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PvP, an abbreviation of player versus player, refers to multiplayer combat in Minecraft where players fight other players.
This guide covers Java Edition PvP in the most modern versions of vanilla Minecraft. For other version-dependent PvP environments, see PvP.
A kit in PvP is a pre-determined loadout of items. Kits function as PvP gamemodes, and require different skillsets from one another. The following list includes kits that are officially recognised by servers and tier testing, and are thus commonly practiced:
A combatant's equipment is an important factor in PvP, as it determines survivability, damage output, and versatility. Having good gear does not guarantee success, as skill is far more impactful in the modern combat system. Becoming familiar with the usecases, strengths, and weaknesses different equipment is an important aspect of PvP.
Swords are the best weapon for doing combos, as well as for breaking out of an opponent's combo, due to their high attack speed. While they also have the special ability to do sweep attacks, this is only useful when fighting an opponent's wolves. When all four melee weapons have maxed out enchantments, swords have the highest DPS and the third-highest damage per hit.
| Material | 👁 ItemSprite wooden-sword.png: Sprite image for wooden-sword in Minecraft Wooden |
👁 ItemSprite golden-sword.png: Sprite image for golden-sword in Minecraft Gold |
👁 ItemSprite stone-sword.png: Sprite image for stone-sword in Minecraft Stone |
👁 ItemSprite iron-sword.png: Sprite image for iron-sword in Minecraft Iron |
👁 ItemSprite diamond-sword.png: Sprite image for diamond-sword in Minecraft Diamond |
👁 ItemSprite netherite-sword.png: Sprite image for netherite-sword in Minecraft Netherite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack Damage | 4HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
4HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
5HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
6HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
7HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
8HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
| Attack Speed | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Damage/Second (DPS) | 6.4 | 6.4 | 8 | 9.6 | 11.2 | 12.8 |
| Durability | 59 | 32 | 131 | 250 | 1561 | 2031 |
| Lifetime damage inflicted | 236HP👁 ❤️ × 118 |
128HP👁 ❤️ × 64 |
655HP👁 ❤️ × 327.5 |
1500HP👁 ❤️ × 750 |
10927HP👁 ❤️ × 5463.5 |
16248HP👁 ❤️ × 8124 |
Axes are essential for their ability to stun shields, and are the second-best weapon for dealing high-damage single hits. When all four melee weapons have maxed out enchantments, axes have the second-highest DPS and the second-highest damage per hit.
| Material | 👁 ItemSprite wooden-axe.png: Sprite image for wooden-axe in Minecraft Wooden |
👁 ItemSprite golden-axe.png: Sprite image for golden-axe in Minecraft Gold |
👁 ItemSprite stone-axe.png: Sprite image for stone-axe in Minecraft Stone |
👁 ItemSprite iron-axe.png: Sprite image for iron-axe in Minecraft Iron |
👁 ItemSprite diamond-axe.png: Sprite image for diamond-axe in Minecraft Diamond |
👁 ItemSprite netherite-axe.png: Sprite image for netherite-axe in Minecraft Netherite |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack Damage | 7HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
7HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
10HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
| Attack Speed | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Damage/Second (DPS) | 5.6 | 7 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 9 | 10 |
| Durability | 59 | 32 | 131 | 250 | 1561 | 2031 |
| Lifetime damage inflicted | 210HP👁 ❤️ × 105 |
112HP👁 ❤️ × 56 |
594HP👁 ❤️ × 297 |
1125HP👁 ❤️ × 562.5 |
7029HP👁 ❤️ × 3514.5 |
10160HP👁 ❤️ × 5080 |
Tridents can be thrown as a projectile or used to escape threats using the Riptide enchantment. When all four melee weapons have maxed out enchantments, tridents have the lowest DPS and the lowest damage per hit. When all three ranged weapons have maxed out enchantments, tridents are tied with crossbows for the fastest charge time, and have the lowest damage per hit.
| Attack | 👁 ItemSprite trident.png: Sprite image for trident in Minecraft Melee |
👁 ItemSprite trident.png: Sprite image for trident in Minecraft Range |
|---|---|---|
| Attack damage | 9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
8HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
| Attack Speed | 1.1 | N/A |
| Damage/Second (DPS) | 9.9 | ? |
| Durability | 250 | |
| Lifetime damage inflicted | 2250HP👁 ❤️ × 1125 |
2000HP👁 ❤️ × 1000 |
Maces have the ability to deal devastating smash attacks after falling, and are the best weapon for dealing high-damage single hits due to the Breach enchantment. When all four melee weapons have maxed out enchantments, maces have the third-highest DPS and the highest damage per hit, even without doing smash attacks.
| Attack | 👁 ItemSprite mace.png: Sprite image for mace in Minecraft Normal |
👁 ItemSprite mace.png: Sprite image for mace in Minecraft Smash |
|---|---|---|
| Attack damage | 6HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
12HP👁 ❤️ × 6 to ∞ |
| Attack Speed | 0.6 | N/A |
| Damage/Second (DPS) | 3.6 | N/A |
| Durability | 500 | |
| Lifetime damage inflicted | 3000HP👁 ❤️ × 1500 |
∞ |
Bows are the best ranged weapon for dealing damage, and can also be used to quickly spam uncharged arrows to deal chip damage. They are also the only ranged weapon with access to the Flame enchantment, and are thus essential in Cart PvP for activating TNT minecarts. The Punch enchantment greatly helps with bow spamming, as it increases knockback, making it harder for the enemy to reach the player. When all three ranged weapons have maxed out enchantments, bows have the slowest charge time, the highest damage per hit, and the second-highest DPS.
| Charge time | Enchantment | Projectile damage | Damage/second (DPS) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 s (no charge) | Unenchanted | 1HP👁 💔 |
2 |
| Power I | 2HP👁 ❤️ |
4 | |
| Power II | 2HP👁 ❤️ |
4 | |
| Power III | 2HP👁 ❤️ |
4 | |
| Power IV | 3HP👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
6 | |
| Power V | 3HP👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
6 | |
| 0.2 s - 0.8 s (medium charge) | Unenchanted | 5HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
5.5 |
| Power I | 8HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
8.8 | |
| Power II | 9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
9.9 | |
| Power III | 10HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
11 | |
| Power IV | 12HP👁 ❤️ × 6 |
13.2 | |
| Power V | 13HP👁 ❤️ × 6.5 |
14.3 | |
| 0.9 s (full charge) | Unenchanted | 6HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ |
6 |
| Power I | 9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 |
9 | |
| Power II | 11HP👁 ❤️ × 5.5 |
11 | |
| Power III | 12HP👁 ❤️ × 6 |
12 | |
| Power IV | 14HP👁 ❤️ × 7 |
14 | |
| Power V | 15HP👁 ❤️ × 7.5 |
15 | |
| 1 s (critical charge)[note 4] | Unenchanted | 6HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ to 11HP👁 ❤️ × 5.5 |
5.4 to 9.9 |
| Power I | 9HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 to 16HP👁 ❤️ × 8 |
8.1 to 14.4 | |
| Power II | 11HP👁 ❤️ × 5.5 to 19HP👁 ❤️ × 9.5 |
9.9 to 17.1 | |
| Power III | 12HP👁 ❤️ × 6 to 20HP👁 ❤️ × 10 |
10.8 to 18 | |
| Power IV | 14HP👁 ❤️ × 7 to 23HP👁 ❤️ × 11.5 |
12.6 to 20.7 | |
| Power V | 15HP👁 ❤️ × 7.5 to 25HP👁 ❤️ × 12.5 |
13.5 to 22.5 |
Crossbows are the best ranged weapon for spreading tipped arrow effects, and for the utility of having an instantaneous long-ranged shot that can be used at any time, so long as they have been charged in advance. When all three ranged weapons have maxed out enchantments, crossbows are tied with tridents for the fastest charge time, have the second-highest damage per hit (by use of 7 star firework rockets), and have the highest DPS (Quick Charge III with 7 star firework rockets).
| 👁 ItemSprite arrow.png: Sprite image for arrow in Minecraft Arrow | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Projectile damage | Enchantment | Charge time | Damage/second (DPS) |
| 7HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 to 11HP👁 ❤️ × 5.5 |
Unenchanted | 1.25 s | 5.25 to 8.25 |
| Quick Charge I | 1 s | 7 to 11 | |
| Quick Charge II | 0.75 s | 8.75 to 13.75 | |
| Quick Charge III | 0.5 s | 10.5 to 16.5 | |
Armor is essential to have for PvP, as failure to equip any armor will result in near-instant death. Different armor material types have differing amounts of armor points, armor toughness, and durability. The armor material types with zero armor toughness are extremely frail, and thus require high levels of Protection to be useful.
