The Evolution of Minecraft COMBAT (Alpha PvP – 1.16 PvP)

Minecraft pvp one of the game’s most important loved and controversial elements present in the game since early minecraft multiplayer in 2010 it has seen many changes improvements nerfs which have been liked and hated by the community it has evolved and changed so much that it entirely divided the community with some

Players even refusing to play certain version of the game and large servers refusing to update pvp was once at the center of minecraft being the key element in many many games and game modes to the point where it was all players would do and some had never even killed the ender dragon but

Starting in late 2015 and 2016 many popular pvp servers shut down forever the pdb community struggled in popularity and minecraft pvp which at one stage almost became an esport struggled to remain relevant so what happened how did we go from a thriving community to one that fell apart

How did pvp evolve from simple left clicking to advanced adrenaline-paced dueling and then into calm and calculated fighting well i’m going to tell you all that and more so let’s get right into it on august the 3rd 2010 minecraft version alpha 1.0.15 was released a day later and a server version of this

Update was also released marking the first day minecraft survivor multiplayer became publicly available but the first version which allowed players to attack entities in multiplayer and to include actual damage indicators and animations was alpha version 1.2.3 released on november the 23rd this version of the game was a first which

Allowed players to engage in pvp but back then pvp mechanics were incredibly different let me explain back in this early version of the game you could hold left click with a sword and use an auto clicker something which you would get banned for on modern day pvp servers

However this auto clicker was unbearably slow using the power of video editing i was able to calculate that this auto clicker clicked at about 2 clicks per second most pvpers these days can click upwards of 10 clicks per second and even somebody who just left clicks as fast as possible could easily click

Around 7 or 8 if they tried but that’s fine that’s just the order clickers click speed you can still click faster if you do it manually right wrong in this version of the game no matter how fast you click your mouse you will only still click at around two

Clicks per second probably slower as it’s hard at the time now this cap on speed was eventually removed in beta versions of the game but the auto clicker remained up until beta 1.7.3 alright so while the sword is a letdown in this version of the game what about the bow

Well the bow is insane it’s basically a machine gun firing at an absurd rate and not requiring you to even draw the bow back this thing is so fast but if you’re not careful it will actually lag out your game from the amount of arrows you can put out

There is absolutely no downside of it as well with the modern bow when you’re charging up a shot you move far slower but with this version of the bow you can basically walk around like nobody’s business without any penalties while raining death upon them alright so now on to food food worked

Differently in these older versions of the game as there was no food bar instead food would instantly heal a certain amount of hearts have enough food and you can basically get yourself from one heart to 10 in under a second this is actually kind of similar to insta soup pvp which i’ll

Talk about later aside from items movement worked differently there was no sprinting and no critical hits meaning that fights were really slow slugfests knockback was also very limited actually barely noticeable due to lack of sprinting which meant that the amount of skill involved in these fights were minimal

Finally back in this version of the game armor worked differently all armor gave the same degree of damage reduction being 80 the difference between rare armor such as diamond and easier to obtain armor such as leather was simply durability since all armor protected you the same the only benefit of diamond armor was

That it had higher durability lasting longer fights in alpha versions of the game and largely in beta as well was simply about aim nothing else really however moving into beta 1.8 now and pvp would begin to change beta 1.8 introduced sprinting blocking and criticals and also included a food

Bar to regenerate health while also changing some previously broken mechanics but before we get into that consider subscribing no pressure though anyways sprinting without jumping allowed players to move at 5.612 meters a second 30 faster than the 4.317 meter per second you move while walking sprinting also allowed players to do

More knockback on the first hit during the sprint this version also added the ability to do critical hits when attacking while falling in midair allowing you to do up to 50 more damage but it was random meaning that with a diamond sword you could either do a whopping 7.5 hearts of

Damage with a critical hit or the critical could do nothing at all and all you would do is a standard five hearts blocking also allowed you to reduce the amount of damage you would take by 50 at the cost of some movement speed in beta 1.8 blocking was actually really

Strong because it could be used to negate full damage meaning players could fall from 42 blocks without dying instead of 22 and for some reason blocking underwater allowed you to rise to the surface faster these were both changed in the next version however in addition bows were changed drastically finally

Having the drawback animation preventing players from using it like a machine gun this meant that in order to shoot further and do more damage you would have to spend time to draw back the bow balancing the weapon properly finally beta 1.8 also saw the addition of a hunger bar changing how health naturally

Regenerated the more you sprinted and jumped the more hunger you would lose and in order to be able to naturally regenerate health your hunger bar had to be 90 or more full so only one drumstick could be missing this was most likely added to balance sprinting however the changes did not stop there

One version later 1.0.0 minecraft’s full release introduced enchantments and potions forever changing the pvp meta in this update enchantments such as fire aspect sharpness knockback and protection were added giving players who had them advantages in pvp the diamond sword’s damage was decreased to 7 or 3.5 hearts to balance new enchantments such as

