Apothic Category Compat
by night23
Apothic Category Compat is a small server-side Forge and NeoForge mod that fills in weapon and armor categories for Apotheosis loot from other mods.
What it does
Apothic Category Compat assigns Apotheosis loot categories to items from mods such as Cataclysm, Twilight Forest, Epic Fight, Forbidden Arcanus, Traveloptics, Lands and Icaria, whose own assignments are missing or wrong. On Forge the categories are sent through Apotheosis's IMC override API, while on NeoForge 1.21.1 they are added through an Apotheosis data map. Apotheosis is required, and the mod is open source under the MIT License.
Melee weapons get split into the sword or heavy weapon category using their attack speed and damage values; a slow weapon hitting for 10.0 or more lands in the heavy group. Bows, crossbows, tridents, pickaxes, shovels and shields follow their vanilla classes. Stats are read at runtime, and a second pass after mod loading catches weapons whose stats settle late. Environment: it is server-side only, so players join without installing it, and it runs on Forge and NeoForge for 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 with 2.1.0 as the latest file.
Key features
Loot category fixes
Assigns Apotheosis categories to weapons and armor from other mods, where those mods leave them unset or set them wrong.
Weapon classification rules
Melee weapons are split into sword and heavy weapon by attack speed and damage, with name-based rules for greatswords, claymores and halberds.
Config overrides
Item overrides, tag overrides and a per-item option let server owners pick categories, set an item to none or disable pickaxe categorization.
Existing config handling
Configs that predate a change keep their previous values until the config file is deleted and regenerated.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners and modpack authors who run Apotheosis alongside weapon or armor mods whose loot categories are wrong or missing.
How it compares
New Weapons is client and server, released under All rights reserved, and covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge. Apothic Combat is also client and server and under the MIT License, for 1.20.1 – 1.21.1. L_Ender's Cataclysm is client and server, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0, and covers 1.19.2 – 1.21.5. Apothic Category Compat is the only one here that is server-side only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apothic Category Compat | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.1 | Server-side only | 2026-06-17 |
| New Weapons | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-03-04 |
| Apothic Combat | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-01-19 |
| L_Ender's Cataclysm | Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 1.21.5 | Client and server | 2026-09-20 |
Questions
Does Apothic Category Compat require Apotheosis?
Do players need to install Apothic Category Compat?
Which loader and version should a server use?
In the catalog
Apothic Category Compat is one of 17,631 Equipment mods on ModsFinder, and one of 9,216 Equipment mods for Forge. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.
More from night23
Similar mods
What the author says
A small server-side mod for Forge and NeoForge that fills in Apotheosis loot category assignments for weapon and armor mods that don't set them or set them wrong. On Forge it sends categories over Apotheosis's IMC override API; on NeoForge 1.21.1 it adds them through an Apotheosis data map. The universal rule splits…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/apothic-category-compat
- Owner
- night23
- Published
- 2026-04-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15