This is a hint that they're gonna add sword parrying, and then they're gonna add shootable coins! AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA RENAME MINECRAFT INTO ULTRAKILL!
This actually ended up being one of the best updates for parkour because now you can use the sword blocking mechanic to set up precise coordinates for a jump just like you used to do in 1.8
I was thinking the same thing; this would get around the offhand problem that phoenix mentions at 2:43, since you could just not get the enchant on your sword if you don't want this behavior even if they don't plan on adding this to vanilla, they've made it so easy to make it with a datapack that I might end up adding it myself, which is neat
Sword blocking could be added but doing so either severely damages the sword or stops most damage but some still gets through. It's a cheaper alternative to shields but is still worse than shields, keeping the shields usefulness.
Could just be it only stops 50% if the damage, or only stops melee, projectiles (arrow trident) and explosives still hit, or both and the fact only swords have it to give them some value over axes
To me, this feels more like they wanted to let people make custom shields with datapacks and alike as opposed to re-adding 1.8 sword blocking, but the fact that you can is really cool. I also feel like this could be useful in maps where the player needs to be holding something that has a right click function like food, potions, projectiles, etc. but not be able to use them, since being able to block with, for an example in the video, a pufferfish, means you can’t use its main functionality.
Minecraft 1.21.4 is definitely my favorite era of minecraft when it comes to sheer number of things you can create with vanilla commands. Also syntax being streamlined is nice too
@shiny_lock basically, in terraria, when you beat the final boss in the game, it has a chance to drop meowmere, a sword that both meows and shoots cats with rainbow trails.
@NotTchno everyone knows about Terraria and that sword, lol Even Stardew Valley has it as a collab. What we need now is swords in Minecraft that have the screams of the damned
5:17 This reminds me of a goofy little image I've had in my head for a long time now. I always wondered "What would it look like if you could mine a player's head with a pickaxe and when it breaks, the player's head drops as an item and the player is immediately slain?" I don't think it would be possible to code that since players are entities, but that'd be hilarious
That should be possible with function macros (for grabbing the name from the player head and using it as a variable in a kill command). And raycasting methods among other setups have existed for awhile now to find and detect the block that a player is looking at, has mined, etc.
I believe they simply added this because they wanted to make the blocking of the shield be data driven. And sword parrying is just a sideeffect of that
4:03 honestly it sounds like that one video where a person is cutting off a ruler and theres a freddy fazbear plush that flings away everytime the ruler gets cut
sadly they have listed that on the feedback website and they have specifically listed they aren't a toggle for this, although we've learned it's not easy to trust them sometimes
I mean with all the new stuff they added, a 1.8pvp datapack should be really easy to throw together in a few hours. I assume people are working on them rn
Something I found out that may be useful: in the blocks_attacks component, you can omit the ‘types:’ parameter in a reduction to make that reduction apply to every damage type a shield could normally block.
@@B.L.U.S They plan to look back at it later, so that's likely what will end up happening (the bug getting fixed, but with more intended behavior and code added in its place to make up for the lost functionality).
Your comment got highlighted in the point of the video, but due to TH-cam being the worst site it is, it took me 5 minutes of scrolling to get to your comment. Take your like, and hate TH-cam.
I think this is hinting that they want to revamp combat (The blocking aspect anyways). Also by using /attribute ~blah blah attack cooldown~ and setting it to 0, plus this sword parry thing, you can have 1.8 PVP in 1.21!
they should add the sword blocking back, but instead as a parry, where you have to time the parry to stun a mob for like... 2 seconds or 3. if you don't do it at the right time though you'll get damaged, this way it doesn't make the shield obselete.
Okay but I've always been wanting a system where if you block just at the right time it parries projectiles. Imagine that with swords! Like rather than full blocking they can parry if you time it JUST right... I would love it.
