Combat

Combat is one of the most basic components of any FPS video game, including minecraft. However, it's also one of the more conplex parts of the game. Read on to learn some new methods to PvE and PvP.

PvE
Player vs environment is what you experince in single player. This refers to fighting mobs, or mobiles. Basically, any entity that that you can kill is a mob. There are many methods to fighting mobs, and the methods differ depending on the mob you are trying to kill.

Zombies
Let's start basic-zombies. Zombies are the most basic hostile mob in the game, as they have no advanced attacks. A zombie will spawn in light level of 7 or less, and not on a transparent block. Zombies attack by simply hitting the player. This causes them to be ineffective unless in large numbers, as they must be extreamly close to the player in order to do them damage. However, they become much more dangerous when they spawn with, or pick up swords from the ground. They will do normal sword damage, so be careful!

Killing zombies is quite easy. Just a stone sword will kill a zombie in 5 hits, while a diamond will do it in 3. Using crits, a zombie can be killed 3 hits from stone, 2 from iron or diamond. With any sword, you can easily fight up to 5 zombies at once by hitting them in order of closest to farthest while slowly backing up. More then five and you may want an enchanted sword with knockback to help you out.

Spiders
Soon to come!