Enchantment

For the Minecraft Dungeons mechanic, see MCD:Enchantment.

"Enchanted" redirects here. For the featured server, see Featured servers § List of featured servers.

"Enchanting" redirects here. For other uses, see Enchanting (disambiguation).

Enchantments modify the behavior of tools, weapons, and armor, granting additional abilities. A glint animation appears on items to show that they are enchanted.

The player can apply enchantments to items by:

• Using an enchanting table. An unenchanted item can be enchanted at the cost of lapis lazuli and experience levels.
• Using an anvil.
  • An enchanted or unenchanted item can be combined with an enchanted book at the cost of experience levels.
  • When two like items are combined, their enchantments are also combined, at the cost of experience levels.
• Using the /enchant or /give commands.

Enchanted items can be obtained from:

• Trading. Some villagers trade enchanted items for emeralds.
• Fishing. Enchanted items can be obtained from fishing treasure loot.
• Mob drops. Some mobs can spawn with enchanted weapons or armor and have a chance of dropping their items when killed by a player.
• Bartering. Piglins sometimes drop enchanted items when given gold.
• Generated loot from various structures.
• Raids‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}. Pillagers and vindicators spawned during raids may drop enchanted items.

In Creative mode, items can be enchanted using an enchanting table or anvil without using lapis lazuli or experience levels. Enchanted books can be found in the Creative inventory.

Enchanting table

An enchanting table can be used to enchant unenchanted items, consuming lapis lazuli and experience levels in the process. The player can only choose one of three randomly generated enchantments to apply to the item; however, there is a chance for additional bonus enchantments to also be applied. The quality of the offered enchantments depends on the arrangement of bookshelves around the enchanting table. Which of the three offered enchantments the player can choose depends on the player's experience level.

Anvil

An anvil can be used to combine the enchantments of two like items, or an item and an enchanted book; one of the items is always sacrificed in the process. Combining items in an anvil costs experience levels; the amount depends on the enchantments of the sacrificed item, and the number of times the items have been used in an anvil.

Trading

Some villager sell enchanted equipment or books. Armorer, fisherman, fletcher, toolsmith, and weaponsmith villagers sell enchanted tools, weapons, or armor with non-treasure enchantmets. Librarian villagers sell enchanted books that can have almost any enchantment, including most treasure enchantments, except for Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst.

Bartering

Piglins can trade enchanted books or iron boots with a random level of Soul Speed when given gold ingots.

Fishing

Enchanted books, bows, and fishing rods can be obtained from fishing treasure loot.

Mob drops

Some mobs can spawn with enchanted weapons or armor, which have an 8.5% chance of dropping if the mob is killed by a player.

Generated loot

Most structures that contain loot chests have a chance of generating enchanted books or items.

Raids

In Bedrock Edition, pillagers and vindicators spawned during a raid have a chance to spawn with enchanted weapons or armor, which has a chance of dropping if the mob is killed by a player.

Effects

The effects of enchantments vary significantly. Some enchantments increase protection against specific types of damage, others increase damage dealt to certain classes of mobs. Some enchantments grant unique abilities such as summoning a lightning bolt or turning water into ice blocks. See § List of enchantments.

Level

Many enchantments have multiple levels. Generally, the higher the level, the more potent the enchantment's effects are. Levels are stylized as Roman numerals (I, II, III,...). The minimum level of any enchantment is I; the maximum level depends on the enchantment.

Incompatibilities

Some enchantments are incompatible with one another. This means that it is not possible for the player to apply both conflicting enchantments to the same item without using commands. Enchanting tables and generated loot do not produce items with conflicting enchantments.

Conflicting enchantments

• Sword: Sharpness, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods
• Tool: Fortune and Silk Touch
• Armor: Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection, Projectile Protection
• Boots: Depth Strider and Frost Walker
• Bow: Infinity and Mending
• Crossbow: Multishot and Piercing
• Trident: Loyalty and Riptide or Channeling and Riptide
• Mace: Density, Breach, Smite, and Bane of Arthropods.
• Books: Sharpness, Density, and Breach. All of the above restrictions also apply.

Some enchantments are incompatible with certain items. For example, Protection, which decreases damage, cannot be applied to swords, and Sharpness, which increases attack damage cannot be applied to armor.

