Enchanting

	“	How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will do. MAGIC!	„
		—Notch

Enchanting is a mechanic that augments armor, tools, weapons (swords and bows), and books with one or more of a variety of "enchantments" that improve an item'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 in exchange for experience points and lapis lazuli. Only unenchanted items may be enchanted this way.
• Through an anvil, combining an enchanted book with an item, which also costs experience points.
• Through an anvil, 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, who may trade some enchanted items for emeralds.
• Through fishing, which gives a chance of obtaining enchanted items.
• Through a zombie, skeleton, wither skeleton, or zombie pigman if they have enchanted items and you kill them, there is a chance of getting enchanted items.
• Through finding them in End city chests.

Items can also be enchanted using commands such as /enchant for OPs on a server, or in a singleplayer world with cheats enabled. When enchanted with the /give command, the maximum enchantment level is 32,767. In Creative mode, 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.

Enchantment table

Main article: Enchantment mechanics

Enchantment table interface. Top: Without item. Bottom: With item, hovering over the second line.

An item can be enchanted by using an enchantment table and placing the item and 1–3 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" — a level 30 enchantment can still yield Fortune II or Efficiency III alone, for example.

In order to increase the enchantment level a bookshelf should be placed next to the enchantment table while keeping one block of air between them. To gain access to the previously mentioned level 30 enchantments a total of 15 bookshelves need to be placed around the enchantment table. See the enchantment mechanics page for more detailed information on this.

Enchanting a book 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.

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 (1–30). 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. Also, by enchanting any item, you can alter the 2nd enchantment by exiting without saving.^{[Legacy Console Edition only]}

Anvil combinations

Main article: Anvil mechanics

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 example, 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, 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, labelled "Enchantment 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 anvil—if 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 can be made by using an enchanting table to enchant a book. (They can also be found in generated chests, purchased with emeralds from a villager 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 example, 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 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. However, 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 example, a Silk Touch book could be used on axe, pickaxe, or shovel, and you can decide which at your leisure—perhaps something that already has Unbreaking? An Unbreaking book might be used to preserve your Looting sword, Fortune pickaxe, or Thorns armor.

Summary of enchantments

Summary of enchantments

Name	Summary	ID (Java Edition)	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 of item	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.
• 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 example, using an anvil to combine the item with an enchanted book or another enchanted item).

Enchantments for hand slot items

Enchantment
Bane of Arthropods
Curse of Vanishing
Efficiency
Fire Aspect
Flame
Fortune
Infinity
Knockback
Looting
Luck of the Sea
Lure
Mending
Power
Punch
Sharpness
Silk Touch
Smite
Sweeping Edge
Unbreaking

Enchantments for armor slot items

Enchantment
Aqua Affinity
Blast Protection
Curse of Binding
Curse of Vanishing
Depth Strider
Feather Falling
Fire Protection
Frost Walker
Mending
Projectile Protection
Protection
Respiration
Thorns
Unbreaking

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

Aqua Affinity

ID	6 (PE: 8)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

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

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 ( × 1 ¹⁄₄) 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

Blast Protection

ID	3
Maximum Level	IV
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

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 × level)%. If multiple pieces have the enchantment, only the highest level's reduction is used.

Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects will stack.

Curse of Binding

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 — can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing, or trading for enchanted books.

Curse of Vanishing

Curse of Vanishing

ID	71 (PE: n/a)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items	None
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	1

Causes the item to disappear 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 — can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing, or trading for enchanted books.

The effect can be prevented by setting the keepInventory gamerule to "true".

Depth Strider

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 ⅓.
• 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

Efficiency

ID	32 (PE: 15)
Maximum Level	V
Primary Items
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	10

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 for diamond and stone tools. Wooden, golden and iron tools can get Efficiency V by enchanting.

Feather Falling

Feather Falling

ID	2
Maximum Level	IV
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	5

Reduces fall 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 the damage from ender pearl teleportations.

Fire Aspect

Fire Aspect

ID	20 (PE: 13)
Maximum Level	II
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Sets the target on fire.

Fire Aspect adds 80 fireticks (4 seconds of burning) per level to the target. Because the first hit is caused by the item with this enchantment, the first second of fire damage will not be recognized. Targets will be dealt 3 ()/7 () damage on level I/II.

