Shoving Shovels

Only shovels receive the increased knockback, so a shovel becomes a usable melee weapon instead of a digging tool alone. Hitting an enemy marks it, and the shove sends that enemy along the path the player is facing, so several mobs lined up in front can be gathered together. A shoved enemy that strikes a wall takes weakness and slowness. A critical hit launches the target upward rather than forward, and in version 1.21 and later the effect creates a small explosion that deals no damage and can boost the player over a wall.

The shove damage and distance can be changed, and each shovel type can be set separately, for example to give gold shovels a stronger shove. The config file is created on first launch and lists the modded shovels found inside the Mudpack mod, which is required. Files exist for Forge and NeoForge, for 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, and the environment is server-side only, so players join without installing it. The mod is released under a custom license and is not open source.