A mod that backports the Crossbow from the Village and Pillage update!
Dependencies: AssetMover (required on client)
If you're a modpack developer wanting to add Crossbow to a modpack distributed outside of CurseForge or Modrinth, use File Director to avoid reuploading Crossbow's files.
This mod backports crossbows from the Village and Pillage update, including enchantments and animations!
Crossbow is designed to serve as a library for anyone wanting to add custom crossbows, or wanting to add entities that use crossbows! To add a custom crossbow item, have your item class extend ItemCrossbow or implement ICrossbow.
This mod also makes some small changes to fireworks:
- Fireworks credit damage (caused by the explosion) to their user, the same way other projectiles credit damage to their user.
- Fireworks dispensed from a dispenser now travel in the direction they were fired. This is an opt-in config setting, and is backported from Snapshot 19w36a.
- Fireworks explode immediately when impacting a block or entity. This change comes with a new event:
FireworkImpactEvent, which is fired when a firework entity impacts something.
Direct contact: jbred.dev@gmail.com
This mod will not be ported
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.12.2
- 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 Crossbow-v1.2.0-mc1.12.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 136 KB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.