The best Minecraft crossbow enchantments

There are multiple enchantments for you to utilize throughout your time in Minecraft. Not all of the enchantments and upgrades work on every weapon or tool. Like the crossbow, you only have a handful of choices to pick from when giving them an enchantment. In this guide, we cover the best crossbow enchantments in Minecraft.

The best Minecraft crossbow enchantments

Mending

The Mending enchantment is always good to ensure your crossbow doesn’t break on you. If you’re someone to forget your weapon’s durability quickly, the Mending enchantment helps, but you still want to check it every so often. Nevertheless, mending is a decent enchantment to have on your crossbow at the end of the day, and of the limited options, it’s a solid choice.

Multishot

The Multishot enchantment can be a little tricky. While it is helpful to fire three crossbow bolts at once, it increases the amount of durability you’re each time. However, it only requires one crossbow bolt for a single shot, even if you’re using three bolts. So the positives and negatives are there for this enchantment, but there are more positives if you’re battling against multiple smaller enemies, or you can get in close against a larger foe to hit them with all three bolts.

Piercing

The Piercing enchantment is exceptionally good with the crossbow. You’ll be able to hit through a single foe and go through that enemy to hit something behind them with the same bolt. It’s a good way to use a single shot, but the enemies you’re fighting will have to cluster together quite a bit. If they’re mostly staying away from each other, this enchantment can feel wasteful. Most of the common mobs cluster together, though. You can increase this enchantment four times.

Quick charge

The Quick Charge enchantment is likely the best enchantment you can give to your crossbow. The load time on this weapon takes a couple of seconds, giving your enemies plenty of time to get closer to you. Sometimes, you’re better off switching to a melee weapon than lining up a second crossbow shot. The Quick Charge enchantment decreases the load time by 0.25 seconds for each level, up to a maximum of three on a survival world.

Unbreaking

The final worthwhile enchantment to give a crossbow in Minecraft is Unbreaking. Every time you fire the weapon in a survival world, its durability decreases. With Unbreaking, there’s a chance that the item does not take any durability damage. If you’re worried about your crossbow breaking, this is a good one to have, but Mending is likely a better option. Thus, Unbreaking is probably the least helpful enchantment to give a crossbow.