A couple of things you missed. First, using the axe as a weapon uses twice the durability in combat. Second, and this is a big one, you can have multiple crossbows on your hotbar, pre-charged, and use them in quick succession, giving more damage per second than any other weapon hands down. You showed this in effect at the end of the video, but I imagine a lot of people didn't realize what was happening.

7:26 on java impaling doesn't affect drowneds since they are undead mobs not aquatic, this make the java trident only useful on turtles and (elder)guardians However in bedrock, tridents are wayyy more effective since mobs under rain will take damage from impaling, so you basically one hit every regular overworld mobs

One thing I like about the crossbow is being able to effectively fire from cover. With the bow, you're exposed when you draw it back as your movement is slowed down, making it harder to fire from cover. A loaded crossbow doesn't inhibit your movement allowing you fire while on the move. Plus, quick charge mitigates the disadvantage of long loading time, allowing you to fire rapidly while putting out full power shots.

You forgot to say how a crossbow with a piercing enchant gives you infinity arrows, including Tipped arrows. Making it useful for villager curing, or whatever other uses you might have for tipped arrows. Shoot a piercing enchanted crossbow with a weakness tipped arrow at the zombie villager, then give it a golden apple, and finally retrieve back the arrow wherever it landed, thus 1 arrow of weakness that can be used forever for all your curing villager needs. No more having to constantly brew potion of weakness!

Using a riptide trident in the rain with an elytra lets you go insanely fast, I think it might even be the fastest method of transport in the game. It's also a good idea to leave puddles (blocks of water with waterlogged chests) around you base as a way to use riptide anytime instead of walking around or using an elytra and fireworks

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My favourite weapon is a bow, I defeated a whole raid on hard mode just using the bow and specially without taking damage.

You forgot to include the fact that piercing crossbows go through shields, so they're good for pvp

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My favorite weapon is the crossbow but I'd like to see more enchantments like flame on it rather than just piercing, multishot and quick charge.

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I did something different on my most recent survival world and went for two tridents. The versatility of them is underrated, and as a Bedrock player the impaling dmg is insane. Definitely my favorite weapon

The damage of the bow is dependent on the speed of the arrow. If you shoot an arrow while speed flying with an elytra, you can deal insane amounts of damage

This man has the best content, unlike other KZfaqrs, this guy's content is straightforward, short, thorough, detailed, and just amazing. Keep it up!

Riptide is very effective for leaping out of water as a mix-up or travel method. I put a Riptide trident in my main hand to leap out of the water, and a Loyalty trident in my offhand to snipe enemies from above. When it’s raining, you can dash repeatedly with Riptide instead.

1 thing that I think you forgot to mention or because it is an obscure mechanic is that bows with power enchantment their arrows fly faster and have longer range because arrow damage code is based on velocity so a more powerful bow can be insane

you should explain the firework crossbows in more detail. there are different crafting recipes for different types of pvp firework rockets. the rocket that does the most damage is crafted with 7 firework stars, 1 sugarcane and 1 gunpowder. conversely a rocket crafted with only 1 star instead of 7 does the least damage. additionally, i craft firework stars with 7 different coloured dyes, 1 fire charge and 1 gunpowder in order to create the most effective smokescreen to blind players who have their particles turned on. the fire charge creates a "large ball" firework star which increases the AoE damage and the animation radius edit: you already have a video on this here at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bOCZhtSer965Zqc.html but you did not mention it in the video or link it in the description as of 3 hours after this video released

A neat thing about the Tridents, Impaling works on mobs that are in rain as well- it can easily outdamage a Sharpness V Netherite Sword by a long shot with that.

15:00 I didn't know the witches nose moves when they drink a potion! That's pretty cool!

Are we going to ignore the multishot giga firework combo? That is the best combat weapon in the game imo.

Also one benefit I've noticed with piercing is if you don't hit the maximum number of mobs the arrow will hit the ground allowing you to pick it up. It's nice if you're low on arrows.

the best item is clearly the bucket, It can cure debuffs, Prevent fall damage, Carry pets and hold lava for burning pvp use.

Excellant clarification of each weapons possible damage & best use. Solves a lot of my indecisiveness. I always start a world with a stone sword, but like the bow best early game. I can get a power 5, unbreaking, mending or infinity, & usually flame pretty quick thru fishing. I also like defeating witches, creepers, & trident wielding drowned from a distance. Thank you for noting the differences between java & bedrock, it helps a lot.

Straightforward and effective info, as always. Bravo!

great video! it would be helpful to see a visual comparison of the numeric damage values for each weapon, perhaps as a table at the end of the video. keep up the good work!

one thing you also forgot to mention was that, if its thundering with a riptide trident you can fly with the elytra and use riptide to boost your speed to absurd amounts and move faster then creative flying and a elytra with firework rockets.

Thank you for your videos, they're so helpful!!

