Horses have higher jump strengths than players and that can be very handy when using a mace, although it doesn’t work when trying to land a smash attack on your way down just the way it does when not riding anything, aswell as the crit attacks do not happen when riding any ridable mob. also when descending with an elytra at enormous speeds and trying to land a smash attack with a mace it doesn’t work, it would be really cool to be able to smash any mob on the way down and save the players' health instead of breathing their last.
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Maces not being able to be used with an elytra is intended per MC-269388, although per MC-270393 it is also intended that you can accumulate mace damage while flying and then uniquip the elytra immediately before you smash attack. The inability to crit while riding something is tracked in MC-269202. A new report for inability to smash attack while riding something is probably warranted, but I will create it myself. This report will be resolved as Invalid because multiple issues were reported; per the Bug Tracker Guidelines, there should only be one issue per report.
Works as intended, you have to unequip the elytra before attacking.