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For the enchantment in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Piercing.

Piercing

Maximum level

IV

Primary items

Secondary items

None

Enchantment weight

10

Incompatible with

Multishot Piercing is an enchantment applied to a crossbow that causes arrows to pierce through entities.

Contents

  • 1 Usage
  • 2 Incompatibilities
  • 3 Advancements
  • 4 Data values
    • 4.1 ID
  • 5 History
  • 6 Issues

Usage[]

Arrows shot from a Piercing crossbow can pass through the number of entities equal to the enchantment level (for a total of level + 1 entities damaged). The shot arrows can still be retrieved after piercing a mob, allowing for infinite use of all arrow types, including spectral arrows and tipped arrows. Piercing ignores shields even when they are blocking. Arrows do not change direction upon piercing a mob, meaning they hit only mobs in the line of flight.

Piercing has no effect on firework rockets fired from a crossbow.

If commands are used to increase the enchantment level beyond 127, the piercing effect will stop working and will hit only one mob instead.

Incompatibilities[]

Piercing and Multishot are mutually exclusive. However, if combined using commands, both enchantments function as normal, with the two arrows added by the Multishot enchantment getting the effect as well.

Advancements[]

Icon Advancement In-game description Parent Actual requirements (if different) Resource location
Advancement-plain-rawInvicon Enchanted BookEnchanterEnchant an item at an Enchanting Table Diamonds!Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment.story/enchant_item
Advancement-fancy-rawTwo Birds, One ArrowKill two Phantoms with a piercing Arrow Ol' BetsyUse a crossbow enchanted with Piercing to kill two phantoms with a single arrow shot.adventure/two_birds_one_arrow
Advancement-fancy-rawArbalisticKill five unique mobs with one crossbow shot Ol' BetsyThis is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.adventure/arbalistic

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Piercingpiercingenchantment.minecraft.piercing

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Piercingpiercing34enchantment.crossbowPiercing

History[]

MINECON 2018
Minecon 2018Announced the Piercing enchantment as the "SUPER SECRET ENCHANTMENT".
Java Edition
1.1418w43aAdded Piercing enchantment.
Bedrock Edition
1.8.0beta 1.8.0.10Added Piercing enchantment.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Piercing" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Enchantments 

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