Mace

Mace

Rarity tier	Epic
Attack damage	Normal attack: 6HP Smash attack: 6HP or higher (damage depends on distance fallen)
Attack speed‌	0.6 (1.667 seconds)
Durability	JE: 500 BE: 501
Enchantability	15
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 is crafted with a heavy core, which only drops from ominous vaults at a chance of 7.5%, and a breeze rod, obtained from breezes.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	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 damage when the attack cooldown is fully charged. In Java Edition, it has the slowest attack speed in the game, at 0.6. If used normally, it deals 3.6 damage per second (DPS) or 5.4 if using critical hits, whilst a wooden sword deals 6.4 DPS. However, when used with optimal enchantments, it deals the third highest DPS of all weapons.

Smash attack

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). 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 removing 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.​ 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

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

Repairing

Combining

Ingredients	Item repair recipe	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	Anvil recipe
Damaged  + 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	Enchanting TableAnvil	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

Sounds

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Mace	mace	Item	item.minecraft.mace

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Mace	mace	322	Item	item.mace.name

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Overkill	Deal nine hearts of damage in a single hit.	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have nine hearts of health overall.	30	Bronze
		Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.	20	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Over-Overkill	Deal 50 hearts of damage in a single hit using the	Damage can be dealt to any mob, even those that do not have 50 hearts of health overall.

Video

History

Java Edition
1.20.5 Experiment Update 1.21			24w11a				Added maces. No enchantments can be applied to it in Survival.
			24w12a				Maces no longer break webs faster like swords do.[5]
							Maces now have a unique sound when hitting an entity from a fall of more than five blocks.
			24w13a				Mace falling damage increase is no longer applied while using an elytra.[2]
							Maces now have a more explosive particle effect when executing a smash attack.
							The power and range of the knockback effect from a smash attack has been increased.
							Added an even stronger knockback effect for when falling more than five blocks before performing a smash attack.
							Successfully striking a target with a smash attack now resets all vertical momentum.
							The baseline additional damage dealt by the mace's smash attack has been slightly reduced to 3HP per fallen block.
							Mending, Unbreaking, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Fire Aspect, and Curse of Vanishing enchantments can now be applied to maces.
							Added Density, Breach, and Wind Burst enchantments, which are unique to the mace.
1.21			24w18a				Maces are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
							Mace durability has been increased from 250 to 500.
							Mace attack damage has been reduced from 7HP to 6HP.
							Mace attack speed has been drastically reduced from 1.6 to 0.5, the lowest attack speed in the game.
							Mace smash attack mechanics have been changed. Rather than damage increasing by 3HP per fallen block, the damage is instead increased 4HP for the first 3 blocks fallen, by 2HP for the next 5 blocks fallen, and by 1HP for all subsequent blocks fallen.
							Sharpness can now be applied to maces.[6]
							Fire Aspect can no longer be applied to maces.
			24w19a				Fire Aspect can now once again be applied to maces.
			pre1				Mace attack speed has been increased from 0.5 to 0.6.
			pre2				Mace rarity has been changed from "Common" to "Epic".
			pre4				Sharpness can no longer be applied to maces.
1.21.2			24w33a				Added a new death message for being killed by a mace smash attack.
			24w37a				Mace damage now scales with distance fallen when it is used by mobs.[7]
Bedrock Edition
1.20.80 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.80.22				Added maces.
			Preview 1.20.80.23				Maces now have a unique sound when hitting an entity from a fall of more than five blocks.
							Renamed sound events and sounds files from windswept_mace to mace.
1.21.0 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.21.0.21				Maces now have a more explosive particle effect when executing a smash attack.
							Added Density, Breach, and Wind Burst enchantments, which are unique to the mace.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.22				Maces are now available without using the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
			Preview 1.21.0.23				Unbreaking, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, and Fire Aspect enchantments can now be applied to maces.
							Tweaked the cost of applying the mace's exclusive enchantments in the enchantment table.
			Preview 1.21.0.24				Mace durability has been increased from 251 to 501.
							Mace attack damage has been reduced from 8HP to 6HP.
							Mace smash attack mechanics have been changed. Rather than damage increasing by 3HP per fallen block, the damage is instead increased 4HP for the first 3 blocks fallen, by 2HP for the next 5 blocks fallen, and by 1HP for all subsequent blocks fallen.
							Mace smash attack no longer creates dirt particles when hitting a target whose center is in the air.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.22				Mace rarity has been changed from "Common" to "Epic".
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.22				Added a new death message for when players or their pets are defeated by a mace smash attack.
			Preview 1.21.30.24				Mobs equipped with maces can now perform smash attacks.
							Maces are now stackable up to 64.
			Preview 1.21.30.25				Maces are no longer stackable.
							Mobs can no longer perform mace smash attacks.
1.21.40			Preview 1.21.40.21				Mobs can now perform mace smash attacks again.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Mace damage now scales with distance fallen when it is used by mobs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Mace" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The earliest implementation of the mace in Bedrock Edition used the attachable system, a system used to play custom animations. However the mace's attachable system files did not contain any custom animations, and it was later rewritten to use the standard item system.

Gallery

Icons

• 
  An enchanted mace.

Mojang screenshots

• 
  Noor holding a mace.
• 
  Noor using a mace against a zombie.
• 
  Noor slaying multiple zombies with a mace.
• 
  Alex fighting a husk with a mace.
• 
  Ari trying to land a hit on a creeper with a mace.
• 
  Efe jumping off a cliff with a mace.

In other media

• 
  Steve wielding a mace beside Alex and Makena.
• 
  Steve standing on top of a large column with mace in hand.
• 
  Steve dropping down through a hole.
• 
  Steve striking down a warden in one hit using a mace.
• 
  Steve posing with a sculk catalyst after defeating the warden with a mace.
• 
  Ari and Noor holding maces.
• 
  A mace as it appears in A Minecraft Movie Live Event.

References

External links

• "Mace" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 3, 2024.

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