Sekiro enjoyer here. I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
Sekiro enjoyer here. I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
how to do it correctly: make it so that the sound is "anvil_used" make it so that it takes 2 uses from the sword every time something is blocked instead of block, make it a parry, where if you block within 0.5 seconds before being hit, or during being hit, it redirects half the damage back towards the attacker if you do it incorrectly (blocking more than 0.5 seconds before being hit) it takes 4 uses, and plays the sound for an anvil breaking
This is actually so cool that im actually going to create a map with this. And ive never made a minecraft map before. anvil dropped sound sounds the best for blocking.
PhoenixSC is easily the most interesting Minecraft youtuber in the world. And there was something funny about that sword blocking noise when the creeper exploded and did no damage
Hi! Movement changes petition guy here. To address the developer note at 0:45, I saw this comment from a Java Community Dev on the Minecraft Feedback Discord (I can't link the message directly because YT deletes my comment otherwise but here it is): "It's more of a 'this fix wasn't hitting the mark, and now when we know it wasn't just as simple as fixing it, we will need to put more time into a possible fix that doesn't have the same side-effects'" - mc_lyoneer Clearly, we as an older, more dedicated Minecraft fanbase have a lot of bad blood with Mojang under Microsoft management and the precedent that has set for their responses to community feedback. However, this is a great step in the right direction and we need to take this opportunity to rebuild trust and cooperation between us and Mojang - one block, one snapshot, one petition at a time.
I wonder if hypixel will use the sword blocking component for their PvP gamemodes, because the way they do it right now is kinda funky, you get a shield in your offhand, but it doesn't even look like it's being held up.
@CYbeRuKRaINiaN Yes, that's a western vs. eastern Ukraine. I'm from Kyiv, central Ukraine, and I personally would never say смолоскип, although I have heard it a lot. Both words are acceptable, but смолоскип is preferable as a "more Ukrainian" word
Sekiro enjoyer here. I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
5:57 The front zombie asks the other why they don't do any harm
Probably asking about the weird sound too.
"Did you heard that too?"
@@PhoenixSCcool vid
According to that other comment, your comment is gay.
"Check out this new cookie clicker"
The spider really decided to style on Phoenix like that with the butt hit.
Everyone knows butt attacks are the most dangerous of attacks
That was insane
The spider got that Bridget special
Everyone knows butt attacks are the most dangerous of attacks
This is a hint that they're gonna add sword parrying, and then they're gonna add shootable coins! AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA RENAME MINECRAFT INTO ULTRAKILL!
ULTRAKILL MENITONED
YEAHHHHH!!!
mankind is dead
blood is fuel
hell is full
ULTRAKILL
ain't no way
This actually ended up being one of the best updates for parkour because now you can use the sword blocking mechanic to set up precise coordinates for a jump just like you used to do in 1.8
An actually valid point, i hadn't thought of that
@@frograsmian hi
@@MilesIsReal bye
can you not use a shield for it?
@@link182_ people do this!... on 1.12. it wasn't a feature in 1.8
I hope they add an enchantment that re-introduces sword blocking and call it “Parrying”
+ PARRY
I was thinking the same thing; this would get around the offhand problem that phoenix mentions at 2:43, since you could just not get the enchant on your sword if you don't want this behavior
even if they don't plan on adding this to vanilla, they've made it so easy to make it with a datapack that I might end up adding it myself, which is neat
@@suspicioussand+ PROJECTILE BOOST
And maybe the more powerful the enchantment is, (Parry II, Parry III, etc) the less damage you and the sword receive.
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA WHAT
4:44 Here in spider civilization, nobody dares to do a backwards attack.
Here in spider civilization, nobody jumps for a 180 attack into another 180.
Here in "..." civilization, nobody dares to do a "...".
That spider was straight-up styling on Pheonix by smacking him with the gyatt attack. Makes me want a spidergirl waifu to sit on my face
butt attack
@@StarboyXL9 bro???
room for another?
