It was here I learned the futility of trying to fast click as I tried to take them out as poison drained my hit points. Thinking that I had mastered things I ran off into the dark and was promptly slain by a witch and zombie combo. Pretty neat, though it will take some getting used to. Clicking at the right time… and so far I have just been guessing at when that is… yields a nice sword stroke across your foe and you can see hearts, representing its hit points, spilling away as you strike. Weapons now have a cool down… or so the release notes said… so fast clicking yields nothing. You can no longer mindlessly hyper-click to kill things fast fast fast. I waited for night and found a zombie to hack up.Ĭombat is definitely different. Fortunately, the internet was way ahead of me on that and there was already a pretty full entry about shields on the wiki, including the recipe.
#Minecraft 1.9: the combat update how to#
But first I had to look up how to even make one. Shields are one of the new features with 1.9. The first thing I ran off to do was make a shield. For some reason I had set my client specifically to use version 1.8.9… I don’t recall why… so I wasn’t able to get on the server until I logged back out and fixed that in my settings. Then it was time to log in and give it a try.
Then it was time to start the world back up and see if anything exploded.Īside from some errors about a few chickens sharing ID numbers with other chickens, things seem to come up okay. Then I flipped the selector to give us version 1.9 of the Minecraft. While I have not been especially happy with MC Pro Hosting since we moved to them… performance suggests we share space with a very active server so things bog down a lot during the evening and I have had a series of server issues with them… they do make upgrading to the latest server version pretty easy.įirst I brought the server down and took a backup of our world. So I was in a rush to see this new combat update.
#Minecraft 1.9: the combat update update#
After playing Minecraft for the last 8 months or so, this is the first real feature update I have been a part of. I was kind of excited when the announcement came through that Minecraft 1.9 had been released.