If you want wider crowd control against groups of mobs, you can enchant your cooking knives with Multishot to turn a single throw into a three-blade spread.
Applying and Firing Multishot
1. Place your cooking knife and a Multishot enchanted book into an Anvil (or enchant the knife directly if available) to apply the enchantment.
2. Equip the enchanted knife in your main hand or offhand.
3. Hold Right-Click to aim toward a cluster of hostile mobs, then release Right-Click to throw.
Instead of throwing a single projectile, you will launch three knives simultaneously in a horizontal spread—one traveling dead center toward your crosshair and two flanking blades angled slightly to the left and right. This only consumes the single knife in your hand, and each projectile deals full melee weapon damage on impact.
Recovering Multishot Knives
Because two of the three blades are temporary duplicates created by the enchantment, you cannot farm extra weapons from a throw:
- Only the center knife is recoverable after the throw lands.
- Walk over the center blade to return it to its original inventory or offhand slot, or combine the setup with Loyalty if supported so the primary knife flies back to you automatically while the side projectiles vanish.