5 underrated features of Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem

Minecraft is about to get the long-awaited Mounts of Mayhem update on December 9 and players are beyond excited for it. The final game drop of the year is bringing a lot of new things to the blocky world and while most of the new features are focusing on combat and exploration, there are some underrated features that deserve more praise.

This article will list down the five less-appreciated features with the Minecraft Mounts fo Mayhem update and how they will change the gameplay experience for the good.

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5 underrated features of Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem

1) Horses can swim now

Horses can finally swim in Minecraft (Image via Mojang Studios)

For more than a decade, horses in Minecraft could not swim and it was a big deal because transporting these massive mobs from one place to another became quite a challenge if there was a water body in between. However, the developers have finally fixed this issue.

Mounts of Mayhem now gives horses the ability to swim easily so players don’t have to tie their horses to the boat and make the entire process more tedious than fun. Little changes like these improve the gameplay experience by a lot.

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2) Horse netherite armor

Horses can now have netherite armor (Image via Mojang Studios)

Something that many players failed to understand was why Mojang Studios did not add netherite horse armor. The horse is a mob that is through the thick and thin of the journey, facing challenging mobs and getting hurt in the way. So it makes sense that it deserves the strongest armor in Minecraft. But for some reason, that was not the case.

Thankfully, the Mounts of Mayhem update will bring this much-needed feature. The netherite armor can be made by combining a diamond horse armor with the netherite smithing template, very similar to the process of making the normal netherite armor.

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3) Spear weapon

The spear will be great for player vs player modes (Image via Mojang Studios)

We know that the spear weapon is certainly not an underrated feature of this final game drop of the year. However, we have used spears here4 for a very specific purpose; players vs player combat.

While fighting mobs in the game was decent, fighting other players was as simple as it could get; spam one attack near the opponent and that was it.

However, things are very interesting with the upcoming spear. Players can now have jousting events, find faster and stronger horses to increase their speed and attack power. There are so many new ways to fight other players and it is certain that the spear will be a favorite weapon in PvP servers.

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4) Parched

The parched will make the desert biome more interesting (Image via Mojang Studios)

The parched is the desert variant of the skeleton variant and it shoots arrows that inflict Weakness effect on the player. Having more hostile mobs in the blocky world is certainly a great thing, but the underrated feature here is that the desert biome is finally getting more populated.

The desert is an interesting place with a lot of potential. But it is empty and boring which is such a shame. However, the addition of parched and the camel husk mob is a step in the right direction. Now Mojang Studios have to add more structures to this place and make it close to perfect.

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5) Lunge enchantment

Lunge in Minecraft has to be used in a calculated manner (Image via Mojang Studios)

The Lunge enchantment is a spear-exclusive enchantment that is going to make this new weapon even more impressive. It makes the player move forward at pace to increase the attack power of the spear. But this comes at a price; players will lose their hunger points and get exhausted in exchange for the boost in attack power.

This is great because while it makes combat more fun, it also prevents any overpowering of a weapon. Players need to balance things out to get the most out of this enchantment. And those were the five most underrated features of the upcoming Mounts of Mayhem update.