Minecraft Piercing enchantment

Which items take Piercing

The table offers an enchantment only on its primary items; an anvil can add it to anything that can hold it. See every enchantment an item can hold in the max enchantments by item tool.

Conflicts

Piercing can’t share an item with Multishot. An anvil refuses the combination, and the table never offers them together.

Enchanting table odds

Chance that one offer in the bottom slot (level 30, 15 bookshelves) includes Piercing, on a crossbow and on a book.

Try other items, materials and bookshelf counts in the enchantment table calculator.

Power window per level

A table roll picks the highest level whose window contains the roll’s modified enchantment level. These are the registry’s min_cost and max_cost, not the level cost shown on the table.

Anvil cost

An anvil charges ×1 per level when Piercing comes from another item and ×1 per level when it comes from a book, so adding Piercing IV from a book costs 4 levels before any prior-work penalty. Work out a full combine in the anvil cost calculator.

Command

Hold the item in your main hand and run this with cheats on. /enchant refuses an item that can’t hold Piercing and any level above IV.