Swimming Bird – Minecraft 1.9 Snapshot: Sword Sweep Attack, Axe Shield Stun, Hoe Buffs, Weapons Tools Combat Update

Hey guys it’s Adam aka swimming bird and welcome to the new snapshot for Minecraft 1.9 this is 15w 34 c and d and it marks a major shift in minecraft combat history grab your pics your shovels your axes get those hoes out of storage because swords are no longer the

Undisputed kings of melee combat that’s because all four of the major tool types now have different attack speeds and damages and they range on my hotbar here from fastest slowest we have hoes pickaxes swords shovels and axes and this uses as you can see under my little crosshair here

The new attack strength mechanic so when this meter is full you’ll do max damage but if you spam click you’re not going to do much damage at all now because of these different attack speeds all of these tools have their place in combat now it’s pretty cool so hose as you can

See are by far the fastest they only do a little bit more damage than before this is my meter here you can see the black marks are half a heart and the apples there are full hearts so diamond hoes do 1 heart of damage and all the

Others do about half a heart so they’re not that damaging but they attack so fast they’re kind of like the new daggers in this game then we have diamond picks which are only slightly faster than swords to charge up swords are in the middle but they did get a new

Crowd control technique that is really cool and I’ll show you guys that in a second for dealing with groups shovels are quite a bit slower than swords but they do do slightly more damage as you can see they’re a little bit more damaging but that might not matter

Overall we’ll get into that in a second and axes are on top here with the damage even the wooden and golden axes do more damage than a diamond sword it’s crazy the axes are by far the most powerful for single hits and they also have a new utility against shields that will show

In a second as well when we get into some combat now the only downfall of the axe is how slow it is you can see it takes quite a while to charge back up and do that max damage so this is the chart you can see the whole range there

It’s pretty crazy now I think overall we’re gonna see picks the pickaxes and shovels probably won’t be used for combat that much because overall they don’t do that much damage but if you get into a pinch for your sword breaks you can use those to fight back a little more effectively now the

Three weapons that are probably going to be used the most are the sword the pickaxe and then the hoe which is very strange but here is a little line of weapons and this ranges from the most damage per second to the least of the top 11 these are the top 11 weapons here

And you can see the sword and the axe are on top as expected the two better varieties the iron and diamond but number five is actually the diamond hoe so despite only doing one heart of damage because you can attack so quickly and get that max damage back again you

Can just keep attacking really fast this is for people that like to be able to click faster in combat you can still do a lot of damage very quickly there and the hoe is actually a usable combat option as crazy as it sounds and then

You can see there’s kind of a good mix here of shovels and pickaxes swords and axes there now another thing to keep in mind is that the sword when you have a successful attack it suffers one durability now the axes shovels and pickaxes all take – two durability so

You’re going to be using them up a lot faster if you do use them for combat the hoe right now does not suffer any durability lost from doing an attack and I think they’re probably changed that because otherwise it might be a little too good but yeah this is a a new range

Of different combat weapons that we can have now and there are reasons though that you want to still use the sword and I’ll show you in a second and the axe as well they both have pretty nice new abilities so let’s grab my shield we’re

Going to turn it to night here and then we’re going to spawn a few zombies and I’ll show you why you’ll probably still want to stick with a sword now the good thing about having the axes it has a nice special technique mostly against players and you get this baby out here

Because he’s a little too fast there we go we’re going to try to get a group of zombies going and I’ll put on my armor as well now swords have awesome technique for dealing with crowds and we’re gonna go into survival and you guys can see I’m going to

Wrangle up a few zombies if you get stuck with a bunch of enemies around you the sword is now going to help you out with its new sweeping attack so watch this little particle here you can see it sweeps out and actually knocks back any zombies that are within a certain area

It has 80% of the knock-back power of a knock back one enchantment so the only zombie I’m doing damage here to is the one that I’m hitting but they the other ones are suffering a bit a knock back to keep them away so this helps with those

Little gaps in when you can hit you can kind of space out your attacks a little bit and get those sword hits in when you can but you’ll also be able to survive because you get to knock them back I really love the little sweeping effect now this only happens when you are

Either walking at a normal speed or crouching so if you are dashing along to try to do those sprint hits or try to get a critical strike you won’t be able to do this so you’ll see I can jump and try to do that but it’s not going to do

That knock back you have to be kind of standing still or shifting so it kind of it kind of helps with with turtling up now another thing you just saw there if an enemy attacks when you’re blocking with your shield it might knock them back there’s a chance that it will knock

The enemy away so that’s kind of cool that using your shield has more views than just you know negating 33% of the of the damage there but yeah it’s a it’s a nice little utility to keep stuff away there’s a few new things in here because they the developers have been listening

Getting overrun by monsters is not fun so having these abilities to keep them away from you is nice while you’re trying to space out your attacks there now the shield I’ve got a little clip here to show you I needed another player to show you guys this technique so I

Employed a secret ninja that has not been seen in quite a while the shield has a new weakness because of axes so if an axe gets in there and attacks your shield it has a 25% base chance of making your shield go into a lay where it’s disabled for five seconds

Now you can increase this chance by dashing and hitting with the axe it’ll add 75 percent so you’ll have a 100% chance of disabling your opponent’s shield if you dash in and hit it with an axe while they are blocking and it disables it for five seconds so you can dash in

With an axe and then hit them with arrows they can’t block those once their shield is down so there’s all these new nuances to combat now you can increase that chance on your axe with efficiency levels if you add some efficiency to your axe then you will have five percent

Chance for each efficiency level so you might not even need to dash in if you have a high efficiency axe so there is that added benefit now the sword strike I meant to tell you guys with that it actually has a bit of a range to it it’s

Around three blocks of the attacker and one block horizontally so it doesn’t need to be right around where you are when you hit and it will do that little knock back but yeah as a combination having the ability to break shields for a little bit with the axe and sweep your

Foes away with the sword as well as hit them a lot faster with the diamond hoe I could see a lot of people using multiple weapons at once you could switch between them get your ax out when you have you know a shield in front of you that you

Need to break down then get your sword for crowds and use your bow against anyone not blocking with the shield and then you can also do the hope you want to go crazy and and get in there for some quick attacks so yeah there’s a lot

Of different nuances to combat now and I really like it I hope they add other weapons I’d like to see a dagger that is similar to the hope but maybe has some other trade-off it could do less damage like the hoe does but have some other cool ability like maybe slowing down

Your opponent or something like that there could be a lot of new weapons in this but I think their goal right now is trying to soup up some of the ones that we already have in the game so as weird as it is things like the normal axe and

Pickaxe and and the hoe have like do new utilities now in the game so you do want to use those now instead of just sticking to the sword the last few things ender pearls now also have a cooldown if you see my little ender pearl they’re just like the shield when

It gets disabled it has that little flash of white that counts down and you can’t use another enderpearl for that time period the same works for the chorus fruit so if you teleport with the chorus fruit you have that little timer as well so you can’t just spam those

Over and over and they also fix the bug where the chorus fruit can teleport you on top of the nether so you can’t get through bedrock with this stuff anymore but still kind of cool that it teleports you around so there we go thank you guys

For watching I hope you enjoy these new combat changes changes I think it’s really cool and they’re going to keep you know working on this until we find a happy medium we’re getting so many nuances that we never had and combating just click spamming and macros in PvP

And you know I think it’ll be a lot better overall that we’re not just using swords and bows only we’ve got some more options I just hope they add some more weapons as well thank you guys again for watching please leave a like if you enjoyed this and thank you to my secret

Ninja girlfriend for helping me out with that video I will see you guys next time though for some more minecraft ah