I have an idea for a new(ish) crossbow enchantment called "replenish". It has a chance to not consume arrows when firing them, but you can't pick up any of the arrows fired from a replenish crossbow, similar to arrows fired from an infinity bow or hostile mobs. This enchantment not only will work on normal arrows, but also tipped and spectral arrows to give crossbows more of an advantage on bows, whose infinity enchantment doesn't work on special arrows. Replenish would be stackable with multishot and piercing. Replenish 1 might have a 10% chance to not use an arrow, Replenish 2 might have a 25% chance, replenish 3 might have a 40% chance, and replenish 4 might have a 60% chance. These would be treasure enchantments, found in piglin bastions only. Since this is a pretty overpowered enchantment, it makes sense that it wouldn't be easily accessible.
I think this would be a good addition to the game because it just increases the viability of the crossbow without making it clearly better than the bow. Tipped arrow functionality is very interesting but many players never touch it, preferring an infinity bow with power V that can instantly kill most mobs. Other than the small 1.16 pvp community that use crossbows for the same function as fishing rods in 1.8, crossbows are rarely used because players need to remember to bring stacks upon stacks of arrows, and running out of arrows while in a dangerous situation (raiding a piglin bastion or an end city for example) is never fun.
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