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Date of Death, Feb 29, 2016

Cause: They ruined combat.

DUE TO DELETION I had to remove & replace the swear words with family friendly ones.

Minecraft has been updated to 1.9! It contains a lot of changes. Most remarkably, the combat mechanics have been updated to make fighting more interesting and offer more map-making options. Here’s a almost complete list of the new and changed features:

• Added shields
• Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks
• You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’)
• Swords have a special sweep attack
• Axes have a special crushing blow attack
• Added the elytra
• New mob: Shulker
• Expanded The End
• Added Chorus plants
• New Purpur blocks
• New End Rod block
• Added dragon head block
• Ender Dragon can be resummoned
• Added beetroot and beetroot soup (from MC:PE)
• Added grass path block
• Added igloos
• Armor protection values have been lowered
• Added tipped arrows
• Added spectral arrows
• Added Frost Walker enchantment and frosted ice block
• Added a whole bunch of new sound effects
• Added sound effect subtitles
• Brewing Stand now requires Blaze Powder to activate
• Added skeleton riders
• We believe we’ve fixed MC-10 and a whole bunch of other issues
• Removed Herobrine

Added shields - These so called shields are tower shields are pretty much FREAKING USELESS I appreciate the idea for shield but next time

go to this guy for shields he clearly did it better http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1291267-mine-blade-battlegear-2-bullseye-1-0-9-0

Armor protection values have been lowered - BUT WHY!Stop making the damn game easier!

Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks - See this is where I draw the line. You can't just do that! Can you like undo this Bullcrap you made 1.9 not worth playing at all you just completely Messed up pvp. On the bright side hacking went down but this is a total load of butt and your just ruining the game from then on luckily people have made plugins to reverse the effects of this bad addition to the game.

Brewing Stand now requires Blaze Powder to activate - Why'd yah have to go and mess with brewing stands? See now your just doing to much.

Added the elytra - Pretty badass that you can fly now but I preferred using a cart or ender pearls, just saying... it makes having a sky base harder then it needs to be now.

Expanded The End - This was a pretty big change not one I saw coming but was enjoy'd none the less

Added tipped arrows - I've been waiting years for this moment!

Swords have a special sweep attack - This gets rid of any chance we had to use the shield in the first place.

You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’) - Dual wielding again an amazing addition but clearly others have

done it better *cough* battle gear 2 *cough*

every update leading up to this one have been flawless, please clearly little to no one likes the combat delaying system and to prove it we are having a poll.