








Simple Spikes is a Minecraft mod introducing a variety of new spike blocks, each causing unique types of damage or effects upon contact. Enhance your base defenses, mob farms, or simply add a strategic new element to your survival world.
The mod utilizes Balm for seamless multi-loader support across Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.

🪵 Variety of Spike Types
Includes wooden spikes (oak, dark oak, birch, jungle, acacia, spruce, warped, crimson, cherry, mangrove, pale oak), stone spikes, cobblestone spikes, slime spikes, copper spikes, iron spikes, gold spikes, diamond spikes, and netherite spikes.🛡️ Unique Damage Mechanics
Different spike variants have unique properties:- Wooden Spikes: Moderate damage, effective for passive defense.
- Stone and Cobblestone Spikes: Higher durability and damage compared to wood.
- Metal Spikes (Iron, Gold, Diamond, Netherite): Higher damage output, durability, and special properties (e.g., ignoring armor).
- Slime Spikes: Special knockback properties, bouncing entities upon contact.
🎨 Detailed Textures & Models
Carefully designed to integrate seamlessly with vanilla aesthetics and other popular resource packs.🛡️ Shields Integration
Shields now interact uniquely with spikes, offering enhanced strategic depth when defending against mobs or other players.
🛠️ Compatibility
Simple Spikes is carefully crafted for optimal compatibility with other mods, particularly those that:
- 🔗 Use Balm as a foundational library for multi-loader functionality.
- ⚔️ Adjust entity or player damage mechanics: Spikes leverage vanilla and Balm-compatible systems.
- 🏰 Modify world generation or mob behavior: Spikes behave consistently across dimensions and interactions.
Encountered a compatibility issue? Please let us know via our issue tracker.

- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.5
- 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 simple_spikes-neoforge-1.21.5-21.5.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 168 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.