| Helmets | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Armor | Armor toughness | Durability | Enchantability | Knockback resistance |
| 👁 Image Leather Cap |
1 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
55 | 15 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Golden Helmet |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
77 | 25 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Copper Helmet |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
121 | 8 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Iron Helmet |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
165 | 9 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Chainmail Helmet |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
165 | 12 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Turtle shell |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
275 | 9 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Diamond Helmet |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
363 | 10 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Netherite Helmet |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
407 | 15 | 1 (10%) |
| Chestplates | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Armor | Armor toughness | Durability | Enchantability | Knockback resistance |
| 👁 Image Leather Tunic |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
80 | 15 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Copper Chestplate |
4 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
176 | 8 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Golden Chestplate |
5 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
112 | 25 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Chainmail Chestplate |
5 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
240 | 12 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Iron Chestplate |
6 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
240 | 9 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Diamond Chestplate |
8 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
528 | 10 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Netherite Chestplate |
8 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
592 | 15 | 1 (10%) |
| Leggings | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Armor | Armor toughness | Durability | Enchantability | Knockback resistance |
| 👁 Image Leather Pants |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
75 | 15 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Golden Leggings |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
105 | 25 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Copper Leggings |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
165 | 8 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Chainmail Leggings |
4 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
225 | 12 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Iron Leggings |
5 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
225 | 9 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Diamond Leggings |
6 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
495 | 10 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Netherite Leggings |
6 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
555 | 15 | 1 (10%) |
| Boots | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Armor | Armor toughness | Durability | Enchantability | Knockback resistance |
| 👁 Image Leather Boots |
1 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
65 | 15 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Golden Boots |
1 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
91 | 25 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Copper Boots |
1 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
143 | 8 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Chainmail Boots |
1 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
195 | 12 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Iron Boots |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
0 (👁 🛡 ) |
195 | 9 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Diamond Boots |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
2 (👁 🛡 ) |
429 | 10 | 0 |
| 👁 Image Netherite Boots |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
3 (👁 🛡 👁 🛡 ) |
481 | 15 | 1 (10%) |
Shields are an essential defensive tool, as they block 100% of melee, ranged, and explosive damage when active, and block in a 180° arc in front of the user. When using a shield, there is a 250ms delay, ping not accounted for, before the shield becomes active. Shields that are in the active state will become stunned for 5 seconds if hit by an axe, regardless of the axe's attack cooldown percentage. The durability loss a shield endures is dependent on the strength of the blocked attack, with attacks dealing 3HP👁 ❤️
👁 💔
or more taking durability damage equal to the strength of the attack rounded up. They have 336 durability.
A combatant should make sure they have a full hunger and saturation. Reaching 20 (👁 🍗
× 10) hunger after eating food causes health to quickly regenerate at the cost of saturation. Health also passively regenerates slowly when hunger is at 16 (👁 🍗
× 8) or above, and stops when below that amount. Additionally, if hunger dips below 6 (👁 🍗
👁 🍗
👁 🍗
), sprinting becomes disabled.
The best food types are those that have provide high saturation when consumed. Golden carrots, steak, and porkchops are the food sources with the highest saturation that are still able to stack to 64. Golden apples and enchanted golden apples directly provide Regeneration and Absorption alongside having good saturation, making them the best food types.
Blocks are useful for obstructing attackers and making escapes. They are especially useful in tight spaces like tunnels for blocking off a pursuer. They can also be used to pillar up to safety in a fight, at the cost of becoming vulnerable to being knocked off by projectiles. Some blocks have unique properties, such as high blast resistance, flammability, or being openable. Openable blocks such as chests or barrels can be used to counter cobweb or lava users by having them open the block when they try to place cobwebs or lava.
Potions apply a variety of useful effects. These effects can strengthen allies and harm enemies when thrown as splash potions. In addition, lingering potions allow for a larger potion radius, but do not deal their effects on impact, and are expensive to brew. Drinking a regular potion takes time and leaves the user open, while splash potions can be used in quick succession. In the middle of a fight, it is most practical to splash them at the user's feet, especially when using splash potions of healing. Lingering potions are useful for either making an area inaccessible for a while or allowing everyone in a team to heal together. Using negative splash potions and lingering potions as throwable projectiles is not advised, as the throwing distance is short and each projectile takes up an entire inventory slot; tipped arrows are optimal for this instead.
Ender pearls can be used to escape opponents, allowing the user to heal, or to pursue a fleeing opponent. Ender pearls inflict damage to the user when landing, damage that can be reduced by Protection and Feather Falling. Ender pearls can be used to scale walls, done by placing a block below one's self upon landing into the wall. An ender pearl stasis chamber can be used to teleport out of a dangerous situation if activated remotely.
Water buckets can be used to obstruct opponents, buying more time to escape by slowing them down. It can also be used to avoid taking fall damage, destroy cobwebs, put out fires, and travel up walls.
Lava buckets can be used to damage and slow opponents, as well as to create small barricades. The Protection enchantment greatly reduces the effectiveness of lava as a damage option, making lava buckets more practical for low-power fights.
Redstone can be used to create traps and TNT cannons. Building a trap in a strategic location and luring the opponent into it can be an easy way to win a fight. However, constructing traps or TNT cannons using redstone in the middle of a fight is highly impractical, and thus traps and cannons that are easier to build and do not use redstone are preferred.
End crystals can be placed on obsidian or bedrock, and when punched cause an instant powerful explosion. They can also be placed and exploded rapidly, but in order to do full damage and knockback on an opponent, the user must first knock the opponent up near the end crystal, or place the obsidian and crystal as the opponent is midair, for maximum effectiveness. As long as the user is at least 1 block below the exploding end crystals, the user takes little damage from the explosions.
Respawn anchors when given a piece of glowstone can be right clicked on for an instant powerful explosion. Unlike end crystals, respawn anchors do not require a special block for them to be placed, allowing them to be placed right at an opponent's feet without having to hit them up. However, respawn anchors cannot be activated in rapid succession and cannot be used in the Nether, unlike end crystals. Respawn anchors also pose a higher threat to the player using them than end crystals do, and thus it is recommended to place a block between the user and the respawn anchor before activating it.
Beds are the Nether counterpart to respawn anchors, and have the benefit of not requiring a fuel source to activate.
TNT can be used to build traps or deter opponents from approaching or chasing. TNT can also be used in specific formations to launch other TNT towards opponents. TNT minecarts can be used offensively in a similar way to respawn anchors, and are activated instantly with a bow enchanted with Flame. The damage of a tnt minecart explosion is influenced by the velocity of the Flame arrow that activated it.
Flint and steel can be used to alter the battlefield by setting surfaces on fire. Due to the Protection enchantment, fire damage is largely negligible and is instead useful for the movement disruption inflicted by it. The screen effect incurred from being on fire also obstructs a player's field of view, however this can be circumvented by use of a low-fire resource pack. Fire charges are identical to flint and steel when used as an item, but can also be fired by dispensers. Flint and steel has only 64 durability, and is therefore used up in the same time as a stack of fire charges. However, flint and steel when enchanted with Unbreaking becomes the superior option.
Cobwebs slow any player caught in them to a crawl, trapping them and make them easy targets. Ender pearls are the best way to escape from cobwebs, and water buckets can also be used to destroy them. They can also be destroyed with a sword, however being inside a cobweb whilst not being grounded causes mining speed to decrease dramatically, making this a poor escape option. Cobwebs can also be placed on one's self to act as a barricade against attacks, so long as no part of the player is exposed.
When held in the offhand, totems protect the player from a lethal hit (except from the void), and grant them temporary Regeneration, Fire Resistance, and Absorption. Totems can be quickly re-equipped by hovering over one in the inventory and pressing the F key to replenish the offhand, or using hotkeys/Shift+Right Click (not rebindable) to replenish the mainhand. A totems of undying only returns your health to 10 at the moment of use, and wipes potion effects. The severity of the screen obstruction that occurs when a totem activates can be reduced with a resource pack.
Mining tools allow for modifying the terrain, tunneling away, and destroying defenses. They are most useful when enchanted with Efficiency, as this increases their mining speed. Shears also disarm tripwire traps without triggering them.
The elytra can be used to travel long distances at high speed, surprise attack enemies, make quick escapes, and become difficult to hit. Wearing elytra dramatically reduces damage reduction due to taking up the chestplate slot. Having Mending on the elytra, as well as a supply of experience bottles, is recommended for sustained use. Elytra can be used in tandem with a mace to deal smash attacks with better precision and safety, however the elytra must be unequipped the moment the smash attack is dealt for the smash attack to activate.
Fireworks can be used to boost with an elytra. Fireworks made with firework stars can be fired as explosive projectiles using a crossbow, with higher star counts resulting in higher explosion damage.
Horses can be used to travel around the map quicker, as well as to reach high places using their high jumping. While getting hit on a horse prevents knockback to the rider, horses are not recommended for direct combat. This is because horses have a random chance to be stunned when taking damage, making themselves and their rider vulnerable. They are also quickly killed by attacking players, and are outclassed by elytra for travel. When using a horse, having a supply of hay bales to heal it is recommended.
Tamed wolves will aid the player in combat by targeting the last entity that was hit, or the last entity that hit their owner. Meat food types can be used to heal wolves and cause them to breed, making more wolves. Equipping a wolf with wolf armor is highly recommended, as failure to equip wolves with armor causes them to die quickly to attacking players. When using wolves, having a supply of armadillo scutes to repair their armor is recommended. Due to the way wolves jump when attacking targets, they often miss their attacks. This in combination with their low movement speed, damage output, and health pools causes wolves to be poor allies in combat, requiring a large army with status effects for wolves to be useful.
Wind charges are throwable projectiles that deal knockback. Jumping right before the wind charge explodes significantly increases the height gained. This height gain can be used to quickly scale mountains and walls, facilitate smash attacks, to tower more quickly, and to get away from the opponent in order to heal. The effects of the wind charge can be amplified using an elytra, such as increasing the height gain and converting the height into speed. Blast Protection reduces the height gain from wind charges. Wind charges can also be used as an alternative to fireworks for the elytra by timing and aiming the wind charges so that they explode behind and near the player. They can be used to knock enemies backwards.
| Enchantment | Description | Applied to | Specifics and Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharpness, Power, and Breach | Increase the damage output of their respective weapon types. | Sword and Axe (Sharpness), Bow (Power), Mace (Breach) | Sharpness increases damage dealt by 1HP👁 💔 for the first level, and by 0.5HP👁 ❤️ × 0.25 for each subsequent level. This results in Sharpness V giving a total damage increase of 3HP👁 ❤️ 👁 💔 . Power increases damage dealt by 50% for the first level, and by 25% for each subsequent level. This results in Power V giving a total damage increase of 150%. Breach decreases the effectiveness of a target's armor by 15% per level. This results in Breach IV giving a total armor effectiveness decrease of -60%. |
| Density | Increases the damage of a mace smash attack. | Mace | Density increases the damage of a mace smash attack by 0.5HP👁 ❤️ × 0.25 per block fallen. Density is a must-have in kits revolving around repeatedly chaining mace smash attacks. However, for kits that do not offer wind charges or an elytra, Density is completely outclassed by Breach. |
| Fire Aspect and Flame | Set the target on fire. | Sword and Mace (Fire Aspect), Bow (Flame) | Fire Aspect sets the target on fire for 4 seconds per level. This results in Fire Aspect II inflicting 8 seconds of burning, dealing 1HP👁 💔 each second for a total of 8HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ over time. Flame sets the target on fire for 5 seconds per level. This results in Flame I inflicting 5 seconds of burning, dealing 1HP👁 💔 Burning damage does not take effect when the target is already taking damage from other sources, such as melee/ranged attacks or explosions. |
| Knockback and Punch | Increases inflicted horizontal knockback. | Sword (Knockback), Bow (Punch) | Knockback increases the amount of horizontal knockback inflicted on the target by 2.586 blocks per level. This results in Knockback II dealing 6.724 blocks of knockback without doing a sprint-knockback attack.
Punch increases the amount of horizontal knockback inflicted on the target by 3 blocks per level. This results in Punch II dealing 8.792 blocks of knockback. Knockback is not a recommended enchantment for the majority of PvP kits. The enchantment makes it more difficult to combo in PvP that doesn't have netherite armor, and makes it easier for your opponent to back out of combos even in PvP that does have netherite armor. The Knockback enchantment's only usecases are in Crystal PvP, where Knockback I is used to knock opponents into end crystal explosions when spam clicking, or in netherite SMP PvP, where Knockback 1 can be used to combo more effectively at the cost of combos being easier to back out of. |
| Protection | Increases damage resistance. | Armor | Protection increases damage resistance 4% per level. This results in a full set of Protection IV armor giving a total damage resistance increase of 64%.
Protection is required in all forms of PvP, as armor without any Protection enchantments is incredibly frail. |
| Blast Protection | Increases explosion damage resistance and explosion knockback resistance. | Armor | Blast Protection increases explosion damage resistance 8% per level, and explosion knockback resistance by 3.75 per level. This results in a Blast Protection IV armor piece giving a total explosion damage resistance increase of 32%, and results in two pieces of Blast Protection IV armor completely negating knockback from explosions.
Having a piece of Blast Protection armor is required in Crystal PvP and Cart PvP, as not having any Blast Protection results in instant death to two crystal explosions even with a totem of undying equipped. Having more than one piece of Blast Protection armor is not recommended, as having only two pieces of Protection armor will result in dying quickly to Strength II-boosted melee weapons. |
| Fire Protection and Projectile Protection | Increase fire/lava damage resistance (Fire Protection); increases projectile damage resistance (Projectile Protection) | Armor | Fire Protection increases fire/lava damage resistance 8% per level, and decreases burning time by 15% per level. This results in a Fire Protection IV armor piece giving a total fire/lava damage resistance increase of 32%, and results in two pieces of Fire Protection IV armor providing complete immunity to fire damage.
Projectile Protection increases projectile damage resistance 8% per level. This results in a Projectile Protection IV armor piece giving a total projectile damage resistance increase of 32%. Both Fire Protection and Projectile Protection have no usecases for PvP. This is because sacrificing Protection for one of the two is never worth it, regardless of the type of PvP kit. |
| Feather Falling | Increases fall damage resistance (including ender pearl damage). | Boots | Feather Falling increases fall damage resistance by 12% per level. This results in a Feather Falling IV armor piece giving a total fall damage resistance increase of 48%.
Feather Falling is not mutually exclusive with any other enchantments, so it is always worth having. |
| Thorns | Chance to inflict damage on attackers when receiving damage; increases armor durability loss. | Armor | Deals 1HP👁 💔 to 4HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ randomly to attackers, with the chance of activation increasing per level. This results in a full set of Thorns III armor giving a 100% chance of dealing 1HP👁 💔 to 4HP👁 ❤️ 👁 ❤️ damage upon being attacked. An additional 2 armor durability is lost when Thorns activates. Thorns is not a recommended enchantment for PvP, as the damage of thorns becomes inconsequential against the Protection enchantment, while still massively harming the sustainability of your armor. In addition to this, when Thorns inflicts damage on the opponent, it will grant them knockback immunity for 0.5 seconds, as all indirect damage sources do, which disrupts combos. |
| Infinity | Causes arrows to not be consumed when used (does not effect spectral arrows or tipped arrows). | Bow | Infinity causes arrows used to not disappear from the inventory when fired. It does not effect spectral arrows and tipped arrows, and it is mutually exclusive with Mending.
Bows are virtually never at risk of breaking in a PvP fight, so Infinity is always preferred over Mending in a PvP environment. |
| Unbreaking | Gives a random chance for durability to not be consumed. | All | Unbreaking gives a random chance for durability to not be consumed, with a chance of 50% at Unbreaking I, ~66% at Unbreaking II, and 75% chance at Unbreaking III.
Unbreaking is essential to have on armor, as armor durability is a key factor in high-power gear PvP. Excluding shields, it is not as important to have Unbreaking on other items, as they are very unlikely to break from full durability in a PvP fight. |
| Mending | Consumes gained experience to repair durability. | All | Mending repairs 2 durability for each experience point received.
Mending, like Unbreaking, is essential to have on armor, as armor durability is a key factor in high-power gear PvP. It is important to omit having Mending on equipment other than armor in a PvP fight, as repairing armor using bottle o' enchanting must take priority over repairing other equipment. |
| Loyalty | Causes thrown tridents to return to the thrower. | Trident | Loyalty causes thrown tridents to return to their owner, with the return time decreasing more for each level of enchantment.
Loyalty is not a recommended enchantment for PvP. This is because tridents are poor weapons for damage-dealing, leading to the utility of Riptide being far more useful. |
| Riptide | Launches the user when attempting to throw a trident while in water or rain. Replaces a trident's throwing functionality. | Trident | Riptide launches the user by 9 blocks at Riptide I, 15 blocks at Riptide II, and 21 blocks at Riptide III.
Riptide is the main reason to use a trident in PvP, as tridents are poor damage-dealers, resulting in the utility of Riptide being their best usecase. |
| Curse of Vanishing | Deletes the item on death. | Anything | Curse of Vanishing deletes the enchanted item when the user is killed.
Curse of Vanishing can be useful for preventing opponents from collecting your gear in a team-based PvP fight. |
| Quick Charge | Decreases the charging time of a crossbow. | Crossbow | Quick Charge decreases the charging time of crossbows by 0.25 seconds per level. This results in a Quick Charge III crossbow having a charge time of only 0.5 seconds.
