In this update, the focus is Enchantments! Bringing up many less than favorable ones, and setting back the few go-to's, in order to create a more balanced system, where the best choice is more about circumstance and how they're used, rather than what's the best all around.

The full feature showcase can be found here [Video not uploaded yet]

The Highlights:

Enchantments

• Protection only reduces the same damage that armor does
• Feather Falling can now provide maximum damage reduction
• Projectile and Blast Protection have been merged into Impact Protection, making it more desireable
• Magic Guard is a new enchantment, reducing damage from many magical sources, like potions, dragons breath, sonic boom, etc
• Thorns has been reworked, lowering its damage but increasing its activation rate, reducing the armor penalty, and removing the damage cap, so armor pieces stack instead of punishing you
• Frost Walker now works with jumping and swiming, so you can sprint jump and ice will form, and you can also use it to swim up and form a platform. Additionally it now freezes powder snow
• Fire Aspect and Flame have been merged together, and so have Knockback and Punch. This declutters a bit, since the ones merged together already do the exact same thing
• Bane of Arthropods has been replaced by Illager's Bane, changing its target to instead those pesky illagers and their buddies! This will make Raids a lot easier
• Impaling now instead deals extra damage to any mob in water or rain. Additionally, Loyalty Tridents will return from the void!
• Multishot lets each arrow hit seperately, so damage can be combined onto a single mob!
• Fire Affinity is a new sharp weapon enchantment, dealing damage to fire-based mobs (Blazes, Magma Cubes, Striders, and Ghasts), as well as any mobs that are on fire, letting you use environmental hazards to your advantage.
• Wings of Icarus is a new Elytra enchantment, letting you flap your wings to generate lift, giving more the faster you travel
• Finally, Mending has been nerfed, but there are now more ways to earn Experience

Equipment

• Changes to stats/durability (previous and current) now apply to all entities, so dropped loot and grabbed items in creative will the changed
• Shield durability has been reduced to 256, due to how cheap and powerful it is
• Fireworks now only boost the Elytra for half as long, encouraging seeking out the new enchantment (which allows the Elytra to be better with nerfed fireworks than without either)
• Using a Mace while flying with Elytra now deals velocity-based damage

Misc

• Changes and removal of some smelting recipes
• Some mob and chest loot has been changed
• Harvesting Crops now has a chance to reward experience, with a higher chance for Nether Wart and Chorus Plants
• You can now climb Iron Bars