Wither is a Rare enchant for Diamond Sword swords. When you hit another player, it has a 10% chance to give them the Wither I effect for a short time.
How to get it#
Wither comes from the Rare rune. A Rare rune costs 100,000 XP in the enchant shop and turns into an enchanted book with one of the 11 Rare enchants in Survival, picked at random, so each rune has a 1 in 11 chance of being Wither. See Runes for how the level and the success chance of a rune book are rolled. Wither is also one of the possible rewards in crates (Crates).
Effect#
After each hit on another player with the enchanted sword in your main hand, Wither rolls a 10% chance. On a success the target gets Wither I for 1 second. The enchant has a single level, so the chance and the duration are fixed.
Hits on mobs do not trigger it, and there is no cooldown between procs.
Notes and tips#
- Wither fits swords only, not axes.
- The effect is short, so it is mostly useful for the extra pressure on a target that is already low.