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MC Game Mechanics - Durability

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Rainey Day Studios's Avatar Rainey Day Studios
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Hello everyone! I'm back to share more of my knolage with you, this will be an add-on to my main post, specializing in item durability!

Remember to diamond if you think it deserves it!


Armor durability:

First I'm going to list differently damaging activities that DO damage your armor, then I'll list some that DON'T.

Things that CAN damage your armor:

- Explosions
- Getting hit by an arrow, fireball, or snowball (Fireball can be from ghast or blaze.)
- Touching some Lava, fire, or cacti
- Direct attacks from Mobs or other Players.

Things that CAN'T damage your armor:

- Ongoing fire damage
- Starvation
- Drowning
- Fall damage
- Poisoning (Cave spider or Potion of poison)
- Instance damage from potion of harming
- Falling into the void

Every time you are hit by something that CAN damage your armor, your armor loses 1 point of durability per piece of armor worn. Also, an item with the "Thorns" enchantment on it automatically loses 1 more point of durability, and if it reflects damage back onto the attack, it loses 2 more. (4 total)

These are the current durability values for armor:

Leather:
- Hat = 55
- Chest = 81
- Leggings = 75
- Boots = 65

Gold:
- Helmet = 77
- Chest = 113
- Legs = 105
- Boots = 91

Chain mail:
- Helmet = 165
- Chest = 241
- Legs = 225
- Boots = 195

Iron:
- Helmet = 165
- Chest = 241
- Legs = 225
- Boots = 195

Diamond:

- Helmet = 363
- Chest = 528
- Legs = 495
- Boots = 429

Now we continue on to tools, which may get a little complex. First I would like to point out some facts that many confuse:

- Gold tools are fast, but weak, and can only harvest blocks a wood tool could do.
- Axes, picks, and shovels can break (not harvest) any block and it will take only 1 durability, although it is much slower. Those tools loose 2 durability only when attacking mobs.
- Swords are pretty much the opposite, when attacking mobs the sword looses 1 durability, and when breaking blocks (even cobwebs) it loses 2 durability.
- Hoes only loose durability from tilling soil, they can break blocks and attack mobs as much as they want, but its just as good as a fist.

Current durability of all the tools:

Gold = 33
Wood = 60
Stone = 132
Iron = 251
Diamond = 1562

Other tools:

Flint and steel = 65
Shears = 239

- Fun fact: Shears are only damaged when shearing a sheep or breaking cobwebs, leaves, tall grass, tripwire, and vines.

Bows = 385
Fishing rod = 65

- Fun fact: When using the fishing rod, successfully catching a fish takes 1 durability, pulling the rod off of a block counts as 2, hitting a mob with a fishing rod takes 3 durability, and reeling in an empty rod doesn't take any durability.

I don't have a full mechanics of the "Unbreaking" enchantment, (yet, please comment if you know it) although I understand that the enchant simply decreases the chance of using durability when performing an action that used durability. The default chance of using durability would be 100%

Thank you all for reading! Remember to diamond if this helped!

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05/28/2013 6:08 pm
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Kiwolski007
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Funny that you say falling into the void doesn't damage armor-if you've fallen in, armor durability is the least of your concerns!
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05/12/2013 5:35 pm
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HockeyFishy
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Or you can use F3+H and see everything.
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05/12/2013 5:27 pm
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TrevorTheFish
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Hey this helped me ALOT! Can you check out my profile?
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05/12/2013 4:22 pm
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Jeanine
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What about gold armor?
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05/12/2013 4:24 pm
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Rainey Day Studios
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What do you mean? Gold is up there!

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05/12/2013 4:37 pm
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Jeanine
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I already checked it out ._.
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05/12/2013 4:48 pm
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Rainey Day Studios
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What did you think? :D
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