What do you need to craft a mace in Minecraft?

One breeze rod and one heavy core. Place the heavy core directly above the breeze rod in any crafting grid, including the 2x2 grid in your inventory.

Where do you find a heavy core in Minecraft?

Heavy cores only come from ominous vaults inside trial chambers, with roughly a 7.5% chance per vault. You open them with ominous trial keys earned by completing ominous trials.

Can the mace really one-shot the Warden?

Yes. Mace damage scales with falling distance and has no cap, so a fall of over 200 blocks — or around 100 blocks with Density V — can kill a Warden in a single landed hit. Landing the hit also negates your own fall damage.

How do you repair a mace?

On an anvil, each breeze rod restores 25% of the mace's durability. With the Mending enchantment, collected XP repairs it automatically while you hold it.

How to Make a Mace in Minecraft

The mace is the strangest weapon Minecraft has ever added. A sword does the same damage swung from a cliff as it does on flat ground; a mace hit gets stronger the longer you fall before it connects, with no upper limit. Crafting one is simple. Getting the two ingredients is the real adventure, because both live inside trial chambers.

What You Need to Craft a Mace

1 breeze rod — dropped by Breezes in trial chambers
1 heavy core — rare loot from ominous vaults in trial chambers

Getting a Breeze Rod

Breezes are the trial chambers' signature mob, spawning from trial spawners in specific rooms. They glide around firing wind charges that knock you about, but they're not especially tanky. Each kill drops up to two breeze rods by default, and with a Looting III sword that can climb as high as eight. Rod supply is rarely the bottleneck — a single chamber with a Breeze spawner usually covers you, and keeping spare rods matters later because they're also the mace's repair material.

Getting a Heavy Core

The heavy core is where the grind lives. It only comes from ominous vaults — the darker, skull-faced vault blocks that need an ominous trial key instead of a regular one. To earn those keys, drink an ominous bottle to gain the Trial Omen effect, then approach a normal trial spawner to upgrade the encounter into a harder ominous trial. Survive it, and the spawner ejects an ominous trial key.

Each ominous vault you open has roughly a 7.5% chance of ejecting a heavy core. The maths is unforgiving: plenty of players clear two or three entire trial chambers before one drops. Bring your best gear, because ominous trials stack debuffs and spawn tougher, better-armoured mobs — but the vaults also pay out enchanted gear, emeralds and Wind Burst books, so the trips are rarely wasted.

The Mace Crafting Recipe

Once you have both pieces, the recipe couldn't be simpler:

Open your inventory crafting grid (or a crafting table — both work).
Place the breeze rod in a bottom slot.
Place the heavy core directly above the breeze rod.
Take the mace from the result slot.

How the Mace's Smash Attack Works

The mace deals 6 base damage, but fall for more than 1.5 blocks before landing a hit and the bonus kicks in: the first 3 blocks of falling add 2 hearts of damage each, the next 5 blocks add 1 heart each, and every block after that adds half a heart — with no cap. Land the hit and something wonderful happens: your fall damage is completely negated, and the impact releases a shockwave that knocks back nearby mobs. Miss, and you take the full fall yourself, which keeps every dive honest.

Wind charges are the mace's best friend. Throw one at your feet to launch yourself upward, then swing on the way down — the classic trial-chamber combo, and the easiest way to rack up falling distance without building a tower.

Repairing the Mace

The mace has 500 durability. On an anvil, each breeze rod restores 25% of it, which is the practical mid-game repair route. Long term, put Mending on it and the problem mostly disappears — XP you collect while holding the mace feeds straight back into its durability.