Primary and secondary items

An enchantment's primary items are the set of items that can receive the enchantment from an enchanting table. Some items that cannot receive a particular enchantment from an enchanting table can still have the enchantment applied to them by combining the item with an enchanted book in an anvil; these are the enchantment's secondary items.

Treasure

Treasure enchantments cannot be obtained through an enchanting table, and are never found on natural equipment worn by mobs or on enchanted equipment traded by villagers. Most treasure enchantments, however, can be generated on enchanted books sold by librarians. If a treasure enchantment is tradable, it has double the price (before capping to 64 emeralds) compared to a non-treasure enchantment of the same level.

Some treasure enchantments, such as Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, and Wind Burst, can only be obtained in specific structures or through a specific game mechanic.

Curse

Curse enchantments apply negative modifiers to items and cannot be removed. Attempting to disenchant an item with a curse enchantment removes all other enchantments, except for the curse enchantment.

Enchantments can be removed from an item by combining it with another item in the grindstone or the crafting grid. This does not remove curse enchantments from the item.

Each enchantment in the table below includes attributes 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.

• Max Level: Maximum level that can be obtained without 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 – see Enchantment mechanics).
• Secondary Items: Items that, in Survival mode, cannot receive the enchantment from an enchanting table but can from an enchanted book with an anvil.

Name	Identifier	Summary	Incompatible With	Max Level	Primary Items	Secondary Items
Aqua Affinity	aqua_affinity	Removes the mining speed reduction that occurs when underwater.		I
Bane of Arthropods	bane_of_arthropods	Increases damage against arthropod mobs (spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, endermites and bees) and applies Slowness IV to them.	Smite, Sharpness, Breach, Density	V	‌[BE only]	‌[JE only]
Blast Protection	blast_protection	Reduces explosion damage and knockback.	Fire Protection, Protection, Projectile Protection	IV
Breach	breach	Reduces the effectiveness of armor on the target, including innate armor points.	Density, Bane of Arthropods, Smite, Sharpness	IV
Channeling	channeling	During thunderstorms, a thrown trident summons a lightning bolt on the target upon hit.	Riptide	I
Curse of Binding	binding_curse	Items cannot be removed from armor slots.		I
Curse of Vanishing	vanishing_curse	Item disappears on death.		I		‌[BE only]
Density	density	Increases the damage of a mace's smash attack.	Breach, Bane of Arthropods, Smite, Sharpness	V
Depth Strider	depth_strider	Lessens the movement speed reduction that occurs when in water.	Frost Walker	III
Efficiency	efficiency	Increases mining efficiency.		V
Feather Falling	feather_falling	Reduces fall damage.		IV
Fire Aspect	fire_aspect	Sets targets on fire.		II
Fire Protection	fire_protection	Reduces fire damage and burning time.	Blast Protection, Protection, Projectile Protection	IV
Flame	flame	Fired arrows are burning, setting targets on fire.		I
Fortune	fortune	Chance to receive more item drops from certain blocks.	Silk Touch	III
Frost Walker	frost_walker	Turns water into frosted ice beneath the wearer's feet, and provides immunity to campfire and magma block damage.	Depth Strider	II
Impaling	impaling	In Java Edition, increases damage against aquatic mobs. In Bedrock Edition, increases damage against mobs in water or rain.		V
Infinity	infinity	Prevents consumption of arrows, but not spectral arrows or tipped arrows.	Mending	I
Knockback	knockback	Increases melee knockback.		II
Looting	looting	Chance to receive more item drops from certain mobs.		III
Loyalty	minecraft:loyalty	Returns the trident to its owner upon landing after being thrown.	Riptide	III
Luck of the Sea	luck_of_the_sea	Increases the rate of treasure items from fishing.		III
Lunge	lunge	Launches the player horizontally when using a spear's jab attack, at the cost of consuming saturation and hunger points as well as 1 durability.		III
Lure	lure	Decreases time for bites when fishing.		III
Mending	mending	Repairs the item using experience.	Infinity	I
Multishot	multishot	Adds 2 arrows to the sides of the center arrow, at the cost of increasing incurred durability damage.	Piercing	I
Piercing	piercing	Causes fired arrows to pierce entities, allowing for a single arrow to hit multiple mobs, and allows arrows to be picked up again after hitting a target.	Multishot	IV
Power	power	Increases arrow damage.		V
Projectile Protection	projectile_protection	Reduces damage from projectiles.	Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection	IV
Protection	protection	Reduces most forms of damage.	Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection	IV
Punch	punch	Increases arrow knockback.		II
Quick Charge	quick_charge	Increases crossbow charging speed.		III
Respiration	respiration	Extends underwater breathing time.		III
Riptide	riptide	Trident when used launches the wielder while in water or rain, replacing its ability to be thrown as a projectile.	Channeling, Loyalty	III
Sharpness	sharpness	Increases melee damage.	Bane of Arthropods, Smite, Breach, Density	V	‌[BE only]	‌[JE only]
Silk Touch	silk_touch	Certain blocks that would otherwise drop different items or nothing will drop themselves instead.	Fortune	I		‌[BE only]
Smite	smite	Increases damage dealt against undead mobs.	Bane of Arthropods, Sharpness, Breach, Density	V	‌[BE only]	‌[JE only]
Soul Speed	soul_speed	Movement speed on soul sand is increased instead of decreased, and movement speed on soul soil is increased.		III
Sweeping Edge ‌[JE only]	sweeping_edge	Increases the damage of a sword sweep attack. This increase applies to nearby entities that are close to the attacked entity, but does not apply to the attacked entity itself.		III
Swift Sneak	swift_sneak	Lessens the movement speed reduction that occurs when sneaking.		III
Thorns	thorns	Random chance to damage entities that attack the user, at the cost of increasing incurred durability damage.		III	‌[BE only]‌[BE only]‌[BE only]‌[BE only]	‌[JE only]‌[JE only]‌[JE only]‌[JE only]
Unbreaking	unbreaking	Gives a chance for items to ignore durability loss, effectively increasing their durability.		III
Wind Burst	wind_burst	Causes a burst of wind upon executing a mace smash attack that launches the attacker upward.		III
Cleaving ‌[JE Combat Tests only]	cleaving	Increases the damage and shield stun time of an axe.	Sharpness, Bane of Arthropods, Smite	III