Im really glad to have those extensive guides and lots of contributions in the comments whenever i want to learn somethig new about minecraft i don't like relying on the wiki ever since got taken over by Fandom

Seeing all of your guides makes me want to switch to Java version. I wasn't aware of all of the differences, as when I started playing bedrock I hadn't played minecraft since the year following it leaving beta. To be fair, I do have the option to do so, I just like to play minecraft in the same room as my partner, and it's easier for one of us to be on TV/console instead of dragging my computer out. Also I have very small hands, keyboard controls hurt and fatigue my hands in a way controllers don't. I'll work something out eventually, but in the meantime? Over here having Java envy. Your guides are still great!

I love how you go in so much detail in all your videos and you cover literally any topic in Minecraft. You are honestly a legend.

Really nice guide! I appreciate how you to over the enchantments and stuff! However! The combination of the flat tone and electric/retro sounding music has a special way of making me on edge and unsettled! Keep up the goodwork!

I love your videos, you made me know all of this in minecraft

My fav is easily the Axe followed by the Bow. The thought of bashing someone's head with an axe is extremely appealing, but the fact that it's also an axe and you can cut wood with it is such a huge utility that I appreciate in my long distance adventures where inventory space is a luxury. Add this with early-mid game where 2 hits is enough to kill the average mob, and it's just perfect

One tip, you can use a book with Looting III on a bow and it works. I keep all my Looting books just for bows, because you can get Looting on a sword normally. Just make sure you don't have Flame on your bow, because if the mob gets killed by the fire it won't drop more loot. The arrow needs to kill the mob for more loot. Very good for farming all sorts of things, especially in the Nether for Whither skulls and Ghast tears you can farm them from distance.

This just proved something, Minecraft needs to add more weapon types, enchantments, and weaponize tools, imagine a weapon fishing rod that doesn’t reduce much durability does weak damage but can pull you in completely from 20 blocks away or have a enchantment that gives it a 5% chance of disarming a mobs item or players. Imagine a war hammer than stuns enemies and does more damage to hard skin mobs like skeletons wither and wither skeletons, maybe even has a leaping attack that does AOE. Daggers would be nice and cheap as a early game weapon, super fast attack speed and recovery, a throwable enchantment and a speed boost enchantment, making it a nice running away weapon. A colossal sword or great sword that is slow in recovery and attack speed but packs a huge damage punch. Enchantment should only be one and it should basically do it’s regular damage plus 5% of the remaining health to mobs, basically a boss farming sword for those tanky bosses. A katana would be nice too, with the introduction of cherry blossom trees, a katana should have the same stats as a sword, but different enchantments, one should be swift attacks which hit 3 times rapidly and knocks back the target on the last hit, and the other should be quick draw slash which if you press and hold, then click, you dash forward around 10 blocks and damage whatever behind you in a linear line. Lastly, some staffs with spells firing like the evoker teeth, some ghast charges, wither skulls, blaze rods, summoning minions, making 4x4 walls In front, explosions around you, inflicting blindness poison and starvation, etc.

Thanks for this guide:)

Bow is juicy but the trident is the best. It's so unique and badass

I got crazy amount of use from Riptide trident with elytra.

thank you so much, this is great stuff to know

Really helpful guide’s thanks 👍

I usually put smite on the sword and sharpness on the axe, its just a lot better for things like xp farms and the axe sharpness helps with pvp and that sort of stuff

Hey eyecraft, on bedrock you can pick up arrows fired from a infinity bow. They won't be actually added to your inventory though.

Bro your guides saved me & helped me with my problems & i learned more about the trident thanks so much

This tutorial is amazing , I'm definitively subing you are amazing !

I didn't know efficiency on axes can increase the chances of disabling a shield!! 🙏

Its so frustrating that tridents cant have normal melee enchantments like the sword can. I think its ridiculous that a tool can have sharpness but weapon cant

Another great vid!

Love your channel !

I like how you have started to show more information about bedrock edition too

The crossbow is my favorite weapon in the game, and was the main factor in me switching from the X-BOX 360 to the PS4. Mojang decided to stop upgrading the 360 version after 1.13.

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So so so very helpful thanks another for the vids

the combo with bow and axe is just too op

I not sure if it's the same, since I havemt fished for a while, but you used to be able to fish a bow up with both Mending and Infinity. I swear I remember before I started building fishing farms I fished one out with a God Rod, but I also remember it having every single enchantment including Curse of Vanishing, which promptly vanished when I died.

i really needed this thanks

this is really well edited I enjoyed this video very informative :DD

You get bows from skeletons and strays as drops too. Also impaling on java edition doesn't work on dronwed as they are undead mobs not aquatic.

The impaling enchantement work on every mob under rain too

My favorite weapon is def arrows! I like doing long-range attacks. Also I think I recall you can pick up arrows on Bedrock even if you had the infinity enchantment.

You can also is a chance to get tipped arrows of decay in Bedrock Edition from Max Level Fletchers which is the tipped arrow equivalent of wither effect and you can get tipped arrows of damage if while holding 16 arrows tap/left click/left trigger in a cauldron with damage potions in it. To put the damage potion it the cauldron just left click/tap/left trigger with the damage potion in your hands.

