There are three primary enchantments you can put on swords and axes: Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods. In practice, however, only Sharpness is ever used, with the occasional Smite for use in wither skeleton or wither farming.<\/p>\n
To rectify this, this datapack\/mod adds the following features:
\n– Hitting an entity with a Smite weapon grants Haste 1 for 2-6 seconds (scaling with level), which increases your attack speed by 10%.
\n– Hitting an entity with a Bane of Arthropods weapon grants Speed 1 for 1-3 seconds (scaling with level).<\/p>\n
The goal here is to provide some uses cases for these enchantments, in addition to their existing effects – for example, Smite axes will do a lot more damage as they have high damage but low attack speed, while a Bane of Arthropods sword has plenty of use in chasing down fleeing players or kiting them with while bowing them down.<\/p>\n
This datapack isn’t perfect (I made it in one night), so feel free to go inside and edit the values for the buffs as you see fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Buffs Smite and Bane of Arthropods to be viable compared to Sharpness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25180,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"balanced-weapons","_minecraft_project_id":"dD3Ehzqi","_minecraft_author":"badooga","_minecraft_license":"CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0","_minecraft_downloads":10384,"_minecraft_follows":21,"_minecraft_client_side":"unsupported","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"balanced-weapons.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":5378,"_minecraft_version_count":2,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-15T22:58:56.303089Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2023-08-07T18:36:26.761998Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2023-08-04T07:27:22.357676Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/balanced-weapons","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":25180,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-01T08:57:14+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"869d316ca80fbefedb6c2c2f35d0f0c6","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[87,84,88,97,104,89,158,98],"mod_loader":[86,99,106,160,100],"minecraft_version":[49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,36,60,93,94],"class_list":["post-25179","mod","type-mod","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mod_category-adventure","mod_category-datapack","mod_category-equipment","mod_category-fabric","mod_category-forge","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-neoforge","mod_category-quilt","mod_loader-datapack","mod_loader-fabric","mod_loader-forge","mod_loader-neoforge","mod_loader-quilt","minecraft_version-1-17","minecraft_version-1-17-1","minecraft_version-1-18","minecraft_version-1-18-1","minecraft_version-1-18-2","minecraft_version-1-19","minecraft_version-1-19-1","minecraft_version-1-19-2","minecraft_version-1-19-3","minecraft_version-1-19-4","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-20-2","minecraft_version-1-20-3","minecraft_version-1-20-4"],"yoast_head":"\n