You can use this formula to calculate the Fire damage: Fire damage in 1 () = (Level × 4)-1

When possible, dropped meat will be cooked if the mob is killed while on fire. Experience will only be dropped if non-fire damage was dealt by the player within 5 seconds of the death.

Both the Fire Aspect and Flame enchantments are nullified on all Nether mobs, except normal skeletons and endermen, because nether mobs are immune to fire and lava.

Fire Protection

Fire Protection

ID	1
Maximum Level	IV
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	5

Reduces fire damage.

Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap (see Armor).

Fire Protection will also reduce ongoing fire damage, which is normally not absorbed by armor.

Also reduces burn time when set on fire by (15 × level)%. If multiple pieces have the enchantment, only the highest level's burn time reduction is used.

At Level VII for example you can't be lit on fire through Fire Aspect Enchantments. The only way to burn is staying in Lava or a Firesource. The initiated Fireticks (Lava=300, Fire=150) will be canceled, and only the remaining time in the firesource will be added to the Fireticktimer.

Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects will stack.

Flame

"Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid block, see Fire.

Flame

ID	50 (PE: 21)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Flaming arrows.

Arrows are on fire when shot and deal 4 () fire damage over 5 seconds. Unlike flint and steel, flaming arrows only affect players, mobs, and TNT. No other blocks catch fire, and they do not produce light. Fire damage applies after initial damage, similar to Fire Aspect. Creatures killed by fire only drop XP if a player dealt non-fire damage to it within the past 5 seconds.

Fortune

Fortune

ID	35 (PE: 18)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Increases block drops.

For coal, diamond, emerald, nether quartz, and lapis lazuli, level I gives a 33% chance to multiply drops by 2 (averaging 33% increase), level II gives a chance to multiply drops by 2 or 3 (25% chance each, averaging 75% increase), and level III gives a chance to multiply drops by 2, 3, or 4 (20% chance each, averaging 120% increase). 1 drop has a weight of 2, and each number of extra drops has a weight of 1.

For redstone, carrots, glowstone, sea lanterns, melons, nether wart, potatoes, beetroots (seeds only) and wheat (seeds only), each level increases the drop maximum by +1 (maximum 4 for glowstone, 5 for sea lanterns, and 9 for melons). For tall grass, each level increases the drop maximum by +2.

Fortune increases the probability of flint dropping from gravel, and saplings dropping from leaves, and apples dropping from oak and dark oak leaves.

Fortune drops

Drops	unenchanted	level I	level II	level III
Flint	10%	14%	25%	100%
Jungle saplings	2.5%	2.78%	3.125%	4.17%
Other saplings	5%	6.25%	8.33%	10%
Apples	0.5%	0.556%	0.625%	0.833%

Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to apply both Silk Touch and Fortune to an item, the Silk Touch enchantment will take precedence over the Fortune enchantment for blocks affected by both enchantments.

Frost Walker

Frost Walker

ID	9 (PE: 25)
Maximum Level	II
Primary Items	None
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	2

Creates frosted ice blocks when walking over water.

If moving on ground (i.e. not falling, jumping, or flying), any still water blocks with air above within a radius of 2 + Level around the block being moved to will be turned into frosted ice.

It also eliminates all damage from magma blocks.

Counts as a treasure enchantment — can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing, or trading for enchanted books.

If this enchantment is put on the boots of an armor stand, it will function around the armor stand.

Depth Strider and Frost Walker are mutually exclusive. If combined using commands, both enchantments function as normal.

Infinity

Infinity

ID	51 (PE: 22)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	1

Shooting doesn't consume regular arrows.

Allows user to fire infinite arrows as long as they have 1 arrow in their inventory. Fired arrows cannot be retrieved except in Creative mode (where they are erased instead of added to your arrows).

Tipped and spectral arrows are consumed as usual.

Mending and Infinity are mutually exclusive on an anvil, but they can be combined using commands.

Knockback

Knockback

ID	19 (PE: 12)
Maximum Level	II
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	5

Increases knockback.

For each level, adds 3 blocks distance to the base knockback. Does combine slightly with knockback caused by attacking while sprinting.