4:00 That is the silliest Diamond Sword sound I've ever heard, legit sound like flicking a straw
Isn't that just the thorns armor sound
@@axosotll yes
@@axosotllthe thorns sound is playing but i think they are referring to the other sound that is also playing at the same time
@@axosotllit is, because Phoenix set it to be that sound
@melalepou ik, it's just my ass writing this comment when I didn't watch the whole thing yet
Now we wait for the experimental combat update 2 thing from forever ago
honestly don't know why they haven't added that yet
God, just realized the combat update was about 9 years ago, holy
Combat Test 8c
@@Operander_Lthat’s INSANE
@@Operander_L the combat update was like at the dawn of Microsoft minecraft era lmao
02:57 “hum? Why you looking at me with that sword?” Jim - 2025
he was gonna kill it for almost walking on a pressure plate-controlled command block but chat said spare it spare it spare it
Anakin with the younglings ahh vibes
*why ARE you...
@@Sans_The_Skeleton i named it hahahaha
6:21
Watch what happens when I cast a spell I don't know!
it sounds so similar 😭
LMAOOOOOOO
NOO I HAD THE SAME IDEA
Took me a second. But yeah it IS similar!
if only this update came out sooner, maybe berdly would of stood a chance-
6:34 If EXP-Farms didn't exist, this would surely be satisfying. But they exist, and thus the sound is just annoying xD
That spider genuinely just hit him with the Peach Side-B. He done ha-cha'd that man.
LMAO
Ok that was funny
"HA-CHA!"
@@LetThereBeLight-26HA CHA CHA
marisa 6A
6:16 standing here, i realise...
you're just like me trying to make history
But who’s to judge the right from wrong?
but when our guard is down
I think we'll both agree
That violence breeds violence
4:46 The butt hit lmao😂😭
0:12 oh my god super Mario. What are you doing here?
Sword blocking could be added but doing so either severely damages the sword or stops most damage but some still gets through. It's a cheaper alternative to shields but is still worse than shields, keeping the shields usefulness.
Could just be it only stops 50% if the damage, or only stops melee, projectiles (arrow trident) and explosives still hit, or both and the fact only swords have it to give them some value over axes
Honestly, make it only able to block melee hits, but unlike a shield it activates instantly (shields have a delay) and I think we have a made match.
how about sword block half melee and arrow
and axe blocks 100% melee but no arrow blocking
How about it's just the same as 1.7-1.8 where it blocks 50% damage from hits, arrows etc without complicating too much
@@skywatcher458 nah, axes shouldn't block
1:03 we need to talk about your wool in your hotbar
It’s a command
we really do...
@@GeneticLabzbut why?
@@TCFstudiosYT cuz it is
Just a /give @player_name block_name 100
5:34 that was the silliest thing I've seen all week
_Poing_
0:37 That is, in fact, how sword blocking looks like in 1.8. The third person sword block position was changed in 1.8 to what we know today.
Moreover, that is, in fact, roughly how sword blocking looks like in general
i like that they're making minecraft more modular as a happy medium between a lot of mechanics and really good for datapack and mod makers
To me, this feels more like they wanted to let people make custom shields with datapacks and alike as opposed to re-adding 1.8 sword blocking, but the fact that you can is really cool.
I also feel like this could be useful in maps where the player needs to be holding something that has a right click function like food, potions, projectiles, etc. but not be able to use them, since being able to block with, for an example in the video, a pufferfish, means you can’t use its main functionality.
Minecraft 1.21.4 is definitely my favorite era of minecraft when it comes to sheer number of things you can create with vanilla commands. Also syntax being streamlined is nice too
It's not 1.8 sword blocking, it's 1.21 sword blocking. 1.8 one is way different than this thing
@@jamo450 Because it's only a command that turns any item into a shield. It uses the shield's properties, not 1.8 combat's.
6:10 Who gave soul sand the ability to make sounds
it even sounds like its saying "YEAH!"
