Viking Legacy 0.1.3 — Arms of the North

Minecraft 26.1.2 · NeoForge 26.1.2.80 · Requires TerraBlender

A combat-focused update. Every weapon in the mod has been rebuilt with its own identity and its own art, the Round Shield finally works like a real shield, and nine new advancements guide you through the systems that had no in-game explanation before.

New

• Battle Axe — a very slow, very heavy two-hander. It cannot attack, mine, or charge while your offhand is occupied. Hold right click for one second to raise it overhead with both hands, then release for a downward slam that deals double damage and starts a three-second cooldown.
• Longbow — trades draw speed for power. It takes 1.5 seconds to reach full draw instead of the vanilla bow's 1.0, and pays that back with arrows that fly 20% faster, carry farther, and group tighter, out of a bow with 576 durability. Takes all the usual bow enchantments. Crafted with string, sticks, and a Tough Handle.
• Wool Hat — a soft Norse cap that completes the wool set.
• Nine new advancements, listed below.

Weapons reworked

• Seax — now a fast short blade. Hold a second Seax in your offhand and every landed main-hand hit is followed by a separate offhand slash, with its own swing, its own durability cost, and its own enchantment damage.
• Bearded Axe — medium swing speed, medium-high damage. Carrying anything in your offhand slows your swing while the axe is in your main hand.
• Viking Spear — now throwable, trident-style, with extended melee reach and a stab animation. Holding a shield in your offhand raises the shield on right click instead of throwing the spear, so you can fight spear-and-board without losing your weapon.
• Round Shield — is now a genuine shield. It raises to block, reduces frontal damage, takes durability from hard hits, and can be disabled by an axe — but it recovers from being disabled twice as fast as a vanilla shield. Crafted from four planks around an iron ingot.

New advancements

Nine additions, built around using the mod rather than just crafting from it.

• Into the Wetwood — set foot in a Northern Wetwood.
• Fields of the North — harvest barley, rye, turnips, and cabbages at full growth.
• Northern Table (challenge) — eat every northern food, all eleven of them.
• Two Blades — cut down a foe with the offhand strike of a paired Seax.
• Shieldwall — turn aside a blow with a raised Round Shield.
• Overhead Strike — fell a foe with the Battle Axe's charged overhead blow.
• Master at Arms (challenge) — take a life with every northern weapon: Seax, Bearded Axe, Battle Axe, Spear, and Longbow.
• Mark of the North — cut a design into stone or timber with a Carving Chisel.
• Sixteen Sigils (challenge) — gather all sixteen carved stones. Their sources span the Overworld, the Nether, and the End.

Art

• The Seax, Bearded Axe, Battle Axe, Viking Spear, and Round Shield were all redrawn from scratch as hand-authored pixel art, with historically grounded silhouettes that stay readable at inventory size.
• The Battle Axe and Viking Spear use dedicated larger in-hand art rather than a scaled-up icon, so held weapons gain real detail instead of magnified pixels.
• The Round Shield is a true 3D model in every context — an octagonal plank disc with a protruding iron boss and a rear grip — repainted as dark red-brown planking behind an iron rim.
• The Battle Axe's special attack has a genuine two-handed overhead animation that lifts as the charge builds, with no third-party animation library.
• The wool set was rebuilt around the blue-clad Viking look: a rib-knit blue cap, a dark-blue tunic with a heavy collar and leather sleeves, brown trousers, and leather boots with pale wool cuffs.

Version 0.1 Complete

With Version 0.1.3, the foundational stage of Viking Legacy is officially complete. Version 0.1 now includes:

• Custom northern biomes and world generation
• Four complete Viking Legacy wood families
• Improved trees, foliage, and natural environments
• New crops, berries, foods, and wild plants
• Viking-style building materials
• Wattle and daub and layered roofing thatch
• The Carving Chisel
• Carved plank and carved stone collections
• New polished building materials
• Viking weapons with specialized combat mechanics
• A functional Round Shield
• The Longbow
• A complete wool clothing set
• Feature-based advancements

Version 0.1 establishes the world, construction, farming, equipment, and combat foundation that future Viking Legacy updates will build upon.