Weapon trails

Give your melee attacks a little more style.

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⚔️ Weapon Trails

Give your melee attacks a little more style.

Weapon Trails is a lightweight Minecraft datapack that adds a subtle particle trail whenever you swing a sword or axe, creating a clean visual slash effect without changing gameplay.

✨ Features

  • ⚔️ Sword trails — Adds a small particle effect when attacking with swords.
  • 🪓 Axe trails — Works with all vanilla axes.
  • Lightweight — Designed to have minimal performance impact.
  • 👥 Multiplayer-friendly — Works with multiple players simultaneously.
  • 🌎 Vanilla — No mods, plugins, or resource packs required.
  • 🔄 Easy to install — Drop it into your world's datapacks folder and you're ready to go.
  • 🎨 Customizable — Particle effects and other settings can be adjusted through the datapack's configuration.

🎮 How It Works

Simply attack with a sword or axe and a small trail of particles will appear around the weapon's swing, giving melee combat a little more visual feedback.

It doesn't add new weapons, change damage values, or alter combat mechanics — it's purely cosmetic.

📦 Installation

  1. Download the datapack.
  2. Place the .zip file inside your world's datapacks folder.
  3. Start/restart the world or run: /reload
  4. That's it!

No client-side installation is required.

🛠️ Compatibility

  • Minecraft Java Edition 26.2
  • Vanilla-compatible
  • Works in singleplayer and multiplayer
  • No mods required
  • No resource pack required

💡 Why?

Minecraft combat can sometimes feel a little... empty visually.

Weapon Trails adds a tiny bit of flair to every swing without turning your screen into a particle explosion. Just a simple slash → ✨.

❤️ Feedback

Found a bug, have an idea, or want another weapon effect? [email protected]

Feel free to report it and I'll take a look.


Weapon Trails Small effect. Big difference.

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