THE MACE: A NEW WEAPON COMING TO MINECRAFT

THE MACE: A NEW WEAPON COMING TO MINECRAFT

Yeah, so after, like, six years, we’re adding a new weapon to Minecraft. The mace. We almost did that in unison. Yeah. The mace. Ten out of ten. This update is a lot about combat and new combat situations and mechanics, and we thought that a new weapon would be a perfect fit into it.

The mace is a heavy weapon, so it’s not intended as a replacement for a sword or an axe. It’s its own thing. It’s something that the player can use to, well, push people away. In some sense. This is the introvert’s weapon. -Yeah. Very much so. -Just push it right away from you.

It’s just, “Go away.” The core thing that makes it special is that the longer you fall before hitting your enemy, the more damage you’re going to do. And I think that’s super exciting to me because it really ties into, like, old-school, core Minecraft concepts. As we all know, we’re all pro players here,

When you fall down, as you hit someone, you get a crit attack, you get an extra damage. So this basically takes that up to eleven. And also, I think something that’s, like, a small tweak that’s kind of interesting is that if you land that hit,

You’re going to negate all the fall damage you would have gotten. So it’s sort of this risk/reward kind of weapon that if you hit it, you’re going to do tons of damage, blow everyone away and save yourself from taking that damage.

But if you miss, you’re going to smash yourself into the ground, basically. I think that’s super interesting. Yeah, and it’s really in the spirit of Minecraft, too. Like, it’s a simple mechanic, but it has a lot of potential effects. I think you can use scaffolding to build little towers

You can jump off of and smash your enemies. It works great with the trial chambers that have so much elevations and different floors. And it’s extra fun to use with the wind charge, too. The wind charge is amazing. You can use the mace by itself and it will feel good,

But then suddenly you add the wind charge into it and you’re a crazy, bouncing, smashing, bunny-hopping menace that goes and smashes all your enemies, and it feels so much better. I think that is so cool, that it’s such a simple concept, very concise,

But still synergizes with all the stuff we already have in the update. And it really brings a breath of fresh air into the combat system. So we’re really excited to see what the players do with it. Oh, wait, we need to tell them about the breeze rod. -Oh, yeah, true. -Right.

So breezes now, they’re going to drop breeze rods that you can craft into the wind charges that you’ve seen before, or you can craft it together with the heavy core. -Yes. -Heavy core is this new item. It’s also decorative. You can place it and build with it.

But if you combine it with a breeze rod, -you’re going to get the mace. -The mace. For now, you can use a trial key for a chance of getting one from a vault. But don’t expect it to always be that easy. Let’s just say it’s going to be quite an interesting, rare challenge.

-Rare, you say? -Very rare. It’s good to know. -When is it out? It’s already out. -Yeah. It’s there. Go. Play with it. What are you doing? Stop the… -Come on. -No, don’t stop the video.

NOW PLAYABLE ON JAVA SNAPSHOT, BEDROCK BETA AND PREVIEW
A new weapon is smashing into Minecraft as part of the 1.21 update! Find out more about the heavy-hitting mace and its smash attack from Gameplay Designer Nir and Gameplay Developer Pouya. Rumor has it that it’s about to get much harder to obtain in Survival mode, so test it out sooner rather than later…
For information on how to access pre-release versions of Minecraft, go here: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/testing-new-minecraft-features