Java Edition Combat Test 6

Combat Test 6 is the sixth experimental version of a future combat revision.^[1] Although it is a development version for a future release, this combat experiment is a fork of 1.16.2 Pre-release 3. This version was released only on Reddit, so it does not appear in the launcher or in any Minecraft.net blog post.

Changes[]

Items[]

Axes

Removed other weapon enchantments from the enchanting table.^{[more information needed]}

Bows

Bow and arrow accuracy now slowly decreases the longer the player keeps the bow charged.
- This is accompanied by a wobbling animation that gets progressively more intense.
Arrows are now 100% accurate by default.^{[more information needed]}

Non-mob entities[]

Projectiles

Player momentum is added to thrown projectiles, but only in the direction the player is aiming.

Gameplay[]

Combat

Entities with bounding boxes smaller than 0.9 block (such as rabbits and bats, for example) now have them inflated to that value.
Increased base reach from 2.5 to 3 blocks, and removed bonus reach for delayed attacks.
Missing an attack now only puts a 4 tick delay until the next attack, regardless of weapon.
Removed "Coyote Time", which was introduced in the previous combat test.

Eating

Reverted eating speed to 32 ticks (1.6 seconds).
Eating is now interrupted if something hits the player.
The player now naturally heals every 40 game ticks (2 seconds) instead of every 60 game ticks (3 seconds).
Natural healing drains food points 50% slower.
Reintroduced the rule that sprinting requires more than 6 points of food.

Enchantments

Renamed Chopping to Cleaving.
Nerfed Sweeping Edge enchantment to 25/33/37.5% (was 50/66/75%).

HUD

Removed the attack indicator completely, since it is no longer used by any systems.

Shields

Shields only protect up to 5 damage for melee attacks (still 100% against projectiles).
Shields recover faster after an attack.

Weapons

Swords always have sweeping attacks again, axes have it with the Sweeping enchantment.

Fixes[]

From the previous development version.

Fixed knockback calculation.
Fixed damage value on items being off-by-one client-side.
Fixed a bug that caused players to be unable to attack/interact after respawning.

Video[]

Video made by slicedlime:

Notes[]

↑ Unzip this file in the .minecraft/versions folder.

References[]

↑ "Combat Test version 6" – u/jeb_ on Reddit, August 7, 2020

[1] Unzip this file in the .minecraft/versions folder.

[2] "Combat Test version 6" – u/jeb_ on Reddit, August 7, 2020

[note 1]