bring back disarmed tripwire
by F1nal04
With bring back disarmed tripwire installed, a shear hit on a tripwire string disarms it again, restoring the behavior that Minecraft dropped in a later update.
What it does
Before a later Minecraft update, using shears on a tripwire string disarmed the tripwire, and the string stayed in place. Bring Back Disarmed Tripwire restores that behavior for the current game. The first shear hit leaves the string on the ground in a disarmed state and costs the shears 1 durability. A later hit on a string that is already disarmed breaks it normally, as in vanilla.
The mod runs on the server side only, so players who join a modded server do not need to install anything. It works in singleplayer and on dedicated servers. A server owner installs Fabric Loader and Fabric API, places the built JAR in the mods folder, and starts the server. Vanilla clients can connect without the mod. Fabric API must be present alongside it.
The mod is published for Fabric only, with a 1.1.0 file for 1.21.10 dated 2025-11-19 and builds covering 1.21.8 and 1.21.10. It is released under the MIT License and is open source, with public source code and an issue tracker.
Key features
Disarm on first shear hit
The first shear hit on an armed tripwire string turns it into a disarmed string that stays in place.
Durability cost on disarm
Disarming a tripwire costs the shears 1 durability, while the string remains on the ground.
Normal break on second hit
Shearing a string that is already disarmed breaks it normally, matching the behavior of unmodified Minecraft.
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.
Required 1
Use cases
Restoring old tripwire traps
Builders who rely on disarmed strings as a fixed marker can keep that behavior on 1.21.8 and 1.21.10.
Dedicated servers
Server owners can add the restored behavior without requiring anything of the players who join.
Who it’s for: Players and server owners who want shears to disarm tripwire the way it worked in earlier versions, on Fabric and Fabric API.
Questions
Does Bring Back Disarmed Tripwire require Fabric API?
Do players need the mod to join a server that runs it?
Which game versions does the mod support?
In the catalog
bring back disarmed tripwire is one of 29,952 Game mechanics mods on ModsFinder, and one of 19,630 Game mechanics mods for Fabric. 15,569 mods support Minecraft 1.21.10.
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What the author says
Restores the pre-1.21.1 behavior of tripwire: when you use shears on tripwire string, it is disarmed instead of broken. The remapped JAR will be in build/libs/.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/bring-back-disarmed-tripwire
- Owner
- F1nal04
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-11-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15