Java Edition Combat Test 4

Combat Test 4 is the fourth experimental version of a future combat revison. This combat experiment is a fork of the game at version 1.15-pre3,. This version was released only on Reddit, so it does not appear in the launcher or in any Minecraft.net blog post.

Gameplay

 * Enchantments
 * All damage enchantments can be applied to axes in the enchanting table.


 * Shields
 * Added an option to disable the use-shield-on-crouch.
 * Located in the Accessibility menu.
 * Removed the option to hide the shield.

Items

 * Axes
 * Now always disable shields for 1.6 seconds, instead of having a 25% to disable them for 5 seconds.
 * Now take only 1 damage when attacking instead of 2.


 * Snowballs
 * Now stack to 64.

Non-mob entities

 * Thrown snowballs
 * Now have 4-tick cooldown.
 * Not rendered for the first 2 ticks (to prevent screen flickering).

Video
Video made by slicedlime: