Enchanting



Enchanting is a mechanic which utilizes an Enchantment Table or an Enchanted Book and an anvil to add special abilities to armor, tools, and weapons. Enchantments require the usage of experience points, with successively higher enchantments requiring more experience. The only means of enchanting that does not require the loss of Experience Points is through trade with a Villager Priest, which can enchant certain items in exchange for an Emerald.

Enchanting Basics
An item can be enchanted by first right-clicking on the Enchanting 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 right of the GUI. Only enchantments with a required level less than or equal to 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 experience levels spent. Items can also be enchanted using the /enchant command for ops, which only allows enchantments available in normal enchanting.

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

Items enchantable with an enchanting table are currently limited to all kinds of armor, tools (limited to pickaxes, shovels, and axes), swords, bows, and recently books. Shears, Flint-and-Steel, Fishing Rods, and Carrot-on-a-Stick can, however, be enchanted by combining them and an enchanted book on an anvil.

There are several levels on most enchantments, and obtaining multiple enchantments is a possibility, with the probability increasing with higher experience levels for everything but boots.

Usually, the bottom one is the best.

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

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Armor Enchantments
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 * colspan=7 | Protection enchantments stack, up to an upper limit cap. For the "x protection" enchantments, "Protection" always protects just as well against fire damage as "Fire Protection" does, likewise for explosions and projectiles. "Feather Falling" sometimes works better than plain "Protection", unless the sum of your protection enchantments are already at the upper limit cap. See Armor for details.
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 * Protection
 * Reduces damage from most sources (except from The Void, Hunger and the /kill command)
 * IV
 * See Armor
 * Armor with Protection cannot receive Fire Protection, Blast Protection, or Projectile Protection.
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 * Fire Protection
 * Protection against fire damage; extinguishes fire faster
 * IV
 * See Armor
 * Armor with Fire Protection cannot receive Protection, Blast Protection, or Projectile Protection.
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 * Feather Falling
 * Protection against fall damage
 * IV
 * See Armor
 * Feather Falling also reduces the fall damage from Ender Pearl teleportations.
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 * Blast Protection
 * Protection against explosion damage; reduces explosion recoil
 * IV
 * See Armor
 * Armor with Blast Protection cannot receive Protection, Fire Protection, or Projectile Protection.
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 * Projectile Protection
 * Protection against damage from projectile entities (i.e., arrows and ghast/blaze fireballs)
 * IV
 * See Armor
 * Armor with Projectile Protection cannot receive Protection, Fire Protection, or Blast Protection.
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 * Respiration
 * Decreases the rate of air loss underwater; increases time between damage while suffocating and drowning
 * III
 * Underwater breathing time +15 seconds; time between suffocation damage +1 second
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 * Aqua Affinity
 * Increases underwater mining rate
 * I
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 * Thorns
 * Randomly deals damage to mobs or players attacking the wearer
 * III
 * Higher chance of damage
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 * Unbreaking
 * Increases durability
 * III
 * (60 + 40/(Level+1))% chance a use reduces durability; on average, armor lasts 20%-30% longer
 * Enchanting armor with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
 * Enchanting armor with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.

Sword Enchantments
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 * Sharpness
 * Extra damage
 * V
 * 0.5 to 1.5 hearts extra damage per level
 * Extra damage is random for every hit. A sword with Sharpness cannot receive Smite or Bane of Arthropods.
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 * Smite
 * Extra damage to zombies, zombie pigmen, withers and skeletons
 * V
 * 0.5 to 2 hearts extra damage per level
 * Extra damage is random for every hit. A sword with Smite cannot receive Sharpness or Bane of Arthropods.
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 * Bane of Arthropods
 * Extra damage to spiders, cave spiders and silverfish
 * V
 * 0.5 to 2 hearts extra damage per level
 * Extra damage is random for every hit. A sword with Bane of Arthropods cannot receive Sharpness or Smite.
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 * Knockback
 * Increases knockback
 * II
 * More knockback
 * Does not combine with knockback caused by attacking while sprinting.
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 * Fire Aspect
 * Lights the target on fire
 * II
 * Affects duration of burning
 * Dropped meat will be cooked if an animal is killed while on fire, but fire is not applied until after the attack damage. Striking TNT will ignite it from the fire application.
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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.
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 * Unbreaking
 * Increases durability
 * III
 * (100/(Level+1))% chance a use reduces durability; on average, sword lasts (Level+1) times as long
 * Enchanting swords with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
 * Enchanting swords with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.

