Ferocity

is a damage stat that increases the chance of an attack triggering more than once.

The maximum number of hits per second with and  can be calculated using this calculator:

Mechanics
Each point of grants a +1% chance for an attack to strike twice. For example, with 50 it grants the player a 50% chance for their attack to hit twice.

strikes work on melee and arrow attacks, but not magic attacks.

If is greater than 100, then any number above that will give a chance to hit thrice, and so on. For example, with 250, it grants the user a 100% chance to strike 3 times, as well as another 50% chance to hit them 4 times instead.

The stat will not appear in the player's stats menu if they have 0 .

 does not activate or.

When attacking in the same tick as is supposed to activate, the strikes will not activate properly.

Increasing Ferocity
Note: The Tiger Pet gives up to +50% multiplicative and +25 additive.

Trivia

 * Killing an Enderman with a strike causes its death sound to not play.