Java Edition 15w34c

15w34c is the twelfth snapshot for Java Edition 1.9, released on August 21, 2015^[1] mainly to extend features added in 15w34a and 15w34b.

Additions

New offensive attack.
- Hitting another player who is blocking with a shield has a chance to disable the player's shield for 5 seconds.
  - 25% base chance, plus 5 percentage points for each level of Efficiency on the axe, plus 75 percentage points if sprinting.
  - This is visible on the shield icon through a "rolling curtain" animation.

Now have a cooldown every time they are used.
- Have the same animation as the shields.
Chorus fruits can no longer teleport the player on top of the Nether roof.

New defensive attack while crouching or standing and having a full damage bar.
- Mobs near the one hit (bounding box expanded by 1 block horizontally and 0.25 vertically) and within 3 blocks of the attacker are knocked back without damage. Knockback is 80% of that done by Knockback I and is not affected by the Knockback enchantment.
  - Creates a sweep attack particle.

Combat

Added the attack speed tooltip.
When an attack is blocked by a shield, the attacker may be knocked back.
Different attack speeds and damages for different tools.
- Hoes are the fastest, but only slightly more powerful than before, axes are much more powerful, but are also the slowest.

Attack speed and damage
Item	Attack speed	Attack damage				Damage per second (DPS)
Swords	1.45	4HP	5HP	6HP	7HP	5.8	7.25	8.7	10.15
Axes^{[note 1]}	0.85	8HP	9HP	10HP	11HP × 5.5	6.8	7.65	8.5	9.35
Pickaxes^{[note 1]}	1.5	2HP	3HP	4HP	5HP	3	4.5	6	7.5
Shovels^{[note 1]}	1	4.5HP × 2.25	5.5HP × 2.75	6.5HP × 3.25	7.5HP × 3.75	4.5	5.5	6.5	7.5
Hoes	4	1HP	1.33HP × 0.665	1.67HP × 0.835	2HP	4	5.32	6.66	8