Tool Enchantments
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 * Efficiency
 * Faster resource gathering while in use
 * V
 * +50% mining speed per level
 * Efficiency V gives a 250% speed boost, breaking some blocks instantly. The speed increase applies to all blocks that when mined, will drop an item. Using the wrong tool will not provide as much of a speed boost.
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 * Silk Touch
 * Mined blocks will drop themselves, even if they should drop something else (e.g., stone will drop stone, not cobblestone).
 * I
 * Allows the collection of normally unobtainable blocks . The normal requirements for mining still apply: e.g., an iron or better pickaxe must be used to get drops from diamond ore, etc. A tool with Silk Touch cannot receive Fortune. Enchanting shears with Silk Touch requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
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 * Allows the collection of normally unobtainable blocks . The normal requirements for mining still apply: e.g., an iron or better pickaxe must be used to get drops from diamond ore, etc. A tool with Silk Touch cannot receive Fortune. Enchanting shears with Silk Touch requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
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 * Unbreaking
 * Increases durability
 * III
 * (100/(Level+1))% chance a use reduces durability; on average, tool lasts (Level+1) times as long
 * Enchanting shears, fishing rod, flint and steel, and carrot on a stick with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
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 * Fortune
 * Increases the drop rate of items from blocks
 * III
 * Varies
 * For coal, diamond, emerald, redstone, and lapis lazuli, level I gives a 33% chance to multiply drops by 2 (averaging 33% increase), level II gives a 25% chance each to multiply drops by 2 or 3 (averaging 75% increase), and level III gives a 20% chance each to multiply drops by 2, 3 or 4 (averaging 120% increase). For carrots, glowstone, melons, nether wart, tall grass, and wheat (seeds only), each level increases the drop maximum by +1 (+2 for tall grass, maximum 9 for glowstone and 4 for melons). For gravel, the drop rate of flint is increased to 14% at level I, 25% at level II, and 100% at level III. A tool with Fortune cannot receive Silk Touch.
 * For coal, diamond, emerald, redstone, and lapis lazuli, level I gives a 33% chance to multiply drops by 2 (averaging 33% increase), level II gives a 25% chance each to multiply drops by 2 or 3 (averaging 75% increase), and level III gives a 20% chance each to multiply drops by 2, 3 or 4 (averaging 120% increase). For carrots, glowstone, melons, nether wart, tall grass, and wheat (seeds only), each level increases the drop maximum by +1 (+2 for tall grass, maximum 9 for glowstone and 4 for melons). For gravel, the drop rate of flint is increased to 14% at level I, 25% at level II, and 100% at level III. A tool with Fortune cannot receive Silk Touch.

Bow Enchantments
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 * Unbreaking
 * Increases durability
 * III
 * (100/(Level+1))% chance a use reduces durability; on average, bow lasts (Level+1) times as long
 * Enchanting bows with Unbreaking requires an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
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 * Power
 * Extra damage
 * V
 * Extra damage is dealt
 * Multiplies base damage by 1.5 at Power I and grows in intervals of .25 (Power II = 1.75, Power III = 2.00, and Power IV = 2.25).  A fully drawn Power IV bow will kill most mobs with a single shot (10-11 hearts damage).
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 * Punch
 * Increases knockback
 * II
 * Mobs and players are knocked back farther.
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 * Flame
 * Sets arrows, mobs, and players on fire
 * I
 * Sets arrows on fire when shot, and players and mobs when hit. Applies after initial damage like Fire Aspect. Applied fire also ignites TNT.
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 * Sets arrows on fire when shot, and players and mobs when hit. Applies after initial damage like Fire Aspect. Applied fire also ignites TNT.
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 * Infinity
 * Gives unlimited shots as long as you have a single arrow in your inventory (bow still loses durability)
 * I
 * Arrows fired by a bow with this enchantment cannot be retrieved, similar to the arrows fired by Skeletons.
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 * Arrows fired by a bow with this enchantment cannot be retrieved, similar to the arrows fired by Skeletons.
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