It sounds like the zombies are crying because they cant hit him
4:44 EVBO SPIDER
He did the 360 for the b-
HE DID A BACKWARDS HIT NO WAY
360!
5:45 the [Applause] subtitle is hilarious
Yea, the youtube one btw, not the game one
4:44 That spider threw it back😂
Nah that spider threw his back
i'm so glad the movement got reverted, we did it guys
Parkour civilization is restored , nature is healing
After countless death threats and overwhelming support.
@@JuneMikaels bro 💀
Instead of compensating they just revert it, ain't that a big tell of a big problem in this community M
Yay, java players cry babied them to give back a bug, while bedrock players are still crying over removed features, this is great
6:04 Sound that plays when it's the final judgment day
Five Finger Death Punch?
2:56 jim is definitely interested
6:05
"man we are not doing any damage"
"weird, wait let me try"
"oh we did it"
that ass spider attack was nuclear man
My dream has come true. Swords can meow.
wait till this guy plays terraria
@@NotTchno My interest has been piqued.
@shiny_lock basically, in terraria, when you beat the final boss in the game, it has a chance to drop meowmere, a sword that both meows and shoots cats with rainbow trails.
@NotTchno everyone knows about Terraria and that sword, lol
Even Stardew Valley has it as a collab. What we need now is swords in Minecraft that have the screams of the damned
@@peterbruck3845 I did not know that it was in stardew valley, that’s cool.
5:17
This reminds me of a goofy little image I've had in my head for a long time now. I always wondered "What would it look like if you could mine a player's head with a pickaxe and when it breaks, the player's head drops as an item and the player is immediately slain?"
I don't think it would be possible to code that since players are entities, but that'd be hilarious
That should be possible with function macros (for grabbing the name from the player head and using it as a variable in a kill command). And raycasting methods among other setups have existed for awhile now to find and detect the block that a player is looking at, has mined, etc.
You definitely should watch Not Safe
y should def watch notsafe, hed code that in no time.
Can the sword block my crippling anxiety?
Yes
Yes
Yes
no
Only if it hits from the front
4:45 that spider straight up said "time to Dump it"
6:14 flight of the bumblebees
I believe they simply added this because they wanted to make the blocking of the shield be data driven.
And sword parrying is just a sideeffect of that
Literally.
6:13 Fighting the Destroyer in Terraria
😭😭😭
yeah true lol
so true lol
1:21 did we almost get weezered 😭🙏
This music was made by Lena Reine
I think it ia "creator"
5:45 The soundtrack when a horde of spiders starts crawling around:
6:05 the screams of countless infant souls, condensed into a single sword.
6:15 when you fight the destroyer in terraria with a piercing weapon
0:25 I literally got goosebumps, the nostalgia is real...
1st sound: singing
2nd sound: children screaming
3rd sound: zombie uses tweezer to take apart sword
4th sound: INFINITE TICKLES
Bowser: "oh boy a new PhoenixSC video! I sure hope that stupid plumber that I hate doesn’t appear in it!"
[4:44] That spider really went, screw you player, im gonna do my own move 😂😂
1:10 how does he have more than 64 wool?
skill
we dont talk about that
Commands
Just about to comment this 😂
Peenix
2:19 they could bring it back but with a con on how much you use it.. like blocking an attack wears down the sword faster than a shield
4:03 honestly it sounds like that one video where a person is cutting off a ruler and theres a freddy fazbear plush that flings away everytime the ruler gets cut
Fear the inevitable fanart on the subreddit of phoenix (peenix) getting smacked or crushed by spider abdomen now
01:04 just a casual stack of 99 item, without explanation. exactly what I expect from your videos.
Go to 3:59. Play the video in 2x speed. It sounds like the start of the song "alors on dance" made by Stromae.
Hopefully they'll bring back a few other pvp features from back then, just lock them behind commands.
