Aerial Dash

Aerial Dash adds a responsive and configurable mid-air dash to Minecraft.

Press the existing Jump key while airborne to launch yourself in the direction you are looking. The mechanic uses immediate client prediction for responsive controls, while the server independently validates and applies every dash.

Controls

Aerial Dash uses Minecraft's normal Jump binding — Space by default — including keyboard and mouse rebinding.

Press Jump once while airborne to dash.
Press Jump twice quickly while swimming or climbing.
Normal jumps from the ground remain unchanged.
Holding Jump does not repeatedly activate the dash.
After jumping normally, release and press Jump again to dash.

No additional key binding is required.

Movement-aware dashing

Horizontal dash strength scales with the player's final MOVEMENT_SPEED attribute by default.

This means:

Speed effects increase dash distance.
Slowness effects reduce it.
Other attribute-based movement bonuses compose naturally with the dash.

Vertical scaling is separate and disabled by default, keeping vertical movement predictable. Both horizontal and vertical scaling can be configured independently.

Dash charges and recovery

By default, the player has one air dash.

Dash charges are restored by touching:

The ground
Water or another supported swimmable fluid
Ladders, vines, and other climbable blocks

Dashing directly from water or a climbable block is supported. These states use a quick double press so the mechanic does not interfere with ordinary swimming and climbing.

Continuous contact has a configurable recharge delay to prevent dash spam. Alternatively, surface-based charges can be disabled in favor of a configurable timer cooldown.

Dashing also has configurable food and exhaustion requirements.

Skill-based fall protection

The default fall-damage system is designed to help normal exploration without making large falls completely harmless.

Aerial Dash provides three independent settings:

Safe fall distance: increased from the vanilla 3 blocks to 6 blocks by default.
Reset fall distance on dash: clears accumulated fall distance when the server approves a dash.
Full landing protection: optionally cancels all fall damage from the first landing after a dash.

Full landing protection is disabled by default. With the default settings, avoiding damage from a long fall requires saving the dash until close to the ground.

Sounds and particles

The server can configure:

Dash sound and volume
Minimum and maximum sound pitch
Particle type and count
Particle spread and speed
Whether sounds or particles are produced at all

Each client can independently hide Aerial Dash sounds or particles without affecting effects created by Minecraft or other mods.

Invalid or unsupported effect IDs safely fall back to the default phantom-flap sound and cloud particles.

Configuration

Gameplay settings are controlled by the server and synchronized to clients for correct movement prediction.

Server configuration includes:

Global enable switch
Dash power and vertical boost
Horizontal and vertical movement-speed scaling
Reference speed and scaling limits
Number of dash charges
Ground, water, and climbable recharge rules
Surface recharge delay or timer cooldown
Food requirement and exhaustion cost
Safe fall distance
Fall-distance reset
Optional full landing protection
Sound and particle settings

Client configuration includes:

Water/climbable double-press window
Dash sound visibility
Dash particle visibility
Protected-landing sound suppression

Configuration files are generated automatically after the first launch. Restarting the relevant client or server after manually editing a configuration file is recommended.

Supported platforms

Minecraft	Mod loader	Java	Additional dependency
1.20.1	Forge	Java 17	None
1.21.1	NeoForge	Java 21	None
26.1.2	NeoForge	Java 25	None
26.1.2	Fabric	Java 25	Fabric API

Always download the file matching both your Minecraft version and mod loader.

Aerial Dash must be installed on both the client and server. For singleplayer, installing it in the client instance is sufficient because Minecraft starts an integrated server automatically.

Compatibility

Aerial Dash uses standard movement attributes and platform APIs instead of depending on specific movement mods.

It is designed to work naturally with:

Speed and Slowness
Attribute-based movement modifiers
Modded climbable blocks
Supported swimmable fluids

Modpacks

You may include Aerial Dash in any public or private modpack, including monetized modpacks where permitted by the relevant platform rules. No separate permission is required.

When you use the original, unmodified JAR, no additional attribution steps are needed. The license and copyright notice are already bundled inside the JAR, so you do not need to copy them to your modpack page or include separate files.

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