blocks while equipped.

🪵 Battering Rams

A large 2-handed weapon intended to breach structures and mob groups. Useful for quick-mining in exchange for heavy hunger bar usage.

• Hold “Use” to charge forward [Right or Left Click depending on MC version].
• Smashes a tier-dependent 3×3 path through terrain.
• Higher tiers can destroy progressively harder materials.
• Charging and destroying terrain consume hunger quickly [Need >3 hunger bars to charge].
• Ordinary attacks gain additional knockback.
• When charging your camera gets locked on direction you look at.

⚫ Ball & Chain

A heavy 2-handed weapon capable of ignoring armor. A versatile option to take down tanky enemies and groups should they be lined up in front of you.

Charging swings

• Deal 0.5× base and attribute damage (including enchantments).
• Build one charge per completed revolution.
• Right-clicking while already winding accelerates rotations ×2 and reduces movement speed by 20%! [2-Handed Only]
• Holding with 1-hand reduces attack speed by 50%.

Throw damage and reach

Gold & Silver skip charge 2 with their matching RLCraft Set Bonus.

Fully charged throws:

• Pierce Armor in Outgoing and Returning hit vs mobs.
• Apply Armor Fracture potion effect for 10 seconds on the Outgoing hit vs players.
• Permanently reduce mob armor points (-10% of current points | minimum 2 points).
• Use full enchantment damage.
• Follow the player’s live aim in 1st and 3rd person.
• Clash with solid blocks.

Ball & Chain Shielding

• An empty offhand allows the Ball & Chain to act as a shield.
• Can’t attack while using it as a shield.
• Visual of ball itself is raised as the shield. 

⚔️ Blade Staffs

Blade Staffs are fast 2-Handed weapons meant for groups of enemies that can reflect attacks.

• Melee attacks hit all mobs within 2 blocks of struck mob [Sentient does 3 blocks].
• The right click button activates reflection ability for 1 second [2 Handed Only].
• While reflecting you can’t attack.
• Reflected projectile attacks Stun the attacker for 1 second.
• Harmful potion effects are reflected back to the attacker.
• Successful reflections consume durability equal to the incoming damage rounded down.
• Unbreaking can reduce reflection durability loss.
• Reflection Cooldowns: Missing = 3 seconds | Successful = 0.5 seconds.
• Using Blade Staffs with 1-Hand disables auto-attacking, reflection ability and reduces attack speed.
• Living and Sentient versions: Remove Call of the Hive potion effect from nearby entities while held.
• All Blade Staffs share the same reflection cooldown, preventing inventory swapping from bypassing it*
• Reflection uses a fast spinning animation.
• Successful reflections play a distinct custom sound!

Reflection Damage

Special bonuses:

• Silver reflects 200% damage against undead enemies.
• Gold reflects 100% damage while its matching RLCraft gold armor bonus is active.

🛡️ Sun-War Bulwark

• Extremely durable fortress shield.
• Provides 15% passive damage reduction while ready.
• Need both hands to shield.
• Shields attacks from every direction.
• Works as a weapon, attacks deal 1 damage + total armor points [only main hand].
• Shield Bash does an AOE attack of 4-blocks & disables shield for 4 seconds.
• 40% movement penalty while carried.
• 75% movement penalty while shielding.
• Auto-shields in vanilla GUI [chests, menus, etc.] when 2-handed. (Loot Goblins Rejoice!)
• Does not block environmental damage (falling, fire, lava, drowning, starvation, cactus damage, suffocation).
• Blocking attacks builds Guard Strain.
• Reaching maximum Guard Strain temporarily disables the shield.
• Guard Strain naturally decreases.

The Sun-War Bulwark is inspired by the traditional account of El Pípila during the 1810 assault on the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in Guanajuato, Mexico: a miner remembered for carrying a stone slab on his back as protection while reaching and burning the fortified building’s gate.

🛡️ Tartsy Shield

A tactical offense and mobility oriented shield.

• One-handed spiked shield.
• Completely negates all damage when shielding.
• Cooldown 4 seconds after blocking 1 attack or using dash ability.
• Attack while guarding to use dash attack ability forward.
• The dash grants 1 second of damage immunity and deals 2 damage.
• Enemies hit get Stunned for 1 second.
• Hitting an enemy gives player’s next melee attack a guaranteed critical.

💫 Stunned

Stunned is a new Arsenal status effect.

• Temporarily disables affected mob AI.
• AI is restored when the effect expires.
• Used by charged Morning Star attack, Tartsy Shield dash, and reflected projectiles from Blade Staff.
• Configurable blacklists can prevent selected entities from being affected.

✨ Arsenal Enchantments

Long Chain

• Exclusive to Flails and Balls & Chains.
• Adds +1 horizontal block of reach per level in X & Z axis.

Rotation Force

• Exclusive to Flails and Balls & Chains.
• Adds +0.2 attack speed per level.
• Speeds up attacks and their matching animations.
• Also accelerates Ball & Chain throw/return speed.
• Default maximum level is III.

Recovery

• Halves the ability cooldown of Tartsy Shield.
• Halves the ability cooldown of Sun-War Bulwark.
• Halves reflect ability cooldown for Blade Staffs in the 1.20.1 and 26.1.2 editions.

Breeched

• Curse counterpart to Recovery.
• Doubles Tartsy Shield and Sun-War Bulwark ability cooldowns.
• Incompatible with Recovery.

Reverso

• Exclusive to Blade Staffs.
• Reflection heals the user instead of damaging the attacker.
• Healing scales with the Blade Staff’s normal reflection amount.
• Repairs durability equal to the resulting healing rounded up.
• Removes the Stun effect from reflected projectiles.
• Plays its own successful-healing sound.

