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Mace
Rarity tier	Epic
Durability	500‌[Java Edition only]; 501‌[Bedrock Edition only];
Renewable	No (except via ominous vault)
Stackable	No

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A mace is a melee weapon that deals more damage the farther the player wielding it falls before hitting an entity. Landing a successful midair mace hit will cause the mace holder to land without taking any fall damage. It must be crafted with a heavy core, which only drops from ominous vaults, and a breeze rod, obtained from breezes.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Heavy Core + Breeze Rod

Usage

Attacking with a mace costs 1 durability, regardless of whether the attack is a smash attack (see below). In Java Edition, a boat or minecart hit by a mace is instantly destroyed without decreasing the mace's durability.

Normal attack

A mace can be used while standing on the ground to perform a normal attack, dealing 6HP when the attack cooldown is fully charged. In Java Edition, it has the slowest attack speed in the game, at 0.6.

Smash attack

it smashes idk, im putting this here because it was blank

Falling

A mace does a smash attack when it is used after the player has fallen 1.5 blocks or more, regardless of the mace's current attack cooldown progress.^[1] The player must not be grounded, and the fall height used in calculation is simply the starting height (Y coordinate) minus the ending height (Y coordinate).^[verify] Successfully performing a smash attack without touching the ground resets the player's fall height to the height where the smash attack was performed, nullifying any fall damage. The player begins accumulating fall damage once again if they continue to fall.

Activation

When a smash attack is performed, extra damage is dealt to the attacked entity based on the distance fallen prior to the attack. The extra damage is not applied while in elytra flight,^[2] but this can be circumvented by unequipping the elytra just before attacking.^[3] All entities within 2.5 blocks of the attack are knocked back, similar to the effect of a wind charge.^{[more information needed]} The knockback from smash attacks does not affect the attacker, though the Wind Burst enchantment can be used to launch them in a similar way. A smash attack can be performed on any entity, which includes mobs, players, and non-mob entities like armor stands. Smash attacks cannot be performed if the player has the Slow Falling effect.

Damage

A successful smash attack causes a mace to deal 4HP extra damage for each of the first 3 blocks fallen, 2HP extra damage for each of the next 5 blocks fallen, and 1HP extra damage for each block fallen after that. The Density enchantment can be used to increase smash attack damage by 0.5HP × 0.25 per level for each block fallen. Smash attacks are usually critical hits, where both the mace's base damage and its smash attack damage are increased by 50%. The damage a mace smash attack can accumulate from falling is unlimited.^[4]

Damage comparisons

The amount of fallen blocks needed to defeat a player wearing full Protection IV netherite armor from full health are the following:

Unenchanted mace: A critical hit after falling 30 blocks.
Breach IV mace: A critical hit after falling 19 blocks.
Density V mace: A critical hit after falling 10 blocks.
Breach IV mace with Strength II: A critical hit after falling 13 blocks.
Density V mace with Strength II: A critical hit after falling 9 blocks.

The amount of fallen blocks needed to defeat a warden from full health are the following:

Unenchanted mace: A critical hit after falling 321 blocks.
Density V mace: A critical hit after falling 95 blocks.
Density V mace with Strength II: A critical hit after falling 93 blocks.

Damage calculator

This tool calculates how much damage a mace inflicts in combination with its smash attack at different amounts of fallen distance, as of Java Edition 1.21 and Bedrock Edition 1.21.0. Note that the values are theoretical, as high falling velocity values cause smash attacks to not be critical hits when activating shortly above the ground.

Base damage

Java Edition

Maces have an attack speed of 0.6 and take 1.67 seconds (33.4 game ticks) to recover.

Attack	Melee	Melee (critical)
Attack damage	6HP	9HP
Attack speed	0.6
Damage per second (DPS)	3.6	5.4
Durability	500
Lifetime damage inflicted^{[note 1]}	3000HP × 1500	4500HP × 2250

↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Lifetime damage minimum = Durability × Damage per hit. It excludes enchantments, assumes no fall distance, and assumes the mace is at maximum charge.

Bedrock Edition

In Bedrock Edition, maces have no attack cooldown, and deal the following damage:

Attack	Melee	Melee (critical)
Attack damage	6HP	9HP
Durability	501
Lifetime damage inflicted^{[note 1]}	3006HP × 1503	4509HP × 2254.5

↑ The formula to find the total lifetime damage is Durability × Damage per hit = Lifetime damage minimum. It excludes enchantments, and assumes no fall distance.

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Item repair recipe	[hide]Description
2× Damaged Mace		The durability of the two maces is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.
2× Damaged Mace		The durability of the two maces is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Unit repair

Ingredients	[hide]Anvil recipe
Damaged Mace + Breeze Rod	Mace

A mace can be repaired in an anvil by adding breeze rods or another mace. One breeze rod restores 25% of the mace's durability.

Enchantments

A mace can receive the following enchantments:


Name	Description	Max level	Method	Weight
Density^{[note 1]}	Increases the damage dealt per block fallen, increasing by 0.5 per level.	V	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Breach^{[note 1]}	Reduces the effectiveness of the armor on the target. The armor's effectiveness is reduced by 15% per level.	IV	Enchanting Table Anvil	4
Wind Burst	Emits a burst of wind (like that of a wind charge) upon executing a mace smash attack on an entity, launching the attacker upward. It can be used to chain smash attacks together, and the strength of the launch increases per level.	III	Anvil	2
Smite^{[note 1]}	Increases the damage dealt to undead.	V	Anvil	5
Bane of Arthropods^{[note 1]}	Increases the damage dealt to arthropods.	V	Anvil	5
Fire Aspect	Ignites any targets hit by the mace. In Bedrock Edition, it also lights unlit candles, campfires, and blocks of TNT when used.	II	Anvil	2
Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Enchanting Table Anvil	5
Mending	Repairs the mace when obtaining experience.	I	Anvil	2
Curse of Vanishing	The mace vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Anvil	1

↑ ^{Jump up to: a} ^b ^c ^d Density, Breach, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive.

Sounds

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Mace smashes	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity on the ground from a fall of five blocks or less	`item.mace.smash_ground`	`subtitles.item.mace.smash_ground`	1.0	1.0	16
	Mace smashes	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity on the ground from a fall of greater than five blocks	`item.mace.smash_ground_heavy`	`subtitles.item.mace.smash_ground`	?	?	16
	Mace smashes	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity in the air	`item.mace.smash_air`	`subtitles.item.mace.smash_air`	1.0	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity on the ground from a fall of five blocks or less	`mace.smash_ground`	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity on the ground from a fall of greater than five blocks	`mace.heavy_smash_ground`	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a mace deals extra damage to an entity in the air	`mace.smash_air`	1.0	1.0

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