I haven't played Minecraft in approximately twenty-six years, but lately I've been thinking about getting a group of buddies together and playing it to see how much has changed since the year 1990. Mojang must have sent its Thought Thieves into my California home, because today marks the PC release of the Combat Update.
You can now carry two things at once by tapping F to place your desired item in your off hand. There are also shields, cooldowns for weapons (you can spam attacks as often as you want, but they're more effective if you pace them out), a new enemy type called the Shulker, a pair of wings that enable gliding, and all sorts of other little improvements.
Sure, using two diamond pickaxes is fun. Sure, using a tool in one hand and a torch in the other is practical when diving deep into caverns. But sometimes, you just have to dual wield buckets of lava. I may have destroyed Mr. Destructoid. I may upload pictures in the comments, if Niero doesn't send a hitman after me. Here are the changes:
Added shields
Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks
You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’)
Swords have a special sweep attack
Axes have a special crushing blow attack
Added the elytra
New mob: Shulker
Expanded The End
Added Chorus plants
New Purpur blocks
New End Rod block
Added dragon head block
Ender Dragon can be resummoned
Added beetroot and beetroot soup (from MC:PE)
Added grass path block
Added igloos
Armor protection values have been lowered
Added tipped arrows
Added spectral arrows
Added Frost Walker enchantment and frosted ice block
Added a whole bunch of new sound effects
Added sound effect subtitles
Brewing Stand now requires Blaze Powder to activate
Added skeleton riders
We believe we’ve fixed MC-10 and a whole bunch of other issues
As much as I love the system, it’s nearly always possible to improve things though. Here are 5 little improvements that I’d love to the system that could make a big difference for some gamers.
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