The table below shows which enchantments can be applied to particular items.

Item	Any combination of	Only one from each column
Helmet	Mending, Unbreaking, Thorns, Respiration, Aqua Affinity, Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing	Protection, Projectile Protection, Fire Protection, Blast Protection
Turtle Shell
Chestplate	Mending, Unbreaking, Thorns, Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing
Leggings	Mending, Unbreaking, Thorns, Swift Sneak, Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing
Boots	Mending, Unbreaking, Thorns, Feather Falling, Soul Speed, Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing		Depth Strider, Frost Walker
Sword	Mending, Unbreaking, Fire Aspect, Looting, Knockback, Curse of Vanishing, Sweeping Edge‌[JE only]	Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods
Spear	Unbreaking, Fire Aspect, Looting, Knockback, Curse of Vanishing, Lunge, Mending	Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods
Mace	Mending, Unbreaking, Fire Aspect, Wind Burst, Curse of Vanishing	Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Density, Breach
Axe	Mending, Unbreaking, Efficiency, Curse of Vanishing	Fortune, Silk Touch	Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Cleaving​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]
Pickaxe
Shovel
Hoe
Bow	Unbreaking, Power, Punch, Flame, Curse of Vanishing	Infinity, Mending
Fishing Rod	Mending, Unbreaking, Lure, Luck of the Sea, Curse of Vanishing
Trident	Mending, Unbreaking, Impaling, Curse of Vanishing	Channeling, Riptide	Loyalty, Riptide
Crossbow	Mending, Unbreaking, Quick Charge, Curse of Vanishing	Piercing, Multishot
Shears	Mending, Unbreaking, Efficiency, Curse of Vanishing, Silk Touch‌[BE only]
Elytra	Mending, Unbreaking, Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing
Shield	Mending, Unbreaking, Curse of Vanishing
Flint and Steel
Carrot on a Stick
Warped Fungus on a Stick
Brush
Compass	Curse of Vanishing
Recovery Compass‌[BE only]

The tables below show which enchantments can be obtained through an enchanting table, and which can only be applied through an anvil.