Quick Charge is an essential enchantment for crossbows, as it drastically increases their DPS and rate of spreading tipped arrow effects. Spamming arrows with a Quick Charge III crossbow is a viable strategy, as it will repeatedly damage an opponent's armor and make it difficult for them to approach. |
| Piercing | Causes fired arrows to pierce multiple targets, as well as shields. Arrows under the effect of Piercing can be picked up and fired again. | Crossbow | Piercing causes arrows to pierce targets, letting arrows hit additional targets, and causes fired arrows to ignore shields. Piercing arrows can be picked up and fired again, rather than sticking to the target.
Piercing is most useful in low-power PvP kits, as the utility of letting a crossbow ignore a shield is very helpful. Piercing also acts as a pseudo-Infinity enchantment that works with tipped arrows, however the arrows have to be picked up again manually. Piercing becomes less useful as gear becomes more powerful, as Multishot begins overshadowing it for the utility of spreading tipped arrow effects when the crossbow itself stops dealing meaningful damage. |
| Multishot | Fires two additional arrows to the left and right of the center arrow. Increases crossbow durability damage. | Crossbow | Multishot adds two additional phantom arrows to the left and right of the center arrow. The two side arrows cannot be picked up, and have the same damage and effects as the center arrow. Multishot increases the durability consumed by 2 for each use.
Multishot is incredibly useful in high-power gear kits for the utility of spreading tipped arrow effects. It also by nature makes it easier to land arrow shots, and drastically increases the effective coverage of shot firework rockets. |
It's important to determine the best settings for you. Settings don't improve your fighting skill, rather they make your fights more comfortable. It is discouraged to constantly change your settings to try to find the "perfect" setting that will "magically make you the best". Get settings that don't limit your gameplay and get skilled with them.
Having more FPS is incredibly important if you have a low-end system. Tone down most of your graphics, such as setting it to "Fast", turning down your render distance, and turning your FPS cap to unlimited are some examples that can somewhat improve your FPS. Additionally, you can also turn off particle settings as some particles are too obstructive such as the crit particles and totem particles, but this also means you need to listen to your sounds more carefully due to lack of a visual sign that is usually seen in these things.
Next are your controls. First, modifying your keybinds is totally up to you. Using the default 1-9 isn't recommended, as the numbers past 4 or 5 are inconvenient to reach. Although using the scroll wheel in your mouse can be helpful, keybinds are faster and more accurate than using the scroll wheel if you become good with your keybinds. Your mouse sensitivity is also dependent on each player and choosing one that you're comfortable with is essential with getting better aim. With a high sensitivity, your crosshair would start becoming shaky and you won't accurately track your opponent as your mouse is too fast, while if your sensitivity is too low, your rotation is too slow, thus you won't be able to track your opponent that moves too much and too fast. Other settings to change are turning Auto-jump to off and turning your sprint to "Toggle".
An ideal FOV is any FOV above 80-85, letting you see enough so that enemies can't strafe behind you easily but not making opponents too small if they are at the edge of your reach. Its best to turn off FOV effects as well as Damage Tilt completely, as they cause your screen to warp and shake during fights that makes aiming much harder.
Resource packs are optional but sometimes they make your PvP experience more comfortable. Some vanilla textures in the game obstruct your vision too much, such as food, explosion particles, swords, fire, and offhand items, so texture packs reducing the size of those are definitely recommended. While resource packs that function while minimally modifying the vanilla aesthetic are called overlays, one may opt for a resource pack with cosmetic changes, too.
Mods are also important and some of these are tailored for PvP combat. Sodium and FPS-increasing mods are incredibly essential and PvP clients like Lunar Client and Feather Client feature modules that significantly help in combat.
The location where PvP takes place affects general gameplay and can affect strategies.
This is when two players fight in the naturally generated terrain of Minecraft. In this type of fight, players decide on a designated area or may be unexpectedly attacked (underground, caves, cliffs, or strongholds). One can also add custom features into the natural terrain, normally player-built structures.
This is PvP that takes place in a unique area or challenge map. Players that are friends may decide to create or use a challenge map that facilitates PvP. The players may choose to divide themselves into multiple groups, enjoy a free-for-all, or any other distribution of players that fight among one another.
Players may prefer to build an arena for the sake of organization or aesthetics.
A hazard is any area that's dangerous or disadvantageous to be. Most likely its a lava pool, ravine opening, or for a particularly experienced player, even just a wall that's easy to headweb against. In any case, both players want to stay away from it and force the other player into it. When playing around a hazard, strafe around your opponent constantly and stay low to the ground, letting you move more effectively to put them in between you and the hazard. Whether you're successful or not, you'll need to push your opponent back and gain ground. To do this, disable their shield and don't let yours be disabled, at all costs. Use techniques like Shoving to advance forwards consistently without taking much knockback or Uppercutting to gain lots of ground very quickly. If your opponent crits you, Sidesweeps are a viable option (only if you're losing) to run around behind them and flip the scenario on them.
It is important to note the context in which PvP takes place.
Friendly PvP is when two or more players agree to PvP for friendly practice and training only. Friendly PvP is great to play on LAN. It is the least hostile option for PvP as it:
In organized PvP, players agree on the circumstances of their fight, and then battle. The victor may be agreed to receive anything, from diamonds and emeralds to proven superiority to nothing at all. This type of PvP can be highly competitive and players may need an impartial judge to moderate.
This is when someone surprise attacks you without warning, and is mainly common in SMP PvP.
If you have better equipment than your attacker, you will likely be able to kill them. At this point, there is no better time to give it your all. Utilize anything and everything at your disposal to destroy your opponent — any method that Minecraft provides, you should exploit. (Combat-logging, hacking, and other out-of-game methods are unacceptable except on select servers.) Always carry extras. You never want to be stuck in battle without a weapon. Therefore, extensive measures must be taken to ensure that equipment can be readily replaced in a fight, such as enchantments, extras, and consistent resupplying.
Press any advantages you can, and consider fleeing if you don't think you can win. There's little point in being honorable, and more point to staying alive.
Make sure to understand your disadvantage if you are attacked unexpectedly. Your opponent likely has applied potion effects or eaten golden apples in advance, giving them saturation and absorption. To stand a chance against them, you'll need to do the same. Keeping combat healing items, ender pearls or potions on you as well as in your hotbar can save you in those situations.
In this type, 2 players spawn in a set map with an arranged set of equipment, thus the name of PvP. Practicing kits are important in learning the basics of PvP. And the kits can also be customizable depending on the server.
Minigames are typically played on dedicated minigame servers. Some popular ones include Bedwars (where each player/team has a bed that allows them to respawn if it is undestroyed), and Capture the Flag (where each team tries to steal a banner/wool from the other team). Many other variations of these games, and some more niche minigames, also exist. Each minigame will typically have its own set of rules, as well as a shop or class system (although this is not true for all minigames). To gain experience in this kind of PvP, it is recommended to try different kinds of minigames, and find one/some that you enjoy. Minigames are technically a form of Organized PvP, but are normally on a dedicated server.
The majority of PvP is melee based combat: using your sword, axe and shield to damage your opponent directly. Swords and axes are the strongest and most damaging non-crystal PvP weapons in the game, apart from maces which are typically restricted to their own gamemode. Choosing your offhand item is an important decision, with the most popular choices being a shield, totem of undying, spear, wind charges or food. There are two main avenues and essential concepts for attacking: sprint-knockback attacks and critical hits.
There are many techniques and maneuvers you can use in PvP to give yourself a large advantage. This is the next step in complexity in PvP up from just critting and shielding.
These are some more complicated and high level techniques. Many of them build off of other techniques and are more useful against better players, used to counter other more basic techniques.
Shields protect all damage and knockback infront of the user when active, aside from arrows from Piercing crossbows. Shields have 250ms delay between being raised and being active. They are disabled for 5 second when hit by an axe, regardless of the axe's attack cooldown charge.
Disabling the opponent's shield is a huge part of SMP kit, giving a 5 second window where they aren't able to protect themselves effectively. To disable a shield, hotkey to your axe and spam click 2-3 times, then immediately swap back to sword. Later in this section are some special ways to disable your opponent's shield to give you an advantage. Don't wait to charge the attacks: axes are inefficient at dealing damage. You can attempt to disable either when you see them put up shield, which requires fast reactions and good hotkeying, or by predicting when they will shield. While fighting, try to watch their shield patterns and learn them so you can predict them in advance. In addition, most players will shield with the following patterns:
Be careful when your shield gets disabled. Did you shield in a predictable pattern? They might have learned that pattern. Be careful before repeating it.
Once you disable their shield, you have a 5 second window where they cannot block any hits. To take advantage of this, you can use 2 different follow ups.
