How to Use Cushioning, Sand Strider, and Windshear

Several movement and utility effects change how you cross rough biomes, survive steep drops, and use flight during combat. Setting these up requires applying the matching enchantments to your ranged weapon, boots, and Elytra.

Preventing Fall Damage and Crossing Deserts

1. Create a safe landing with Cushioning: Apply Cushioning to your bow or crossbow. Before jumping down a ravine, cliff, or tall tower, aim at the block where you want to land and shoot an arrow into it. Jump directly onto that struck spot to stop fall damage.

2. Move faster on sand with Sand Strider: Put Sand Strider on your boots to walk much faster across sand blocks. Because walking on sand with this effect slowly breaks your boots, watch your durability bar on long desert trips and step onto non-sand blocks when standing still, or pair the boots with Unbreaking and Mending.

Attacking Enemies with Your Elytra

1. Enchant your wings: Combine an Elytra with a Windshear book at an anvil.

2. Execute high-speed flybys: Glide down from high ground or boost yourself with firework rockets to build momentum. Fly straight past hostile mobs at high speeds—Windshear turns your glide into an attack that damages enemies as you pass them without forcing you to land.