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Bane of Arthropods Minecraft

What Does Bane of Arthropods Do in Minecraft? – Answered

For all those times you wanted sharpness and got this instead

For anyone looking to become as powerful as possible in Minecraft, you’ll need a few things: good equipment, strong enchantments and some potions. While potion-making is an entirely different challenge, enchanting your tools and armor only requires an enchanting table, experience and decent luck. One enchantment you may be familiar with is bane of arthropods, which, although not quite as helpful as sharpness, can still help you in specific situations. If you’re interested in learning more, continue reading to find a comprehensive guide to how Minecraft’s bane of arthropods enchantment works.

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What Does the Bane of Arthropods Enchantment Do in Minecraft?

Bane of arthropods is a sword and axe enchantment in Minecraft that increases your damage against spiders, silverfish and endermites. The damage multiplier is much stronger than sharpness, but it doesn’t work on other players or monsters like zombies, skeletons or creepers. The damage boost only applies to arthropod enemies! Bane of arthropods also temporarily slows on hit, allowing you to escape from the fight if you need to.

Bane of arthropods comes in various levels from one to five. The higher it is, the more bonus damage you’ll do to arthropod enemies. While an EXP level of one provides low odds of giving you bane of arthropods level one, an EXP level of 30 has a high chance of giving bane of arthropods level four and, rarely, level five.

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Unlike certain treasure enchantments like mending, you can get bane of arthropods through an enchanting table. While enchanted books from chests and librarian village may also spawn this, you can use an enchanting table to get bane of arthropods on a sword or axe. However, you can’t get this enchantment alongside sharpness, cleaving or smite unless you use cheat commands.

Minecraft is available on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and mobile devices through the official website. For more information about the game, check out How to Breed Axolotls in Minecraft and Best Ways to Get the Mending Enchantment in Minecraft.


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Madison Benson
Madison was a staff writer at Prima Games who has played video games for over twenty years and written about them for over two years. Her love for video games started with turn-based strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic and has since extended to casual farming sims, MMORPGs, and action-adventure RPGs.