When your own shield is disabled, you are very vulnerable to crit or combo follow ups. By far one of the most effective ways to play while your shield is disabled is KB hit trading. Back away and try to bait your opponent. Trade KB hits with them, holding S after each hit to get too far away from your opponent to be comboed. This is a very slow playstyle and your shield will come back up soon. The reason it works so well is that if your opponent attempts to block your hit with their shield, you can easily either disable it or back away from their hit before they lower their shield, rendering their shield advantage useless. Another trick you can use when your shield is disabled is literally to pearl out and heal. If you can safely get the pearl off, you might avoid a very costly encounter. It might seem sort of hacky or cringe, since you're just running away whenever you're at a disadvantage, but your opponent can't do anything besides cry about it. Don't do this if you are going to get crit out while the pearl is in the air.
Here are some shield related techniques you can use. Some of these are very difficult to perform, and some of them delightfully simple, but they can give you a significant edge in getting more effectiveness out of your shield.
Bows and crossbows can be used to attack and snipe at a safe distance. Learning how to use bows and crossbows effectively is an important aspect of PvP. There are various styles to shooting such as jump shooting, aiming upward and strafing to the right/left, spamming uncharged shots (bow only).
Strafing from left to right when shooting is the optimal way to shoot from mid-range, as it can help you avoid an opponent's shots. To hit a moving target, lead the arrow ahead of them some blocks depending on their distance and ping.
Sniping is attempting to hit targets at long range with a bow or crossbow. Done well, sniping can deplete a weak target's health or knock them off a cliff. This tactic by itself can be ineffective if not followed up with melee combat, as shields and healing are certain counters to the exclusive use of bows and crossbows. However as a method to drain your opponent of resources, such as armor durability and food, sniping them can make a difference. At further distances, the level of precision needed to have a good hit rate increases, and the innate randomness value of arrow shots becomes a problem. An 8-degree pitch shot with a bow will hit a target between 47 and 52 meters out, and a 37-degree angle can put shots out to around 120 meters. The pitch of your shot can be viewed using the F3 screen. Generally, aim 1 degree up for every 4 blocks away your target is assuming they're at level ground with you (Pitch = (distance - 18)/4), compensating for their movement appropriately. For example, to hit a target 50 meters away, aim up by 8 degrees. 62 meters away, aim up by 11 degrees. 74 meters away, 14 degrees. If a player is higher than the user, a simple way of compensating is to look them in the face and set that as your zero. This works for relatively flat shots that aren't at an enormous range. If a player is 9 degrees up from the user and appears to be around 60 meters away, a 19.5 degrees pitch is a good approximation of where to aim. Sniping is a skill that becomes feel-based at higher distances, making practice essential.
Longer term, overall strategy during fights to make the most out of your PvP skills. This section will detail how to heal yourself properly, win fights when outnumbered, heal your armor, and use your utility items properly.
You can heal faster by having high saturation, or by consuming a healing item like a golden apple or a potion of Healing. Foods with high saturation such as golden carrots are preferred as more saturation translates to a longer period of faster healing. Since healing by eating normally takes some time and slows you down you want to do it while sprint jumping away if you can't ender pearl, preferrable after separating from your opponent as well as possible. KB hits, cobwebs, and blocks can all help you get away. If your opponent is healing, make the most of that time. Crit them out to drain them of resources if they are close. If they aren't close enough for you to reach this, do something else such as healing or refilling your hotbar. Just running at your opponent doesn't help you. Its also common for players to KB hit their opponent on the last hit while their opponent is healing. This sets their opponent up for a combo when they finish eating.
When you meet with multiple people that have the intent on killing you, the best option is of course run or negotiate for peace. If that's not an option though, you'll need to figure something else out.
Utilities are your backup weapons in a fight. The most effective way to use utilities is to have just a couple in your hotbar and become quick and experienced with using them so you can constantly bombard your opponent with effective secondary attacks.
In various kits, players are given stacks of bottle o' enchanting to repair their Mending armor. Without proper XP usage, you will waste a significant portion of your XP and your armor will break earlier.
Before repairing, make sure to back off way before your armor breaks (preferably when your helmet/boots dips to below 70 durability). Use XP bottles to heal your armor if it gets low. If your shield has mending, all the XP will go to healing your shield, so take off your shield while doing this (shields don't take enough damage to fully break during a fight, normally.) XP bottles heal all your armor evenly, but your armor has different amounts of durability. Your helmet will break while your chestplate still has 1/3 durability. XP bottles only heal armor pieces that you are wearing, though. Take off everything but your helmet and heal it to 100% durability. Now put on your boots and heal them to 80%. Now take them off and heal your leggings to 75%, and then chestplate to 70% durability. Also, make sure you're not too close to your enemy while repairing, since they can get free hits on you, wasting your bottles.
It's extremely important to know how to play and when. Knowing how to deal more damage than your opponent is necessary, but you have to be able to chain your manuevers and gameplay together to really press your advantages and turn a mess of hitting things into a cohesive playstyle. First we'll examine the two most basic playstyles, playing Defensively or Offensively, and how to counter those playstyles.
The most common playstyle in SMPs, a defensive playstyle involves constantly keeping a little between your opponent and playing reactionarily. You will be playing slow and winning by Armor Drain, steadily but surely. This playstyle is very effective against players that seem to have good aim and fast mechanics, but have worse strategy and might be too eager to rush into things. This is how to pull it off using your kit.
Defensive players need two things: they need to be able to run away from you, and they need to safely survive to drain your resources.
An aggressive playstyle is constantly pushing your opponent, never allowing more than a short break. It mostly relies on being able to play faster than your opponent, making them panic or forcing them into bad decisions. You are often able to drop your opponent when they can't escape your quick damage. It requires strong mechanical skill and versatility with melee mechanics.
Aggressive players want to disable your shield and catch you in a bad situation to crit you out. You're gonna need to react to all they're doing and avoid getting dropped at all costs.
Minecraft ping is coded differently from other games. The two differences are that you can hit a player when you can hit them on your computer, even if your opponent and the server agree you can't yet, and your knockback is delayed by your ping. If you have 100 ping, you only start taking knockback after the 1/10 a second has passed for your computer to find out you got hit. Fighting Ping: Any opponent that has ping has slower reactions. Strategies like No-KB crits that require immediate counters work very well. Their shield disabling will also be very delayed: you can get away with much more aggressive shield usage. Don't try to combo against ping as much because their knockback is delayed, giving them a window to hit you. If you do, use Silly Circle Hitting or side strafes to make them miss, since laggy players often have more trouble hitting you. Low ping players should play more defensively since they can react very quickly. Using Ping: You are far harder to combo on high ping, since your knockback is literally delayed, giving you an extra window to hit your opponents. Its better to be using an aggressive playstyle. Use the Spacing Techniques detailed earlier in the guide to get in constant extra hits and pcrits before knockback takes place. It's also more difficult for you to be KB hit away, so a crit spammy playstyle is very effective (and annoying) here.
The world of PvP is vast as it takes place in a sandbox game, giving players many options, and not all of them are good, despite how tempting they may seem. A great way to learn your mistakes is to watch better players play and simply try to notice what's different. Why might they be playing that way or using that item?
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Axe is a very strategic gamemode. Autohitting and backstabbing are of great importance. It's very common to let the opponent disable your shield, autohit them, shoot them with a crossbow to push them away, and run until their shield is back. You need a good understanding of what each player has available to them, and therefore what move they want to make. Baiting your opponent into jumping could get you a free crit, turning the tide of the round. Bowing them near the end of the round when they have no shield might finish them off. At any moment you might only have one opportunity or play to make, and your job is to find it and execute it properly.
Now each SMP might have a set of standard rules when it comes to fighting, such as netherite or certain potions being illegal. Even though this is the case, the tips here can still be used on SMPs regardless of their rules. For this kit, we're going to assume that the kit contains fully enchanted netherite armor, 2 netherite swords (one is fully enchanted with Knockback I, while the other doesn't have Knockback), a fully enchanted netherite axe, 2 stacks of gapples, one totem, around 4 stacks of pearls, a fully enchanted shield, 2 stacks of XP bottles and finally copious amounts of Strength II, Speed II and some Fire Resistance (8 minutes) potions.
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Crystal PvP is using end crystals and respawn anchors to defeat your opponent. End crystals and respawn anchors are capable of one-shotting players in full Protection IV netherite armor, and so it is generally regarded as the most powerful form of PvP. Many survival servers ban or disable these items, and even on those that do, getting large quantities of crystals and anchors can be time consuming and expensive.
Crystal PvP is all about being lower than your opponent and setting off your explosives so that they damage them far more than they damage you.
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UHC is unique for a reason, that is because of a game mechanic being absent, the ability to heal naturally. This meant that you can't heal on food alone, and you'd need the regen and absorption from golden apples to heal. Aside from that, UHC has a diverse inventory of melee, ranged weapons and utilities that players can use to their advantage.
Players must be fast at hotkeying, and scrollwheels won't simply cut it, since hotkeys are more accurate and faster. Second, players must know how to use each utility to their advantage, and must know when to fight defensively to drain or offensively to drop your opponent. Blocks for example, can be used not only to build/bridge up but also to put out a lava or a water source block when placed down. Its an interesting mix of the melee combat similar to SMP kit and intense mastery of usage of utility items.
