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Mace in Minecraft: Crafting, Smash Attacks, and Best Enchantments
Quick answer: Use minecraft:mace in Java Edition commands. Craft the mace from a breeze rod and a heavy core, both from trial chambers, then use falling smash attacks to deal damage that scales with the distance you drop.
Crafting the mace from trial chamber loot
The breeze rod drops from Breezes, the wind-themed mobs inside trial chambers. The heavy core is rarer: it comes from ominous vaults, which require an ominous trial key from an ominous trial spawner active during a Bad Omen or Trial Omen effect.
Combine one breeze rod with one heavy core in a crafting grid to make the mace. Because heavy cores are limited by your ominous vault luck, most players secure the core first and treat breeze rods as the easy half of the recipe.
Breeze rod: defeat Breezes in trial chamber combat rooms.
Heavy core: open ominous vaults with ominous trial keys.
Crafting: 1 breeze rod + 1 heavy core, shapeless.
Smash attacks and enchantment choices
The mace deals bonus damage based on how far you fall before striking, and a successful hit negates your fall damage. That makes it deadly from ledges, wind charges, or Riptide-style launches, but weak in flat-ground trading of blows.
Density increases the smash bonus per fallen block, while Breach reduces the effectiveness of the target's armor; the two are mutually exclusive. Wind Burst launches you back up after a smash, enabling chained aerial hits, and Unbreaking plus Mending keep the rare weapon alive.
Mace Command Examples
Give 1 to nearest player: /give @p minecraft:mace 1
Give 1 to yourself: /give @s minecraft:mace 1
Give to a specific player: /give PlayerName minecraft:mace 1
Clear from inventory: /clear @p minecraft:mace
Compatible Enchantments for Mace
Mace can receive these enchantments from an enchanting table or anvil. Some of them are mutually exclusive; each enchantment page lists its incompatible partners.
The item ID for Mace is minecraft:mace. Java Edition commands such as /give, /clear, and /setblock use this namespaced ID.
How do I give myself Mace in Minecraft?
Open the chat window and run /give @p minecraft:mace 1 to give the nearest player one Mace. Replace @p with a player name to target someone else.
How many Mace can stack in one slot?
Mace stacks up to 1 per inventory slot.
How do you craft Mace?
Mace is crafted on a crafting table with 1 heavy core and 1 breeze rod, which yields 1 Mace.
How do you get a mace in survival Minecraft?
Craft it from one breeze rod and one heavy core. Breeze rods drop from Breezes in trial chambers, and heavy cores come from ominous vaults opened with ominous trial keys, so both parts require trial chamber runs.
Why is my mace doing so little damage?
The mace only shines with smash attacks: fall at least a few blocks before the hit lands. On flat ground it is weaker than a sword. Build height first with blocks, a wind charge, or an elytra, then strike on the way down.
Should I put Density or Breach on my mace?
Density raises your falling smash damage and is better against unarmored mobs and bosses. Breach bypasses a share of armor, so it wins against armored players or heavily armored mobs. They cannot be combined, so choose per target.
Sources and Data Review
Item facts were reviewed for Java Edition 1.21.11 on .