Looting

Looting

ID	21 (PE: 14)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Mobs can drop more loot.

• Increases maximum loot drop for most common drops by +1 per level.
• Increases chance of uncommon drops by making a second attempt to drop if the original attempt failed. The success chance of this second attempt is ½ for Looting I, ⅔ for Looting II, and ¾ for Looting III.
• Increases chance of rare drops by +1 percentage points per level (i.e., 3.5% at level I, 4.5% at level II, and 5.5% at level III).
• Increases chance of equipment drops by +1 percentage points per level (i.e., 9.5% at level I, 10.5% at level II, and 11.5% at level III).
• The exact drop chances depend on the type of drop.
• Notably, this applies not only to kills with the sword but to any kills while holding the sword in the main hand. For example, a player can fire a projectile then switch to the looting sword before the projectile reaches the target to get the looting effect, or can fire a projectile from the off-hand while holding a looting sword in the main hand.
• Using codes to get higher levels than 3 works as expected, adding higher numbers with a weight of 1. High enough numbers however (like level 1000) may crash the game due to too many dropped item entities.
• This applies to mobs killed with a sweep attack.

Luck of the Sea

Luck of the Sea

ID	61 (PE: 23)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Increases luck while fishing.

With the default loot tables, this lowers chance of "junk" catches and increases chance of "treasure" by about 2 percentage points, and decreases the chance of fish by about 0.15 percentage points.

Lure

Lure

ID	62 (PE: 24)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Increases rate of fish biting your hook while fishing.

Decreases wait time until a catch by 5 seconds per level. At Level V, the fish-catching particle effects start almost instantly. At Level VI, you are not able to catch anything.

Mending

Mending

ID	70 (PE: 26)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items	None
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	2

Repair durability with experience.

When an item with the enchantment is held (main hand, offhand, or armor slots), XP orbs collected will repair the item at a rate of 2 durability per XP instead of adding the XP to the player's total. If multiple items have the enchantment, one will be chosen at random for each XP orb collected, and if the chosen item does not need repair, the XP will be added to the player's total as normal, rather than choosing another item to repair.

Counts as a treasure enchantment — can only be obtained from chest loot, fishing, or trading for enchanted books.

Mending and Infinity are mutually exclusive. If combined using commands, both enchantments function as normal.

Power

Power

ID	48 (PE: 19)
Maximum Level	V
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	10

Increases arrow damage by 25% × (level + 1), rounded up to nearest half-heart.

Arrow entities have an NBT tag damage, which for an unenchanted bow is 2, and increments by 0.5 per enchantment level.

Bow Damage by Power Level and Bow Charge

Level	Increase	No charge	Medium charge	Full charge	Full charge (critical)
—	+0% (2.0)	1 ()	6 ()	9 ()	10 ()
I	+50% (3.0)	2 ()	9 ()	14 ()	15 ()
II	+75% (3.5)	2 ()	11 ()	16 ()	18 ()
III	+100% (4.0)	2 ()	12 ()	18 ()	20 ()
IV	+125% (4.5)	3 ()	14 ()	20 ()	23 ( × 11.5)
V	+150% (5.0)	3 ()	15 ()	23 ( × 11.5)	25 ( × 12.5)

Anvil required for level V.

Projectile Protection

Projectile Protection

ID	4
Maximum Level	IV
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	5

Reduces projectile damage (arrows, ghast/blaze fire charges, etc.).

Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap (see Armor).

Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects will stack.

Protection

Protection

ID	0
Maximum Level	IV
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	10

Reduces all damage, except damage from the Void, the /kill command, or hunger damage.

Damage reduction from Protection, Fire Protection, Feather Falling, Blast Protection, and Projectile Protection stacks up to an upper limit cap (see Armor).

Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, and Projectile Protection are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to have two or more of these enchantments on the same item, the effects will stack.

Punch

Punch

ID	49 (PE: 20)
Maximum Level	II
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Increases knockback.

Mobs and players are knocked back further.

Respiration

Respiration

ID	5 (PE: 6)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	2

Extends underwater breathing time.

