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.
• Right-Click while dual wielding to shield by crossing blades!
• Inflict weakness on enemies hit 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]
• Every 4th fully charged paired hit becomes a guaranteed critical [2 Handed Only]
• 50% less knockback than regular weapons for easier combos.

⛓️ Flails

An weapon intended to hit surrounding groups of enemies in a circle around the player. Good versus land mobs around the player, exchange 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 or shield while spinning.

🪵 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.
• 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].

⚫ 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 accelerates rotations x2 and reduces movement speed by 20%! [2-Handed Only]
• Holding with 1-hand reduces attack speed by 50%.

Throw damage and reach

Gold & Silver skips charge 2 w/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.

⚔️ Blade Staffs

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

• Auto-Attacks while attack button active. [2 Handed Only]
• Melee attacks hit all mobs within 2 blocks of struck mob [Sentient does 3 blocks].
• The "use" button activates reflection ability for 1 second [2 Handed Only].
• While reflecting you can't attack, makes any mob attack reflect damage you would have received (without armor).
• Reflected projectile attacks Stun the attacker for 1 second.
• Harmful potion effects are reflected back to the attacker.
• 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.

🛡️ 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 supported GUI menu's [chests, menus, etc.] when 2-handed. (Loot Goblins Rejoice!)
• Does not block environmental damage (falling, fire, lava, drowning, starvation, cactus damage, suffocation).

🛡️ 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 his 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.

✨ 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.

Recovery

• Halves the ability cooldown of Tartsy Shield.
• Halves the ability cooldown of Sun-War Bulwark.
• Halves reflect ability cooldown for Blade Staffs.

Arsenal equipment works with vanilla enchantments.

📦 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 1.12.2

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

Examples include:

• Magic Infused Weapon support for Gold Arsenal weapons.
• Quicksilver Hands attack-speed support for Silver weapons.
• 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.

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

📋 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.

📌 Current Versions

• Minecraft 1.12.2: Arsenal 2.0.0
• Minecraft 26.1.2: Arsenal 2.0.0

Source code: GitHub — Nanonaitor’s Arsenal

🎨 Artwork Credits

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.