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Enchanting is a mechanic that augments armor Armor Type Wearable items Durability See Durability Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See Data values Name See Data values For the armor that can be worn by horses, see Horse Armor. Armor classes. From 
, tools See the in-game items. For program enhancing software, see Programs and Editors. Tools are items used by the player while held to perform actions faster and more efficiently, to gather materials not , weapons (swords and bows), and books with one or more of a variety of "enchantments" that improve an item See items as they are in the inventory. For the entity that items and blocks turn into when dropped, see Item (entity). For the items that mobs leave behind on death, see 
`s existing abilities or imbue them with additional abilities and uses.
Enchanting methods
There are three methods of enchanting items in Survival mode:
- Through an enchantment table Enchantment Table Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance Computer: No Pocket Edition: 12 Blast resistance 6,000 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops
in exchange for experience Experience First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 2 PE: 69 Network ID PC: none Entity ID xp_orb XP bar visible above hotbar. Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience points and lapis lazuli Lapis Lazuli Type Wool dyes Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Data value dec: 3514 hex: 15F4 bin: 1010111114 Name dye 4 See the Lapis Lazuli dye. For the block, see Lapis Lazuli Block. . Only unenchanted items may be enchanted this way. - Through an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item , combining an enchanted book with an item, which also costs experience points.
- Through an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item , combining two of the same item with different existing enchantments into a single item that has the enchantments of both.
There are also an additional four methods of obtaining enchanted items:
- Through a villager Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience , who may trade some enchanted items for emeralds Emerald Type Raw materials Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 388 hex: 184 bin: 110000100 Name emerald See the gem. For the ore, see Emerald Ore. For .
- Through fishing Fishing is the process of obtaining fish using fishing rods. Contents 1 Catching fish 2 Junk and treasures 3 Fishing rod durability 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia Catching fish edit | edit source] A , which gives a chance of obtaining enchanted items.
- Through a zombie Zombie Health points 20 () Armor points 2 () Attack strength Easy: 2 () Normal: 3 () Hard: 4 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn , a skeleton Skeleton Health points 20 () Attack strength Bow: Easy: 1 () - 4 () Normal: 1 () - 4 () Hard: 1 () - 5 () Sword: Easy: 2 () Normal: 2 () Hard: 3 or a zombie pigman Zombie Pigman Health points 20 () Armor points 2 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 9 () Hard: 13 () Size Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn Any 2 block high space in any if they have enchanted items and you kill them, there is a chance of getting enchanted items.
- Through finding them in End city End City Biome The End Consists of See Structure First appearances See History “ End Cities, replete with End Ships, Chorus Plants, Chorus Flowers and Purpur blocks. Not all is as it seems, however - chests.
Items can also be enchanted using commands such as /enchant for OPs on a server, or in a singleplayer world with cheats Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Tilde notation 1.2 Target selectors 1.2.1 Target selector variables 1.2.2 Target selector arguments 1.3 Data tags 1.4 Raw JSON text 1.5 Block/item names 2 Summary of commands 3 List of commands enabled. When enchanted with the /give command, the maximum enchantment level is 32,767. In Creative mode Pixel art and other creations made in Creative mode. "Sandbox" redirects here. For a place to test edits to this wiki, see Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox. Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. 
, items can be enchanted via an anvil and enchanted books, with no experience required. Enchanted books are available in the Creative mode inventory, with individual book displays for the highest level of each enchantment and other levels available via the "Search" tab.
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Enchantment table
An item can be enchanted by using an enchantment table Enchantment Table Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance Computer: No Pocket Edition: 12 Blast resistance 6,000 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops 
and placing the item and 1⃢₀ₓ3 lapis lazuli in the input slots. Upon placing the item, three randomized options will appear on the right of the GUI. The glyphs here do not affect the enchantment, but hovering over a presented enchantment will show one enchantment that will be applied. Only choices with a level requirement equal to or below the player`s current level and a lapis lazuli requirement equal to or below the number of lapis lazuli placed in the table can be chosen. Each option will imbue the item with a randomized set of enchantments that are dependent on the number of experience levels required (e.g.: a level 1 enchantment can give a pickaxe the "Efficiency I" enchantment); the actual level cost and the number of lapis lazuli required has no effect.