Sharpness each level of sharpness on a sword did an extra 1.25 damage which at the max level of 5 meant that a diamond sword could do 13.25 damage or roughly 6 and a half hearts add fire aspect which does one and a half hearts of damage at level 1

And 3 and a half hearts at level two and you can one shot somebody who is unarmed without even doing a critical the knockback enchantment at level one while despised the most faction serves at the time would do an additional three blocks to base knockback and would add

An additional six at level two factor in this base knockback of two to four blocks and you could potentially send somebody 10 blocks back with one well-timed hit similar enchantments for the bow such as power flame and punch were also added functioning very similar to sharpness fire aspect in knockback

1.0.0 also added multiple armor and charmanders and notably for pvp that was protection won through the four unlike the other types of protections such as fire protection which specialized in protection from lava and fire protection provided general damage reductions from almost all damage sources in the game

This meant it was the best for protection from melee weapons and the second best for protection from bose diamond armor by itself in this version reduced 80 of damage protection 4 added 6.4 damage reduction on average meaning that full diamond armor with protection 4 could reduce on average

92 percent of damage potions such as strength could increase melee damage by 260 percent and potions such as swiftness 2 could increase speed by 40 these potions would provide players with specific advantages in pvp and if used riot were incredibly strong those were the main changes in version

1.0.0 and after this pvp largely stayed the same up until version 1.9 which we’ll talk about later there were the addition of god apples or notch apples which were the much more powerful variant of standard golden apples but that was about it so let’s now talk about how some servers pioneered certain

Styles of minecraft pvp and changed it forever first of all faction servers minecraft factions dates back as early as 2010. however back then the plugin only had the basics which we know today such as f claim f home and a few others nothing too special back then people would build bases above

Ground and it was common to see castles or villages rather than crazy big boxes with hundreds of obsidian walls like we have today tnt was hard to come by but didn’t matter because tnt cannons were only simple back then this meant that pvp was encouraged as instead of raiding a base

By blowing away inside people raided by killing the enemy faction enough and overclaiming their land in 2010 and 2011 faction servers didn’t really give players any rare gear to start with so most fights were just in iron armor and diamond swords or in the rare occurrences diamond armor and diamond swords it was

Also rare to have kits and pay to win donor ranks so once players died they probably didn’t have too much backup around 2012 was when things began to change most servers started implementing plug-ins which allowed players to obtain items which would normally be unobtainable in vanilla minecraft such

As monster spawners and xp bottles it was at this time that getting enchanted diamond armor also became much easier and players began building bases on the ground as well as sky bases way up in the sky at the build limit this is when we entered the enchanted golden apple or

Mushroom soup pvp era featuring enchanted weapons and armor this would continue into 2013 but as 2014 came around mushroom soups were largely phased out being replaced by instant health potions this was further popularized when game modes such as arena and hardcore factions would also use instant health potions

As their primary way of keeping health high golden apples which were previously rare or hard to come by became much more common turning pvp battles into longer drawn out fights were the first to run out of healing or have their armor break would lose then during 2015 and 2016

Custom enchanted armor became a thing and sos began allowing players access to hundreds of god apples potions and you name it pvp lost its fast paced side as fights would frequently draw out over 15 minutes long and the only way to win was to basically break your opponent’s armor

Or eat less god apples in them it became less about who could get more hits before the other person could more about who actually cares enough to click your mouse multiple times to get a virtual set of armor which is basically valueless as it can be easily replaced with a single command

Pvp became rather unenjoyable as it would take so long that you would often lose interest but hold it we need to go back a few years while pvp on faction servers is terrible these days back in 2012 and 2013 pvp also began developing on other servers such as mcpvp which is now shut

Down who was one of the first to include soups into their pvp gamemodes alongside mcpvp the rise in popularity of mini-games which was centered around pvp such as hunger games made pvp increasingly more popular one server notorious for incorporating high school pvp and challenging team-based game modes on mini-games was the overcast

Network the overcast network ran a variety of game modes which forced players to work together as a team and accomplish certain goals ranging from killing the enemy team a certain amount of times to capturing the wall or other monuments and objectives the great thing about this server was

The flawless way they incorporated pvp into their game modes not relying on any other gimmicks or kids to make it interesting like in many modern day minigames all players started with the same gear and limited healing but could acquire better gear through gathering resources or killing others

This meant that players could be very flexible with their fighting strategies and players who knew their pvp skills weren’t as good as others could stick with a few other players in combat or get better gear before fighting even utilizing more ranged combat with the bow this meant that while the server

Remained very competitive with highly skilled players it also allowed low-skilled beginners to join in and have just as much fun which most competitive game modes such as uhc struggled with while the original overcast network has shut down now many similar servers with smaller communities are still around and thriving today

