Sprinting Crits

Earlier versions of the game let a player who attacked while sprinting and falling land a critical hit. That ability was later removed except under certain conditions. The Sprinting Crits data pack brings it back with its own critical hit functions, which trigger when the player is falling while sprinting, as opposed to falling without sprinting. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for game versions 1.20.3 – 1.21.5, along with a Data pack build for server platforms.

Because only the server runs the pack, players join without installing anything. The author notes several limits. The sprint crit does not wait for the attack indicator to charge, so it can deal the same damage as a charged hit, which the author calls overpowered. Smite and Bane of Arthropods bonuses are not checked during the calculation, and a fix for attacks made from too far away is planned for a later update. Snapshot builds are published, and the license is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, so the mod is not open source. The source code, issue tracker and wiki are publicly available.

The pack has a data pack form for server platforms, so any server that runs the pack gets the change without a mod loader.