Swimming Bird – Minecraft 1.9 Snapshot: Weapon Balance, New Zombie Villager Skins, Hoe Nerfs, Combat Update Changes

Hey guys it’s Adam e ke swimming bird and welcome to the new snapshot for Minecraft 1.9 this is 15 w 35 a and B arriving a little early the developers are on a workshop this week but we still got plenty of new features and important changes to talk about including a

Rebalance to the controversial buffs and nerfs of weapons and tools from last time and we’ll get into that in a second and will also tell the tale of the tragic fall from power of the diamond ho but let’s check out the other features real quick so over here you can see

Zombie villagers just like in Pocket Edition now have their own unique skins based off a profession and you can see they have different levels of deterioration for each one they all have their unique look to them no longer do zombie villagers just immediately change into Steve clothing when they become

Zombies and some of them they’ve got some weird little unique features this guy the butcher looks like he’s in a DreamWorks movie or something cuz he’s got that snarky raised eyebrow and a weird boil on his nose the blacksmith looks like he’s been rolling around in the dirt or something Brown and yeah

Some of them like have cataract eyes there’s a lot of cool little details I like them a lot and it’s not just an aesthetic change as well they now have a villager profession tag on them so you can see the skin shows you what the profession is but if you were to cure

Them you would get that profession as well so that’s a nice little feature as well for people that like to hunt down zombie villagers and cure them so that they can trade now you might have noticed this guy over here it doesn’t look as deteriorated this is the green

Roped villager the zombie version and what’s interesting is that green roped villagers were taken out of the game while back you can’t spawn them in anymore and this could just be a little bit of insurance in case someone with an older version of the game has these guys

Still and they turn into zombies they wanted a skin for it but it could also be a hint that maybe green rogue villagers might get added into the game and have their own profession I would like that a lot but yeah it’s nice that these all have their

Own look I would love to see more mob skin variations like the normals these could definitely use some other looks we could use some Alex on be to go with the Steve ones at least now over here we’ve got some really quick command block changes you can see just as

Aesthetically they’ve got this black outline around the the little buttons there which looks pretty nice makes them look a bit more I don’t know they stand out more they definitely pop and they’ve got some new abilities now so you can see this says needs redstone and that is

Just how a normal command block would work if you power it with redstone and it will activate but you can also change that to always active and you can see when it’s always active it will just run that command so this is a repeating command block it just constantly summons

Those orbs so let’s turn that off and you probably also noticed that they have arrows different on some of these that’s because we have this unconditional conditional little toggle here and if you turn it to conditional it means it has to have a command block next to it

That successfully runs for it to power but now there’s like a visual difference so it’s a little easier to sort as well but it’s cool that you don’t even have to power these with redstone to activate them a lot faster and a lot easier now before we get into those combat changes

I wanted to mention one more thing there’s now a slot tag that you can put on items and blocks and things so I this I’m gonna summon in a diamond chestplate and we’ve got some modifiers to its attributes it’s gonna give me +10 health and now you can tell where you’re gonna

Need to you know wear this or hold it for it to activate so this will be a diamond chestplate and you’ll put it on your torso as normally you can see it adds +10 to my max health and if we go into survival you’ll be able to see I’ve

Got a few more hearts than usual there but you can distinguish whether it needs to be in your offhand or your main hand or where you have to wear something for it to give you those extra abilities so it’s a lot more customizable for mapmakers and you can do some cool stuff

With that okay so over here if you remember last snapshot last video we made this this giant chart here and it’s got a scale so you can see each of those little spots with the apples are one heart of damage and all the weapons are scaled on there

The top we’ve got the diamond tax which does five hearts per hit and down at the bottom all of the hoes only do half of Hearts that’s what those black notches are they’re they’re half a heart on there so like the diamond sword does three and a half so this has been