• Increases underwater breathing time by +15 seconds per level
• Grants an x/(x+1) chance of not taking drowning damage each second, where x is the level
• Improves underwater vision
• Levels above III don't work, as they increase visibility over 100% which resembles swimming in ice slush.

Sharpness

Sharpness

ID	16 (PE: 9)
Maximum Level	V
Primary Items
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	10

Increases melee damage.

Adds 1 () extra damage for the first level, and 0.5 ( × ¹⁄₄) for each additional level.

Sharpness V is only available using an anvil for wooden, stone, iron and diamond tools. Golden tools and books can get Sharpness V by enchanting.

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.

Silk Touch

Silk Touch

ID	33 (PE: 16)
Maximum Level	I
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	1

Mined blocks drop themselves instead of the usual items.

Allows collection of blocks that are normally unobtainable.

Items which can be obtained legitimately only through use of Silk Touch: coal ore, diamond ore, emerald ore, grass block*, huge mushrooms, ice, lapis lazuli ore, mycelium*, podzol*, grass paths^{[Bedrock Edition only]}, packed ice, frosted ice^{[Legacy Console Edition only]}, nether quartz ore and redstone ore. Additionally ender chests, bookshelves, glass and glass panes, after they are placed, can only be retrieved by a tool enchanted with Silk Touch.

• NOTE: grass blocks, mycelium, and podzol can also be obtained by killing an enderman holding one of these blocks.

Doesn't work on: cake, carrots, cocoa pod, double slabs, fire, frosted ice^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]}, farmland, grass paths^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}, melon stems, monster spawners, nether wart, potatoes, pumpkin stems, snow layers, sugar cane, wheat and inverted daylight sensors.

Gravel harvested with a silk touch shovel will never yield flint. This is due to the fact that silk touch bypasses the rare harvest RNG entirely.

Silverfish eggs will not spawn silverfish when harvested with a silk touch pickaxe; the player will receive the normal version of the block, not the silverfish egg.

Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive. If commands are used to apply both Silk Touch and Fortune to an item, the Silk Touch enchantment will take precedence over the Fortune enchantment for blocks affected by both enchantments.

Smite

Smite

ID	17 (PE: 10)
Maximum Level	V
Primary Items
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	5

Increases damage to "undead" mobs (skeletons, zombies, withers, wither skeletons, zombie pigmen, skeleton horses and zombie horses)

Each level separately adds 2.5 ( × 1 ¹⁄₄) extra damage to each hit, to "undead" mobs only.

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.

Sweeping Edge

Sweeping Edge

ID	22 (PE: n/a)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items	None
Enchantment Weight	1

Increases sweeping attack damage.

• Increases the damage that will be dealt to mobs for each hit from a sweep attack.
• Damage of the sweep attack is boosted by 50%/66%/75% of a sword's damage for levels I/II/III. The damage stacks with Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods.
• The formula for damage is generic.attackDamage * (enchantment level / (enchantment level + 1) + 1)
• As an example, an Iron Sword only enchanted with Sweeping Edge 1 will deal 6 * (1/1+1)+1 = 4 damage each sweep attack, to each mob hit. A sword enchanted with Sharpness V and Sweeping Edge I will deal 9 * (1/2)+1 = 5.5 Damage. Extra damage from Smite and Bane of Arthropods will stack against undead mobs and arthropod mobs, respectively.
• Sweeping Edge will stack to higher levels than III via the use of commands or third party editors, following the formula above. Damage will cap beneath 200%, due to the formula.

Thorns

Thorns

ID	7 (PE: 5)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	1

Attackers are damaged when they deal damage to the wearer.

(Level × 15)% chance of inflicting 1 ()-4 () (or Level - 10 if Level > 10) damage on anyone who attacks wearer, whether by melee attack, arrow, or other projectile. In addition to the normal durability reduction for being hit, reduces durability by 3 points when inflicting damage and 1 point otherwise.

If present on multiple pieces of armor, each armor piece in turn will be given its chance to inflict Thorns damage on the attacker, but the extra Thorns durability penalty will be applied to one of those armor pieces chosen randomly.

Anvil required to create Thorns III by combining two Thorns II enchantments or trading for Enchanted Book from Villager.

