Enchanting



Enchanting is a mechanic which utilizes an Enchantment Table to add special abilities to armor, tools, and weapons. Enchantments require the usage of experience points, with successively higher enchantments requiring more experience.

Enchanting Basics
An item can be enchanted by first right clicking an Enchantment Table, which will display a GUI with one item slot. Upon placing the item in the item slot, three randomized options will appear on the left of the GUI. Only enchantments requiring an amount of levels equal to or greater than the player's can be selected. Each option will imbue the item with a randomized set of enchantments which are dependent on the number of levels spent.

The text on the three options of the enchanting GUI is meaningless, but the level number influences both amount and type of enchantments gained, with a higher level resulting in more enchantments and more potent forms of said enchantments.

Enchantments
Enchantment names are randomly constructed from the following list of words. Three to five words are chosen from the list and appended to each other, then displayed in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. Note that the names have no meaning and are not saved on the enchanted item (meaning they will tell you nothing about what the resulting spell will be), and they are only displayed in the Enchantment Table interface.

The following list of words contain all the possible enchantment words after de-ciphered from the Standard Galactic Alphabet.

"scrolls klaatu berata niktu xyzzy bless curse light darkness fire air earth water hot dry cold wet elder ignite snuff embiggen twist shorten stretch fiddle destroy imbue galvanize enchant free limited range of the towards inside sphere cube self other ball mental physical grow shrink demon elemental spirit animal creature beast humanoid undead fresh stale"

Repairing an enchanted weapon/tool will remove the enchantment on it.

When an enchanted weapon deals bonus damage to a mob, circular blue particles fly off of that mob, similar to getting a critical hit.

There are several levels on most enchants, and when you enchant you can get several enchants on each weapon/tool/armor.

Enchantable Items
Items such as swords, shovels, pickaxes, axes, bows, and every part of armor of any material can be enchanted. Hoes, shears, fishing rods and flint and steel are not enchantable.

Enchantment Types
EID is the item's Effect Identification Number in the game code.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 65em" ! EID ! style="width: 10em;" |Enchantable item/s ! Name ! Effect type ! Max. Enchantment Power ! style="width: 10em;" |Per-level bonus ! Notes ! colspan=7 |

Armor Enchantments
! 0 ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! colspan=7 |
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 * Protection
 * Converts all damage from all sources (except from The Void and the /kill command) to armor damage.
 * IV
 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from helmets, which can receive the Respiration and Aqua Affinity enchantments and boots which can receive feather falling.
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 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from helmets, which can receive the Respiration and Aqua Affinity enchantments and boots which can receive feather falling.
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 * Fire Protection
 * Protection against fire
 * IV
 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Feather Falling
 * Less fall damage
 * IV
 * +1 to reduction of falling damage (half a heart)
 * This is a great way to prevent the fall damage from Ender Pearl teleportations.
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 * Blast Protection
 * Protection against explosions
 * IV
 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Projectile Protection
 * Protection against projectile entities (e.g. arrows).
 * IV
 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Armor with this enchantment cannot receive any other type of Protection, apart from boots, which can receive the Feather Falling Enchantment.
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 * Respiration
 * Decreases the rate of air loss underwater; increases time between damage while suffocating.
 * III
 * Underwater breathing time +15 seconds; time between suffocation damage +1 second.
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 * Aqua Affinity
 * Increases underwater mining rate
 * I
 * I