Changed quite a bit from last time they’ve rebalanced these and everything pretty much got changed I think the sword might be the only one that wasn’t affected so you can see on my hotbar i’ve ranked these tools by the fastest attack speed to the slowest so the hoes

Are still very quick but they don’t do that much damage and then the sword is a little slower the pick has been slowed down a bit as well and it’s quite a bit slower now it’s not faster than the sword and the shovel is very slow as

Well the axe actually got sped up a little bit so you can see this is using the new attack speed so we got to wait for this to fill up before we can do max damage if you missed some of the earlier snapshots where we talked about this

This is the attack strength system that was just added recently so check out those other snapshots too if you want to get more info on that so yeah the axe is a little faster but you can see it doesn’t do quite as much damage the axes have been scaled down a

Little bit damage wise that happens to help it even out so it’s a it’s a little faster but does less damage but that makes it just under the sword in damage most of the time and here is a list of the top 18 weapons you can see the top

Four are still the same the swords and axes of the best materials but the diamond hoe is no longer number five it fell all the way to number 15 and I’ll explain that in a second they can see it’s pretty predictable which weapons are gonna do the most damage around here

Is when axes start to do more damage than swords even though they’re slower and we also have the diamond pick and diamond shovel in there the shovels from last time they used to be all just above swords in terms of damage but they’ve been nerfed pretty hard here you can see

They don’t do quite as much now and I it’s gonna be tougher to be a shovel knight out there but at least you can place a shovel knight if you want to do that I think what they did with all these rebounding is that they’re leaving

Some gaps here to have some weapons like a dagger and I’m theorizing that we’re gonna get other types of weapons but I’m really hoping because of these attributes that we’ve got a lot of range here for like a fast dagger or you know a spear or something that has more range and we

Might see those in the coming weeks now the the the hoes got probably the biggest hit so they had a huge buff last week the diamond toe if you put a sharpness 5 book on it it was by far the best weapon in the game now you can’t

Put sharpness in survival on hoes you have to being creative but because of how lightning fast this thing is you can do hits really quickly and with a little buff it was it was doing pretty well even at only one damage because of the speed it was like doing crazy amounts of

DPS here and that’s what that that skill is that’s the damage per second so axes still do the most damage per single hit but remember swords are better because they can charge faster they also have that new sweep attack that we mentioned last time and of course axes can can

Break shields temporarily but hoes you can see it’s very strange here so they have a new system now they’re the only weapons or tools that scale their attack speed based on material so gold and wooden ones there they’re basically identical in most ways they have a pretty slow attack speed it’s equal to

The shovel you can see it kind of hits at the same speed or charges up at the same speed as the shovel now once you start upgrading material this is the stone one it’s pretty quick the iron is even quicker and then the diamond is just like lightning fast almost like a

Punch with how fast it is to to recharge its attack it goes very close to the punch but yeah because the damage got nerfed they are not quite as good but they do charge up differently based on material I don’t know if that’s gonna be something that will universally happen

With the other ones right now it doesn’t work for anything but hoes but so tragically we had that one week where hoes were like crazy good for battling but I think this is a good sign because if they had that niche before for garden hose to be like super fast then they

Wouldn’t need something like a dagger but by nerfing it now we can use those for gardening and occasionally hitting zombies that wander into our farm or something but I think that in general it just makes some of the tools a little more viable the sword and the

Axe are really the ones you’re gonna be willing to be using because of that extra damage shield breaking sweeping attack all that good stuff but this does leave the door wide open for more types of weapons which is really what I’m hoping for and hoes actually do lose

Durability when you hit stuff now so they don’t have that advantage either that was added in in the d snapshot last week but I didn’t happen to catch that so a few other things some optimization they put in a few experimental performance enhancements I haven’t you know noticed that those are illegal in

Most sports but no this is uh it’s supposed to run a bit better but I can’t really tell just from you know playing setting up stuff and also they fix some memory leaks with the client so hopefully it won’t hog up all of your computer’s memory thank you guys again

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