I really want 1.8 PvP to return as a gamerule. It'd be so fun.
sadly they have listed that on the feedback website and they have specifically listed they aren't a toggle for this, although we've learned it's not easy to trust them sometimes
A game rule to disable the shield entirely would be fun as it is the biggest problem with the new combat
I mean with all the new stuff they added, a 1.8pvp datapack should be really easy to throw together in a few hours. I assume people are working on them rn
They said the same thing for the crafter
@usernameadamgames well, they also said they'll never add penguins or automatic crafting, but here we are
Something I found out that may be useful: in the blocks_attacks component, you can omit the ‘types:’ parameter in a reduction to make that reduction apply to every damage type a shield could normally block.
The orb pickup just broke me. I had a straight face the whole video, but I cracked at the end, thanks
I remember blocking from the 360 from before there was the end, and before you could trade lol
Sorry wdym your comment is kinda confusing. Wdym 360?
@@harrykrause2879 Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft. Older console editions had blocking too.
@@NickotatoDoesGamin oh ok. Thanks for telling me goat 🐐
Phoenix definitely should've done the burp for the blocking. It would've sounded way funnier.
"movement has been reverted" HELL YEAH
Me: congratulations you accomplished nothing
Why didn't they just compensate for it instead of reverting...
@@B.L.U.S Cry about it lmaooo
@@B.L.U.S They plan to look back at it later, so that's likely what will end up happening (the bug getting fixed, but with more intended behavior and code added in its place to make up for the lost functionality).
Blus is literally how the comments of phoenix sc sound half the time, he's fallen off I think but idk
Wait a second, one block challenge
Steve: Uses shift to block with his sword
*chomp chomp chomp chomp*
Sword blocking after idk years, I forgot how many years passed man.... So nostalgic
0:28 YIPPEE! THEY BROUGHT IT BACK!
kinda
Bro your everywhere xd😅
@ where do you see me:)?
@Hacker_des_Chaos Like everywhere! XD
@ Say a few names
1:28 why does it not drop
Your comment got highlighted in the point of the video, but due to TH-cam being the worst site it is, it took me 5 minutes of scrolling to get to your comment. Take your like, and hate TH-cam.
Also idk it might’ve dropped right behind him cause he started running away so he didn’t get it immediately
gamerule
Its wool
Presumably the world hes on has the tile drops gamerule off
5:47 new music
I E E A A U E E E E A A
6:18 now rename your sword to "A N V I L S W O R D"
But this suits with an iron sword very well
Phoenix taking front shots from a Zombie wasn't in my 2025 bingo...
I think this is hinting that they want to revamp combat (The blocking aspect anyways). Also by using /attribute ~blah blah attack cooldown~ and setting it to 0, plus this sword parry thing, you can have 1.8 PVP in 1.21!
5:51 Sounds like a music class playing sh*tty recorders
they should add the sword blocking back, but instead as a parry, where you have to time the parry to stun a mob for like... 2 seconds or 3. if you don't do it at the right time though you'll get damaged, this way it doesn't make the shield obselete.
the shift and block combo for showing you’re friendly is back again 🎉🎉
all these changes to make everyting in the game data driven are all cool as hell
Okay but I've always been wanting a system where if you block just at the right time it parries projectiles. Imagine that with swords! Like rather than full blocking they can parry if you time it JUST right... I would love it.
+PARRY
+PARRY
Sekiro enjoyer here.
I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
It'd be cool if this gets added as a way of parrying melee attacks but not ranged or explosion attacks (that way shields are still useful).
Nah, make them protect 40% of all damage and ir also breaks 3 durability
It would severely upset competitive PvP and would have as much backlash as the movement changes, so I doubt it's ever going to happen
@@Ozrylno
Sekiro enjoyer here.
I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
2:44 FACKELS
GERMAN WORD I AM GERMAN
ENGLISCH WORD:Torches
ITS A RUSSIAN WORD
ФАКЕЛ
"Oh you're parrying me?"
"PARRY THIS!"
*fire charge*
That 2000 tickspeed goat scream was terrifying!
