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Bola
The Bola is a primitive throwing weapon — typically made of weights attached to ropes — used to immobilize small and medium-sized creatures. When thrown, it wraps around a target’s legs or body upon impact, ensnaring them. The Bola immobiliz
Quick answer
Which Bola release matches 1.22.3?
Bola 1.4.2 targets 1.22.0-pre.1, 1.22.0-pre.2, 1.22.0-pre.3. It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional. No extra mods listed for this file.
Where it goes
Is Bola required on the client, server, or both?
It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.
This release supports both sides, but the source does not require it on the server.
What else does Bola 1.4.2 need?
1.4.2 on 1.22.3. Every mod below is checked against that same setup.
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
This file does not list any required or optional mods.
Before you install it
Add Bola without breaking your instance.
Built for Bola 1.4.2 on 1.22.3. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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Stick to this file
Use 1.4.2. It targets 1.22.0-pre.1, 1.22.0-pre.2, 1.22.0-pre.3; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.
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Bring the mods it needs
This file does not list any required mods. Do not add a library just because a different file uses it.
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Put it on the correct side
It must be installed on the client. Installation on the dedicated server is optional.
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Pick the file you checked
Use the “Get this file” button beside 1.4.2. It opens that exact file at the source.
About this project
What does Bola add?
The Bola is a primitive throwing weapon — typically made of weights attached to ropes — used to immobilize small and medium-sized creatures. When thrown, it wraps around a target’s legs or body upon impact, ensnaring them.
The Bola immobilizes creatures for 20 seconds, keeping them rooted in place.
Big(like bear and moose), mechanical and corrupted creatures cannot be immobilized!
Bola also cannot be recovered when it hits a creature that can be immobilized!
If Bola hits ground, it will break, leading to 2-4 ropes appearing in place of the hit. If Bola hits a creature that cannot be immobilized, 1-2 ropes will appear in place of the hit instead.
Immobilized creatures cannot be mounted, and players caught in a Bola cannot mount any creatures.
Hitting the creature a player is riding, or the player themselves, with Bola will dismount the rider.
If player becomes entangled in a Bola, they can select an empty Hotbar slot and press the Left Mouse Button to free themselves.
If player wants to release a creature caught in a Bola, they can attack it with empty Hotbar slot while Sneaking to remove the bola.
As of v1.1.0, Bolaed entities can be tied with rope.
Generation of creature gets set to minimum of 2 for it to work, but resets to original value when Bola effect expires or rope gets attached.
As generation is set to minimum of 2, not all creatures can be ropetieable!
If entity gets tied with rope, duration of immobilized state becomes 80 seconds. That allows players to drag creatures with ropes.
As of v1.4.0, baby creatures or creatures that have trappable attribute and non-zero trapping chance, and catched in Bola, can be put into reed chest. Not all creatures can fit into reed chest.
Bola effects are configurable (see the spoiler below).
Config file is created when player creates a world and enters it with mod Bola on.
Mod Config can be found at %appdata%/VintagestoryData/ModConfig/BolaConfig.json
Default contents of BolaConfig.json (for manual creation of config file or restoring original values):
{
"immobilizationTime": 20.0,
"tiedImmobilizationTime": 80.0,
"maxStackSize": 2,
"chanceReturnRopeOnHitGround": 0.25,
"chanceReturnFourRopeOnHitGround": 0.5,
"chanceReturnTwoRopeOnHitNotBolaeable": 0.33,
"chanceReturnRopeOnHit": 0.0,
"returnRopesOnHitAmount": 0
}
Comments:
immobilizationTime - duration of a creature being immobilized after it gets hit by Bola.
tiedImmobilizationTime - duration of a creature being immobilized while tied with rope.
maxStackSize - maximum amount of items in item slot.
chanceReturnRopeOnHitGround - chance for 3 ropes (instead of 2) being dropped if Bola did not hit any creature and instead did hit ground.
chanceReturnFourRopeOnHitGround - chance for 4 ropes (instead of 3) being dropped if Bola did not hit any creature and instead did hit ground and roll for "chanceReturnRopeOnHitGround" was successful.
chanceReturnTwoRopeOnHitNotBolaeable - chance for 2 ropes (instead of 1) being dropped if Bola did hit a creature, but this creature can not be immobilized.
chanceReturnRopeOnHit - chance for ropes of amount "returnRopesOnHitAmount" get dropped if Bola hits a creature that can be immobilized.
returnRopesOnHitAmount - amount of ropes to be dropped if Bola hits a creature that can be immobilized and "chanceReturnRopeOnHit" is not zero.
Creatures from following mods can be stunned with Bola.
Rest of the mods either have creatures that can not realistically be bolaed(e.g. big and strong like moose, lions, dinos), or I didn't make a patch for them. If you want specific mod to be compatible with this mod, tell me in the comments.
Creatures that can be trapped or put into reed chest should be defined by other mod developers.
Fauna of the Stone Age:
Bovinae
Caninae
Capreolinae
Casuariidae
Cervinae
Dinornithidae
Felinae
Machairodontinae
Pantherinae
Viverridae
Vombatidae
Legacy of the Phanerozoic:
Birds of Prey
Carnivorous Bull
Domed Head
Fused Body
Horned Crown
Horrible Hands
Long Neck
Plated Back
Sailed Spine
Scythe Claws
Sharp Tooth
Shovel Mouth
Tyrant King
Wolf Taming
The Critters Package
Equus: Wild Horses
Monoceros: Ancient unicorns
Wilderlands Ethology
Haz's Jackalopes
Thanks to Willownezz for making patches for Haz' Jackalopes and Legacy of the Phanerozoic mods.
Thanks to VladVertov for helping test the mod.
Project description from Vintage Story Mod DB.
Pick your setup
Bola releases for each Vintage Story version.
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
1.22.5
1 loader build1.22.4
1 loader build1.22.3
1 loader build1.22.2
1 loader build1.22.1
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.10
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.9
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.8
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.7
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.6
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.5
1 loader buildShowing the newest 12 of 38 game versions. Older files are in the list below.
Check the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
Bola versions and loaders
1.4.2
bola_1.4.2.zip
1 Aug 2026
Looking for an older file? The official Vintage Story Mod DB project page is in Resources.