How do you get Mace in Minecraft?

Craft it: 1 heavy core on top of 1 breeze rod in the crafting grid Heavy cores come ONLY from ominous vaults in trial chambers - a 7.5% chance per vault, opened with an ominous trial key Breeze rods drop from breezes, the wind mobs inside trial chambers

What is Mace used for?

Normal attack: 6 damage fully charged, but the slowest attack speed in the game (0.6 in Java) - weak for flat-ground fights Smash attack: hit something after falling 1.5+ blocks and the mace adds damage per block fallen - the farther the drop, the bigger the hit, with no cap Landing a smash resets your fall height: you take zero fall damage from the drop that fed the hit The smash also knocks back every entity within 2.5 blocks, like a wind charge burst Slow Falling disables smash attacks entirely - do not drink it before a fight Signature enchants: Density (more fall damage), Breach (armor pierce), Wind Burst (relaunch after a smash) - plus Smite and Bane of Arthropods

Mace

Weapon Stack: 1 Since 1.21 (Tricky Trials)

Quick answer: Craft it: 1 heavy core on top of 1 breeze rod in the crafting grid.

How to get it

Craft it: 1 heavy core on top of 1 breeze rod in the crafting grid
Heavy cores come ONLY from ominous vaults in trial chambers - a 7.5% chance per vault, opened with an ominous trial key
Breeze rods drop from breezes, the wind mobs inside trial chambers

Uses

Normal attack: 6 damage fully charged, but the slowest attack speed in the game (0.6 in Java) - weak for flat-ground fights
Smash attack: hit something after falling 1.5+ blocks and the mace adds damage per block fallen - the farther the drop, the bigger the hit, with no cap
Landing a smash resets your fall height: you take zero fall damage from the drop that fed the hit
The smash also knocks back every entity within 2.5 blocks, like a wind charge burst
Slow Falling disables smash attacks entirely - do not drink it before a fight
Signature enchants: Density (more fall damage), Breach (armor pierce), Wind Burst (relaunch after a smash) - plus Smite and Bane of Arthropods

Renewability

Not renewable in practice: each ominous vault opens once per player, so heavy cores are finite per world.

Java vs Bedrock

In Java you must unequip the elytra before attacking for a smash to trigger; in Bedrock smashes activate even mid-elytra-flight. Durability is 500 in Java and 501 in Bedrock.

Related: Heavy Core Breeze Rod

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