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Legacy old PvP
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.9–26.x. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
1.8 combat for modern Minecraft: spam clicking, sword blocking, 1.8 damage, knockback and armour. Spigot, Paper and Folia, 1.9 to 26.3.
⬇ Download on ModrinthLegacy old PvP brings 1.8 combat back to modern Minecraft. Spam clicking, sword blocking, 1.8 damage, knockback and armour, all fully configurable. One jar runs on Spigot, Paper and Folia from 1.9 up to 26.3.
Features
Every feature can be turned off, limited to certain worlds, or given a permission.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Spam clicking | No 1.9 attack cooldown. Maces keep theirs; tridents and spears do not. |
| No sweep attack | Sweep damage, particle and sound are all gone, on every version. |
| No 1.9 attack sounds | Hides strong, weak, crit, knockback and no-damage sounds. |
| 1.8 damage | Nerfed axes, Sharpness +1.25 per level, 1.8 Strength and Weakness, crits while sprinting. |
| Sword blocking | Right click a sword to block: damage becomes (damage + 1) / 2. |
| 1.8 knockback | For players and mobs, from melee hits, projectiles and fishing rods, including sprint hits, Knockback and Punch. |
| 1.8 armour | 4% per point with no toughness, and 1.8 Protection maths. |
| 1.8 regeneration | 1 health every 4 seconds with 18+ food, no fast saturation healing. |
| 1.8 golden apples | The old enchanted apple effects and the 8 gold block recipe. |
| Old fishing rods | Hooks knock players and mobs back and fly like 1.8, without reeling players in. |
| Projectile knockback | Snowballs, eggs and ender pearls push players back. |
| No ender pearl cooldown | Or a custom one. |
| Crafting and off hand | Block crafting certain items (shields by default), or turn the off hand off. |
| Minigame extras | Click bow, click reload crossbow and crossbow insta shot. All off by default. |
Sword blocking on every version
- 1.21.5+ (Paper, Folia, Spigot): the sword itself blocks, using the vanilla
blocks_attacksitem component. The client shows the 1.8 block pose. No resource pack needed. - Older servers: the plugin generates a resource pack that draws a shield as the sword it is hiding. For players who load the pack, a held sword already is that item, so blocking starts and stops instantly on their own client, with no hand animation, exactly like 1.8. Damage, Sharpness, Knockback, durability, Mending and commands such as
/enchantall still apply to the real sword. - Players without the pack: they get the shield only while blocking, and the sword back the moment they let go.
- ViaVersion 5 installed: players on 1.21.2+ clients block with the sword itself, no pack involved.
Setup
- Drop the jar in
plugins/and restart. - On servers older than 1.21.5, set
sword-blocking.disguise.resource-pack.host.public-addressinconfig.ymlto the address players connect to, so the built-in host can serve the pack. You can also host the generatedsword-blocking-pack.zipanywhere and setresource-pack.url, or merge it into your own server pack. /legacypvp statusshows which features are active, and/legacypvp reloadreloads the config. Both needlegacypvp.admin.
Bedrock Edition
Go to LegacyOldPvP on CloudBurstMC, and follow the steps written there.
Compatibility
- Servers: Spigot, Paper, Folia and forks, 1.9 through 26.3.
- Clients: any version the server accepts, including modern clients through ViaVersion or ViaProxy.
- Tested: bots run the full combat suite on Paper 1.9.4, 1.12.2, 1.16.5, 1.17.1, 1.20.4, 1.21.4 and 26.1, Spigot 1.20.4 and 26.1.2, Folia 26.1, and a ViaVersion setup, including a run with 150 ms of latency. Paper 1.9.4 and 1.20.4, Spigot 1.9.4 and 26.2, Folia 26.2 and Paper 26.3 were also played by hand.
Known limits
- On 1.9 to 1.11.1 there is no API to clear the ender pearl cooldown, and on 1.9 and 1.10 fishing hooks cannot report what they hit, so those parts are skipped there.
- On servers older than 1.21.5, a held sword is a shield to the server while the pack disguise is active, so other plugins that read the held item may see a shield. Commands the player runs, and the commands listed in
disguise.real-sword-commands, always get the real sword. Settingdisguise.hold: falselimits the disguise to the moments a player is blocking.
Licence
Proprietary. All Rights Reserved. You may run it on your server; you may not redistribute or modify it.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2
- 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.
File checked by MCModsHub
- Ships as LegacyOldPvP-1.0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 167 KB
- Download link checked 10 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.