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Sword Thrust Attack

Hello!

This suggestion might be a bit too complicated to implement, or there would be too little uses for it, but I just felt like I should share it here.

Ever since Minecraft 1.9, you could no longer block with swords, so right clicking with a sword wouldn't do anything. I feel like there should be a feature where when you right click with a sword in your hand, it would play a thrusting animation where you jab your sword forward.

You can only do this for a range of 2 blocks, because thrusting would do 10% more damage than the regular swipe. Also, thrusting wouldn't knock the mob back farther.

Please let me know what you think down in the comments. :)

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    I'd rather make it a motion based attack that activates if you directly charge an entity. As the right click functionality from swords was removed so that players would use them in sync with shields.

    Also I'd rather have this be a high knockback attack than a high damage one. It would make fighting mobs such as creepers and wither skeletons just a big easier.

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    Great idea, but would the thrusting action prioritize over the shield blocking?

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    Maybe it could be around 20% more, or 95% with critical strikes (added to the 50% extra damage).