Bane of Anthropods

The enchantment itself has five power stages, which would increase the damage that players only deal with arthropod mobs by 1.25 hearts each enchantment stage. This suggests that from the spell alone, an axe with Bane of Arthropods V will do 6.25 additional hearts worth of damage to arthropods. Arthropod mobs that are hit by such a weapon with this enchantment will have Slowness IV added to them for a random time in addition to the extra damage. The length of the effect depends on the enchantment level.

The spell can slow the appropriate enemies by 1 to 1.5 seconds at level one. The result rises by 0.5 seconds per stage of maximum length, up to a maximum duration of 3.5 seconds at level five of the enchantment. Minecraft players should note the incompatibility of Bane of Arthropods with the enchantments of Sharpness and Smite. Just one of the three can be used by players since the result cannot be stacked on a single object. Using console commands will be the only way to make these enchantments activated simultaneously.

Swords

Axes

Q. Why is the bane of arthropods bad?

There are only a limited number of mob species in Minecraft that fulfil the criteria set by Mojang for the bane of arthropods to work on. Except for Spider the other arthropods are a rarer find. As for the spider, it is a relatively weak mob and can be destroyed in a single shot by a sharpness equipped sword. Therefore, the use case of the bane of arthropods cannot be justified in most scenarios.

Q. Is the bane of arthropods better than sharpness?

Sharpness deals extra damage to everything, whereas Smite deals more extra damage to only undead mobs. These include skeletons, zombies, withers, wither skeletons, zombie pigmen, skeleton horses and zombie horses. Bane of Arthropods does the same, but only for arthropods. These include spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, creepers and endermites. Although the damage inflicted by BoA items is greater, the species affected are limited which renders having such an enchantment applied to be useless.

Q. Can you get rid of the bane of arthropods?

Another option depends on which enchant you want to remove. If it's Smite, Bane of Arthropods, or Sharpness, you can replace them with each other as you can only have one at a time on a sword.