Sweeping attack improvements

The new combat system has been out for quite a while now, and with the potential redevelopment of it in future updates I would like to share my ideas. This thread will focus on improving the sweep attack that swords have.

I've seen a number of ideas that want the attack to be disabled for tamed mobs, and I think that should be taken further: either

1) Disable sweeping attack unless player is sneaking
2) Disable sweeping attack unless player is either pressing 'a' or 'd'
3) Disable sweeping attack unless sword is enchanted with Sweeping Edge (adding an extra level to the enchantment. This is my favourite solution.)

One of these would be nice, because you can currently accidentally hit pets, villagers you want to trade with (hitting villagers makes their prices go up) or even hitting zombie pigmen which never ends well.

Either one of the options above or another system to control when you sweep the sword would be really helpful so I don't accidentally hurt things I don't want to hurt.

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January 10, 2021 09:55
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Option 3 is best

June 07, 2021 19:47
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How about option to completely disable the sweeping attack. I know that there are # of unrealistic things in Minecraft but at least to me those are understandable as game mechanics but in my opinion sweeping attacks for completely unrealistic and poor for game mechanics (same goes for martial arts sweeping kicks shown in movies).

If somebody wants to have it then after they said yes to have it, then provide 1 of the controls requested above.

For me, after learning the basics of the game and dying few times trying to understand how to works, my first death was when my game updated to 1.9 and I was in my first fight. Since then I have downgraded the game and will never play Minecraft EVER again with sweeping attack present

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Sweeping attack improvements

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