Showing posts with label sneaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sneaking. Show all posts

Friday, November 11, 2011

Sneak damage modifier stacking

Question

  • Sneak attacks do 6x damage with one-handed weapons
  • Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage (end perk on skill tree)

A dagger is a one handed weapon, so does this mean either;

  1. Daggers just deal 15x damage
  2. Daggers deal (15x + 6x) 21x damage
  3. Daggers are op and deal (15x * 6x) 90x damage

Answer

Consider the text of the perk itself:

Sneak attacks with daggers do 15x damage

The perk is concise and to the point: Daggers do 15x damage. Not, "increased by 15%" or the like, just, "do 15x damage".

This holds up in game, where Daggers do 2.5 times the sneak attack damage of other one-handed weapons.

Friday, July 22, 2011

How do I toggle on and off sneak in Minecraft?

Question

How can you toggle between sneak and normal standing position? Its kind of annoying having to keep a button pressed while I try to build and move around to get a better view of what I am doing.

Answer

While you're holding Shift to sneak, press the Alt key once. This will return control to your mouse pointer, and when you click on the game window again, you will be permanently crouched until you press Shift again.

This only works in windowed mode - there is currently no way to toggle crouch in fullscreen. Notch has, however, expressed interest in adding sneak toggle capability.