Minecraft Enchantment Guide: Everything You Need To Know

Minecraft has a special provision in the game that allows the players to level up their weapon and also provide it with special stats and other upgrades. Enchantments are what players will use to enchant their weapons, tools or armor with special stats and skills for the game. There are all purpose Enchantments and specific purpose Enchantments in Minecraft, each having their unique capabilities, check them out below:

All Purpose

• Mending – Repairs the item when gaining XP orbs. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Unbreaking – Increases item durability. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Curse of Vanishing – Item destroyed upon death. (Max enchantment level: 1)

Armor

• Aqua Affinity – Increase the rate of underwater mining speed. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Blast Protection – Reduces explosion damage and knockback. (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Curse of Binding – Items cannot be removed from armor slots unless the cause is death or breaking. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Depth Strider – Increases underwater movement speed. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Feather Falling – Reduces fall damage. (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Fire Protection – Reduces fire damage and burn time. (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Frost Walker – Changes the water source blocks beneath the player into frosted ice and prevents the damage the player would take from standing on magma blocks. (Max enchantment level: 2)
• Projectile Protection – Reduces projectile damage. (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Protection – Reduces most types of damage by 4% for each level. (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Respiration – Extends underwater breathing time. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Soul Speed – Increases walking speed on soul sand and soul soil. ((Max enchantment level: 3)
• Thorns – Reflects some of the damage taken when hit, at the cost of reducing durability. (Max enchantment level: 3)

Melee Weapons

• Bane of Arthropods – Increases damage and applies Slowness IV to arthropod mobs (spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, endermites and bees). (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Efficiency – When applied to an axe it increases the chance that the axe may stun a shield, with the base chance being 25% and a 5% increase for each level of efficiency. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Fire Aspect – Sets target on fire. (Max enchantment level: 2)
• Looting – Increases amount of loot earned from mobs. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Impaling – Trident deals additional damage to mobs that spawn naturally in the ocean. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Knockback – Knocks back mobs away from you when hit. (Max enchantment level: 2)
• Sharpness – Increases weapon damage. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Smite – Increases damage to undead mobs. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Sweeping Edge – Increases sweeping attack damage. Available only in Java Edition (Max enchantment level: 3)

Ranged Weapons

• Channeling – Trident channels a bolt of lightning toward a hit entity. Functions only during thunderstorms and if the target is unobstructed by opaque blocks. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Flame – Arrows set targets on fire. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Impaling – Trident deals additional damage to mobs that spawn naturally in the ocean. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Infinity – Shooting with projectiles does not consume arrows. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Loyalty – Trident returns after being thrown. Higher levels reduce the return time. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Riptide – Trident launches player with itself when thrown. Functions only in water or rain. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Multishot – Shoot 3 arrows at the cost of one; only one arrow can be recovered. (Max enchantment level: 1)
• Piercing – Arrows pass through multiple entities (Max enchantment level: 4)
• Power – Increases arrow damage. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Punch – Increases arrow knockback. (Max enchantment level: 2)
• Quick Charge – Decreases crossbow charging time. (Max enchantment level: 3)

Tools

• Efficiency – Increases mining speed. (Max enchantment level: 5)
• Fortune – Increases certain item drop chances from blocks. (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Luck of the Sea – Increases rate of fishing rare loot (enchanting books, etc.) (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Lure – Decreases wait time until fish/junk/loot “bites” (Max enchantment level: 3)
• Silk Touch – Mined blocks will drop as blocks instead of breaking into other items/blocks. (Max enchantment level: 1)

How to Enchant Items in Minecraft?

The first thing you need before you can begin enchanting stuff in the game is an Enchanting Table, to build it the players should head over to their crafting table to craft an enchanting table, they will need 4 obsidian, 2 diamonds and 1 book to craft it. After the Enchantment table has crafted the players can directly place the items on it to receive a set of enchantments to choose from. They will also need large amounts of Lapis Lazuli to power the enchantments.

Once the player puts a tool into the Enchantment table, they receive randomized options of 3 enchantments to choose from. The level of these enchantments varies according to the player’s level, higher the player’s level, higher the level of enchantments they get. If the players do not wish to use these Enchantments, they will have to reroll for new options. If the player is looking for a specific enchantment then they can find a book for it in the massive world of Minecraft, but that is literally like finding a needle in haystack.

To reroll for new options the player will have to first enchant their tool with a specific enchantment and then remove it and go back to receive a new set of options. Enchantments can be removed with Grindstones, that can be crafted with the help of 2 sticks, 2 planks and 1 stone slab. Players can also increase their enchanting by adding Bookshelves and an Anvil to their arsenal, Bookshelves will increase the level of enchantments they get and an Anvil will allow them to combine two tools with different enchantments to get a tool with multiple enchantment properties.