Vanilla²

A Fabric combat and progression overhaul that keeps Minecraft close to vanilla while expanding weapons, armor, enchantments, and combat utility.

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Overview

Vanilla² is a Minecraft Fabric mod that modernizes combat, enchanting, and item progression without replacing the vanilla identity of the game. It rebalances weapon and armor behavior, extends vanilla combat math, adds a recipe-driven enchanting system, introduces new special enchantments, and improves several combat quality-of-life interactions on both server and client.

Features

• Rebalances sword, axe, spear, trident, mace, shield, fishing rod, armor, tool, and weapon behavior.
• Expands armor, protection, magic protection, mace protection, spear protection, and dripstone protection handling beyond vanilla limits.
• Updates combat damage calculations so higher armor and absorb values continue to scale correctly.
• Adds new attributes and damage types for expanded combat interactions.
• Changes item durability and combat stats by material for tools, weapons, armor, and fishing rods.
• Changes potion stack sizes.
• Lets fishing rods work as combat tools with hook damage and enchantment integration.
• Lets sword targeting pass through configured blocks such as grass and flowers.
• Improves offhand interaction priority for fishing rod combat cases.~~~~

Enchanting overhaul

Vanilla² replaces much of vanilla enchanting with a recipe-based enchantment table and an enchantment recipe book.

• Adds enchanting recipes for vanilla and Vanilla² enchantments.
• Adds enchantment recipe discovery through loot, fishing, piglin bartering, villager librarians, and structure chests.
• Adds an enchanting recipe book UI and server/client synchronization for known recipes and selected recipes.
• Adds enchantment slot categories such as Special, Damage, Secondary, Defense, Utility, and Curse.
• Supports enchantment profiles so an enchantment can have different behavior depending on the selected slot/profile.
• Rebalances almost all vanilla enchantments(+channeling got a rework).

Enchantments

Vanilla² changes many vanilla enchantments and adds new ones.

New enchantments

• Dash - burst forward and strike entities caught in the lunge.
• Fractured - mine multiple blocks asynchronously through manual clicks.
• Ruthless - greatly increases attack damage at a self-damage cost.
• Swirling - spin with your weapon and repeatedly strike nearby enemies.
• Void Strike - applies the Voided effect to targets.

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2.
• Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer.
• Fabric API 0.154.2+26.2 or compatible.
• Java 25 or newer.

Installation

1. Download the latest Vanilla² jar from the releases page.
2. Install Fabric Loader and Fabric API for the supported Minecraft version.
3. Place the Vanilla² .jar file in your mods folder.
4. Restart Minecraft or your server.

Compatibility notes

• Vanilla² is a gameplay overhaul and intentionally changes vanilla combat and enchanting behavior.
• The mod declares an incompatibility with ViaFabricPlus.
• Client resources such as HUD changes are client-side, while combat and enchanting rules are server-authoritative.

Development

Updates Release in a 1-2 week cycle. Development builds are available on the Discord.

Version Naming

Alpha, Beta and Releases

Version	Version Number	Release Time
Alpha	-2.majorVersion.minorVersion	Latest development build.
Beta	-1.majorVersion.minorVersion	When all Alpha plans are finished.
Release	0.majorVersion.minorVersion	When the mod is stable and playable.