Minecraft Crossbow PNG

The Crossbow exactly as it looks in the Minecraft 26.3 inventory, as a transparent PNG. It is the render of the item itself, not a loose texture: what you see in your hand and in chests. In the creative inventory it sits in the “Combat” tab.

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Sizes and quality

The Crossbow render is 128 × 128 pixels, the size the game draws the item at in the inventory. It scales up by whole numbers to 1024 px with no interpolation, so the edges stay sharp.

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Minecraft crossbow: loading it, rockets and enchantments

The crossbow is a ranged weapon you load in advance and that stays loaded until you fire. It is crafted from sticks, string, an iron ingot and a tripwire hook, and pillagers and piglins sometimes drop one, with an 8.5% chance that rises with Looting. Compared with the bow it takes longer to charge, but it hits a bit harder, reaches farther and is slightly more accurate.

It takes any kind of arrow and also firework rockets, which go in your off hand. A rocket flies in a straight line at 32 meters per second and, if it has firework stars, explodes on contact. Each rocket shot costs 3 durability, and a rocket without stars deals no damage.

Its own enchantments change everything. Quick Charge cuts loading time, although from level VI the crossbow gets stuck. Multishot fires three projectiles at once. Piercing makes arrows pass through blocking shields and also lets you pick the fired arrows back up, almost like a crossbow version of Infinity.

What Piercing cannot do is get through the Wither's projectile armor or a shulker's shell. In Java, when one of your arrows hits another player, you hear a high-pitched ding as confirmation.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Crossbow