This can be done with a Factions plugin or through other means. This is when a group attempts to irreparably exterminate members on another group and later destroy or loot all property of the said group. These can range from a surprise attack to a formal challenge of two armies, and can have up to hundreds of warriors on either side (though this is extremely rare and may cause lag). In some servers, you may be asked to pick a team without knowing who is on it.
If you can't hurt them from the outside, hurt them from the inside! If possible, join your enemy faction while you are still able to. If you get into their base as a faction member, wait until the faction moderators are all offline. This is the best time to strike. Take their best valuables, then break the furnaces, chests, and burn the items with a flint & steel. If they have a water mine, block the water. If they have a staircase mine, put a lava or two at the top. Go to the "/f home" and dig a hole. Put lava in it, from the ceiling and make a wall so as soon as they "/f home" they will constantly respawn in lava. If you have spare lava, fill the place with it! Make sure that there aren't any hidden chests, and destroy the farms if no one in the faction catches on. If possible, if they don't know you griefed/raided them, wait until they repair their bases with more food/loot and restart the process! Remember to give loot to your actual team after each raid.
In most, if not all faction servers, there is a plugin that allows factions to claim chunks of land. If you are raiding a base, there is a 99% chance that they have claimed their base. So how do you get in? Here's how.
If you intend to explore the full tactical armory of PvP, then a helpful one and likely the first is the raid. Simply put, a raid is the theft of materials from the property of another player and killing enemy team members. Raids can have pros, such as drain the opponent's resources that could later have been used against you, and increasing your own resources. However they can also have cons, such as increasing the likelyhood of you being made a target by others. Generally, raids are worth the risk.
There are three different types of faction raids:
There are two objects that are absolutely necessary if you want the raid to be effective and efficient:
The first is always needed since this may take some time. However, you may wonder why the list contains an enchanted diamond pick. It's because you can break almost anything fast. Without a powerful pick like this, the odds are that the owner will have mowed you down before you could even get inside their base! Therefore, you must be fast.
Choosing a base is easy, and really, an unmanned base is a dead base. When a minimal amount of people are manning the base, then you can strike. Steal all goods. Remember that your point is sabotage, and so you should dispose of all you didn't steal. If you really want to damage them, clog all entry points. Don't stay around too long, though. Take a minute longer and they might be online and hunting you down, in the end you're just wasting your time.
Keep in mind that faction wars are not always about combat. It's about preparations and knowledge in order to turn the tide exponentially in your favor, such as how you can slay a player in diamond armor with only iron armor and win a battle before going out to war. You can't rush into an attack, you need to plan it. There's lots of ways to get a kill without having to fairly "fight" your opponent.
Now say a new enemy has come and they have Protection IV armor, with a Sharpness V sword, and an obsidian base. Attacking them would be suicidal in a fair fight (unless you have better equipment). First, send someone to scout their base while you prepare a full assault. TNT their base and ruin the defenses. This allows you to eliminate their source of power. Then, send someone to cause a diversion to distract them. They'll be chased all the way until they come back and finds the smoldering ruin that was their home. Lead them to a premade trap such as a TNT minecart bomb and detonate it as they chase you over it. No matter how geared they are, they will be killed and their base will be undefended.
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through snowballing them, but in the process breaking their diamond armor.
Faction wars are not always about fighting. Although the point of a Faction War is to demolish, a clear assessment about the other side is helpful in doing so. Let's go into another scenario. Another faction is the strongest faction but is secretive, stealthy, mean, and rich. Your faction has never liked them, and in fact, hated them. But in terms of pure force, your faction is outclassed. They need you. Now, they equip you with invisibility potions, a diamond sword, a bucket of milk, a splash potion of poison and 3 of Harming, a bow with 128 arrows, and 32 pieces of pork. Throw in some Fireworks for distractions, and you're ready to go. The whole faction depends on you!
Now, as a spy, don't ever alert them to your position, because even if they don't know who you are, you are someone sneaking around their base, and they will pursue. To do that, you must follow some steps.
Make note of details, as intelligence is most important as it can get you get one step closer to victory. Do not forget that secrecy is required. Report back to your base once you think you have more than enough information on the enemy and that is when you can declare war. Another trick is to (if in a faction server) station your teammates nearby. (Say, a mountain bunker in the distance) That way, if you are caught and running for your life, you can send a distress signal or flares (The most obvious thing would be fireworks). One other trick is to pay attention to what you hear. Say you are in the base, and you hear someone munching on food. Avoid them as quickly as you can. If you hear a nether portal, then your team may be able to build a corresponding portal in the Nether and invade through the enemy's portal.
Building a base to protect yourself from the diamond swords and the arrows? Good work! Here are some tips to help you make your base even more efficient:
Bigger may not be better, as a visible structure gains visibility the larger it is, and leaves more space unguarded. On the flip side, big bases are good for large amounts of people that are working on something together, and can hold more munitions. A small base is also dangerous, because it will be easily demolished.
One effective type of base is a base that is deep underground. Here enemies will take days to hunt you down, while you survive on a farm and branch mine for diamonds. Another base, meant for continuous habitation, is far above the world. Therefore enemies will be required to build up to it. Unless a prohibitively expensive defensive structure is used to get up, they can be easily pummeled with arrows, a single one of which could send them falling to their death or at least making them restart. For sky fortress builders, the most important rule is to not have any spots that are out of the fortresses' archers' line-of-sight. Try building the bottom floor in a "multiple ring" shape to do this. Also, make a disabled nether portal that will upon activation become an escape (disable it to ensure that it cannot accidentally link up to another portal). Bases in mid-air are effective during a raid, when manned, as entry is all but impossible. Again, this base type is best for continuous habitation, but it is only slightly more protected than a house on the ground if nobody is manning it. Also make sure to put cobwebs all over the bottom to stop ender pearl glitching.
Every good base needs traps and defenses! First of all, we have the wall. A good wall should contain at least one obsidian or water layer to shield explosive force, and require at least one minute to mine through with an unenchanted diamond pickaxe. To further prolong base penetration, chessboard wood and cobble to force players to slowly break wood or switch from axe to pick. Traps are great defenses to surprise enemies that make it through the wall, but are generally not infallible. Note that self building walls can be useful during an attack to repair severe damage (aka the TNT equivalent of a bunker missile). However, remember that a trespasser will not simply pound at the wall forever (unless they are monotonously dedicated to it). Eventually, they will most likely climb it with blocks, or disable it by destroying the mechanism.
This is one of the great secrets to PvP mastery! Trustworthy allies can be useful in many tasks, from grunt work to being the safe keeper of your gold. Be careful whom you choose for an ally, as treachery or lack of skill can easily hamper or destroy your attempts to thrive in PvP. Haste in that aspect is generally a waste.
If the server you're playing on has the Factions plugin, you can create an impenetrable base with water and cheap walls. To do this, dig a hole along the border of claimed land (INSIDE your faction land, otherwise it can be blocked up or destroyed) all the way to bedrock. Next, cover your base with water, including the sides and roof, and let it flow down to bedrock. Make sure TNT cannot land anywhere in the base. There should be no blocks connecting your base to the wilderness. The water acts as a shield, making your base invulnerable to TNT, and impassable by enemies. The only way to counter this is make a sand/gravel cannon (a TNT cannon that shoots the falling gravel/sand instead). This can also be countered by a team of people using Wither. You can also bring elder guardians (if possible on the server) and bury them near the outside walls in obsidian, then build a wall of waterlogged stairs around the base. You can then cover that in another layer of water, forcing the enemy to use a Wither. You can use this to your advantage and get your whole team a smite V sword to shred the Wither(s) along with sharpness V to deal with the players after the Wither dies.
Gather enough dirt to build to the build limit (about 3 stacks). Then pillar jump with all of it, or until you reach the build limit. Then dig 17 blocks down. Place 1 obsidian by pillar jumping with it, mark that corner, then build a 12×12 obsidian platform. (Set home to platform if /home is enabled!) Then find the corner you marked, dig down, (you should see dirt, and not fall), dig 2 more dirt down, replace the obsidian, and coat the bottom with lava. (Fire Resistance is highly recommended) Ender pearl down, dig the bottom block of dirt, and dig a 12×12×2 trench where the lava lands. Then teleport up, either with an ender pearl (may take multiple tries) or /home. You can now add the necessary items to your new base as needed. And finally, add redstone blocks around the edge, and build rings around the platform at a lower level for archers and potion lobbers to walk on.