• indicates the item can receive the enchantment from an enchanting table.
• indicates the item cannot receive the enchantment from an enchanting table, but can receive the enchantment by using an anvil to combine the item with an enchanted book or another enchanted item.

Enchantments for hand slot items

Enchantment			‌[JE only]	‌[BE only]									‌[BE only]
Bane of Arthropods
Breach
Channeling
Cleaving​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]
Curse of Vanishing
Density
Efficiency
Fire Aspect
Flame
Fortune
Impaling
Infinity
Knockback
Looting
Loyalty
Luck of the Sea
Lunge
Lure
Mending
Multishot
Piercing
Power
Punch
Quick Charge
Riptide
Sharpness
Silk Touch						‌[BE only]
Smite
Sweeping Edge
Unbreaking
Wind Burst

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
Soul Speed
Swift Sneak
Thorns	‌[JE only]		‌[JE only]	‌[JE only]
	‌[BE only]		‌[BE only]	‌[BE only]
Unbreaking

Using commands, items can be enchanted at higher levels than in vanilla gameplay. Some enchantments continue to increase their effectiveness at higher levels. However, there is a point where higher levels no longer increase effectiveness. The table below shows the effective limits for enchantments (also found here).

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Disenchanted	Use a Grindstone to get experience from an enchanted item.	—	20	Bronze

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Enchanter	Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table	Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment.

Issues relating to "Enchanting", "Enchantment", or "Enchanted" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 
  A sword with 4 enchantments on it.
• 
  A diamond pickaxe with multiple high-level enchantments, right after enchanting. (pre-1.13)
• 
  Place 15 bookshelves around an enchanting table to get the highest level enchantments.
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  A bow that has four enchantments.
• 
  Table of enchantment probabilities for books.
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  The GUI of the enchantment table in Pocket Edition while the Pocket UI Profile is activated (top = no item, bottom = with item hovering on the second line).

• 
  Enchant screen. Posted by Notch.
• 
  Some enchantments. Posted by Jeb.
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  Pre-release 1.8 enchanting table screen. Note that gold ingots were required instead of lapis lazuli.
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  First image of enchanting in Pocket Edition.
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  Underwater, with and without the Respiration enchantment comparison. This feature was removed in 1.13.

• Enchantments on items are always listed in the same order on their tooltips, that being: Curse of Binding, Curse of Vanishing, Riptide, Channeling, Wind Burst, Frost Walker, Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Impaling, Power, Density, Breach, Piercing, Sweeping Edge, Multishot, Fire Aspect, Flame, Knockback, Punch, Protection, Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection, Feather Falling, Fortune, Looting, Silk Touch, Luck of the Sea, Efficiency, Quick Charge, Lure, Respiration, Aqua Affinity, Soul Speed, Swift Sneak, Depth Strider, Thorns, Loyalty, Unbreaking, Infinity, and Mending.

• Enchanting/Levels
• Tutorial:Best enchantments guide
• Brewing
• Crafting
• Smelting
• Enchanting mechanics
• Anvil mechanics

• Getting Started with Enchantments in Minecraft – Minecraft Help Center
• All Enchantments in Minecraft – Minecraft Help Center

v t e Enchantments
Durability	Mending Unbreaking
Block breaking	Efficiency Fortune Silk Touch
Armor	Blast Protection Fire Protection Projectile Protection Protection Thorns Helmet Aqua Affinity Respiration Leggings Swift Sneak Boots Depth Strider Feather Falling Frost Walker Soul Speed
Melee weapons	Bane of Arthropods Smite Sword Fire Aspect Knockback Looting Sharpness Sweeping Edge‌[JE only] Axe Cleaving​[upcoming: JE Combat Tests] Sharpness Spear Fire Aspect Knockback Looting Lunge Sharpness Mace Breach Density Fire Aspect Wind Burst
Trident	Channeling Impaling Loyalty Riptide
Bow	Flame Infinity Power Punch
Crossbow	Multishot Piercing Quick Charge
Fishing Rod	Luck of the Sea Lure
Curse	Curse of Binding Curse of Vanishing
Joke	Potatofication