More Swords Mod 0.1.0-26.1.2 Changelog

A major combat, progression, and polish update for More Swords Mod. This release focuses on giving each weapon a clearer identity, adding real progression paths, improving tooltips/audio/visuals, and preparing the mod for a cleaner public release.

Compatibility

• Updated for Minecraft 26.1.2.
• Requires Java 25.
• Requires Fabric Loader 0.18.4 or newer.
• Built with Fabric API 0.146.0+26.1.2.
• The mod metadata allows Minecraft 26.1.x, but 26.1.2 is the primary tested version.

Highlights

• Added the full Bone Scythe soul harvesting and summoning system.
• Added Wind Staff mobility, gliding, entity launch, and mounted gust mechanics.
• Reworked Lightning Staff into a simple direct Stormcall lightning caster.
• Added Obsidian Greatsword heavy combat identity with armor pressure and Grand Slam.
• Added component-based katana crafting with hilts, guards, blades, and smithing upgrades.
• Added custom sounds, subtitles, tooltips, flavor text, recipes, loot drops, creative-tab organization, and release metadata polish.

Added

Bone Scythe

• Added Soul Reaping.
• Hostile kills with the Bone Scythe can store Soul Imprints.
• Valid kills can grant Soul Charges with tier-scaled chances.
• Added an imprint selection system using Sneak + Right Click.
• Added a summon window that converts stored soul charges into summon weight.
• The Bone Scythe can store up to 10 Soul Charges and 8 Soul Imprints.
• The summon window lasts 10 seconds and uses a direct 1 charge to 1 summon weight economy.
• Added reaped soul summons using the actual harvested mob types.
• Added a 5-tier summon roster with weighted summons.
• Current summon roster:
  • Tier 1 / Weight 1: Silverfish, Endermite, Baby Zombified Piglin, Baby Hoglin
  • Tier 2 / Weight 2: Zombie, Baby Zombie, Husk, Baby Husk, Drowned, Baby Drowned, Skeleton, Spider, Slime
  • Tier 3 / Weight 3: Bogged, Cave Spider, Stray, Parched, Pillager, Piglin, Zombified Piglin, Magma Cube, Wither Skeleton
  • Tier 4 / Weight 4: Hoglin, Zoglin, Blaze, Vindicator
  • Tier 5 / Weight 5: Piglin Brute, Iron Golem, Ravager, Evoker
• Added baby soul variants for supported mobs.
• Added slime and magma cube size preservation.
• Added evoker support, including owner-bound helper Reaped Vex summons.
• Added a cap of 3 active reaped souls at once.
• Added persistent action-bar summon window feedback showing remaining time, summon weight, and active summon count.
• Added owner-bound temporary ally behavior for reaped summons.
• Added Grave-Bound soul particle links from active summons back toward the owner while the Bone Scythe is held.
• Added unused summon weight refunds.
• Added Final Recall to dismiss summons early and refund eligible weight.
• Added Grave Garrison to teleport active summons back to the player and focus nearby threats.
• Added editable Bone Scythe keybinds for Final Recall and Grave Garrison.
• Added custom networking payloads for Bone Scythe command inputs and katana animation sync.
• Added cross-dimension summon tracking and recovery behavior.
• Added cleanup for orphaned reaped summons.
• Added the Ossuary enchantment for the Bone Scythe, extending reaped summon lifetime by 5 seconds per level.
• Added dissipate particles and sound when reaped souls are recalled or expire.
• Added custom Bone Scythe sounds and subtitles.

Wind Staff

• Added Wind Staff mobility and control behavior.
• Added Wind Leap.
• Added active Gale Glide.
• Added fall-damage protection while gliding.
• Added target-use launch/control behavior.
• Added Wind Staff functionality while held in either hand.
• Added mounted gust boost for living mounts.
• Added stabilization for mounted gust movement to reduce momentum loss and packet-related stalls.
• Added client-side looping glide audio with fade-in/fade-out.
• Added subtitle refresh behavior while gliding.

Lightning Staff

• Reworked the Lightning Staff into Stormcall.
• Right click now casts a direct lightning strike where the player aims.
• Added a 16-block range.
• Added a 3-second cooldown.
• Added 3 durability cost per cast.
• Lightning is now visual-only for block impact, preventing ground fire.
• Direct entity hits still receive vanilla thunderHit, preserving lightning damage, burning, and mob transformations.
• Removed the older static buildup/chain lightning behavior.

Katanas

• Added Sheath Strike shield piercing.
• Primed Sheath Strike now bypasses shields using a dedicated damage type.
• Shield-piercing hits disable shields like a vanilla axe.
• Added a dedicated shield-pierce cue.
• Added short dash protection during committed Sheath Strike lunges: projectiles are blocked, melee damage is reduced, and knockback is ignored.
• Added airborne combo synergy: Sheath Strike gives airborne targets extra vertical knockback.
• Reduced dash distance against airborne targets for better combo readability.
• Diamond and Netherite Katanas can inflict brief Weakness on hit.
• Added custom katana strike sounds.
• Added katana ready sound when Sheath Strike recharge completes.
• Added a recharge bar for Sheath Strike readiness.
• Added client-side Sheath Strike animation support.
• Added first-person katana dash pose, FOV kick, item motion, third-person pose, and trail particles.
• Added held katana guard overlay models so guards can visually protrude in held views while preserving clean inventory rendering.
• Added component-based katana crafting:
  • Katana Hilt
  • Iron/Golden/Diamond/Netherite Guards
  • Iron/Golden/Diamond/Netherite Katana Blades
• Added smithing upgrades for Netherite Katana components.

