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Minecraft's new spear just keeps getting deadlier, and its second buff in a week is making me a little scared

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A new Minecraft update has just totally reworked the spear’s lunge attack to use hunger points, and buffed its damage for you and your foes.

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The Minecraft spear is an exciting addition, and it just got even more powerful thanks to some big balance changes from Mojang Studios. A new weapon isn’t something we get every day, and the Mounts of Mayhem inclusion is one that’s completely won my heart with its speed-based scaling and ability to close distances quickly. But balancing it has proved tough, and the second set of changes arriving in Minecraft snapshot 25w43a are even bigger than the first, and they make for exciting reading.

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22 October 2025, 3:14 pm

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Ken Allsop

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A new Minecraft update has just totally reworked the spear’s lunge attack to use hunger points, and buffed its damage for you and your foes.

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Read the full story on PCGamesN: Minecraft's new spear just keeps getting deadlier, and its second buff in a week is making me a little scared

content_text: The Minecraft spear is an exciting addition, and it just got even more powerful thanks to some big balance changes from Mojang Studios. A new weapon isn’t something we get every day, and the Mounts of Mayhem inclusion is one that’s completely won my heart with its speed-based scaling and ability to close distances quickly. But balancing it has proved tough, and the second set of changes arriving in Minecraft snapshot 25w43a are even bigger than the first, and they make for exciting reading. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Minecraft's new spear just keeps getting deadlier, and its second buff in a week is making me a little scared
pub_date: 22 October 2025, 3:14 pm
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