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Critical Strike

by ZsoltMolnarrr · for Minecraft

🍀 Chance based critical hits for melee and ranged attacks!

153KDownloads
6d agoLast updated
GPL-3.0-onlyLicense
Fabric · Forge +1Loaders

About Critical Strike

From Modrinth

🍀 Chance based critical hits for melee and ranged attacks!

Critical Strike

A Minecraft mod that adds chance-based critical hit mechanics for melee and ranged combat, complete with flashy visual and audio feedback. Replicates Critical Hit mechanics from Minecraft Dungeons.

Features

Chance-Based Critical Strikes

  • RNG-based critical hit system that replaces vanilla jump criticals
  • Melee critical strikes - Weapons have a chance to deal bonus damage on hit
  • Ranged critical strikes - Arrows and projectiles can critically hit targets
  • Configurable mechanics - Toggle vanilla jump crits and customize critical chance/damage
  • Batching option - Cache critical chance calculations per tick for performance

Particle and Sound Effects

  • Fancy particle effect are shown on critical strikes:
  • Sparkle - Burst of small sparkles radiating from impact
  • Skull - Floating skull particles that ascend and fade
  • Circle - Expanding animated ring at the center of impact
  • with customizable colors
  • Dynamic sound effects - Two critical hit sound variants with randomized pitch
  • Configurable volume - Separate volume controls for melee and ranged crits

Content

Attributes

  • Critical Hit Chance (critical_strike:chance) - Determines probability of landing a critical hit
  • Base innate bonus: +5%
  • Increased by enchantments and status effects
  • Critical Hit Damage (critical_strike:damage) - Multiplier for critical hit damage
  • Base innate bonus: +50% (1.5x damage)
  • Increased by enchantments and status effects

Enchantments

  • Critical Hit (Max level 5) - Increases critical strike chance by +4% per level
  • Critical Impact (Max level 5) - Increases critical damage by +10% per level
  • Both enchantments work on swords, axes, bows, crossbows, and other weapons

Status Effects

  • Critical Hit Effect - Beneficial potion effect that boosts critical chance (+5% per level)
  • Critical Impact Effect - Beneficial potion effect that boosts critical damage (+10% per level)
  • Available as potions, splash potions, lingering potions, and tipped arrows

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 8 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Gameplay & overhauls

New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Critical Strike as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 7 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorZsoltMolnarrr, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree

Critical Strike, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Critical Strike?

Modrinth lists Critical Strike as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Critical Strike is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is GPL-3.0-only.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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