
Description
Wither Skeletons guard the Nether Fortress with their menacing Stone Swords. That's all well and good, until you start killing a couple and your inventory is suddently filled with a dozen of half-broken stone swords.
Given that by the time you reach the Nether, you probably have higher tier tools than stone (and stone isn't really hard to come by), the fact that Wither Skeletons drop their swords is mostly useless and will only clog your inventory for no reason.
This datapack fixes it by setting their drop chances to 0 for their weapon. Note that if a Wither Skeleton was to pickup a sword dropped by a player (say you got killed and one of them picked up your diamond sword), the Wither Skeleton would still drop it normally.
Performances
This datapack has been optimized to have minimal impact on performances, logic is run every 1s and only runs on Wither Skeletons in the Nether Dimension and marks already checked skeletons with a tag to not re-process them.
Issues / Bugs
Feel free to report issues on the Github project page.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.9, 1.21.10, 1.21.11
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Wither Skeleton no Stone Sword drop.zip
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.