WaterStand
A Minecraft plugin that Prevents armor stands from taking fire tick damage while submerged in water, restoring pre-1.21.11 behavior. Useful for trappers
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A minimal, ultra-optimized Paper plugin designed to fix a specific behavior introduced in recent Minecraft versions (1.21.11+) where Armor Stands take FIRE_TICK damage even when submerged in water, which often breaks existing water-based traps or decorative setups.
Useful for trappers who is used to the armorstand critouts by Shadow
🚀 Features
Targeted Fix: Specifically cancels FIRE_TICK damage for ArmorStand entities ONLY when they are in water. Ultra-Performance: Fast Filtering: Uses high-speed enum comparisons to discard irrelevant events in nanoseconds. Smart Execution: Employs EventPriority.LOWEST and ignoreCancelled = true to ensure the lowest possible CPU overhead. Zero Footprint: No background tasks, no commands, and no configuration files needed. Plug & Play: Works immediately upon installation.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as WaterStand-1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 4 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
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