What Does PIERCING Enchantment Do in Minecraft?

So the piercing enchantment in minecraft what does it do well let’s show you so piercing is a crossbow enchantment and you can get it from using an enchanting station so let’s go ahead and just you know put one down here let’s try to be as quick as we can here ah quick quick

Quick quick i wanted this fast oh too high we’ll upgrade it all the way and then you need left piece lazuli great and then you put your crossbow there and you’re going to enchant it and i don’t see piercing did you get it no well just try it over and over again

I guess until you get it or you can trade with villagers and get one that will trade you a piercing enchantment so we’re just going to assume that in survival you got it i’m in creative right now i’m going to go ahead and just put piercing on it piercing 4 is the highest

You can get let’s go ahead and put this on an anvil okay so we’ve got piercing right but what does it do well quit quite simply um it allows your arrow to pass through more than just one mob so let’s see if we can do this with skeletons

And oh a fence is a good idea this is a good way to test it let’s get one regular crossbows you can see what it looks like when i’m not using it okay oh see it only hit one right but when i use piercing look at that it went through and hit a

Bunch of them so it pierces through mobs but it also pierces through shields as well um i’m i think the higher the piercing the more it pierces through shield the more damage it does so piercing 4 obviously is really good against people wearing shields so that’s where piercing really comes in advantage if

It’s like pvp you’re fighting other people yeah piercing against their shield is great it’s pretty cool there’s two um enchantments that affect the way it flies in the air there’s piercing and there’s multi-shot multi-shot fires three but it fires in kind of a spread shot so it fire to my

Left right in the center so if you have a bunch spread out you can use multi-shot if you have a bunch in line then use piercing which one i prefer uh for the most part i prefer piercing but multi shots pretty cool too Really it’s just fun to use anytime you have a bunch and they’re just like all next to each other that’s the time you want to use piercing like suppose you have like a dropper a mob drop or something but you have it so that it doesn’t kill them when it

Drops only almost kills them and there’s like a bunch in one spot then that’s where piercing really gets useful should we try it let’s uh let’s actually like this this is really cool okay okay so i have like 20 in there right holy cow look how many Just like killing tons of them at once Yeah well i just picked up yeah piercing is cool i love it and really that’s all it does it’s pretty cool isn’t it piercing yeah well i’m gonna shoot you Huh you