Question: is bane of arthropods better than sharpness?
Answer: re: What does Bane of Anthropods do? More damage to spiders. It also does more damage to cave spiders and silverfish. The Sharpness enchantment deals more damage to all mobs, effectively making Bane of Arthropods and Smite (a similar enchantment that only works on zombies, skeletons and zombie pigmen) useless.