Heart Cracker is a Legendary enchant for Diamond Sword swords and axes. When you hit another player, it has a chance to remove some of the absorption hearts they have left.
How to get it#
Heart Cracker comes from the Legendary rune. A Legendary rune costs 200,000 XP in the enchant shop and turns into an enchanted book with one of the 31 Legendary enchants in Survival, picked at random, so each rune has a 1 in 31 chance of being Heart Cracker. See Runes for how the level and the success chance of a rune book are rolled. Heart Cracker is also one of the possible rewards in crates (Crates).
Effect#
Absorption is the extra yellow hearts that golden apples give. After each hit on another player with the enchanted weapon in your main hand, Heart Cracker rolls its chance, which is 25% per level. On a success it removes 1 point of the target's absorption, which is half of one absorption heart. The removal comes on top of the damage the hit already did, and it cannot take absorption below zero.
If the target has no absorption left, nothing happens. Hits on mobs do not trigger it.
Levels#
| Level | Chance per hit | Absorption removed |
|---|---|---|
| I | 25% | 1 point (half a heart) |
| II | 50% | 1 point (half a heart) |
| III | 75% | 1 point (half a heart) |
| IV | 100% | 1 point (half a heart) |
Notes and tips#
- At level IV the chance is 100%, so every hit on a player removes half an absorption heart.
- It does not damage health. It only wears down the extra absorption hearts a target has, for example from a golden apple.
- There is no cooldown between procs.