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The video provides a comprehensive guide to the new mace weapon introduced in Minecraft 1.21, detailing its crafting process, mechanics, enchantments, and repair methods. The mace is crafted using a heavy core and a breeze rod, both obtained from the Trial Chamber, a location accessible through maps bought from Cartographer villagers. Players can initiate an Ominous Trial by drinking an ominous bottle from Raid Captains near a trial spawner. These trials feature enhanced mobs, and successful completion yields loot, including the heavy core.
The video explains the mace's base damage of six, which increases with falling distance, making it particularly effective with smash attacks that are activated by falling more than 1.5 blocks. Key enchantments include Feather Falling, Unbreaking, Mending, Fire Aspect, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Density, Breach, and Wind Burst. Each enchantment has specific effects and acquisition methods, with only one from the categories of Density, Breach, Smite, or Bane of Arthropods being applicable at a time due to incompatibility. Repair options include combining maces, using Blaze rods on an anvil, or employing enchantments like Mending.
Overall, the mace is portrayed as a versatile and powerful weapon, particularly effective when optimized with the right enchantments and used strategically to maximize its unique fall-damage mechanics. It offers a new dynamic to combat in Minecraft, providing players with opportunities to explore advanced strategies and enhancements.
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In this part of the video, the narrator provides an in-depth guide on the new mace weapon in Minecraft 1.21. The mace can deal significant damage based on the player’s fall distance. The crafting recipe requires a heavy core and a breeze rod, both obtained from the Trial Chamber. The Breeze mob, found exclusively in the Trial Chamber, drops Breeze rods when defeated. The Trial Chamber can be located using maps bought from Cartographer villagers. The heavy core is obtained by starting an Ominous Trial, triggered by drinking an ominous bottle obtained from Raid Captains, and being near a trial spawner. The Ominous Trial varies in difficulty depending on the level of the Bad Omen effect and features mobs with enhanced armor and special attacks.
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In this part of the video, the ominous trial and its mechanics are explained. Trial spawners transform into ominous trial spawners, which then try to spawn mobs every 2 seconds. The number of mobs spawned varies with the type of mob and increases with additional players. Once the total mobs are defeated, loot items are ejected, with a 30% chance of receiving an ominous trial key used to unlock the ominous Vault. The ominous Vault contains unique items, including the rare heavy core with a 7.5% chance of being ejected.
The video also covers the functionality of the mace in Minecraft. The base damage of a mace is six, and it is more effective with falling damage. Smash attacks, triggered when falling more than 1.5 blocks, increase damage based on the height fallen. Critical hits occur when falling and striking a mob, enhancing the mace’s effectiveness. The mace’s optimal damage output occurs from eight blocks up, with additional knockback effects to nearby mobs.
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In this part of the video, the focus is on the mechanics and enchantments of using a mace in the game. It covers:
– **Fall Damage Negation**: Fall damage is reset when hitting a mob with a smash attack. However, fall damage will occur if the mob is missed or after hitting a mob from a high place. Feather Falling enchantment on boots is recommended.
– **Cooldown and Attack**: The mace has a 2-second cooldown, making it slower than other weapons and preventing spam attacks. It also does not work with elra flight.
– **Durability and Enchantments**:
– *Unbreaking Enchantment*: Increases mace durability from 500. Reduces the likelihood of durability usage (50% at level 1, 33% at level 2, and 25% at level 3). Can be applied via enchanting table or anvil.
– *Mending Enchantment*: Repairs the mace using experience orbs, provided it’s held in hand or off-hand. Only one piece of armor/weapon with mending will be addressed at a time. Acquired through anvil and sources like loot chests or villager trading.
– *Curse of Vanishing*: Makes the mace disappear upon death and cannot be removed once applied. Identifiable by its red text and can only be applied through the anvil.
– *Fire Aspect*: Has two levels, sets mobs on fire causing incremental damage (three at level one, seven at level two), and can be applied using the anvil.
The segment emphasizes careful selection of enchantments and awareness of the mace’s limitations due to its mechanics and durability.
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In this part of the video, the presenter discusses various enchantments that can be applied to the mace, highlighting their effects, compatibility, and acquisition methods.
– **Smite and Bane of Arthropods**: Increase damage by 2.5 per level (max level 5). Smite affects undead mobs, and Bane of Arthropods affects arthropod mobs.
– **Density**: Increases damage per block fallen by 0.5 per level (max level 5). It stacks with smash and critical attacks.
– **Breach**: Reduces armor effectiveness by 15% per level (max level 4), useful in PvP.
– **Wind Burst**: Emits a wind burst on smash attack, knocking back mobs and launching the player. Max level is 3, found in ominous Vault with a rare 3% chance per vault.
Key point: **Only one of Density, Breach, Smite, or Bane of Arthropods** can be applied at a time due to incompatibility. The best combination suggested for the mace includes Density, Unbreaking, Mending, Fire Aspect, and Wind Burst.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the durability and repair options for the mace. The mace has a durability of 500 and loses one durability point with each use. To repair it, you can combine two maces, resulting in added durability plus a 5% bonus, using the crafting grid or grindstone. Alternatively, the mace can be repaired on an Anvil with Blaze rods, which add 25% durability. However, using the Anvil introduces a prior work penalty, increasing the enchantment levels required with each subsequent repair. The speaker emphasizes the mace as a significant and useful addition to the update, worth testing with various attacks and enchantments.