Die by the Sword Data Pack (26.1.2, 1.21.1) – Hunt Elite Foes to Claim
Java data pack listed for Minecraft 1.21. Download on the author's site.
⬇ DownloadDie by the Sword Data Pack unleashes dangerous elite monsters into your world while rewarding you with powerful empowered equipment. Standard hostiles gain high stats, heavy armor, and unique abilities to push your survival skills to the test. You inspect these threats with a spyglass to unlock details in a custom advancement tree. Defeating these champions yields rare legendary gear and materials to upgrade weapons past netherite tier.
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Features:
- Elite Monster Variants: Hostile mobs have a chance to spawn with boosted stats, extra armor, and special combat abilities.
- Empowered Gear Tier: Upgrade items past Netherite into a stronger equipment tier with boosted combat values.
- Spyglass Bestiary: Staring at elite enemies through a spyglass logs their stats and details into your advancement menu.
- Legendary Drops: Elite foes drop seven unique items packed with huge durability pools that cannot be repaired.
- Special Enchantments: Apply Spearing to tridents for extra thrown damage and Double Tap to bows for double arrow volleys.
- Equipment Empowerment: Items like wolf armor, diamond horse armor, maces, and elytras receive durable upgrades.
- Adds six craftable consumable items to counter status effects and aid in tough fights.
- Spawns even tougher enemies across the world after you defeat a summoned Ender Dragon.
- Excludes specific boss and utility mobs like Wardens, Withers, and Vexes from elite scaling.
- Includes an advancement branch with twelve goals focused on tracking down dangerous foes.
New Enchantments:
- Spearing: Increases throwing damage on Tridents by one point per level up to level 5.
- Double Tap: Fires two arrows per shot and boosts projectile damage on bows while consuming double ammo.
Commands:
/function dbs_main:summon/dbs_<mob>_leader_summon: Summons an elite leader variant of the chosen mob./function dbs_main:give_combat_items: Grants a full set of empowered combat weapons and armor./function dbs_main:give_tools_misc_items: Grants utility items and empowered survival tools./function dbs_main:give_consumable_items: Grants craftable consumable combat items directly to your inventory./function dbs_main:give_all_legendaries: Gives every rare legendary item directly to the player.
How to Use:
- Craft a spyglass and scan distant mobs to identify elite variants and unlock bestiary entries.
- Fight elite monsters carefully to gather rare upgrade materials and legendary gear drops.
- Combine standard netherite gear and specialty equipment with upgrade components to empower them.
- Defeat the Ender Dragon a second time to trigger even stronger elite encounters across your world.
Die by the Sword Data Pack Download Links
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 the file's original source — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Die by the Sword Data Pack (26.1.2, 1.21.1) – Hunt Elite Foes to Claim is a free Minecraft Java datapack. Compatible with Minecraft 1.21.1. Download it and open it directly in the game.