The level requirement influences the quantity, type, and level of enchantments instilled in the item, with a higher experience level generally resulting in more and/or higher-level enchantments. Nevertheless, there is a heavy random factor, and even a level 30 enchantment (the maximum) doesn`t guarantee more than one enchantment, nor even that enchantments will be "maximum strength" ⃢₀ₔ a level 30 enchantment can still yield Fortune II or Efficiency III alone, for example.
Enchanting a book Book Type Manufactured items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 340 hex: 154 bin: 101010100 Name book See standard books. For other uses, see Book (disambiguation). Books 
will produce an enchanted book, which does nothing on its own, but effectively "saves" the enchantment for later application to another item with an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item 
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Unlike with an anvil, using the enchanting table while on Creative will still cost XP. However if the player doesn`t have enough XP they will just be reduced to level zero and the enchantment will work as if they had paid the full amount. This includes attempts to use the enchanting table while already at level zero.
Affecting offered enchantments
The possible enchantments depend only on the player`s enchantment seed, the item type and material, and the enchantment level (1⃢₀ₓ30). Removing the item and putting it back in, clicking on the item slot with a different item, using a different item of the same type and material, replacing or moving the table (but keeping the same number of bookshelves), using a different table with the same number of bookshelves, or replacing or rearranging the bookshelves without changing their total number has no effect on the possible enchantments.
Changing the enchantment levels offered by adding, removing, or blocking bookshelves will alter the enchantments shown, but will not change possible enchantments, using another enchanting table with the previous bookshelf number will show the previous enchantments. The enchantments for a particular enchantment level (with the same seed and item) do also differ depending on which row it appears in, but they are no "better" or "worse" based on the row despite the different resource costs.
Enchanting any item at any enchantment level changes the player`s enchantment seed, which will change the possible enchantments for every item at every enchantment level. Thus, if none of the available enchantments for a tool are desired, 1 lapis lazuli and 1 level could be spent to enchant a book or a different tool to refresh the list.
Anvil combinations
An anvil can be used to combine the enchantments of two items, sacrificing one of them and repairing the other. The items must be of the same type (for instance, an iron pickaxe and a diamond pickaxe cannot be combined), and there are limits to what enchantments can be combined and how much work can be done in one operation.
To combine items, the player places the target item in the first slot of an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item , and the sacrifice item in the second slot. If the combination is allowed, the resulting enchanted item will appear in the anvil`s output slot and an experience level cost appears below (green if the player has enough experience levels, red if they don`t). To complete the enchanting, the player removes the enchanted item from the anvil`s output slot, and their experience level is reduced accordingly.
The cost in levels depends on the enchantments, with highly enchanted items costing more. If the target item is also being repaired, that costs more as well. The target item can also be renamed, at additional cost. There is also an accumulating surcharge for prior work done on the anvil. In Survival mode, there is a limit of 39 levels for any work performed on the anvil⃢₀ₔif a job would cost more, it will be refused (though it might be do-able in steps: repair and then combine enchantments).
Enchanted books
Enchanted books Enchanted Book Type Manufactured items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 403 hex: 193 bin: 110010011 Name enchanted_book An enchanted book is an item which allows players to add enchantments to 
can be made by using an enchanting table Enchantment Table Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance Computer: No Pocket Edition: 12 Blast resistance 6,000 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops to enchant a book Book Type Manufactured items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 340 hex: 154 bin: 101010100 Name book See standard books. For other uses, see Book (disambiguation). Books . (They can also be found in generated chests Chest Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 12.5 Hardness 2.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History Drops Chest (1) 
, purchased with emeralds Emerald Type Raw materials Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 388 hex: 184 bin: 110000100 Name emerald See the gem. For the ore, see Emerald Ore. For 
from a villager Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience 
librarian, or looted by fishing rod.) The book can receive multiple enchantments of any type, but only enchantments appropriate to a given item type may be applied to that item. For instance, the same book may receive Respiration and Power enchantments, but the Respiration enchantment will be lost if the book is applied to anything but a helmet, and the Power enchantment will be lost if the book is applied to anything but a bow.