If the base is being raided, and your hand is forced, activate the self-destruct on your base. It is important to keep one on hand at all times and also have an escape. The self-destruct must be designed to overwhelmingly destroy all life and loot inside the base and the base itself but also be well-hidden. This is hard and so you should experiment. In times of need, start the lethal countdown and escape. Ender chests are good for these kinds of bases, as they don't drop their content and it can be accessed anywhere as long as you have another one. Escape pods are essential for above-ground bases as they can drop you deep underground into a water spot, where you can dig (possibly minecart) yourself up to the ground and escape with your friends (if you have more than just one pod) to far away from the base. You can lock the escape pods with pistons to prevent enemies follow you when attempting to escape.
Not all of your faction skirmishes in the PvP world will be set up beforehand. Organize raids with your faction. Find some server to host a voice chat box with your teammates. This will allow you to coordinate your attacks on hostile bases and their creations. The more connected you are with your fellow faction members, the more likely you are to emerge victorious. Keep in touch with them and increase your odds of success.
Let's say that you have just moved in with your awesome new faction. They have diamonds, dozens of anvils, and general awesomeness. Now, a faction war has started, and you have no base, no food, nothing except what the faction gave you. This is dangerous. In the event the faction fails, you are defenseless. Trust nobody and keep a secret base all to yourself. Put a home there and be safe from pursuers and spawn campers. Be ready! If you need to and fear that the faction is about to fall, steal some items and leave the faction when necessary.
If your group's/faction's leader has been killed, or you just feel like it, don't be afraid to go rogue. In order to do so successfully, you need to follow certain rules. First, you need to either decide whether you want to be a wandering rogue, or a bandit-style rogue. Wandering rogue life is relatively simple. You wander around, and occasionally raid abandoned or unguarded bases, and avoiding other players at all costs. If you decide on this, you can refer to the nomadic experience tutorial to help you get started. If you want to be a bandit-style rogue, however, then you need a top secret base of operations, and lots of equipment. Only engage people if you are 100% sure you can win, and escape as quickly as possible. Trust no one, let no one see you. Although the life of a rogue may not be as action-packed as being in a faction, it is certainly profitable, and once you have enough stuff, you might be able to join a new faction, either to settle down or backstab them, get their stuff, and move on to the next gullible faction.
PvP in large factions can include multiple scenarios, from individual murders or attempts to murder, to entire factions battling it out with lines of defense, barricades, and tunnels.
There are three major melee builds, which will be discussed more in depth later. They are:
The first situation is if the enemy has large numbers of archers. Send a wave of soldiers charging in, with moderate armor, and some skill, as well as some Special units to cause some starting chaos in their lines. Even better, get some ender pearls and rush in to engage the archers, who will often be weaker in melee combat. If they don't have archers, they will run or charge. If they run, have archers retreat to the back lines and then have the whole army sprint, bunching Juggernauts close to the front line while staying together, for maximum impact. If they charge, stop their forward momentum with arrows, shooting when they are 10–15 meters away. Then the infantry should then fight for a bit, while juggernauts and potion lobbers move in at sprinting speed to surge into enemy lines and later replace the infantry and slaughter anyone that was engaging the infantry. Make sure that the juggernauts and potion lobbers do this carefully, as the enemy infantry may have lethal potions. However, in general, the enemy can do little versus Juggernauts and potion lobbers coming in from a flank as well as a defensive row of Exotics to stop enemy Juggernauts from advancing effectively.
However, if you are on the attack, there are some threats to your advance you must take into account.
Then charge with infantry, followed immediately by exotics. The juggernauts among you should flank around and smash the enemy infantry after a few seconds of fighting. The Exotics should only engage juggernauts in combat, and only with superior numbers. In this situation, have archers aim for infantry advancing toward the fight, NOT the enemy front line, where you could shoot one of your own men. One can make some professional charging units with horses. Never have everyone charge at once. They will lose momentum and a solid position, while also becoming less cohesive which causes less damage distribution. Retreat, while also dangerous, is far safer.
A server wars is a mass battle with a large quantity of the server's playerbase participating. The attacking parties are typically organized and well armed. They launch an attack big enough to cause a disturbance on the server. Another party, typically admins, retaliates against this attack. If the retaliating party is composed of admins, it will typically resort to Intel and the power to ban players. However, admins will counterattack with weapons in the process of banning the attacking players. Unless they allow griefing of course.
In an all out server war, you have two choices: you can either fight for one of the two parties, or you can flee to safety and let the admins sort it out.
Most players decide to fight for their server, however, players who have a lot of resources like diamond might feel the need to protect their precious resources and flee to safety. If you decide to join the party that is defending the server, you don't really need to worry about firepower since you will probably be armed by fellow soldiers. If you join the attacking party, you should equip enchanted weapons with high damage. It is also good to equip weapons of mass destruction such as TNT, end crystals, lava buckets, etc. You should do everything in your power to keep your nametag hidden if you don't want to be banned. Being banned means you are out of the server, and out of the war. You can no longer fight alongside your comrades. When you are fighting with the attacking party, you typically want to destroy as much as possible and invade as much of the server as you can. A good tip? Drink an invisibility potion, arm yourself with end crystals and blast protection armor, and let the terrorist bombings commence on anyone you see, especially the ones that are insecure.
Remember, the retaliating party doesn't always win even though they seem like the "underdogs". Server wars are won with great soldiers, and most importantly, great leaders. You don't have to be a "grizzled" war veteran to be a great general, a great general is someone who is smart and fights alongside their soldiers. Remember, great generals take point, they don't watch from a safe distance and bark orders while watching their fellow players get slaughtered. Also, if the server has mods equipped, especially mods like "flans mod", "flintlock weapons mod", or "Mo' explosives mod", use that to your advantage! Because of the nature and the danger of these wars, the mechanics of these "groups" of people that are attempting to overthrow the server will be explained.
Generally, the group may know each-other personally. If three friends chose to do this, and each friend tells two of their friends, then we already have nine people ready to attack. Doing this makes it easier to create order and hierarchy. This is also done to deter any traitors or turncoats in the group. Some of these groups go into faction servers, claim land, and make a legitimate faction. They will probably use the faction as a temporary "bank" for what they steal and make. They will build a secondary base, and will use this when they attack. They are highly armed, and are equipped with heavy enchants, potions, lava buckets, redstone, TNT, and whatever the Modifications on the server make available. They disband the faction, and move to the other base and create a new faction, (if they make one at all) and begin their attack, or they may each stay factionless (to avoid detection) and cause great destruction to large bases using the exploits above, communicating attacks via a third-party social platform.
There is a hierarchy involving the status and rank of the players usually, there are generals of the troops that go to battle. They are on the battlefield. And they command the players to attack. But these generals get their orders from one player. This player is the equivalent to the "god father". They are never seen, although sometimes in the game anonymously. Several of these groups have primarily PvP champs, but most of them have hackers, x-rayers, cheat mods, and whatever they chose. Most times the hacker is the godfather or at least close to the top. They also have spies and intel groups. This is not the most usual case, but there are exceptions. Some of them have strategies that they commonly use. Some are griefing, personal raids, and singling out a player. For example, if they know that a player has valuables (diamonds, enchanted books, etc.) and they don't know where it is hidden, they may grief and threaten the player.
Your presence on a server is important for gaining allies or a following.
If you want griefers or spawn killers on your side, be really nice to them. Most of them are notoriously good at PvP from practice, and giving them a reason to be on your side through making sure they never have to worry about starving or being hunted by others is a good way to avoid alienating them. Ironically, this may be the most effective way to make allies with random people, giving them full access to all of your resources and your considerable efforts to be hospitable will generally remove any want to take your items. (As always, this may backfire).
If a server has an online dynamic map or if the Rei's Minimap mod is allowed (most likely), USE THEM. Rei's Minimap helps you understand what structures are ahead of you, and Online maps show everything and also show locations of players. Forgo any advantage you can get your hands on.
Whether it'd be a Drop Party or an organized PvP match, participate in server events and you'll be known by most members in the server. This means people will have second thoughts of attempting to kill you.
This one is obvious. Make sure to be friendly and caring with your members. Give items randomly to the squadron. Make an Army, Navy, and Air Force if you must, but let them mingle. Give crate keys to your teammates if the server has a crate system. And make sure to not act stuck up. Listen to their opinions. If you want a Mega-Uber Skull Laser Chainsaw Castle of Death™, and your friend wants a smaller base, compromise.
Let's say you're on a faction server and you have many enemies. Your base has not been found until now. Two players each holding a Sharpness V, Fire Aspect II, Knockback II sword and wearing Protection IV armor are directly outside your base setting up a TNT cannon. You should always have defenses that are innately active, such as obsidian and water to negate explosions and if available, a spawner that can funnel out mobs on command (go exploring for spawners) to distract and dangerously deter, or snow golems to break armor. If you have these, don't jump down and PvP. Wait for the spawning mobs to break their armor, or call for your faction members and allies to assist in defeating the enemy. In these cases, booby traps are good, so set up booby traps everywhere where the enemy can't find them. In fact, make some that are meant to make the enemy know about the traps but it itself is a trap. These work as warnings and signals. Use tripwires and wool under them to use as signals for example.
