The Manyfold Arsenal

Quickstart

Gather sticks and a crafting material, then use a crafting table to make a dagger or staff. Daggers use one material above a stick; staffs use two matching materials and a stick arranged diagonally.

Try an Iron Dagger:

Try an Iron Staff:

For defense, craft an Iron Shield from planks and an iron ingot:

Equip a weapon in your main hand. Put a shield in your offhand if convenient, then crouch when an entity attacks to use its protective interaction. Try the dagger against a nearby target, then use the staff while several enemies are close together.

Overview

The Manyfold Arsenal adds short-range daggers, sweeping staffs, shields made with different materials, and a set of obsidian tools. The weapons are crafted from familiar materials and used like other held weapons and tools.

What It Adds

• Daggers: Wooden, stone, iron, golden, diamond, obsidian, and netherite.
• Staffs: Wooden, stone, iron, golden, diamond, obsidian, and netherite.
• Shields: Wooden, stone, copper, iron, gold, diamond, obsidian, and netherite.
• Obsidian tools: Sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel, and hoe, as well as the obsidian dagger and staff.

How To Use

• Daggers attack quickly and deal slightly more damage than swords, but have much shorter reach. Get close to your target before attacking.
• Staffs attack with a shorter cooldown than a spear. A hit also damages other entities near the primary target, making staffs useful against groups. Nearby non-hostile entities can be caught in the sweep too.
• Shields can be equipped in either hand. While crouching with one equipped, incoming damage from entity and projectile attacks can be restored as health. On Bedrock, crouching is also the usual shield-blocking control.
• Obsidian tools work as the corresponding tool types: use the pickaxe for mining, the axe for chopping, the shovel for digging, and the hoe for tilling.

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft daggers and staffs at a crafting table. The material choices are planks, cobblestone, iron ingots, gold ingots, diamonds, obsidian, and netherite ingots. Each dagger uses one material and a stick; each staff uses two matching materials and a stick.

Dagger	Recipe
Wooden
Stone
Iron
Golden
Diamond
Obsidian
Netherite

Staff	Recipe
Wooden
Stone
Iron
Golden
Diamond
Obsidian
Netherite

Shield recipes use planks around the outside with the named shield material in the upper middle. For a Wooden Shield, use planks for both the surrounding pieces and the center material.

Shield	Recipe
Wooden
Stone
Copper
Iron
Gold
Diamond
Obsidian
Netherite

The obsidian sword and mining tools are also crafted at a crafting table:

Obsidian tool	Recipe
Sword
Pickaxe
Axe
Shovel
Hoe

Abilities And Mechanics

Staff sweeps damage nearby entities around the enemy you hit, in addition to that primary target. Daggers have limited attack reach, so move close before striking. Crouching with a Manyfold Arsenal shield equipped lets you recover health from damage caused by entity or projectile attacks.

Progression And Strategy

Start with wooden or stone weapons, then craft higher-material versions as you gather resources. Choose daggers for quick, close-range attacks and staffs when you want to hit a cluster of enemies. Keep your shield equipped and crouch when incoming attacks make defense important.