Sword Enchantments
! 16 ! 17 ! 18 ! 19 ! 20 ! 21 ! colspan=7 |
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 * Sharpness
 * Extra damage
 * V
 * Up to 1.5 hearts extra damage per level.
 * Extra damage is random for every hit, but will always be at least 0.5 heart. A sword with this enchantment cannot receive Smite or Bane of Arthropods.
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 * Smite
 * Extra damage to zombies, zombie pigmen, and skeletons.
 * V
 * Up to 2 hearts extra damage per level.
 * Extra damage is random for every hit, but will always be at least plus 0.5 heart. A sword with this enchantment cannot receive Sharpness or Bane of Arthropods.
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 * Bane of Arthropods
 * Extra damage to spiders, cave spiders and silverfish.
 * V
 * Up to 2 hearts extra damage per level.
 * Extra damage is random for every hit, but will always be at least 0.5 heart. A sword with this enchantment cannot receive Sharpness or Smite.
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 * Knockback
 * Increases the knockback dealt when attacking mobs and players.
 * II
 * More knockback.
 * Does not stack with knockback caused by attacking while sprinting. Note that this enchantment can sometimes make experience harder to obtain, as it knocks the mob's body back, causing the orbs to spawn farther away.
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 * Fire Aspect
 * Fire Aspect
 * Lights the target on fire
 * II
 * Affects duration of burning.
 * Will cook meat if mob is killed by the fire damage.
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 * Looting
 * Mobs have a chance to drop more loot.
 * III
 * +1 to max loot drop per level.
 * This also increases the chance of getting a rare drop.
 * This also increases the chance of getting a rare drop.

Tool Enchantments
! 32 ! 33 ! 34 ! 35
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 * Efficiency
 * Faster resource gathering while in use.
 * V
 * +50% mining speed.
 * Efficiency V gives a 250% speedboost, breaking some blocks instantly. The speed increase applies to blocks that the tool is appropriate for and those that can be mined by hand.
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 * Silk Touch
 * Silk Touch
 * Blocks mined will drop themselves, even if it should drop something else (e.g. Stone will drop stone, not Cobblestone).
 * I
 * Allows the collection of normally unobtainable blocks such as Ores, Grass, Mycelium and Huge Mushrooms. The normal requirments for mining blocks still applies: e.g. An iron or better pickaxe must still be used to retrieve diamond ore blocks etc.
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 * Unbreaking
 * At each use, there's a chance the tool's durability will not decrease.
 * III
 * The tool will last an entire tool durability longer.
 * For example, an Unbreaking III item has a chance to use up a use of (100/(3+1))% = (100/4)% = 25%, so Unbreaking III should, on average, make a tool last 4 times as long.
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 * Fortune
 * Fortune
 * Can multiply the drop rate of items from blocks
 * III
 * I: 33% * 2 (33% more)

II: 25% * 2, 25% * 3 (75% more)

III: 20% * 2, 20% * 3, 20% * 4 (120% more)

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 * Only applies to coal, diamond, and lapis lazuli. Also affects the drop rates of Nether Wart, wheat (seeds only), Tall Grass, Glowstone, Melons, and Redstone, and increases the chance for gravel to drop flint instead of itself (see ).

Bow Enchantments
! 48 ! 49 ! 50
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 * Power
 * Extra damage
 * V
 * Extra damage is dealt
 * Multiplies base damage by 1.5 at Power I. Additional levels increase the multiplier by .25 each for a maximum of 2.5. At Power V and with the bow fully drawn it will kill most mobs with a single shot (11-12.5 hearts damage).
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 * Punch
 * Knockback effect on mobs
 * II
 * Mobs are knocked back farther.
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 * Flame
 * Flame

! 51
 * Sets arrows and mobs on fire.
 * I
 * Sets arrows on fire when shot, and mobs when hit.
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 * Infinity
 * Gives unlimited shots with a single arrow (though the bow still loses durability).
 * I
 * This can be extremely useful against the Ender Dragon when fighting it in The End, since the player can no longer return for more arrows to use. However, arrows fired by a bow with this enchantment cannot be retrieved, similar to the arrows fired by Skeletons.
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 * This can be extremely useful against the Ender Dragon when fighting it in The End, since the player can no longer return for more arrows to use. However, arrows fired by a bow with this enchantment cannot be retrieved, similar to the arrows fired by Skeletons.
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