Java Edition guides/Combat Update

• Can be stood on like a block.
• When attacking, shulkers open their shell and shoot projectiles with the appearance of white sea urchins.
• Don't despawn on Peaceful, but don't attack or target players either.

Skeleton horse:

• Bone (1)
• 1–3XP (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Skeleton:

• Arrow (0–2)
• Bone (0–2)
• 5XP, plus 1–3XP per equipment piece (when killed by a player or tamed wolf)

Spawned equipment

• Enchanted Iron Helmet
• Enchanted Bow

• When a player comes within 10 blocks of the skeleton trap horse, lightning strikes it.
  • When struck, the skeleton trap horse transforms into a skeleton horseman.
  • It also spawns 3 additional skeleton horsemen in the vicinity.
• Each skeleton is equipped with an enchanted iron helmet and an enchanted bow, and have damage immunity for 3 seconds after spawning.
• Skeleton trap horse despawns after 15 minutes if not triggered.

• Improved AI.
• Mobs now can be pushed by other mobs.
• Added/changed sounds for some mobs.
• To have chance to spawn left-handed mobs.

• They must be closer to notice players wearing the corresponding mob head.
• Skeletons now hold their bows at their sides when not aiming.

• Can be respawned by placing one End crystal on each side of the exit portal at any one of the three blocks of that side.
  • While respawning, beams shoot out of these crystals, that reset all the pillars. When done, they blow up and spawn the dragon.
  • Subsequent dragons spawn new gateways up to a total of 20, but don't create new dragon eggs and only drop 500 experience instead of 12,000.
  • When the dragon is respawned, the circle of pillars and the crystals reappear.
    • Explosion particles appear on the tops of the pillars as they are being rebuilt.
• The fight has been changed to be more similar to the one on the console edition.
• They can no longer take damage from snowballs, eggs or fishing rods.
• Its attacks have been changed:
  • The "charge" attack has been given a great amount of knockback.
  • Breathes fire/purple particles (called "dragon breath") while on top of the portal.
    • During the attack, it knocks back and damages all players on all angles in the vicinity (as if hitting with other body parts).
      • Immediately charges the player right after.
    • Right-clicking the dragon's breath cloud with a glass bottle turns it into dragon's breath.
      • It is used to transform splash potions into lingering potions.
  • Shoots special projectiles at the player called "ender acid".
    • These produce a dragon breath cloud on impact and light the ground on fire.
  • While on top of the portal, arrows bounce back and are set on fire.
• Tags can determine the dragon's phase.
• Its AI was changed:
  • It sometimes returns to the center of the island to "perch" on top of the portal and shoot dragon breath.
    • It charges right after.
  • Defends the obsidian pillars more, the further the fight progresses.
  • Flies back to the portal once it gets killed, to complete its animation.
• No longer teleports through nether portals or End portals.
• Can no longer ride anything.
• Can no longer have status effects.
• Dragon summoned with /summon now stays in the same position no matter what.
  • Unlike a dragon with {NoAI:1b}, it still flaps its wings.
  • These dragons do not show their boss health bar, nor do they take damage from any attack other than /kill.

• Now only spawn in specific biomes. Even in these biomes, spawn chance is somewhat reduced.
• When rabbits are destroying carrot crops, now reduces the growth stage by 1 level, only removing the crop block entirely if the growth stage was 0.
• Are much smaller.
• Killer bunnies no longer naturally spawn.

• Snow golems' pumpkin now can be removed with shears.
  • Doesn't drop the pumpkin.

• Now have different textures based on the profession and career of the original villager.
  • The profession is restored once cured but not its trades.

• Breaks if the supporting block below is broken.
  • It only drops when mined directly.
• Can only be planted on End stone in any dimension.
• Show a dead texture when it stops growing.

• While a player wears the dragon head and moves, the head's mouth opens and closes repeatedly.
• When powered with redstone while placed on a solid block, the jaw starts to open and close.
  • They keep the mouth position of the exact moment it was unpowered.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blaze Rod + Popped Chorus Fruit	4

• Generates in the End cities.

• Placeable horizontally and vertically.
• Can be used as a light source with the same brightness as torches.
• Unlike torches, End rods have a hitbox.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
End Stone	4

• Generate in the End cities.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Popped Chorus Fruit

• Generates in the End cities.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Purpur Slab

• Generates in the End cities.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Purpur Slab	Purpur Block	6
Purpur Stairs	Purpur Block	4

• Generate in the End cities.

• While activated, chain command blocks run a command when an adjacent command block runs a command.
• While activated, repeating command blocks run a command every tick.

• Now keeps the item in it after reloading the world.
• Drops any contained item when exiting the GUI.
• Effect duration depends on pyramid levels, 9 seconds plus 2 seconds per level (formerly a constant 9 seconds).
• Now immediately activates when placed on valid pyramids.

• Now requires blaze powder to be able to use.
  • One piece of blaze powder adds 20 fuel.
  • 1 fuel is used on every batch of potions.

• Breaks if lava is adjacent.
• Breaks if water or lava is in the block above.

• No longer requires supporting blocks.
• An open trapdoor may be climbed like a ladder if it is directly above a ladder and on the same side of the block.

• Fills 1 () hunger point when eaten.
• Can be used to craft beetroot soup.
• Can also be used to craft rose red dye.

• Give 4 () hunger points when eaten.
• Teleport entity to a random nearby location when eaten, like an enderman.
• Can be eaten even if the player's hunger bar is full, similar to golden apples.
• Can be cooked in the furnace to obtain popped chorus fruits.

