i used a bow around 5 times in an enchantment table and did not get a punch option once. i am missing 4 bookshelves from being fully powered. How do i get punch on my bow?
You risk the randomness of the enchanting table (there's no way to control this, as every attempt is randomized and only the first enchant in the attempt list is revealed pre-enchantment.)
If you don't get it on your weapon directly, you can also enchant books (again, everything is randomized with no real way to control it) and then when you finally get the enchant you wanted on a book you can take the book and the item to enchant to an anvil and put it on that way. This will cost xp based on the prior work penalty for that item and it will also increase said PWP so that the next anvil operation is more expensive.
If neither the enchanting table or the anvil is how you wish to progress (if so, you're really weird...), you could set up a skeleton-spawner or general mob xp grinder and sort through the endless random enchanted bows that skeletons sometimes drop. You could probably also go exploring dungeons (strongholds, nether fortresses, bastions, end cities) to see if you got lucky with the loot table RNG.
Or you could go fishing. I've gotten some decent bows from fishing. You could even make an AFK fishing spot... there's videos of how to do it on YouTube.
Yes, you can do a fishing farm unless you'are playing in the 1.16 snapshot, since they nerfed afk fishing in the way that with the previous designs you don't get any “treasure” category items.
My enchantment/anvil setup is right next to my high altitude mob grinder, which means I get a ton of bows from skeletons - so when trolling for specific enchantments, I typically enchant bows with top row (1 level cost) to 'reset' the table While most time it is power, I get punch quite a lot as well. Is is all about the 'sample size'. How many enchants have you attempted? Also, not working with a full 15-shelf setup is a waste of xp. Bookshelves are dead easy, you also very cheap to get off librarians.
i used a bow around 5 times in an enchantment table and did not get a punch option once. i am missing 4 bookshelves from being fully powered. How do i get punch on my bow?
You risk the randomness of the enchanting table (there's no way to control this, as every attempt is randomized and only the first enchant in the attempt list is revealed pre-enchantment.)
If you don't get it on your weapon directly, you can also enchant books (again, everything is randomized with no real way to control it) and then when you finally get the enchant you wanted on a book you can take the book and the item to enchant to an anvil and put it on that way. This will cost xp based on the prior work penalty for that item and it will also increase said PWP so that the next anvil operation is more expensive.
If neither the enchanting table or the anvil is how you wish to progress (if so, you're really weird...), you could set up a skeleton-spawner or general mob xp grinder and sort through the endless random enchanted bows that skeletons sometimes drop. You could probably also go exploring dungeons (strongholds, nether fortresses, bastions, end cities) to see if you got lucky with the loot table RNG.
Or you could go fishing. I've gotten some decent bows from fishing. You could even make an AFK fishing spot... there's videos of how to do it on YouTube.
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Yes, you can do a fishing farm unless you'are playing in the 1.16 snapshot, since they nerfed afk fishing in the way that with the previous designs you don't get any “treasure” category items.
My enchantment/anvil setup is right next to my high altitude mob grinder, which means I get a ton of bows from skeletons - so when trolling for specific enchantments, I typically enchant bows with top row (1 level cost) to 'reset' the table While most time it is power, I get punch quite a lot as well. Is is all about the 'sample size'. How many enchants have you attempted? Also, not working with a full 15-shelf setup is a waste of xp. Bookshelves are dead easy, you also very cheap to get off librarians.