If you're building a massive fortress near the spawn, a griefer or simply a plain idiot might run behind you and kill you, disassemble your fortress and run off with your materials. Well, the easiest method to prevent this is to build your house away from spawn and try to survive a good distance away from spawn. It is usually a good idea to use a home-setting command around this area where you wish to live, as if it is a long way away from spawn and you die, it's a long walk, or mad chase if there are spawnkillers with diamond armor and enchanted diamond swords. Using the /home command if you used /sethome cuts the time getting to your safe zone drastically, usually having the spawnkillers and griefers be dazzled in confusion.
The best way to keep your most precious valuables is to put them in an ender chest. Then put a chest in your house with basic invaluable items in it (with a few valuables mixed in to help fool them), and bury a chest with 8 obsidian, an eye of ender, a crafting table, and other less semi-valued objects in it a short way away from your house. Even if your entire house is a crater and the ender chest you placed is destroyed, the chest you buried will still be safe, and you can craft an Ender chest with what is in it to access all your valuable items and loot in there, as well as the loot in your actual chest.
The following is a step-by-step tutorial on how to survive while being new to a PvP server. Follow in this order:
Tip: You must have a fallback in your base in the case of hard times. This means:
A lot of times in single player survival Minecraft, you are going to need something. In factions, you are going to need it a lot more because you are competing with other people for it. Some ways to get it faster:
Despite lag making people randomly visually act, cause injury because of damage just showing up, and crash the server, it may still be useful instead of a nuisance if you know how to control it to your advantage. Whenever you hit someone under the effects of a lag spike, there is a chance that they won't be hurt and can escape. You can use this time to run when a lag spike comes, therefore you may escape if necessary. Keep in mind, lag also delays redstone machinery, meaning if there's a staircase that only activates when you're on a pressure plate, you can get up easier.
There is that one case of being left for green. This means that your squad disbanded, you are out, all alone with maybe a few enemies a kilometer or two behind you looking for you, and you're starving. Be independent. What if nobody is there stupid to help you? What if your leader takes all the valuables and leaves their troops out to die? You must gather resources, get help of any kind, whether it be a lone man just with a stone toolkit or a juggernaut in Protection IV armor, and you must be careful and start your own faction. Tip: Since anyone can be bought…eventually, keep your own secret, hidden, well guarded bases. Never tell anyone about it. It is for you and only you.
Be smart with what you learned. Many people know how to make traps. That is good on one hand, but on another, they might not know how to use their knowledge to their advantage. Combine traps and improvise offline.
Think first before charging ahead to do something. Think first of the necessities, which are supplies, and deal with the secondary needs after.
If you stand no chance, save what you can save and run. If you're nearly killed, and have no hope of victory, run. And don't let yourself be lured into 1-on-1 PvP unless you can win. Use your mind over your in-game muscles. Most important is to use your environment wisely. For example: if you're in a jungle biome, run into the trees and attack your enemies! If you're in a big NPC-village with iron golems: make your foe hit the Iron Golem, then run off and snipe the foe! If you're on a small island in an ocean biome: get a boat, sail a little away, and use your bow to take down that diamond-armor juggernaut! While in the Nether, surprise the enemy with a bed and kill them with the explosion! While in The End, spleef your enemy into the void for a sure victory! It will all be yours if you succeed! Your sword might be a strong weapon, but your bow is even stronger if you use your mind. Also, don't be scared to use potions: they can give you a great advantage over your non-potion using enemies.
In other words, take into account all your advantages, all their advantages, and weigh the options. Sometimes, you need to guess and check. The most important ones are your advantages or disadvantages in:
Be aware of your surroundings, even when playing casually, to avoid being ambushed. Let's say that your base is in the sky with a public chest containing some equipment. Then, all of a sudden, you come down with one teammate and realize that the base is being raided! In the chest, you find some string and cobblestone. The enemies are in iron armor. Now, if the raider's armor was not enchanted, then you're in luck. A stone sword against iron armor with no buffs deals a full heart of damage. A fully charged bow does about as much damage as a diamond sword. Even if you have no armor, you still somewhat stand a chance against those two since it's you and your teammate fighting them. You do not need to be the same size as long as you can beat them. If you and your teammate are strategic, let's say they stick together, and your enemy doesn't, then you are almost guaranteed to kill them, that is if both of you have at least stone swords and they are alone with an iron sword and full iron armor. If you got lucky enough to mine a diamond sword, bring that out too: if you can, enchant with even just Sharpness I, which will do about 5HP👁 ❤️
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You may be thinking that people who have lost so much that their anger is uncontrollable are going to go psycho to win and when people come with supreme equipment you should be scared out of your wits, since that "causes" adrenaline. No! Anger and fear are both factors to defeat. When either happens, whether it be an attempt to kill a player who has diamond armor with your fists or combat logging just because you are so scared that you have to go to the bathroom of fear of peeing in your pants, you will most likely forget all the tips you have learned until you get back to your senses. Avoid that. Now, you must stay calm. Run for cover, and don't stop to watch the deaths of your teammates. If you have one, drink a Potion of Swiftness (the second tier is highly recommended), and keep running. Do not turn back, do not look back, do think of what's back there, and do not stop. Just keep running until you reach safety, whether it be allied or peaceful territory, or a secret place. Don't stop. Stay sharp.
Remember what's been said about not trusting anyone? Your turn to chip in to take a stab at backstabbing. Create peaceful factions for your team. Their only purpose is to earn supplies while being impossible to touch.
If two players in diamond with enchantments come and raid your base, and you're 4 people in iron, and only you have a full set of diamond equipment, do not bring it out! It is obvious you don't stand much chance as you are overpowered. You do, however, need to keep potions of Strength and Speed at a minimum. Also, keep flint and steel, along with fire aspect swords and bows, along with you. And if you find generation errors that create gateways to the Void, use them. Don't forget to keep your dispensers loaded and ready to fire with arrows, damage splash potions, and fire charges. The reason why this equipment and these traps can beat people in diamond is because they go right through their armor. Nothing, not even diamond armor, can resist their effects (except for arrows. Fire, potion effects and Void damage are the only lethal things unaffected no matter what kind of armor.). Also, a potion of invisibility will mean no one will know where you are attacking from! Remember the gift of decoys. Say you have nothing at all and you were just a player that started in a faction war faction. Use your expendable condition. Say there is a hall of traps designed by a redstone scientist. Throw yourself at the traps, run like a madman, break those hidden redstone clocks, and just kill your player on those lethal traps so your faction can zip in and break a hole in their obsidian shield. To victory!
On some servers, the PvP can take place in real life, as well. If you have many friends who play Minecraft, you can call them to join your (allied) faction, which will make strength in numbers. If one of your friends is good at persuading or knows a lot about strategy, that's even better! Also, if you know your in-game enemy well in real life, you can somehow reduce the time they can play or have a talk with them, so they may have a change of heart.
No matter how your opponent fights, they are bound to have some kind of weakness. Wastefully attacking where they are well defended won't work, and you will usually have to change your plan accordingly. Is he not using a shield? Abuse yours extra hard by blocking all their hits. Debuffing you with splash potions? Chug some milk. Shielding your arrows and tridents? Whip out the Piercing enchantment. Not even the heavily-geared Netherite player is invincible: you can bypass their armor with splash potions and tipped arrows. This also brings to the next point:
Just as you adapt to your opponent's tactics, your opponent will adapt to your tactics. If you see your opponent change their actions, think about why he is doing that. Don't rashly play into their hands. If your opponent just placed blocks to stop you from shooting them, stop shooting them and attack up close. Just as your opponent counters your actions, you need to counter their actions. Your plan of bypassing their Protection IV Netherite Armor with tipped arrows may be a sound plan, but if he starts holding down their shield, you'll have to change. If you, say, start shooting with your Piercing Crossbow then you're golden. As long as you are devising and implementing counters to your opponent's counterplay, then until your opponent figures out what to do in response, you have the advantage and you should press it. The longer one plays reactively rather than proactively, the more of a disadvantage they are at.
It is said above regarding running in traps (refer to "Diamonds aren't the key to victory") being a tactic that will fool the enemy, this makes it a rather effective attack. Always use psychology as a weapon! When running into a row of tripwires, the enemy might find it as a suicide attempt and not as a double trap, although not likely since most people will tend to just chase you. However, if you have a circuit that makes it so that the first time somebody runs through it, there is a chance your enemy may think that it's a dud or just a scare for the raiders. Once they step over it, though, the trap activates. This makes it useful since it can make the enemy think you are intending to run away when you're instead luring them into a death trap. If you have any type of invisibility potion or maybe you are just good at not being noticed, you can easily lure the enemy away from your actual position, then jump-attack them when they are least expecting it. This can be the key to a neck-and-neck battle, where your enemy's equipment is as good as yours.
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