In my opinion the overcast network really displayed what peak minecraft pvp looked like being skill based but still inclusive for everybody one other server which really pioneered the more modern genre of minecraft pvp was badline originally founded in 2013 the server began as a small kid pvp server for the overcast network and

Hardcore faction clan called badline owned by archibop the server was initially used to practice pvp but soon other clans also began playing and a plug-in developer called master g barry was brought in together they developed and pioneered the practice or arena dual game mode we see today which featured popular duel

Types such as debuff and no debuff as well as build uhc this really pushed the instant health potion archetype that we previously discussed badline would also be the first server to incorporate a ranking system which would match players by skill and as of today it was probably the most popular

Competitive minecraft server ever they even almost pioneered minecraft esports but more about that in another video tragically the server shut down in late 2018 due to disinterest anyways if isn’t clear badland really pioneered the competitive side of minecraft and its impact is still seen on servers such as mindmen.club

And luna.gg today these servers help develop players methods of pvp such as sprint cancelling where you hit somebody stop sprinting and then start sprinting again resetting your sprint allowing you to do more knockback as on your first attack while sprinting your knockback is greater as we discussed in the beta 1.8 update

Used in conjunction with strafing you can get players into combos which are very difficult to break without turning and running the competitiveness of these servers pushed the playerbase to improve and discover methods of pvping which many people just didn’t know at the time for example jitter clicking and butterfly clicking became very popular

Once players realized their power normally after being beat by somebody using it so you might have noticed a common trend in some of these old pvp minecraft servers i talked about they all shut down and this is where we move into minecraft pvp’s final stage of its evolution 1.9 on february 26 2016

Minecraft version 1.9 was released forever changing minecraft pvp 1.9 updated axes making them a weapon of choice in pvp adding shields a hit delay and changing the fundamentals of pvp which everybody had learned the hit delay meant that players could no longer click fast from pvp having to wait 0.625

Seconds when attacking with a sword otherwise they’ll do next to no damage while this doesn’t sound like much if you compare 1.8 and 1.9 pvp side by side the differences are very notable the addition of shields which if used correctly could completely negate all damage from other players

Meant that you could no longer get plays into combos instead the pvp meta switched to axes which now did more damage than swords at the cost of a bigger hit delay 1.9 pvp is all about getting those big critical hits with an unenchanted diamond axe you do 4.5 hearts of damage to unarmored

Players but jumping and doing a critical hit does 6.5 hearts of damage significantly more this means in 1.9 pvp due to attack cooldowns every hit matters and as such you want to ensure you land every single hit making sure it’s a critical so they deal more damage

Ensuring you land all your hits is especially important due to the slow axe reset time of one second as i just mentioned basically meaning you can only attack once per second significantly less than the upwards of 15 clicks per second 1.8 puppies are used to the other reason

Axes of the weapon of choice in 1.9 pvp is due to a feature which gives you a 75 chance to disable shields for 5 seconds upon attack as long as you are sprinting allowing you to get free hits in this means swords are largely underutilized and they don’t do as much

Damage and are unable to disable shields as we move into more modern versions of the game pvp has largely remained unchanged new weapons such as tridents and crossbows were added and some pvp mechanics were altered slightly but nothing major however while we have had 1.9 pvp for four years now

Most popular servers sent around pvp still remain on 1.8 or at least have plug-ins which change the pvp back to 1.8 in fact there are so few mini-game or pvp servers which run 1.9 pvp but when technoblade was trained to fight dream players figured out what his old account was as there

Was really only one server he could practice 1.9 pvp on so if it isn’t clear already the community is incredibly divided about the change with mainly refusing to update or play on versions past 1.8.9 but things may be changing for the better in the near future if you follow minecraft relatively closely

Then you may have heard of the combat snapshots which are separate snapshot versions of minecraft that mojang are using to test their new pvp changes now it’s unknown when these are going to be implemented into the main game but many updates have been made to the combat snapshot over the past year

So things are looking really promising now i’m not going to go into too much detail but basically the attack cooldown has largely been removed and you can click really fast again the ax2 does more damage than the sword but it was also not as fast they also nerfed axes by giving them

Less reach than a sword however one thing they have added which i really dislike is a super fast auto clicker right now i’m only holding down left click and look how fast it goes other changes include the fact that axes always disable shields now meaning they can be used strategically

With swords to first disable the shield then switch to a sword to rain down attacks upon the opponent they also made shields much weaker in this version making them only block up to two and a half hearts of damage and only block 50 of knockback instead of

All of it now there are a lot more changes so if you’re interested you can go to the wiki or reddit to read and try the snapshot for yourself but anyways minecraft pvp has evolved so much throughout the years and many of these decisions have divided the community who knows what the future

Holds with combat snapshots but at least mojang is making an effort to change the things which players dislike maybe one day the pvp community will finally be content with newer versions of the game but only time will tell i hope you enjoyed today’s video be sure to leave a like and

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