Unbreaking

Unbreaking

ID	34 (PE: 17)
Maximum Level	III
Primary Items
Secondary Items
Enchantment Weight	5

Increases effective durability.

For most items, (100/(Level+1))% chance a use reduces durability. On average, lifetime is (Level+1) times as long.

For armor, (60 + (40/(Level+1)))% chance a use reduces durability (each durability hit against "unbreaking" armor has a 20%/27%/30% chance of being ignored). On average, armor lasts 25%/36%/43% longer.

When durability is reduced by multiple points (e.g. hooking a mob with fishing rods or Thorns armor), Unbreaking is applied for each point of reduction.

Data values

Enchantment	Name	ID (PC)	ID (PE)
Protection	protection	0	0
Fire Protection	fire_protection	1	1
Feather Falling	feather_falling	2	2
Blast Protection	blast_protection	3	3
Projectile Protection	projectile_protection	4	4
Respiration	respiration	5	6
Aqua Affinity	aqua_affinity	6	8
Thorns	thorns	7	5
Depth Strider	depth_strider	8	7
Frost Walker	frost_walker	9	25
Curse of Binding	binding_curse	10	N/A
Sharpness	sharpness	16	9
Smite	smite	17	10
Bane of Arthropods	bane_of_arthropods	18	11
Knockback	knockback	19	12
Fire Aspect	fire_aspect	20	13
Looting	looting	21	14
Sweeping Edge	sweeping	22	N/A
Efficiency	efficiency	32	15
Silk Touch	silk_touch	33	16
Unbreaking	PC: unbreaking PE: durability	34	17
Fortune	fortune	35	18
Power	power	48	19
Punch	punch	49	20
Flame	flame	50	21
Infinity	infinity	51	22
Luck of the Sea	luck_of_the_sea	61	23
Lure	lure	62	24
Mending	mending	70	26
Curse of Vanishing	vanishing_curse	71	N/A

