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Combat Update: Combining 1.8 and 1.9

Combat in Minecraft has been a topic for a long time now. Here is my ideas for the Combat Snapshots, with the goal of fusing the old 1.8 combat with the newer 1.9+ combat while the solving existing problems:

• Too slow for PvP - not exciting enough

• Damage per second is too low to beat regenerating items

• Too hard to understand for new players.

Many games have light and heavy attacks, and using both combat mechanics, we could see this in minecraft. Light attacks deals -2 damage, but have no cooldown, just like in 1.8; Heavy attacks deal regular damage, but require the weapon to be fully charged.

Heavy attacks / full cooldown is also required to trigger extra things like sweep attacks, critical hits, shield breach etc...

This would allow (possibly new) players to land combos on their opponents, while still giving advanced players the opportunity to land more devastating attacks.

The damage of axes will also be scaled, because stone axes deal MASSIVE damage and are too easy to make. Damage scale would be the following:

 

-2 less damage: light sword attacks (spam clicking with diamond sword: 5 damage)

regular damage: heavy sword attack, light axe attack (diamond: 7 damage)

+2 more damage: heavy axe attack (diamond: 9 damage)

 

Yes, this would make axes more powerful in a 1.8 style fight, maybe they would have a higher delay or something to balance this out. Note that axes require 1 more material to craft (for ex. 3 diamonds instead of 2), so this actually makes sense.

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• March 04, 2021 10:58
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  • March 25, 2021 14:25
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  Hello as we all know the combat of Minecraft is a touchy subject. While a large portion of the community just wants the pre 1.9 combat another portion started playing the game after 1.9 so they would not like such a big change again. I think we should take aspects from both to make a compromise instead of reworking the whole thing again and causing another controversy. My idea would be to have swords work similar to 1.8 but also have a cooldown. With the sword, you could spam click and it wouldn't have a penalty but it would only register as a hit when the cooldown was up. so swords would have a slightly reduced cooldown from 1.8 and no penalty. The same goes for axes except they all have the same cooldown as each other and they only deal one point more damage from their sword counterpart example Diamond sword 7 Damage Diamond axe 8 Damage. There would also be sword blocking, it would work similarly to 1.8 except if you have a shield you can't sword block. This way you could choose to use a shield and tank damage or you could try to keep people away with sword block hitting. also, people with a shield would take slight knockback so would sword blocking. I think this is the way the combat update 2 should be implemented instead of causing another controversy.

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  • January 30, 2022 11:59
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  The light and heavy stuff just makes people spam click to prevent the enemy from dealing heavy attacks, which is the same as reverting back to 1.8.