Luna

• Exclusive to Morning Stars.
• Increases charged attack AOE by 25% per level.
• Reduces charge time by 25% per level.
• Maximum level II.

Magic Log

• Exclusive to Battering Rams.
• Reduces hunger usage from charging and breaking blocks by 50%.
• Converts Battering Ram damage to magic damage.

Endure

• Exclusive to Scimitars.
• Maximum level I per Scimitar.
• Each enchanted Scimitar provides a 25% chance to resist a guard break.
• Each enchanted Scimitar reduces failed guard recovery by 25%.
• Enchanting both Scimitars stacks the effect up to 50%.

Arsenal equipment works with compatible vanilla enchantments.

Arsenal shields support Thorns when shield enchantments are enabled.

Flails, Balls & Chains and Claws cannot receive ‘So Many Enchantments’ Swifter Slashes where that enchantment is installed. [RLCraft]

⚙️ Configuration

Configuration options vary by Minecraft version and can include:

• Individual recipe/content switches for weapon families and shields.
• A master switch for all Arsenal enchantments.
• Individual switches for each Arsenal enchantment.
• Long Chain and Rotation Force level caps.
• Flail and Ball & Chain reach settings.
• Morning Star charge duration.
• Matching Gold and Silver armor bonuses.
• Shield-enchanting support.
• Stunned entity blacklists.
• Living-to-Sentient evolution requirements.
• Configurable weapon effects.
• Configurable Arsenal equipment for eligible naturally spawned vanilla humanoids.

Restart Minecraft after changing options. Clients and servers should use matching combat configurations.

📦 Materials and Progression

Minecraft 26.1.2

Weapons are available in:

• Wood
• Stone
• Copper
• Gold
• Iron
• Diamond
• Netherite

Netherite weapons upgrade from their matching Diamond version through the Smithing Table.

Minecraft 1.20.1

Standalone tiers include:

• Wood
• Stone
• Copper
• Gold
• Iron
• Diamond
• Netherite

Optional material integrations can also provide:

• Silver
• Bronze
• Steel
• Umbrium
• Dragonbone
• Flamed, Iced and Electric Dragonbone
• Desert and Jungle Myrmex
• Myrmex Stinger Variants
• Living
• Sentient

Optional tiers appear when their required materials are installed. Netherite weapons upgrade from their matching Diamond version through the Smithing Table.

Minecraft 1.12.2

Standalone tiers include:

• Wood
• Stone
• Gold
• Iron
• Diamond

When their source mods are installed, Arsenal can also provide compatible tiers such as:

• Silver
• Bronze
• Steel
• Umbrium
• Dragonbone
• Flamed, Iced and Electric Dragonbone
• Desert and Jungle Myrmex
• Myrmex Stinger Variants
• Living
• Sentient

Unavailable optional tiers remain hidden when their required materials or mods are absent.

🔌 Optional 1.12.2 Compatibility

The 1.12.2 edition can automatically integrate with supported installations of:

• RLCraft equipment-set bonuses
• Reskillable
• Quality Tools
• Spartan Weaponry
• Spartan Fire
• Ice and Fire
• Quark
• XAT
• Scape and Run: Parasites
• Distinct Damage Descriptions
• JEI
• RLCombat
• Mo’ Bends
• So Many Enchantments

Examples:

• Magic Infused Weapon support for Gold Arsenal weapons. [RLCraft]
• Quicksilver Hands attack-speed support for Silver weapons. [RLCraft]
• Configurable XAT race weapon affinities.
• Tier-appropriate Reskillable requirements.
• Material-based Quality Tools reforging.
• Spartan and Witherbone Handle recipes.
• Dragonforge upgrades for Dragonbone weapon families.
• Living and Sentient progression and effects.
• DDD physical and elemental damage distributions with visible damage-type tooltips.
• RLCombat-aware dual-wielded Scimitar damage and offhand modifiers.
• Mo’ Bends-compatible crossed Scimitar guarding.
• So Many Enchantments compatibility and chain-weapon restrictions.

All compatibility features are optional. Arsenal is usable without these mods.

🔌 Optional 1.20.1 Compatibility

The 1.20.1 edition includes optional integration support for available materials and systems such as:

• Ice and Fire
• Scape and Run: Parasites-related materials
• Spartan equipment materials
• Defiled Lands materials
• JustLevelingFork
• Defenders
• Gold and Silver matching armor bonuses

🌍 World Equipment

When enabled in configuration, eligible naturally spawned vanilla humanoids carrying supported vanilla weapons have a default 25% chance to receive a corresponding Arsenal weapon.

• Attempts to preserve the original item’s data and durability ratio.
• Uses an appropriate material tier.
• Can be disabled or adjusted through configuration.

📋 Requirements

• Client and dedicated-server compatible.
• Players and servers must use the same Arsenal version.
• Download the file matching your Minecraft version from the Files page.
• Do not install multiple Arsenal versions in the same profile.

📌 Current Versions

• Minecraft 1.12.2
• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Minecraft 26.1.2

Source code: GitHub — Nanonaitor’s Arsenal

🎨 Artwork Credits

Tartsy Shield, Sun-War Bulwark, Scimitar, Flail, Ball & Chain, and Morning Star artwork was commissioned from and created by Star Artsy.

💙 Special thanks to N, Mariette, SG_Erebus, Hehelma0, and Nischi for testing Arsenal and providing valuable feedback.

📜 License

Copyright © 2026 Nanonaitor. All rights reserved. See the project license for permitted use and distribution.

Minecraft is a trademark of Microsoft. Nanonaitor’s Arsenal is an independent fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft or Mojang.