Walking Canes
Let's be honest about offhand slots. Most players park a shield there and forget about it, blocking the occasional creeper blast while contributing nothing else to the adventure. Walking Canes flips that habit on its head by turning your offhand into a genuine mobility tool. This add-on replaces the boring shield routine with a collection of elegant, hand-crafted canes that make you faster, tougher, and considerably more dapper while you explore.
What Walking Canes Brings to Your World
Every cane in this add-on grants a 15% speed boost simply by being held in your offhand. That is a meaningful bump when you are crossing biomes, outrunning mobs, or hauling a full inventory of ore back to base. On top of the raw speed, each cane comes with its own passive effect, and they all feature custom 3D models that give your character a distinguished silhouette. No more bland sticks and shields. These are proper accessories.
The Full Cane Lineup
- Walking Cane - Crafted from a gold ingot, sticks, and a polar bear tooth. The straightforward starter cane with the standard speed boost.
- Bamboo Cane - Made with two bamboo and a piece of string. Lightweight, cheap, and perfect for early-game travel.
- Cane of the Sea - Built from copper ingots, prismarine shards, and a heart of the sea. Grants speed plus a Depth Strider effect, making ocean crossings far less painful.
- Cane of Undying - Requires ravager horns and a totem of undying. It gives the speed boost and functions exactly like a totem while sitting in your offhand, so death becomes a minor inconvenience rather than a disaster.
- Shulker Cane - Assembled from phantom membranes, shulker shells, and end rods. Beyond the speed boost, it improves elytra flight by negating wall crash damage and extending hover time.
That last one deserves emphasis. Elytra pilots who have ever smacked into a cliff at full tilt will immediately understand the value of crash immunity. Combined with longer hover time, the Shulker Cane turns rough terrain into a playground.
Version Support and Loaders
Walking Canes is built for modern Minecraft releases and is distributed as a Fabric mod, so you will need the Fabric Loader and Fabric API installed before it will run. The add-on has been maintained across several recent 1.20.x and 1.21.x versions, and it plays nicely alongside other offhand and equipment mods in a typical Fabric modpack. If you run a vanilla-adjacent setup with only a handful of quality-of-life additions, this one slots in without drama.
If you would rather skip the manual file shuffling entirely, the foxygame.net launcher handles the whole process for you, offering a curated add-on catalog where Walking Canes can be selected and installed with a single click. It also keeps your mods updated automatically, so you never have to chase a new build after a game patch.
How to Install Walking Canes
Getting the add-on running is a short process, even if you are new to modding.
- Install the Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version.
- Place the Fabric API jar into your mods folder.
- Download Walking Canes from a trusted source and drop the jar into the same mods folder.
- Launch the game using the Fabric profile and confirm the mod appears in your mod list.
Once you are in-game, gather the materials for your first cane and craft it at a standard crafting table. The recipes are not complicated, though the Cane of Undying and Shulker Cane will require trips to a woodland mansion and an End city respectively. Start with the Bamboo Cane if you want a fast, cheap introduction to the speed boost.
Why It Belongs in Your Modpack
Walking Canes solves a small but persistent problem: the offhand slot is wasted potential. By tying speed, utility, and survival effects to a single item type, it rewards players for thinking about loadouts instead of defaulting to a shield. The 3D models add personality, the progression from bamboo to shulker shell gives you long-term goals, and the passive effects scale with how deep into the game you are.
Whether you are a builder who wants to traverse large projects faster, an explorer mapping distant biomes, or a redstone tinkerer who simply appreciates well-made gear, there is a cane here for you. Craft one, hold it in your offhand, and see how much smoother the game feels when your accessory is actually pulling its weight.