Minecraft Wiki

The Minecraft Wiki has moved from Fandom; see the linked discussion page for details.

READ MORE

Minecraft Wiki
Advertisement
For the enchantment in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Punch. For the mining activity sometimes called punching, see Breaking.
Dark Oak Sapling
This article is a stub. 
You can help by expanding it.

Punch is an enchantment for a bow that increases an arrow's knockback, much like the Knockback enchantment for melee weapons. This does not increase the damage of the bow.

Usage

For each level, Punch adds around 3 blocks of distance to the base knockback. The effect caps at 255, if commands are used.

Amount of knockback(in blocks) done by a bow:
Block the target is standing on Block without any special properties Soul sand Ice Packed ice Blue ice
No enchantment 1.985 0.894 4.053 4.053 4.2
Punch l 5.492 2.532 10.342 11.344 10.647
Punch ll 8.792 4.051 16.558 16.563 17.038

Punch doesn't affect arrows shot from crossbows if applied using commands or an anvil in Creative mode.[1]

Obtaining

Both Punch l and Punch ll books can be obtained by fishing or by using an enchanting table.

Punch l bow can be obtained by trading with a expert fletcher while both Punch l and Punch ll bow can be obtained by fishing in treasure category or by using an enchanting table.

Skeleton can spawn with Punch l bow on normal or hard difficulty, when killed by a player or player owned wolf skeleton has 8.5%(+1% for each level of looting) chance of droping it. Skeleton's bow can also be obtained if skeleton picks up another item.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

NameIdentifierTranslation key
Punchpunchenchantment.minecraft.punch

Bedrock Edition:

NameIdentifierNumeric ID Translation key
Punchpunch20enchantment.arrowKnockback

History

Java Edition
1.1releaseAdded Punch.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1build 1Added Punch.

Trivia

Issues

Issues relating to "Punch" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

See also

  1. MC-137495 — resolved as "Invalid".
Advertisement