Obsidian Greatsword

• Added heavy weapon identity around armor pressure and area control.
• Heavy melee hits punch through roughly half of the target's armor.
• Added Grand Slam.
• Grand Slam now requires at least 65% swing charge.
• Added red action-bar feedback when slam is not ready.
• Added directional ground-crack particles and heavy impact sound.
• Slam now excludes the player's current vehicle from damage and knockback.
• Reworked crafting into a late-game Netherite Sword upgrade-style recipe.

Progression and Crafting

• Added new progression components:
  • Arcane Rod
  • Withered Rib
  • Scattered Wings
  • Soul Essence
  • Withered Stalk
  • Zephyr Gem
• Added loot drops for Withered Ribs from Wither Skeletons.
• Added loot drops for Scattered Wings from Phantoms.
• Added Looting-aware drop chances for progression materials.
• Added Soul Essence blasting from Soul Sand.
• Added Withered Stalk and Zephyr Gem intermediate recipes.
• Reworked Bone Scythe and Wind Staff recipes around progression materials.
• Updated Wind Staff recipe to use one Arcane Rod.
• Updated Lightning Staff recipe to use Amethyst Shard, Lightning Rod, and one Arcane Rod.
• Reworked all katana recipes around hilt + guard + blade assembly.

Tooltips, Flavor Text, and Localization

• Added shared tooltip formatting support.
• Added structured tooltip sections for special weapons.
• Added flavor text support for simple ingredient/component items.
• Added flavor text for katana components and progression materials.
• Added tooltip spacing before vanilla enchantment lines when custom tooltip blocks are present.
• Updated katana, Wind Staff, Lightning Staff, Bone Scythe, and Obsidian Greatsword tooltips to reflect their current mechanics.
• Added and updated en_us.json entries for new items, tooltips, sounds, messages, and Mod Menu text.

Creative Tabs

• Added the custom Magical creative tab for the full mod item lineup.
• Added mod weapons to the vanilla Combat tab.
• Added mod components and progression materials to the vanilla Ingredients tab.

Enchanting

• Added the treasure-only Ossuary enchantment for the Bone Scythe.
• Ossuary levels I-III increase the reaped summon's lifetime from 15 seconds up to 30 seconds.
• Added modern enchantability tags for custom weapons.
• Vanilla enchantments such as Looting now recognize the intended melee weapons.
• Lightning Staff and Wind Staff can now receive durability-related enchantments such as Unbreaking, Mending, and Curse of Vanishing.

Compatibility and Metadata

• Added lightweight Mod Menu support.
• Added Mod Menu name, summary, description, and links.
• Updated the mod icon.
• Updated mod homepage/source/issues metadata.
• Updated mod description for public release.
• Updated version to 0.1.0-26.1.2.

Changed

• Rebalanced the mod toward distinct weapon roles instead of simple stat upgrades.
• Renamed the Arcane Rod registry id to arcane_rod so the internal id matches the display name.
• Updated finished gold katana naming to vanilla-style Golden Katana.
• Renamed gold katana components to Golden naming.
• Renamed katana blade component IDs to *_katana_blade.
• Reworked Wind Staff glide audio from repeated server sounds into a client-side looping sound.
• Reworked Lightning Staff from a buildup/chain design into a simple direct-cast lightning staff.
• Reworked Obsidian Greatsword crafting into a stronger late-game recipe.
• Refreshed and adjusted multiple item textures, including katana component/weapon textures and Obsidian Greatsword cleanup.
• Updated README into a complete public mod overview.
• Moved recipes to the current data/moreswordsmod/recipe/ path used by this Minecraft version.

Fixed

• Fixed Sheath Strike shield piercing only working reliably from behind.
• Fixed katana shield-pierce audio layering over the normal strike cue.
• Fixed katana recharge behavior that previously made the held model stay visually lowered.
• Fixed Bone Scythe summon tracking through dimension changes.
• Fixed reaped summon orphan edge cases.
• Fixed Grave Garrison failing when summons were left in unloaded dimensions.
• Fixed reaped slime and magma cube summons splitting on death.
• Fixed Wind Staff mounted gust stalls and momentum loss.
• Fixed Wind Staff glide subtitles not refreshing after switching to client-side looping audio.
• Fixed Obsidian Greatsword compile issue around slam-not-ready messages.
• Fixed Obsidian Greatsword slam affecting the player's current mount.
• Fixed katana and Obsidian Greatsword texture transparency artifacts.
• Fixed held katana guard overlay placement and shifted the guard alignment upward by one texture-pixel step.