Thanks!
how to do it correctly:
make it so that the sound is "anvil_used"
make it so that it takes 2 uses from the sword every time something is blocked
instead of block, make it a parry, where if you block within 0.5 seconds before being hit, or during being hit, it redirects half the damage back towards the attacker
if you do it incorrectly (blocking more than 0.5 seconds before being hit) it takes 4 uses, and plays the sound for an anvil breaking
lol
Sword Blocking should never have been removed in the first place
1:15 Song name is "Creator", it's my favorite disc in the game :D
Real
I love to see sweeping edge and blocking made into exclusive enchantments to make more alternative options for gear
This is actually so cool that im actually going to create a map with this. And ive never made a minecraft map before.
anvil dropped sound sounds the best for blocking.
5:52 kids with a recorder:
2:24 my good sir, what if you were holding a totem and you needed a way to block attacks?
Block with the totem and it breaks in the process
@Thepersonfromthatplace use the sword as a totem and then block with the totem
@@CopperWalker you get it
@Thepersonfromthatplace 😁
shield… what do you mean…
3:53 goat milk?
the sound of goats getting milked
@@fry_fr *_moans_*
PhoenixSC is easily the most interesting Minecraft youtuber in the world. And there was something funny about that sword blocking noise when the creeper exploded and did no damage
Sword blocking like how in the end update we will have a bunch of new blocks to block with
Hi! Movement changes petition guy here.
To address the developer note at 0:45, I saw this comment from a Java Community Dev on the Minecraft Feedback Discord (I can't link the message directly because YT deletes my comment otherwise but here it is):
"It's more of a 'this fix wasn't hitting the mark, and now when we know it wasn't just as simple as fixing it, we will need to put more time into a possible fix that doesn't have the same side-effects'"
- mc_lyoneer
Clearly, we as an older, more dedicated Minecraft fanbase have a lot of bad blood with Mojang under Microsoft management and the precedent that has set for their responses to community feedback. However, this is a great step in the right direction and we need to take this opportunity to rebuild trust and cooperation between us and Mojang - one block, one snapshot, one petition at a time.
5:08
torshes
mannn why are they blocking me 💔💔
I wonder if hypixel will use the sword blocking component for their PvP gamemodes, because the way they do it right now is kinda funky, you get a shield in your offhand, but it doesn't even look like it's being held up.
Love your creativity Phoenix. ^^
5:59 sounds like willow from dont starve
6:09 souls of the damned
2:44 NO WAY, FACKELS? That sounds russian...
The word came into Russian, Macedonian, and Ukrainian from German
@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799 Oh, you're ukrainian
@@dmytrotsvyntarnyi799 Yes, however, Ukrainians usually use the word "Smoloskyp"
@CYbeRuKRaINiaN Yes, that's a western vs. eastern Ukraine. I'm from Kyiv, central Ukraine, and I personally would never say смолоскип, although I have heard it a lot. Both words are acceptable, but смолоскип is preferable as a "more Ukrainian" word
@@CYbeRuKRaINiaN загуглив. Наче
"Факел" - не русизм. Можу спати спокійно)
The infinite goat sound playing is interesting for a horror map where the effect is to make it sound like the souls of Hell are suffering.
5:50 - This reminded me of those flying pokemon (in smash ultimate as assist trophies) that fly around the screen damaging players! 🤣
0:50 LETS FUCKING GO WE WON
2:43 German jumpscare
(except the plural is wrong)
факел - с русского torch
dutch too if i am correct
It gave me feelings of gormlessness
true
1:43 I can what?
You can now shit in minecraft yay!
constipation
"Show me a good time, Jack!"
Can't wait for them to add parrying and then dodging/rolling
Sekiro enjoyer here.
I was trying to add parrying to minecraft with a mod (kinda successfully), but it does't work with minecraft's PvP system cause you first get hit and then you see the attack animation. So, your parrying works only with projectiles and luck
if fromsoft made minecraft