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MC-303451

Spear charge attacks sometimes deal only knockback, and no damage

The charge attack of spears sometimes deals only does knockback with no damage, despite the charge attack’s minimum speed threshhold for dealing knockback (5.1 blocks/second) behind higher than the minimum threshold for dealing damage (4.6 blocks/second).

Expected Result: Charge attacks always deal damage when they connect with the required speed threshhold (4.6 blocks/second)

Observed Result: Charge attacks occasionally fail to deal damage, but still deal knockback, despite the aformentioned speed thresholds being designed to make this an impossibility

CODE ANALYSIS:

This bug happens because the conditions for dealing damage uses relative speed, while the conditions for dealing knockback use the attacker’s speed.

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After consideration, the issue is being closed as Working as Intended.

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This being marked as WAI is unfortunate, as it makes spears feel very unresponsive and is not intuitive at all.

how is this the intended behaviour?? that makes absolutely no sense. it borderline ruins the spear for me because i cannot trust it to work.

I don't understand how it's intended. I understand the chaining charge attacks not dealing damage (just running into a mob and hitting it many times) but sometimes it doesn't deal any damage on the first hit.

SeaOfPixels

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Expansion A

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