Ever felt like Bane of Arthropods was underpowered or undesirable compared to Sharpness or even Smite?
This mod reworks Bane of Arthropods by allowing it to:
- Affect Creepers, in addition to arthropods
- Be applied to pickaxes, in addition to regular pickaxe enchants
With this change, you can effectively deal with Creepers and spiders without sacrificing your preferred sword enchantments. A properly enchanted diamond pickaxe can even one-shot a Creeper.
Configuration
The mod is fully configurable, allowing you to enable or disable specific features as needed.
If you’re unfamiliar with mod configuration on Fabric, see this guide:
How to configure mods (Fabric) by Serilum
Available Settings
Set a value to true to disable the corresponding feature:
disableCreeperArthropod = false
disableAnvil = false
disableEnchantingTable = false
Some Pics
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- 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 creepers-are-arthropods-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 56 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.