Minecraft's New Mace Highlights One Missing Weapon Update

Minecraft's New Mace Highlights One Missing Weapon Update

• Tricky Trials update adds new copper blocks, mobs, and mace weapon.
• Mace's exclusive enchantments: Breach, Density, Wind Burst; axe needs unique abilities.
• Enchantment table requires XP and lapis lazuli; axes may get new enchantments, quests.

Several new items and mobs were added to Minecraft through its new Tricky Trials update. With the new update, players can build with several new copper-based blocks and journey underground to fight the new bogged and breeze mobs in trial chambers. Here, players can work together to complete normal or ominous trial challenges to reap rare loot from vaults.

One of the more coveted rewards from completing the ominous trial is the heavy core, a required item to build the new mace weapon. The mace is the most powerful base weapon in Minecraft, but it can be further upgraded with three exclusive enchantments: Breach, Density, and Wind Burst. While fans are excited about the mace and its exclusive enchantments, Mojang should next update the axe to grant it its very own unique abilities.

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Minecraft Weapon Enchantments

Most tools and weapons can be upgraded with rare magical enchantments in Minecraft. These can often be applied to tools and weapons via an enchantment table surrounded by bookshelves, but enchanted books can be applied to these objects from anvils. Enchanted books themselves could be combined on anvils as well. In order to access enchantments on the enchantment table or anvil, players must have high levels of XP and lapis lazuli. More efficient and powerful enchantments will become available at the table the higher the XP level a player has. Some weapons or tools can have more than one enchantment enabled, such as a stone sword with Sharpness 2, Looting 1, and Knockback 1.

Most weapons or tools can receive basic enhancements such as Efficiency, but some are exclusive to specific types of weapons or tools. For example, only bows can receive the Infinity enchantment, which allows players to shoot infinite arrows as long as they have one arrow in their inventory. Likewise, only the mace can receive the Breach, Density, and Wind Bursts Enchantments. These allow the mace to penetrate armor, increase damage based on fall distance, and launch enemies and the player into the air after a smash attack, respectively. However, the axe still does not have any unique enchantments of its own.

Enchantments and the Enchanting Table were first added to Minecraft Java Edition 1.0.0 in 2011 and only required XP levels to enchant items.

Minecrafts Potential Axe Enchantments Explained

While the axe doesn’t currently have a unique enchantment in Minecraft, one was introduced in Java Edition’s Combat Test 3 in 2019. Initially called Chopping but later changed to Cleaving in 2020, this unique enchantment would allow axes to have increased damage and be able to disable other players’ shields for about three seconds. Depending on how much XP a player has, an axe can be enchanted with Cleaving up to a level of three, which increases the axe’s damage output by 12 points of attack damage per swing. Cleaving was last updated in 2020’s Combat Test 8b and is expected to be implemented into mainline Minecraft sometime soon.

As players wait for cleaving to be fully released, Mojang could work on developing more unique Minecraft enchantments for the axe similar to the mace. Since axes are inherently designed for chopping down trees, Mojang could design another high-level enchantment that could instantly turn entire trees into drops at a single hit. This could make the axe a more coveted tool and speed up wood resource collecting. In terms of an enchantment designed for PVP or PVE combat, Mojang could also design an enchantment that would allow players to hurl their axes at an opponent. Axe variants such as franciscas or tomahawks are designed to be thrown, so this enhancement could be a nod to those real-life counterparts.

How Minecraft Could Add Axe Enchantment Quests

Mojang could further add somewhat complex quests or challenges to go along with these enchantments. Similar to how players have to complete ominous trials to build a mace, Mojang could design quests or hard-to-find areas to access these hypothetical enchantments. Since illagers are the only mob that uses axes besides the player, these enchantments could be exclusively found in rare enchanted books found in Minecraft's mansions or illager outposts. The illagers could be further updated to use the axe-throwing ability to make illager raids more of a challenge to defend against in Minecraft.

Minecraft

Platform(s) PS Vita, PS3, Nintendo Wii U, Switch, PS4, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Android, 3DS, Xbox OneReleased November 18, 2011Developer(s) MojangPublisher(s) MojangGenre(s) Sandbox, SurvivalESRB E10+ For Everyone 10+ Due To Fantasy ViolenceHow Long To Beat N/AX|S Enhanced NoFile Size Xbox Series 1 GB (May 2024)Metascore 93Split Screen Orientation Vertical or HorizontalNumber of Players 1-4 See at Official Site