Welcome to Nimbu's: Scabbards - a mod intended to add vanilla friendly dyeable scabbards to hold your sword.
Swords can be drawn (and sheathed) at any time with the R key, and will move your current held item elsewhere in your inventory, allowing for easy item management.
Required Dependencies:
Guide (Short):
Scabbard:
Scabbards are crafted with three leather and one string:
Hip Scabbard:
Displays on the hip instead of the back:
Dyeing:
Scabbards can be dyed the same way that leather armour can. Just add any amount of dye with the scabbard in a crafting table.
Weapon Holster:
The weapon holster is a small strap of leather designed to store tools of any size - not simply limited to carrying swords! Crafted with one leather and two string.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as [1.6.1] Nimbu's Scabbards.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 49 KB
- Download link checked 1 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.