Quote:This “manually installed Java snapshot” is the first experiment of the new direction of combat mechanics. It’s based upon the current Java Edition system, but with the following major changes:

• Overall much faster attacks
  
  
• Attacks only happen when fully charged, even if you spam click
  
  
• You can hold to attack
  
  
• Weapons have different reach (attack range)
  
  
• When you stop attacking, the attack timer will continue charging to 200%
  
  
• At 200% you can perform special attacks (crits, sweeping, knockback) and these attacks have longer reach
  
  
• Sweeping only occurs on swords with the Sweeping enchantment
  
  
• Critical attacks (jump attacks) bypass shields
  
  
• Shields have no warm-up delay
  
  
• Shields also activate when crouching/sneaking
  
  
• If you hit something, the target’s “invulnerability timer” will be shorter if you have a quick weapon
  

Installation instructions:

Finding the Minecraft application folder:

• Windows: Press Ctrl+R and type %appdata%/.minecraft and press Ok
  
  
• Mac OS X: In Finder, in the Go menu, select “Go to Folder” and enter ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft
  
  
• Linux: ~/.minecraft or /home/<your username>/.minecraft/
  

Once you have the launcher set up you can download the server files from there as well.