Preserved: Inferno

Shield Changes

• Increased copper shield max stamina from 8 → 10
• Increased copper shield stamina recovery from 0.53 → 0.66
• Increased iron shield max stamina from 12 → 15
• Increased iron shield stamina recovery from 0.96 → 1.2
• Increased diamond shield max stamina from 16 → 20
• Increased diamond shield stamina recovery from 1.6 → 2.0
• Increased netherite shield max stamina from 20 → 25
• Increased netherite shield stamina recovery from 2.66 → 3.33

Shields have been kept at a low power level for their entire existence, so with these changes we hope that shields can become a more permanent part of the gameplay loop.

Shield Enchantment Changes

• Increased buckler shield arm time reduction from 4 → 5 ticks
• Reduced buckler bookshelf power requirement from 2 → 1
• Increased endurance max stamina increase from 4 → 5
• Reduced endurance bookshelf power requirement from 2 → 1
• Reduced vigor bookshelf power requirement from 2 → 1
• Increased bashful stamina cost from 4 → 5
• New: Repulsor Enchantment
  • When a shield enchanted with repulsor gets disabled, all mobs in an 120° cone with an 8 block radius in front of the player, will be knocked back 5 blocks
  • Repulsor is a treasure enchantment ‎

Mace Changes

• Increased mace attack speed from 0.6 → 1
• Knockback from the mace smash attack will no longer affect players
• New: Collision Enchantment
  • Entities affected by the knockback from a mace smash attack will take (2 + 0.3(damage dealt)) damage
  • Conflicts with Wind Burst and Blustering
  • Collision is a treasure enchantment
• New: Blustering Enchantment
  • Using (right-click) a mace with blustering will launch a wind charge
  • Blustering ability has a 3 second cooldown
  • Killing a mob while the ability is on cooldown will refresh it
  • The mace can still be used to attack while the ability is on cooldown
  • Conflicts with Wind Burst and Collision
  • Blustering is a treasure enchantment

Maces have always been a gimmicky weapon that can't really be used outside of scenarios that require a high amount of damage. These changes and new enchants aim to open up more scenarios to where players may want to use a mace, whether that be for AOE damage or just pure utility.

Trial Vault Loot Changes

• Separated shield treasure enchantments into a different roll than the common shield enchantments
  • This loot roll has a weight of 1
• Added repulsor to potential enchants that can be rolled on shield treasure enchanted books and shields
• Added collision and blustering to the wind burst enchanted book roll
  • Increased mace treasure enchanted book weight from 2 → 6
• Increased heavy core weight from 1 → 2
• Reduced flow banner pattern weight from 2 → 1
• Increased the chance to roll the rare loot pool (not unique) for both normal and ominous vaults

Trial Spawner Changes

• Replaced cooked chicken from trial spawner loot table with cooked rabbit
• Replaced steak from ominous trial spawner loot with rabbit stew
• Reduced spawn delay for all slow ranged spawners from 160 → 60 ticks ‎

Mount Changes

• All mounts will now drop their equipment upon death, regardless of cause
• Reduced the max health of generated zombie and skeleton horses from 30 → 20
• Increased the max health cap for zombie and skeleton horses from 30 → 40
• When the max health of a zombie or skeleton horse is increased via horse training, it will gain poison 1 for 5 seconds
• Skeleton horses no longer spawn in tamed
• Skeleton horses can now be fed phantom sinew to improve taming rates
• Skeleton horses can now be fed phantom sinew and will heal 3 health
• Skeleton horses can now equip horse armor
• Zombie horses can be fed red mushrooms to improve taming rates
• Zombie horses no longer burn in daylight

Minor Changes

• Mob griefing has been re-enabled
  • Upon loading into an existing world with mob griefing disabled, a message will appear informing you that mob griefing has been re-enabled
• Creepers and ghasts will not destroy blocks with their explosions
• Creepers, ghasts, and withers will not destroy items with their explosions
• Reduced creeper fuse time from 24 → 20 ticks

Creeper lethality has gone down significantly since their rework. This change will hopefully make creepers less of a threat that can be ignored and walked past.

• Villagers can now spawn iron golems again
• Iron golems no longer drop iron ingots
• Iron golems now drop 1 poppy instead of 0-2 poppies
• Added a sound effect for retrieving a fishing rod from an angling table
• Items will no longer be destroyed when struck by lightning
• Mobs will now drop loot when killed by lightning
• When a cache is destroyed, the contents of the cache will drop instead of also being destroyed
• Reduced shulker box block hardness from 2 → 0.5
• Renamed "Trident" to "Elder Trident"
• Undead mobs no longer ignore poison and regeneration effects. Each effect will now have the inverse effect on undead mobs ‎

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rhyolite brick stairs using the rhyolite block model
• Fixed "Trims of Days Past" advancement having the wrong icon
• Fixed respite enchantment granting stamina regeneration when a shield is disabled
• Fixed freezing damage reducing heat every tick instead of every 10 ticks
• Fixed honey bottles having the "Sticky" tooltip despite not applying the hindering effect
• Fixed shears not being able to be smelted or blasted down into copper nuggets
• Fixed zombies being unable to break down "open" doors
• Fixed donkeys and mules being unable to receive health training
• Fixed angling tables, reinforced wooden doors, and all cloth items from being unable to be used as fuel
• Fixed gilden berries from giving much more nutrition than intended
• Fixed sculk infusions being able to be combined in an anvil
• Fixed zombie and skeleton horses from being unable to receive health training