[2019] A few questions about combat

Ah, no, there's no info. I'll add some info the the description of items for when holding shift. Cleave is just a direct melee attack that deals quite a bit of damage in close combat.

Regarding the Ancient not attacking, I'll test that out. Sounds like a bug. You should be able to use tools for combat but it counts as an 'inefficient attack' dealing significantly less damage.

Are you folks on the new version (in the beta branch)? There's a bug on versions older than 0.8.11.0 where you cannot attack with tools.