Spear Skeletons
Spear Skeletons lets wither skeletons pick up and wield spears, using them in melee like other weapons.
What it does
Wither skeletons can take spears from the ground and fight with them, which the vanilla game does not allow. Only some wither skeletons pick up items, and the chance depends on the difficulty setting. Commands can also give spears to other skeleton variants. Spear Skeletons is a server required mod, and players may add it on the client, which fixes the wither skeleton arm pose for vanilla clients. Builds exist for 26.1 – 26.1.2 on Fabric, and the code is open source under the MIT License.
Key features
Spear pickup for wither skeletons
Wither skeletons can pick up spears and use them in melee combat alongside normal weapons.
Difficulty-based pickup
Only some wither skeletons pick up items, and how many do so depends on the chosen difficulty.
Commands for other skeletons
Commands can equip other skeleton variants with spears, so the weapon is not limited to wither skeletons.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
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Questions
Does Spear Skeletons need to be installed on the client?
In the catalog
Spear Skeletons is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 15,189 mods support Minecraft 26.1.2.
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What the author says
Allows wither skeletons to pick up spears & use them, in addition to normal melee weapons in vanilla. Installing on the client fixes the wither skeleton's arm pose, but it will work with vanilla clients.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/spear-skeletons
- Owner
- Archived Potatoes
- Published
- 2026-05-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15