Highlights

  • Players can craft the powerful mace in Minecraft's 1.21 update by completing Trial Chambers and earning Breeze rods and heavy cores.
  • The mace's unique fall-based attack mechanism provides a high-risk, high-reward combat experience, allowing players to deal massive damage.
  • The falling mechanic of the mace can take down tough mobs in just one hit, showcasing its potential as one of the game's strongest weapons.

Continuing its focus on combat adventures for its 1.21 update, Minecraft has introduced the all-new mace with a unique gravity-based attack mechanic, making it potentially one of the strongest weapons in the game. While there have been calls for Minecraft to add new weapons and revamp its combat, the mace might not have been the newcomer players were expecting. However, given that the mace both needs and synergizes with breeze rods and wind charges, it is arguably the perfect addition to Minecraft alongside the rest of the content coming in its 1.21 update.

Obtainable only through Minecraft's upcoming Trial Chambers, since it's made using Breeze mob item drops and Vault loot, players may have to go out of their way to get their hands on the mace. Even then, the mace itself may best be described as a high-risk, high-reward weapon, as to deal the most damage with the mace, players must fall to their would-be deaths as they attack from above. Yet despite the pros and cons of Minecraft's mace, some players have already proven that, with the right setup, the mace can take down the toughest mobs in just a single hit, including the Warden or the Enderdragon.

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Everything Players Need to Know About Minecraft's Mace

How to Obtain Minecraft's New Mace

For players to craft Minecraft's new mace weapon, they must first find and complete one of the new 1.21 Trial Chamber structures. Both components are virtually exclusive to these structures, with breeze rods dropped by defeated Breezes and heavy cores rewarded to players by unlocking Vaults, so players will have few other options if they are set on getting their very own mace. Moreover, between Vaults awarding heavy cores at a rate of just over two percent and the single-use nature of the Vaults themselves, players may need to spend time clearing multiple Trial Chambers until they've finally gathered everything they need for a mace.

How to Use Minecraft's New Mace

Once players have one of each item, they won't need a crafting table as a first for Minecraft's weapons, since the mace can be crafted by placing one heavy core above one breeze rod. As another first, unlike Minecraft's other weapons with relatively similar attack and cooldown speeds, the mace is potentially one of the game's first "heavy" weapons, as both speeds are noticeably longer. What's more, the brunt of its damage comes from its knockback effect. Even Minecraft's traditional enchantments for weapons like Sharpness can be completely negated thanks to the mace's unique fall-based attack mechanic.

How Minecraft's New Mace's Knockback Mechanic Works

Put simply, the mace deals more damage the further the player has fallen. However, this overlooks just how overpowered Minecraft's mace can be, because this fall-based damage boost has no limit, and the player suffers no fall damage if they land a successful attack. As a result, a mace-wielding player could take out another in Protection IV enchanted Netherite armor by falling just fifteen blocks, while killing the Warden would need a more substantial fall of ninety-nine blocks. Either way, the length of the fall itself becomes moot so long as players hit their target with the mace.

Mojang likely envisioned that the mace would be used alongside Minecraft's new wind charges, allowing players to be blasted a few blocks into the air before landing on enemies. Thanks to player ingenuity and a history of finding tricks to negate Minecraft's fall damage, the new weapon may be the game's strongest to date. Combined with the benefit of using one breeze rod to restore a quarter of the mace's durability, it may become one of the most popular weapons in Minecraft for both PvE and PvP until Mojang rebalances it.