How to Combine Piercing and Multishot on a Crossbow

Gathering Your Gear

In standard gameplay, Piercing and Multishot cannot be placed on the same crossbow. Crossbow Enchants removes this restriction, allowing you to shoot multi-arrow spreads that also pass through multiple entities.

To begin, obtain:

• A crossbow
• An enchanted book with Piercing
• An enchanted book with Multishot
• An anvil and sufficient experience levels

Alternatively, you can merge two crossbows if each already has one of the target enchantments.

Combining at an Anvil

1. Place your anvil on the ground and right-click to open its interface.

2. Place your crossbow into the far-left slot.

3. Place the enchanted book (or the second crossbow) into the middle slot.

4. Take the merged weapon from the output slot on the right, spending the required experience levels.

5. Repeat the process with the remaining enchantment if you started with an unenchanted base weapon.

Once completed, your crossbow will fire three projectiles at once while retaining the ability to pierce through hostile mobs and shields.