How to Craft Mace in Minecraft
The Mace is a powerful weapon that deals extra damage based on fall distance. Landing a hit while falling negates fall damage entirely. It has 500 durability.
Overview
The Mace is a powerful weapon that deals extra damage based on fall distance. Landing a hit while falling negates fall damage entirely. It has 500 durability. Mace uses a shaped recipe, meaning the ingredients must sit in the exact pattern shown in the grid above; placing them in the wrong cells will not produce the item. A Crafting Table gives you the full 3x3 grid, which you need for any recipe larger than 2x2. You can craft one from four planks, and most bases keep one near the furnaces.
The recipe was added in Minecraft 1.21 and still works the same way in version 1.21. Each craft yields a single Mace.
The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with heavy core (found in ominous trial vaults) and breeze rod (dropped by breezes). If any of those are not already in your stores, gather them first, because the craft itself takes only a moment once everything is in the grid. With the ingredients on hand and a Crafting Table placed, Mace is one of the quicker things to add to your inventory.
Crafting Recipe
MaceMaterials Needed
To make Mace you will gather Heavy Core (found in ominous trial vaults) and Breeze Rod (dropped by breezes). Lining these up before you open the Crafting Table saves a trip back to storage, especially if you plan to craft several at once.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Open your Crafting Table to access the 3x3 crafting grid.
- Arrange the ingredients in the crafting grid following the pattern shown above.
- Place Heavy Core in: row 1, column 2.
- Place Breeze Rod in: row 2, column 2.
- Collect your Mace from the output slot.
Tips & Notes
- If the output slot stays empty, double-check the pattern against the grid above; a shaped recipe fails silently when even one ingredient is in the wrong cell.
Uses for Mace
- Melee combat with smash attack
- Deals more damage the further you fall
- Negates fall damage on hit
How Mace Fits Your World
Weapons in 1.21 cover both melee and ranged combat. Swords apply a sweeping attack to nearby mobs and benefit from Sharpness and Looting, while bows and crossbows let you fire from a safe distance, and the new mace deals damage that scales with how far you fall onto a target. Choosing the right weapon for a fight is often the difference between trading blows and ending it in one hit. For Mace specifically, that means it is most valuable for melee combat with smash attack, deals more damage the further you fall, and negates fall damage on hit.
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Mace on the Astroworld Items Database.