5 Minecraft enchantments with hidden uses you probably didn't know

Minecraft has various enchantments that apply special magical abilities to tools, weapons, and armor parts. While players know about most enchantments, some power-ups have secret uses or features that many might not be aware of.

Here is a list of enchantments that have some lesser-known uses or features in Minecraft.

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List of 5 Minecraft enchantments with hidden features

1) Frost walker

Frost walker allows you to stand on campfires and magma blocks (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Frost walker is a treasure enchantment primarily used to walk on water since it freezes water blocks into temporary ice blocks. However, the enchantment also has the special ability to prevent you from getting burn damage from campfires and magma blocks.

This means, with frost walker boots, you can easily stand on campfires or magma blocks without taking damage. This is quite useful in certain situations.

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2) Impaling (BE only)

In Bedrock Edition, impaling increases a trident's damage even if a regular mob is in contact with water (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Impaling is a unique trident-exclusive enchantment that increases the weapon's damage power against aquatic mobs. In the Bedrock Edition, however, the impaling enchantment is even better since it not only increases a trident's damage power against aquatic mobs, but also increases damage for any entity that is in contact with water.

Hence, if land mobs are in a water body or are wet from the rain, the trident will deal more damage to them than usual.

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3) Piercing

Piercing arrows can be picked up after being shot at entities (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

When you usually use ranged weapons that shoot arrows, you never get the arrows back once they hit an entity. The arrows can only be picked up if you miss the shot and the arrow lands directly on a block.

The piercing enchantment allows you to pierce an arrow through multiple entities at once. Its hidden special feature is that you can pick up arrows being shot by that particular crossbow. This feature allows you to save arrows for more fights.

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4) Riptide

Riptide does not allow Trident to be thrown as a ranged weapon (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Riptide is one of the most interesting enchantments for the trident. Since the trident is a magical water-related weapon, riptide allows you to fly along with the weapon when you are in contact with water. This means that if you try to throw the trident in a certain direction, you will fly along with it if you are wet from the rain or are submerged in water.

What some of you might not know is that Ripdite enchantment removes the trident's ability to be used as a regular ranged weapon. Even if you are on land, you cannot use the weapon for ranged attacks. This is a unique hidden feature that most players discover while using the trident with riptide.

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5) Bane of Arthropods

Bane of Arthropods applies slowness to arthropod mobs (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || Mojang Studios)

Bane of Arthropods is not the most used enchantment in Minecraft since players usually prefer sharpness or sweeping edge over it. However, it is a great power-up if players solely focus on fighting spider spawners or silverfish in strongholds. Along with increasing damage power against arthropod mobs, the enchantment's hidden feature is that it also applies the slowness effect to these creatures.

Since spiders and silverfish mobs are quite fast, this status effect can be quite useful in fighting them.

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