Videos

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History

Official release
1.0.0			September 30, 2011		First mention of the enchantment table.
			September 30, 2011		According to a picture Notch posted of the enchantment table, they were originally crafted with cobblestone instead of obsidian.
			October 1, 2011		The first images of the enchantment screen are revealed, with enchantments written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The first enchantment translates onto "Well Played Internets You Are Good", the second translated into "These Names Will Be Random And Confusing", and the third translates to "Each Spell Costs Experience Levels". The Standard Galactic Alphabet or SGA was originally created by Tom Hall for use in the Commander Keen series of computer games.
			Beta 1.9-pre3		Basics of enchanting added, along with the enchanting table. It did not require bookshelves to get maximum enchantments. Many enchantments were not yet in the game. Enchantments were and continue to be labeled in the enchanting table as random words written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet.
			Beta 1.9-pre4		Fixed a bug where all enchantments would show up as Feather Falling I.
					Properly enabled enchanting on SMP. Previously, if a player attempted to enchant an item, it appeared enchanted for the client, but updated with the un-enchanted status once the player logged out and then back in again.
1.1					Added four bow enchantments: Power, Flame, Punch, and Infinity.
1.2.1			12w05a		Enchanting no longer requires experience in Creative mode.
			12w06a		Bows and golden swords now have a small chance of being already enchanted when dropped by their respective mobs.
1.3.1			12w17a		Ice and glass panes can again be collected with a Silk Touch-enchanted tool.
			12w22a		The maximum enchantment power was lowered from 50 to 30.
					Experience is collectable with mining and cooking in furnace.
			12w23a		Glint (animated glow effect) on enchanted tools and armor is now visible on multiplayer.
1.4.2			12w34a		Flame enchanted bows now ignite TNT blocks.
			12w41a		Enchantments can now be combined using anvils, allowing some high level enchantments to be applied where they were not previously possible.
1.4.4			1.4.4-pre		Enchantments can now be applied using /enchant, however Protection is unavailable due to a bug.
1.4.6			12w49a		/enchant now works with ID 0, meaning it can be used to apply protection.
					You can enchant books to then be used to enchant a tool.
			12w50a		Added a new armor enchantment: Thorns.
					You can now add the Silk Touch enchantment to shears and the Unbreaking enchantment to anything that has durability.
					Efficiency is nerfed a bit so that enchanted tools that don't match the block you're breaking will no longer work as quickly as before (e.g. Efficiency V Pickaxes no longer instantly break dirt or wood logs).
1.5					Efficiency is completely nerfed when using tools on the wrong block types - they now break the block at the same rate as your bare fists.
1.7.2			13w36a		Added two fishing rod enchantments: Luck of the Sea and Lure. The fishing rod can now be enchanted without the use of books. Armor can now receive unbreaking without the use of books.
1.8			14w02a		Enchanting receives a major overhaul where there is now a secondary cost, which is lapis lazuli.
					When enchanting an item, one enchantment will now appear in the tooltip when selecting an enchantment (e.g Looting III?...).
					Levels are hard to obtain again (like pre-1.3 settings.)
					Level 5 enchants (Sharpness, Power, Smite & Bane of Arthropods) can be applied without the use of an anvil.
					Villager trading was revamped, causing clerics to no longer enchant items, while black apron villagers will trade enchanted items.
			14w04a		Looting now gives a 1 percentage point increase per level to the chance of getting rare drops.
			14w25a		Added a new enchantment for boots: Depth Strider.
1.9			15w36a		Reduced benefits for Sharpness and the protection enchantments.
			15w42a		Added Frost Walker and Mending enchantments.
					When multiple pieces of Thorns armor are worn, one will now be chosen at random instead of always using the "bottommost" piece.
					Enchantments with max 1 level will no longer display the level, e.g. "Infinity" rather than "Infinity I".
			15w43a		Frost Walker no longer works on flowing water.
			15w43c		Lure no longer affects loot.
			15w44a		Mending is available at lower enchantment levels.
			15w47b		Silk Touch may no longer be added to shears.
			15w47c		Silk Touch is no longer required to collect cobwebs.
			15w49a		Frost Walker now works when standing on transparent blocks.
			15w51a		Frost Walker no longer affects water blocks that do not have an air block above.
1.10			16w20a		Mobs with frost walker boots will not take damage when walking on the new magma.
1.11			16w32a		The block entity ID for the enchantment table is changed from EnchantTable to enchanting_table.
			16w39a		Added Curse of Binding and Curse of Vanishing.
1.11.1			16w50a		Added a new enchantment for swords: Sweeping Edge.
					Infinity and Mending are now mutually exclusive.
1.11.1					Anvils no longer allow enchanted books to apply to items, if no change in enchantments would take effect. This can occur if all enchantments on the book are incompatible with existing enchantments on the item – or if the enchanted book has no enchantments.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.12.1			build 1		Added the enchanting system and enchantment tables.
					Enchantment tables now emit a light level of 12.
					Enchantment tables can now be crafted on the stonecutter
					Added enchantment tables to the Creative mode inventory.
			build 11		Enchanting tables are now craftable in the crafting table instead of the stonecutter.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Added Mending and Frost Walker enchantments.
Console Edition
TU7	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	Patch 1	Added the enchanting system and enchanting tables.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Added the Luck of the Sea, Lure and Depth Strider enchantments.
					Enchanting now consumes Lapis Lazuli.
					Enchanting has been rebalanced.
					Enchanted Books can receive multiple enchants at once.
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13		Added the Frost Walker and Mending enchantments.
TU54	CU44	1.52	Patch 24	Patch 4	Added Curse of Binding and Curse of Vanishing.

Issues

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Gallery

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  A sword with 4 enchantments on it.

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  A diamond pickaxe with multiple high level enchantments, right after enchantment.

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  Enchantment table enchanting window.

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  Place 15 bookshelves around an enchantment table to get the highest level enchantments.

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  A golden pickaxe with the Silk Touch enchantment from level 20.

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  A very powerful enchanted bow.

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  A screenshot of the enchanting interface.

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  Table of enchantment probabilities for books.

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  The GUI of the enchantment table in Pocket Edition (top = no item, bottom = with item hovering on the second line).

See also

• Enchantment Mechanics
• Brewing
• Crafting
• Smelting

External links

• Minecraft Enchantment Guide - Various enchantment calculation tools
• Minecraft Enchantment Calculator

Gameplay

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