How to Get the Piercing Enchantment in Minecraft? – WePC

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Last Updated: March 31st, 2022

The Piercing enchantment is one of the only enchantments specifically designed for arrows in Minecraft. You can apply this enchantment to crossbows, and it greatly increases the damage capabilities of your weapon. The piercing enchantment also has multiple levels and increases the number of objects you can pierce through as you level up.

How to Enchant your Weapon with the Piercing Enchantment?

Enchanting your crossbow with the Piercing Enchantment allows your arrows to pierce through multiple objects in a single blow. With this enchantment, arrows don’t get destroyed and can also be retrieved after use.

Add any crossbow to an Enchanting Table and use the Piercing Enchantment to enchant the item. You can also use an Anvil to achieve this, or a game command if you have enabled cheats. Your crossbow will initially be enchanted with Level 1, but you can level up to a Level 4 enchantment as you gain experience.

Keep in mind that the Piercing Enchantment is incompatible with the Multishot enchantment.

The Piercing enchantment also allows you to attack five unique mobs with your crossbow, thanks to the ‘Arbalistic’ feature.

How to Use the Piercing Enchantment in Minecraft?

Here’s how you can use the Piercing Enchantment:

Fight large mobs: The piercing enchantment comes in handy when playing Minecraft in the Hardcore mode since you can easily tackle large numbered mobs with fewer ‘Piercing’ arrows.
Pillager battles: Mobs aren’t the only enemies you can defeat with the piercing enchantment. Fighting Pillages is much easier when you use their own weapon (the crossbow) against them.
‘Two birds one arrow’: This achievement is unlocked when a player kills two Phantom with one arrow enchanted with ‘Piercing’.
Unlimited arrows: Ordinary arrows disappear once they’re fired, but you can actually retrieve arrows that are enchanted with Piercing. There are two benefits to this: you don’t have to keep enchanting arrows in the game, and you have a virtually unlimited supply of arrows.

Pierces through shields: Other Minecraft players have what most mobs lack – shields. That’s where the piercing enchantment comes in handy since these arrows can pierce through shields with ease.