Minecraft's new weapon is completely broken.

Not only can the mace literally one shot any mob in the game, but it can also negate

any and all fall damage. For most players, this sounds like the perfect weapon.

But for me, it sounds a little too good to be true. And you know what that means? It's time for us

to bust out those calculators and crunch the numbers to find out. Is the mace truly

op levels of broken or will the only thing that's broken by the end of this be Steve? I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's always got an ace up its sleeve, or should I say, mace.

Because in a recent update, Mojang released what might be the single most powerful, most unique,

and all-around coolest weapon ever, the mace. At first glance it doesn't seem too impressive, it only does the same amount of damage as an iron sword,

but the mace's true power lies in the new feature known as the smash attack.

Hmm, wonder where Steve got that name from.

By jumping from a large height and hitting an enemy as you fall,

you can do massive amounts of damage,

and the further you fall, the more damage your smash attack does.

Plus according to Mojang there is no cap on the damage you can do but what's more

impressive than that is that if you do hit your targets all of the full damage you would have received

is completely negated. That's right zero full damage. This is what makes the

mace the ultimate high-risk high-reward weapon but how is is a simple makes able to do all of that?

Well, it's not really clear. There's no explanation in the game, as usual, and Mojang has been weirdly

cagey about it.

But what stops you taking full damage yourself?

Glad you asked. I don't know.

Ugh.

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