• Players can glide when elytra is equipped in the "chestplate" slot.
• Take damage at a rate of 1/s when working.
• When durability reaches 1, the elytra stop working until they are repaired. Elytra never fully break.
  • Leather repairs elytra in an anvil.
• The elytra texture defaults to the cape texture if the player owns a cape.

• The item form of End crystal entity.
• Summons an End crystal when using it on bedrock or obsidian.
  • Summoned End crystals have no bottom plate, unlike natural End crystals.

• No longer edible.
• Can be used to craft purpur blocks.

• New tool used for blocking incoming attacks.
  • If the player holds right click while being attacked, the damage inflicted is reduced, and the shield loses durability.
• Hitting a shield with an axe has a chance to disable the shield for 5 seconds.
• Can be combined with banners to transfer patterns to it.
• Planks repairs shields in an anvil.

• New types of arrows.
• Imbue a status effect when hitting a mob or player.
  • Spectral arrow imbues the Glowing effect for 10 seconds.
• For effects with duration, the duration is ¹⁄₈ that of the corresponding potion.

• Added sounds for some items.
• Now shows animation for variant states in the hotbar/inventory for some items.

• Added spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak variants.
  • Crafted from 5 same variant planks, with the shape just as it was before.
  • The previous "Boat" is now called "Oak Boat".
• Boats have a new model, with a pair of paddles on it.

• Is now uncraftable.
• Now gives Regeneration II for 20 seconds (heals 16HP × 8 in total) and Absorption IV for 2 minutes (providing 16HP × 8 points of absorption health).

• Now can be thrown in Creative mode.
• Has a cooldown time every time it is used.

• Can no longer be enchanted with Silk Touch.
• Now lose durability when used to break any block.
• Cobweb now drops itself when cut with shears.

• Can no longer be used for blocking.
• New defensive sword "sweep" attack when swinging the sword while crouching or standing.
  • Mobs near the attacker are knocked back and receive 1HP damage.

• Now bounce off of Creative mode players, where as before they would pass straight through.
• Now take the thrower's motion into account.

• Are faster, and no longer crash and break on the shore.
• Using the left and right keys now turns the boat.
  • Using the mouse no longer turns the boat.
  • Using the mouse, the player can look fully 90 degrees to the left or the right, but not behind.
  • Holding the sprint keys no longer have any effect.
• Now sink when there's water above it, instead of floating upwards.
• The player cannot use items or attack while the boat is in motion.
• Mobs and armor stands can go into boats, with a maximum of two.
• Riding a boat no longer subjects water-sensitive mobs to being damaged by water, and no longer protects sunlight-sensitive mobs from being damaged by sunlight.
• Now come in 6 different wood type variants.

• The effect is the same as the original splash potion.
• Thrown like a splash potion.
  • Leaves a patch of the potion particle effect on impact.
    • Entities that walk into it get the effect.

• Changed to 4HP damage decrease, was 0.5 (HP × ¹⁄₄) decrease.
• All recipes for the potion of Weakness were removed except using a water bottle.

• The way to the outer islands.
• Up to 20 gateways can be generated.

• Consist of chorus plants and chorus flowers; a chorus flower generates at the top of each branch.
• The player can grow a new chorus tree by planting a flower on a block of End stone.

• Villager
• Zombie villager

• Can be a shelter for the player.
• Some igloos have a stone brick basement.
  • A cleric villager and a cleric zombie villager always spawn in the iron bars.
  • Always spawns a splash potion of Weakness and a golden apple. It hinting the player to use these on the zombie to turn him into the villager.

• Obsidian pillars now generate in a circle around the exit portal.
• Some of the shorter pillars now generate with iron bars.

• A meter shows up after switching items or attacking.
• Damage done now depends on the fullness of the meter, and attack does 20%–100% of normal damage as the meter fills.
• Haste and Mining Fatigue cause the meter to fill faster or slower.

• Players now can use both hands to perform different actions using the left and right mouse buttons.
  • For example, if a player has a pickaxe in their main hand and a torch in their other hand, right clicking places the torch.
• Added an extra inventory slot called the offhand slot.
• Pressing F switches whatever item is selected in the hotbar with the item in the offhand (including no item).
• The offhand slot is displayed next to the hotbar when it's not empty (left for right-hand players and vice versa).
• Only the main hand can be used for breaks blocks or attacks.

• Players now can glide when equipped elytra.
• To glide, the player must press the jump key when in mid-air, then the elytra spread apart like insect wings and the player enters a glide.
• Player can aim their view around to turn or adjust the pitch. Losing altitude increases speed, and gaining altitude decreases speed.
  • Trying for too high a pitch reduces the player's lift.
• Directly hitting any surface while gliding causes damage proportional to flight speed.

• Overpowered
  • Description changed from "Build" to "Eat" an enchanted golden apple.

• Status effect icons are now displayed on the HUD on the right hand corner.
  • They are ordered by the time of infliction from right to left.
  • Positive effects are on the top row and negative effects on the bottom row.
  • Effects that are about to run out blink.

• Health regenerates faster when saturation is non-zero and the hunger bar is at 20.
• Health regeneration increases exhaustion more.

• If moving on ground (not falling, jumping, or flying), any still water blocks with air above within a radius of 2 + level around the block being moved to are turned into frosted ice.
  • Frosted ice cannot be obtained in Survival.
  • Frosted ice naturally melts fairly quickly with light and show the breaking texture.
• Incompatible with Depth Strider.

• Mainly intended for players who are hard of hearing, deaf or play with sounds off. They can also be used for hearing quieter sounds.
  • Mobs have individualizing subtitles, for example "Creeper hisses".
  • "<" or ">" points in the direction in which the sound is coming from if the sounds are offscreen.