By Powder and Steel
by Lykrast
By Powder and Steel adds biome-specific mobs, many of which carry guns, along with ammunition, armor and decorative blocks, and it needs Guns Without Roses to run.
What it does
Mobs spawn according to their biome. Oceans hold Sunken Pirates, Mountains and Hills hold Patrollers, Plains hold Zombunnies, Jungles and Lush Caves hold Abeillons, and the Nether and End areas hold Ensouled Skulls, Gunnubi, Gunomes and Skybenders. Several of these mobs wield guns, and their drops become materials: Sunken Doubloons make slow, hard-hitting guns, Denstgsten Cubes make heavy bullets, Markspebbles make melee blades meant to be used alongside firearms, and Octacles make short-range piercing bullets.
Crafting uses items from those drops, including Burst Rifles that boost firing speed through armor. Biome matching relies on the Forge and vanilla biome tags, so modded biomes are filled with the right mobs. Guns Without Roses is required, and it changes diamond gun recipes. Source code is public, but the license is All rights reserved, so reuse is not granted.
Key features
Biome-specific mobs
Each biome gets its own set of mobs, and several carry guns that players can take from them.
Gun and bullet materials
Drops from the new mobs craft guns, heavy bullets and short-range piercing ammunition.
Armor and decorative blocks
Armor sets raise firing speed, and a large group of decorative blocks uses the new materials.
Modded biome support
Mobs use biome tags so they appear in modded biomes as well as the vanilla ones.
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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
How it compares
New Guns runs on Forge for 1.20.1, is a client and server mod, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only. Armed Pillagers is released under the MIT License and covers 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 on Forge and NeoForge. Guns Without Roses : Expansions is released under the MIT License and is built for Forge 1.20.1 only.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| By Powder and Steel | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-06-17 |
| New Guns | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2025-10-02 |
| Armed Pillagers | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2026-05-17 |
| Guns Without Roses : Expansions | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-12 |
Questions
Does By Powder and Steel need Guns Without Roses?
Which loaders does the mod support for 1.20.1?
Does the server need the mod installed?
In the catalog
By Powder and Steel is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Requires Guns Without Roses and changes its recipes for diamond guns. Adds a variety of biome-specific mobs, some of them wearing guns that you can craft for yourself!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/by-powder-and-steel
- Owner
- Lykrast
- Published
- 2025-04-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15