How to use Smite in Minecraft
Battling mobs is a big part of Minecraft if you decide to reach the end. It involves gathering all sorts of resources, many of which come from mobs that are difficult to kill. Players can use different grades of weapons to defeat mobs and they can use enchantments to make the best weapons more effective.
Smite in Minecraft
Smite is an enchantment in Minecraft that can be applied to weapons. Specifically, it can applied to a sword or to an axe. Other weapons e.g. crossbows and bow and arrow cannot be enchanted with Smite.
Smite will add more damage when a weapon with the enchantment is used to strike an ‘undead’ mob (all variations of Zombies, Skeletons, and Phantom).
In order to enchant a weapon, you need;
- An enchantment table
- The weapon you will enchant
- 3 Lazuli Lapis (found by mining underground at level 32)
Enchantment table
The most difficult item to obtain for crafting an enchantment table is diamonds. You will have to mine for them and you must use an iron or higher pickaxe. Diamonds are found below Y level 16.
Obsidian is easy to craft: pour a bucket of water on a source lava block. The tricky part is break the block once you have it. You need a diamond pickaxe for the job. In total, you need 5 diamonds (3 for the axe, and 2 for the table).
To craft a book, you need three paper and one leather skin. To get paper, you need sugar cane (naturally occurring). To get leather, you have to kill either a cow, horse, donkey, mule, or llamas. Cows are more likely to drop a hide and are more commonly found.
Craft the book by placing one paper in the first cell of the second, one paper in the second cell of the second row, and one paper in the first cell of the last row in the crafting table. Place the leather hide in the second cell of the third row. Collect the book.
To craft the enchantment table:
- Place the book in the second cell of the first row.
- Place a diamond in the first and last cell of the second row.
- Place an obsidian block in the second cell of the second row.
- Place an obsidian block in each cell of the third row.
- Collect the enchantment table.
Smite enchantment
Now that you have the enchantment table, the weapon, and the Lazuli Lapis, you can enchant the weapon.
- Place the Enchantment table.
- Click the table.
- Place the weapon in the block on the left.
- Place 3 Lazuli Lapis in the block on the right.
- Hover over the three enchantments that appear in the three rows.
- Select the Smite enchantment.
- Collect the weapon. It is not enchanted with Smite.
