With the latest Minecraft 1. Players across Minecraft have had to reevaluate their armor sets and strategies for boosting their defenses as a result of the 19 update, also known as The Wild Update. After all, the Warden is a force to be reckoned with, and if you don’t have the best armor possible, surviving is practically impossible.
Certain enchantments have become less effective than others since the introduction of Netherite, and on the other hand, newer enchantments like Soul Speed have completely altered the meta since their release. In order to have the best armor in the game, players must now choose which enchantments to keep on their armor and which to sacrifice.
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Minecrafts enchantments add buffs to your tools, weapons, and armor. Enchantments can increase mining speed, speed up fishing, or even add lightning damage to attacks.
This Minecraft enchanting guide will show you how to build an enchanting table, how to improve your enchantments, and which enchantments are currently available.
Build an enchanting table
You only really need an enchanting table to enchant items, but you’ll also need a grindstone, an anvil, and three blocks of iron and four iron ingots.
It takes one book, two diamonds, and four obsidian to make an enchanting table.
Three pieces of paper (made from sugar cane) and one piece of leather can be used to create a book.
Diamonds are a little harder to come by. First, you’ll need (at least) an iron pickaxe. Then, below level 15—roughly 15 blocks above where stone turns into deep slate—you must dig. The minimum depth is 15, but working closer to level -60 will be more fruitful because diamond becomes even more common the lower you go.
Create a diamond pickaxe once you have some diamonds to gather obsidian. Obsidian may be located above ground in a defunct portal or in caves where lava meets flowing water. It’s much easier, though, to make your own. Place a bucket of lava in a hole and pour a bucket of water on it if you have access to an endless supply of lava, such as from a lava farm. The lava becomes obsidian.
With all your resources gathered, make your enchanting table.
Enchanting items and enchantment level
You will need some lapis lazuli and the object you wish to enchant in order to do so. The blue-speckled ore that is discovered while mining is lapis lazuli. It most frequently occurs at level 0, where stone changes to deep slate.
Simply set your tool on the enchanting table in the left slot and some lapis lazuli in the right slot to enchant it. Three enchantment options will appear to the right. It will cost 1 to 3 lapis lazuli and 1 to 3 player levels (earned through XP) to apply one of the enchantments. The minimum level required to unlock that enchantment is indicated by the green number to the right, but it has no bearing on the price.
Your level (the green number at the bottom of the screen) and the enchantment level determine which of the three enchantments will appear. By accumulating experience points (XP), which you can get from performing tasks like slaying enemies, mining ores, and smelting, you can raise your player level. Increasing the enchantment level requires bookshelves.
An enchanting table’s level is raised by adding a bookshelf (3 books, 6 planks) one block away. The enchanting table’s level rises slightly with each additional bookshelf you add, up to a maximum of 15. (In essence, this means that the enchantments will be more effective the more bookcases you have.) There must be one space between the bookshelf and the magical table, and nothing (not even a torch) may be in that space.
Getting different enchantments
When you use an enchanting table, three enchantments are randomly selected from a set list. You’ll get better ones as your level rises or as you add and remove bookcases because it’s somewhat arbitrary, but the list won’t change very much.
Use one of the available enchantments to generate a fresh list for the table to draw from. Pick the least expensive one, which will always cost one level and one lapis lazuli, and apply it to a random object like a book. If you return to the table, the list will (mostly) be updated.
Removing and combining enchantments
The enchantments on an item can be removed using a grindstone (which consists of two sicks, one stone slab, and two planks).
You can combine enchantments from two items or apply an enchanted book to an item using an anvil (3 iron blocks, 4 iron ingots).
List of Minecraft enchantments
A list of enchantments that can be added to tools and armor using an Enchanting Table can be found below, courtesy of the Minecraft Wiki. For a full list of Enchantments, check out the Minecraft Wiki.
Minecraft Enchanting Table Enchantments
| Enchantment name | Effect | Compatible armor/tools |
|---|---|---|
| Enchantment name | Effect | Compatible armor/tools |
| Aqua Affinity | Increases underwater mining speed | Helmet, Turtle Shell |
| Bane of Arthropods | Increases damage and applies Slowness to spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, endermites, and bees | Sword, Axe (Bedrock only) |
| Blast Protection | Reduces explosion damage and knockback | Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell |
| Channeling | Channels a bolt of lightning towards a hit target, only works during thunderstorms | Trident |
| Cleaving | Increases damage and shield stunning | Axe |
| Depth Strider | Increases underwater movement speed | Boots |
| Efficiency | Increases mining speed. Increases chances axes may stun a shield | Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe |
| Feather Falling | Reduces fall damage | Boots |
| Fire Aspect | Sets target on fire | Sword |
| Fire Protection | Reduces fire damage and burn time | Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell |
| Flame | Arrows set target on fire | Bow |
| Fortune | Increases certain block drops | Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe |
| Impaling | Deals addition damage to mobs that spawn in the ocean | Trident |
| Infinity | Shooting a bow consumes no regular arrows | Bow |
| Knockback | Increases knockback | Sword |
| Looting | Increases mob loot | Sword |
| Loyalty | Trident returns after being thrown | Trident |
| Luck of the Sea | Increases rate of good loot | Fishing Rod |
| Lure | Decreases time until rod gets a bite | Fishing Rod |
| Multishot | Shoots three arrows at the cost of one | Crossbow |
| Piercing | Arrows pass through multiple entities | Crossbow |
| Power | Increases arrow damage | Bow |
| Projectile Protection | Reduces projectile damage | Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell |
| Protection | Reduces most types of damage | Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell |
| Punch | Increases arrow knockback | Bow |
| Quick Charge | Decreases crossbow charging time | Crossbow |
| Respiration | Extends underwater breathing time | Helmet, Turtle Shell |
| Riptide | Trident launches player with itself when thrown, only works in water and rain | Trident |
| Sharpness | Increases damage | Sword, Axe (Bedrock only) |
| Silk Touch | Mined blocks drop themselves | Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe |
| Smite | Increases damage to undead mobs | Sword, Axe (Bedrock only) |
| Sweeping Edge (Java only) | Increases sweeping attack damage | Sword |
| Thorns | Reflects some of the damage taken when hit | Chestplate |
| Unbreaking | Increases item durability | Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell, Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Sword, Hoe, Fishing Rod, Bow, Trident, Crossbow |
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Best Enchantments For All Armor and Items in Minecraft
FAQ
What is the best enchantment for Armour in Minecraft?
Minecraft: 10 Best Enchantments For Armor8 Depth Strider. 7 Respiration. 6 Thorns. 5 Projectile Protection. 4 Feather Falling. 3 Protection. 2 Fire Protection. 1 Blast Protection.
How do you enchant armor with books in Minecraft?
You can enchant another item once you have an enchanted book: Create an anvil To access the anvil menu, place your anvil on the ground and interact with it. In the first box, place the object you want to enchant. Put the Enchanted Book in the second box. Drag the enchanted item to your inventory.
How do you get enchantments in Minecraft?
How to Enchant Items in Minecraft. Place the enchanting table down and interact with it. When you do this, a window with your inventory and two open slots appears above it. The item you wish to enchant goes in the first slot, and lapis lazuli goes in the second.
What enchantments can be put on a armor?
Minecraft armor enchantments ranked:Protection. Your entire collection of armor should have protection as its primary enchantment. Feather Falling. Swift Sneak. Thorns. Respiration. Aqua Affinity. Frost Walker or Depth Strider. Soul Speed.