Enchanted books are used on an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item to add enchantments to items. They can apply some enchantments to items which cannot be enchanted from an enchantment table, e.g., Thorns on boots.
In Creative mode, books can enchant any item with any enchantment, such as a stick having Knockback II. Mutually-exclusive enchantments, such as Protection and Blast Protection, are still mutually-exclusive regardless.
The experience costs for using books are considerably less than for combining items with similar enchantments, since the books themselves cost levels to create. Be that as it may, it`s still an extra cost, and enchanting items directly has a chance to get multiple enchantments. The big advantage of books is that they can be stockpiled for use on an item of choice, and allow for controlled combinations. For instance, a Silk Touch book could be used on axe, pickaxe, or shovel, and you can decide which at your leisure⃢₀ₔperhaps something that already has Unbreaking? An Unbreaking book might be used to preserve your Looting sword, Fortune pickaxe, or Thorns armor.
Summary of enchantments
| Name | Summary | ID (PC) | ID (PE) | Max Level | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqua Affinity | Increases underwater mining rate | 6 | 8 | I | 2 |
| Bane of Arthropods | Increases damage to arthropods | 18 | 11 | V | 5 |
| Blast Protection | Reduces explosion damage | 3 | 3 | IV | 2 |
| Curse of Binding | Prevents removal | 10 | — | I | 1 |
| Curse of Vanishing | Item destroyed on death | 71 | — | I | 1 |
| Depth Strider | Increases underwater movement speed | 8 | 7 | III | 2 |
| Efficiency | Increases mining speed | 32 | 15 | V | 10 |
| Feather Falling | Reduces fall damage | 2 | 2 | IV | 5 |
| Fire Aspect | Sets target on fire | 20 | 13 | II | 2 |
| Fire Protection | Reduces fire damage | 1 | 1 | IV | 5 |
| Flame | Arrows set target on fire | 50 | 21 | I | 2 |
| Fortune | Increases block drops | 35 | 18 | III | 2 |
| Frost Walker | Walk on water | 9 | 25 | II | 2 |
| Infinity | Shooting consumes no arrows | 51 | 22 | I | 1 |
| Knockback | Increases knockback | 19 | 12 | II | 5 |
| Looting | Increases mob loot | 21 | 14 | III | 2 |
| Luck of the Sea | Increases fishing luck | 61 | 23 | III | 2 |
| Lure | Increases fishing rate | 62 | 24 | III | 2 |
| Mending | Repair with experience | 70 | 26 | I | 2 |
| Power | Increases arrow damage | 48 | 19 | V | 10 |
| Projectile Protection | Reduces projectile damage | 4 | 4 | IV | 5 |
| Protection | Reduces most damage | 0 | 0 | IV | 10 |
| Punch | Increases arrow knockback | 49 | 20 | II | 2 |
| Respiration | Extends underwater breathing time | 5 | 6 | III | 2 |
| Sharpness | Increases damage | 16 | 9 | V | 10 |
| Silk Touch | Mined blocks drop themselves | 33 | 16 | I | 1 |
| Smite | Increases damage to undead | 17 | 10 | V | 5 |
| Sweeping Edge | Increases sweeping attack damage | 22 | — | III | 2 |
| Thorns | Damages attackers | 7 | 5 | III | 1 |
| Unbreaking | Increases effective durability | 34 | 17 | III | 5 |
The tables below summarize which enchantments can be given to which items in survival mode (in creative mode, any enchantment can be given to any item). Enchantments which can be applied to both hand slot items and armor slot items are listed in both tables.
- An enchantment table
indicates the item can receive the enchantment legitimately in Survival mode by using an enchantment table Enchantment Table Type Solid Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance Computer: No Pocket Edition: 12 Blast resistance 6,000 Hardness 5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops . - An anvil
indicates the item can not receive the enchantment legitimately in Survival mode by using an enchantment table (an enchantment table will never offer the enchantment for the item), but can receive the enchantment by another method (for instance, using an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item to combine the item with an enchanted book or another enchanted item).
Enchantments
The sections below describe the enchantments that are possible for the player to acquire legitimately in Survival mode. Other combinations are possible in Creative mode or with cheats, mods, or third-party software.
