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The spear has a lot of problems...

The idea of spears in Minecraft is great, and we don't have any snapshot or beta to try it out yet, but it seems to be unbalanced as it was shown and the texture and animations don't fit with the rest of the game.

First, the texture doesn't have the same colors as the rest of the tools, it just doesn't fit at all. The animation is also too much. Look at the shield for example! It just has 2 states; blocking and in the hand/offhand, no animations for that. The spear's animations just don't fit. And still it's too different compared to a sword, pickaxe, axe, shovel or hoe, doesn't fit with the rest of tools. It's not like the mace or trident which are completely unique weapons, the spear is supposed to be another default weapon and it doesn't seem like one at all.

Secondly, the amount of damage it does IS A LOT. 13 damage to a full copper player from one single hit in a slow horse with an iron spear? That's more than a netherite axe with sharpness 5!

The spear doesn't only need nerfing, it also needs a new texture and new animations that fit with the rest and a complete rework on how it works. It should be another vanilla weapon, not a unique weapon like a trident or a mace.

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    I agree that the spear animations need some work, especially the wobble animation! The way that the spear slowly twists to a flat position when it wobbles is very awkward. It should look like the Combat Test Snapshot bow animation that just moves up and down to indicate a struggle. The animation should be simple and barebones, like all other vanilla tool animations. 

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    The same issue the mace has is the same the spear now has. No damage caps.

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    I'm so glad there's some that can also see how out of place its animations are compared to everything else

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    The general animation looks okay(when the spear is tilted) but I think some wobbling like bow's animation would be enough to indicate what it indicates instead of that multistage hell.

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    We need an animation update for weapon attacks, enemies, doors/trapdoors (chests open so why not those as well) and other things!

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    Dr. Thezbi Kazo mostly agrees with this opinion. 

    The damadge part of this feedback I think is true. But we need to be thinking about how mojang would nerf it. Cuz just taking away most of the damadge would turn it into a boring weapon. But the way it currently is is overpowered and makes all the owrk to get the mace usless cuz the is just as good and all it takes is the materials a shovel in a different crafting recipe. So we need to hep mojang think about how to fix this weapon in the best way possible.

    And about the animation I dont Disagree, but I also dont think it matters, that much.

    Keep up the good work. 

    - Dr. Thezbi Kazo king of Nerds neridiest of them all.