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Twinblade (weapon)

So Minecraft have started diversifying weapons, with the shield and axe's effectiveness against it, and especially with the trident.  Continuing with that idea, I believe there should be new weapons added to perform different roles. I will link in a post by TheMcExplorer about an idea for a mace, which I think is a great idea. But I also want to suggest one of my own, which I have called the twinblade.

The twinblade could be crafted by placing three sticks diagonally across the grid, then filling in the top and bottom rows with the desired material, like this (e = empty, s = stick, m = material)

m    m    s

e     s     e

s     m    m

The twinblade would do as much damage as an axe of the same material, but would also be able to be thrown, similar to a trident. A twinblade would also have a small chance to ignore all armour on a person when attacking, which would be 0.5% for a thrown attack and 1% for a melee for an unenchanted twinblade.

Unusually, unenchanted twinblades can be stacked up to 16, making them a useful, if expendable, throwing weapon.

Some enchantments could be applied to the twinblade. From the currently existing ones:

Loyalty

Knockback

Mending

New enchantments:

Slicing (Max IV): Increases damage by +0.5 per level, and increases the chance to ignore armour by 0.5%-thrown/1%-melee per level

Grounding (Max III): Increased damage to flying mobs (phantoms, blazes, ghasts, bats, potentially the ender dragon and wither), similar to bane of arthropods or smite

Lethality (Max I): Gives target poison I for 3 seconds on hit.

This is just one idea, if you have any thoughts on it please do comment. And if you have any other ideas for new weapons let me know below.

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    Clarified subject to help search results.

    Thanks for your contribution.

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    I like it, however, stacking to 16 is a bit much, allow it to stack to 4, which may be a bit more balenced. Also, when throwing it should do less damage, to prevent people from spamming them.

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    @Some Animal

    Thank you for your comment.

    There would be a cooldown involved with throwing, which I would suggest should be 1/2-3/4 that of using a trident. However, I take your point about reducing the damage, which I think makes sense, so I would propose throwing deals 2HP (1 heart) less damage than wielding. On the stacking, once a cooldown is introduced there is no real difference between them and a bow, so I personally don't feel that 16 in unreasonable. However, I do agree that people shouldn't just be able to spam them, so if the cooldown isn't enough to prevent this then maye reducing the stack size is worthwhile.

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    You are right, a cooldown would solve the problem, however, I saw a nice post by Machu Picchu saying that potions and soups should stack to four, and seeing this made me think in the same vein, but I think that being able to spam 4 without having a cool down would make a new playstyle. Also, the twin blade is more expensive than a sword. By design?

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    @Some Animal

    Yes, the cost is deliberately more than a sword. Partially.

    If I'm honest part of the cost is just because I wanted to make the crafting recipe vaguely resemble what I had in mind. But yes, I was aware at the time and factored that in. I actually had two thoughts on that myself.

    1) Multiple twinblades. The crafting recipe could actually make 4 twinblades instead of 1, so therefore they would actually be individually cheaper than swords.

    2) Their relative power. Whilst they do -1/-2 damage compared to a sword, the fact that they can be thrown makes them more versatile. I also intended them to have a different function to the sword, which is represented by their 'slicing' ability to ignore armour (which would prove interesting when introduced to a PvP server/minigame) and their unique enchantments, in particular 'grounding', making them the first real weapon aimed at flying mobs.

    Effectively I envision the twinblade as an alternative to arrows. For me at least, making arrows is an excessively exhausting process, requiring me to kill a chicken and dig through lots of gravel. So to have an alternative would be appealing, despite the relative expense of a weapon. In addition, the stackability and faster-than-arrow cooldown make them a potentially lethal ranged weapon.

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    At first I didn't read the enchantments, but now I have, and I have two problems. One being lethality, doing poison is a bit much, something you would think would be a potion effect. Grounding is good, but perhaps it should instead pull the mob to the ground so one may hit it, as smite means to break the undead mobs bones, and sharpness is to cut living mobs' flesh bane of Arthropods hits the exoskeleton, so it doesn't make sense for flying mobs, with various different physiologies to be effected by one same enchantment.

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    @Some Animal

    I take your point on Lethality basically being a potion. I don't have a particularly strong attachment to the idea, so I am happy for it to be forgotten.

    I actually prefer your idea for grounding to my own, but it should still do some minor damage (maybe 1HP per 8 blocks or something) upon pulling the mob to the ground (I think it's reasonable to assume suddenly plummeting out of the sky would hurt. There could also be a 'grounded' status effect that prevents mobs from flying/jumping for 3 seconds upon hitting the ground. Higher level enchantments could therefore increase the speed of the fall and the length of the 'grounded' effect.

     

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    I’m sorry it took me so long to see this. This is actually a very intriguing idea. Basically an axe head on each end? I’d definitely like to see this come to the game. Perhaps it’ll be possible to put it in an add on when they add custom 3D weapon support.

    Thanks for linking me,
    TheMcExplorer

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    In my opinion, the twinblades should work just like in Elden Ring, like a sword but with much faster attacks

    And if is to craft, just put two swords of the same material on the edges and a stick in the middle: like this
    E=empty, B=sword, S=stick
    E E B
    E S E
    B E E