- ID
- The identification number of the enchantment, can be used on data tags of items to add enchantments. See item format.
- Maximum Level
- The maximum level that can be received legitimately. Higher levels are possible using commands.
- Primary Items
- The items that can receive the enchantment legitimately in Survival mode by using an enchanting table. Items of any material can be enchanted (some more easily than others).
- Secondary Items
- Items which, in Survival mode, cannot receive the enchantment from an enchanting table but can from an enchanted book with an anvil.
- Enchantment Weight
- Relative chance of the enchantment being offered.
Aqua Affinity
Increases underwater mining rate.
Breaking blocks underwater is allowed at regular speed, though the player cannot be floating to get the full effect. Specifically, when swimming, mining takes 5X as long. Levels above 1 are no different.
Bane of Arthropods
| ID | 18 (PE: 11) |
|---|---|
| Maximum Level | V |
| Primary Items | |
| Secondary Items | |
| Enchantment Weight | 5 |
Increases damage to "arthropod" mobs (spiders, cave spiders, silverfish and endermites).
Each level separately adds 2.5 ( ⃗ 11⁄4) extra damage to each hit, to "arthropods" only.
The enchantment will also cause "arthropods" to have the Slowness IV effect when hit.
The duration of the effect is a random value between 1 and 1.5 seconds at level I, increasing the max duration by 0.5 seconds each level, up to 3.5s with Bane of Arthropods V.
Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects will stack.
Blast Protection
Reduces explosion damage.
Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap (see Armor).
Also reduces explosion knockback by (15 ℂₗ level)%. If multiple pieces have the enchantment, only the highest level`s reduction is used.
Curse of Binding
| ID | 10 (PE: n/a) |
|---|---|
| Maximum Level | I |
| Primary Items | None |
| Secondary Items | |
| Enchantment Weight | 1 |
Prevents removal of the cursed item.
The cursed item cannot be removed from any armor slot (outside of Creative mode) unless the player dies or the item breaks.
Counts as a treasure enchantment ⃢₀ₔ can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing Fishing is the process of obtaining fish using fishing rods. Contents 1 Catching fish 2 Junk and treasures 3 Fishing rod durability 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia Catching fish edit | edit source] A 
, or trading for enchanted books.
Curse of Vanishing
| ID | 71 (PE: n/a) |
|---|---|
| Maximum Level | I |
| Primary Items | None |
| Secondary Items | |
| Enchantment Weight | 1 |
Causes the item to be destroyed on death.
When the player dies, the item disappears instead of dropping on the ground. The item may still be dropped normally.
Counts as a treasure enchantment ⃢₀ₔ can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing Fishing is the process of obtaining fish using fishing rods. Contents 1 Catching fish 2 Junk and treasures 3 Fishing rod durability 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia Catching fish edit | edit source] A , or trading for enchanted books.
The effect can be prevented by setting the keepInventory gamerule to "true".
Depth Strider
| ID | 8 (PE: 7) |
|---|---|
| Maximum Level | III |
| Primary Items | |
| Secondary Items | None |
| Enchantment Weight | 2 |
Increases underwater movement speed.
- Every level reduces the amount water slows you by ⃢₅ₓ.
- Also reduces the speed at which flowing water pushes you when standing still.
- Level 3 will make you swim as fast as you walk on land. (Any level beyond that will have no effect on speed.)
- Speed potions will affect your swimming the same way as your walking at level 3.
- Does not increase vertical speed.
- If commands are used to put it on other pieces of armor (such as a helmet) it works normally.
If Depth Strider enchanted armor is put onto an armor stand, it will be moved more slowly when pushed by water.
Depth Strider and Frost Walker are mutually exclusive. If combined using commands, both enchantments function as normal.
Efficiency
Increases mining speed. See Breaking Speed for details.
One must use the proper tool for a block in order to receive the speed. Does not matter if you mine it with the incorrect tier.
The speed increase applies to all blocks that when mined, will drop an item.
Efficiency V is only available using an anvil Anvil Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 6,000 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64), same damage state only Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 145 hex: 91 bin: 10010001 Name anvil See the item for diamond and stone tools. Wooden, golden and iron tools can get Efficiency V by enchanting.