This dude is single handedly carrying me since I started playing minecraft for the first time a week ago, had to Sub instantly. Keep up the amazing guides man 👍

Swords/Axes are my favorite, since I am not the great at doing long range shots with the Bow. Though I usually carry both a Sword or Axe and Bow or Crossbow in my inventory of at all times. Also if mojang was to add a new weapon to minecraft vanilla, what would it be? For me it would probably be a mace/chain mace.

Nice 👌 great content as always

best way explained, thx brother

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Axes are now the most op weapon in bedrock pvp because it can be spammed on shields and have no cooldown. It still does 1 less damage then the sword though

Finished my netherite God Sword today: Unbreaking III Sharpness V Looting III Knockback II Fire Aspect II Mending Love your videos! ❤️

You consistently make fantastic guides. Thank you for the statistics you provide. It makes the game more enjoyable!

the sword vs axe thing is pretty funny. axe got more instant damages, sword got way more dps. yet, in practice, you don't get the full benefit of attack speed in messy fights so axes tends to be slightly better. sweeping edge sword is still a godsend for what it does, having some aoe bring your total damage output way up, it's also a nice utility for basic exp farms were you have to kill or finish the monsters yourself.

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Thx for info!!!

This information is super useful. Knowing that I’m using the best weapon is just a confidence booster in my hardcore world

Bows have always been the most useful, safe, versatile weapon. Kill from safety, support allies, weaken enemies with tipped arrows. Getting an enchanted bow with Mending and Infinity is the first thing I focus on in my world, even before diamonds.

I like the trident, I like how it’s close and far range and how you can charge creepers, making it easy to get mob heads and in bedrock, wither skeleton skulls when strays die from an charged creeper. And oh yeah the channeling and riptide is op.

It’s also worth mentioning that if you’re using a riptide trident in the rain, you can use is as a substitute for rockets when using an elytra. This makes it possible to do air-striking attacks.

It seems like the bedrock firework crossbow does not work the same. It doesnt seem to work like an impact detonation. Instead it seems to want to go the full flight duration

This is video is very very useful because it looks like tutorial and actually an enchantment guide very useful and nice video 👍

My favourite weapon is the Crossbow. It can be fully charged in preparation for a fight long before it is needed, and if you fill up your hotbar with them, can be used to create a "machine gun" of sorts.

This was so useful and interesting

In general: Crossbow:5 Axe:4 Trident:3 Bow:2 Sword:1 I get around perfectly with a bow and a sword in my hotbar

impaling also effects mobs in the rain on Bedrock

The thing i love the most about the crossbow is that it's very efficient. If you have piercing IV and you only shoot through 1-4 mobs, the arrow actually does not disappear and you can pick it back up, essentially having unlimited arrows unless you line up like 5+ mobs for the shot.

I almost forgot to mention. I have a crossbow with piercing IV and multi shot so I have options. Also regarding tridents I have both Riptide and loyalty III so again i can choose what i want but i always go for the Loyalty. I feel like Thor using it especially since it also has channeling. I just wish you didn't have to wait on a thunderstorm for it to work. It should work anytime theres rain

I hate myself 😭😭😭

Actually, about impaling on the trident: it doesn’t work on drowned, as they are classified as undead

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One effect tactic i do when using the crossbow is placing down cob webs in front of me as i move back when mobs are chasing or following to attack. Then fire a couple fireworks at em as there slowed down by the webs( i do this tactic mainly as they don't Explode on contact for me. If the mob doesn't notice me i fire a couple fireworks at them at a distance) I always keep keep sheers with mending to pick em up after and a sword for close encounters or to get Experience to repair any tools, weapons, armor with mending on. Helps alot luckily for me i can get a lot of dyes and other materials to make as many fireworks for ammo and. some other farms for other resources to make em. Funny thing is ever since i made a firework resource farms in a village i found with walls surrounding. The village i been getting more pillager patrols around that area. Its a bit worrying honestly😅

Hey, i think you forgot that if you kill skeleton, there's small chance to get bow, also thanks for guides!

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You’re the f ing best thx u 💪🏽

After watching a couple your videos you made me pick up playing Minecraft again! I haven't played this game in a while and your videos helped me get up to speed. I miss how chill this game is compared to other brain numbing games.

Thanks

I really Appreciate the time you take out of your day to make this for us for that reason you brought me back to play Minecraft

Yo! Again, thank you for sharing a knowledge about minecraft so informative video! my favourite weapon is Trident! ♥️👍

I really really really really want to sweep edge. I mean its so cool! Hopefully this next update adding trial chambers will do that and update the combat

if you use tipped arrows on a piercing trident, the arrow goes through the mob and you can pick them back up afterwards, allowing you to basically get infinite tipped arrows as long as you retrieve them afterwards

The video delivered what the title promised, maybe a detail was missing here and there but it really was a great tutorial for those who are starting and for me that I've been playing for a long time too.

Tridents impaling also works when mobs are in rain on bedrock along side riptide working in rain on both versions ,subbing for fireworks with elytra

I was playing this video in the background and the trident segment reminded me to go get that drowned under my air base and I got the trident on java :)