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Fix Fall Damage! Velocity based instead of time based!

At the moment, fall damage is determined by how long something has been falling. Unfortunately, this causes some weird behaviour. Example: Jumping on boats counts as falling for very long.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/d5tqdt/was_off_to_a_great_start_in_my_new_hardcore_world/ 

This is just one of many issues caused by the way it works, there are many other cases when fall damage behaves oddly.

My suggestion would be to change fall damage to be based on velocity instead of fall time.

The way damage would be calculated from velocity would be adjusted to match the old system in most common cases, but be more logical in extreme edge cases.

Since there's a terminal velocity, there would also be a maximum fall damage, which should be just barely survivable with maximal protection armor and status effects, since there's a very small amount of people who survived falling from really high without parachute.

This should help avoid weird situations and make things a little more logical and realistic, since in reality it's the velocity that causes damage on impact.

Edit: If we're making fall damage velocity based, might as well use the same code for kinetic energy damage (elytra), and have the same damage per velocity no matter if it's hitting the floor or hitting a wall or even the ceiling, and no matter if it's falling, flying with elytra, or getting shot out of a tnt cannon.

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• September 23, 2019 16:51
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  • September 18, 2019 23:42
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  Neat idea! I think that instead of ditching the time value entirely, maybe make it so its a mix of the two?

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  • September 21, 2019 20:26
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  This would also help with taking damage from falling with Levitation 253, although the game now has the Slow Falling effect. This would only apply to mapmakers.

  Maybe all of Minecraft's physics should be rewritten to be more accurate, compared to it's current system that appears to only use acceleration and friction.

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  • April 11, 2024 22:26
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  I was thinking of all these arguments including the elytra kinetic damage when I was planning to post this tecnical ideas. But as great this idea is there are two issues that have to be concidered, 1 damage has to be scaled to allow for at least 20 damage to be taken at terminal velocity so falling deaths can stay consistant some way and two many systems have to be fixed for such a change to be possible becauce systems to detect fall damage would have to be accounted for and differentiation in impact forces have to be considered for horizontal and verticle directs. If horizontal directions were to be used for more realist impact physics, something like running into a wall with high speed will deal damage which would make for a funny death but might not be most favorable to desired minecraft game play.