Vanilla Spear backports

Vanilla Spears Backport
Feeling curious about the upcoming Spear weapon and want to try it before it arrives in a month or more? This small datapack backports all of the announced upcoming features into the current version of Minecraft (1.21.8) and will be updated further when the Copper Age is published (1.21.9), so you can start experimenting right now.

Spears are a brand-new tiered weapon type, crafted with two sticks plus a material component. Intended as a middle ground between swords and axes, primarily used for mount based fighting.

This datapack is subject to change quickly as more information comes out!

Weapon Stats
Attack Range - Spears can damage up to 3 blocks further than any other melee weapon.
Shield Disabling - A basic Spear jab can disable a players shield for 3.5 seconds, compared to the Axes 10 second disable.
Attack Damage - Spears do slightly less damage than a vanilla sword, and is slightly slower.

Charging
Hold right click to lower the spear, damaging enemies you move into. This can add up to +30 extra damage depending on how quickly you're moving horizontally, by either mount, elytra or minecart. A Horse alone can add +6-8 damage onto the default attack damage.

New Mob Variant
Beware... the Zombie Jockey! Spawning rarely amongst groups of zombies, the Zombie Jockey rides a Zombie Horse and holds an Iron Spear!

Known Issues & Troubleshooting
If you experience any bugs or issues, please reach out with a description of the problem to the discord.

FAQ's
There aren't any FAQs yet. Any questions from other pages will be shared in here. Feel free to join the discord or comment on PMC to be added to the FAQ's.