Combat Test 2 is the second experimental version of a future combat update.^[1] Although it is a version for a future major release, this combat experiment is a fork of 1.14.4. This version was released only on Reddit, so it does not appear in the launcher or in any Minecraft.net blog post.

Changes

Gameplay

Combat

• Attacking while crouching will now disable the shield during the attack.
  • Shield is re-enabled after the weapon has reached 200% charge.
• Removed auto-attacking by holding the attack button.^{[note 2]}
• Weapon reach is always active and increased by half a block during a special attack.

HUD

• The hotbar attack indicator now only appears after the attack is 100% recharged, showing the progress of reaching 200% charge instead.

Items

Shields

• Will now protect against critical attacks again.

Swords

• Decreased the attack speed of all swords to 2.5.

Tridents

• Increased damage to 8.

Fixes

From the previous development version

• Weapon cooldowns now no longer apply to players in Creative mode.
• Fixed scale of the hotbar attack indicator.

Video

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Issues

This version is not supported on the bug tracker, and as such issues relating to this version will not be fixed.

Notes

References