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An enchanting table[a] is a block that allows players to spend their experience point levels to enchant tools, weapons, books, armor, and certain other items.
Obtaining
Loot
From block loot
An enchanting table can be obtained by crafting or mining. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. Despite being composed predominantly of obsidian, this is not reflected in its mining requirements, as any pickaxe can be used; this has been confirmed by Mojang to be intentional.[2]
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Recipes
From crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Book + Diamond + Obsidian |
Usage
Info
One-block tall maximal enchanting library
The enchanting table is 3⁄4 blocks high.
It cannot be moved by pistons. If an enchanting table is placed on ice, the player slides on it as though it is an ice block, just like with slabs.[Java Edition only]
Despite being comprised largely of obsidian, they are not immune to destruction by the ender dragon, which Mojang has confirmed to be intentional.[3]
Breaking
An enchanting table can be obtained by crafting or mining. If mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing.
| Block | Enchantment Table | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 5 | |
| Tool | ||
| Breaking time[A] | ||
| Default | 25 | |
| Wooden | 3.75 | |
| Stone | 1.9 | |
| Iron | 1.25 | |
| Diamond | 0.95 | |
| Netherite | 0.85 | |
| Golden | 0.65 | |
- ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.
Block loot
Template:No unique drops
Enchanting
Enchanting interface.
The enchanting table's main purpose is to enchant items. The table can enchant all tools, armor and gear except hoes,[Bedrock Edition only] shears, flint and steel, carrot on a stick, shield, elytra, carved pumpkin, mob head, lead and horse armor; all of these (excluding leads and horse armor) can instead be enchanted using an anvil and an appropriate enchanted book.
When a bookshelf is placed next to an enchanting table (with one block of air in between) it increases the maximum enchantment level. There must be 15 bookshelves around the enchanting table in order to obtain the maximum enchantment level of 30. See enchantment mechanics for more specific details.
Light source
Enchanting tables emit a light level of 12.[Bedrock Edition only]
Standard Galactic Alphabet
Glyphs flowing from the bookshelves animation.
The arcane glyphs that float from bookshelves to the enchanting table and the cryptic runes in the enchanting table's interface are written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet, which is a simple alphabet substitution cipher used in the Commander Keen series of computer games.
The arcane glyphs cannot be seen if "particles" in the video settings is set to "minimal".
The cryptic runes seen in the interface are randomly constructed from the following list of words:
air animal ball beast berata bless cold creature cthulhu cube curse darkness demon destroy dry earth elder elemental embiggen enchant fhtagn baguette fiddle fire-free fresh galvanize grow hot humanoid ignite imbue inside klaatu light-limited mental mglwnafh niktu of other phnglui physical range rlyeh scrolls self shorten shrink snuff sphere spirit stale stretch the towards twist undead water wet wgahnagl xyzzy
Three to five words are chosen from the list and appended to each other, then displayed in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The words chosen are random and purely cosmetic: they have no relation to the enchantments to be applied to the item and are not saved on the enchanted item (meaning they say nothing about the spell's identity), and they are displayed only in the enchanting table. Only the cost and one of the enchantments are known.
Custom name
By default, the GUI of an enchanting table is labeled "Enchant", but this name can be customized by naming the enchanting table in an anvil before placing it, or by changing the CustomName tag using the /data command.
Sounds
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block broken | Blocks | Breaking the block | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| None[[#cite_note-bug''None'''"`UNIQ--ref-00000007-QINU`"'-7|[sound 2]]] | Blocks | Falling on the block with fall damage | block | None[[#cite_note-bug''None'''"`UNIQ--ref-00000007-QINU`"'-7|[sound 2]]] | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| Block breaking | Blocks | Mining the block | block | subtitles | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| Block placed | Blocks | Placing the block | block | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| Footsteps | Blocks | Walking on the block | block | subtitles | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
| Enchanting table used | ? | Plays when item is enchanted | block | ? | ? | ? | 16 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Enchanting Table | enchanting_table | block.minecraft.enchanting_table |
| Name | Identifier |
|---|---|
| Block entity | enchanting_table |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enchantment Table | enchanting_table | 116 | tile.enchanting_table.name |
| Name | Savegame ID |
|---|---|
| Block entity | EnchantTable |
Block entity
An enchanting table has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.
- Block entity data
- Tags common to all block entities
- CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Enchanter | Construct an Enchantment Table. | Pick up an enchantment table from a crafting table output. | 20G | Bronze | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Enchanter | Enchant an item at an Enchanting Table | Diamonds! | Insert an item in an enchanting table, then apply an enchantment. | story/enchant_item
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History
| Java Edition | |||||
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| September 30, 2011 | First mentions of the enchantment table.[4][5] | ||||
| File:Enchanting Table (pre-release).png In a picture Notch posted of the enchantment table,[6] they were originally made with cobblestone instead of obsidian. | |||||
| October 1, 2011 | The first images of the enchantment screen are revealed, with enchantments written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. The first enchantment translates onto "Well Played Internets You Are Good", the second translated into "These Names Will Be Random And Confusing", and the third translates to "Each Spell Costs Experience Levels". The Standard Galactic Alphabet or SGA was originally created by Tom Hall for use in the Commander Keen series of computer games. | ||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | ||||
| Enchantment tables do not require bookshelves to get maximum enchantments. | |||||
| Enchantments are to be labeled in the enchantment table as random words written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | A bug where all enchantments would show up as Feather Falling I has been fixed. | ||||
| Enchanting has been now properly enabled enchanting on multiplayer. Previously, if a player attempted to enchant an item, it appeared enchanted for the client, but updated with the un-enchanted status once the player logged out and then back in again. | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w05a | Enchanting no longer requires experience in creative mode. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w22a | The maximum enchantment power has been lowered from 50 to 30. | |||
| 1.4.6 | 12w49a | The player can now enchant books to then be used to enchant a tool. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | The fishing rod can now be enchanted without the use of books. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Enchanting has received a major overhaul where there is now a secondary cost, which is lapis lazuli. | |||
| When enchanting an item, one enchantment now appears in the tooltip when selecting an enchantment (e.g Looting III?...). | |||||
| Level 5 enchants (Sharpness, Power, Smite and Bane of Arthropods) can now be applied without the use of an anvil. | |||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The block entity ID for the enchantment table has been changed from EnchantTable to enchanting_table. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | "Enchantment Table" has been renamed to "Enchanting Table". | |||
| Hoes can now be enchanted. | |||||
| Prior to The Flattening, the enchanting table's numeral ID was 116. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||
| 18w44a | |||||
| 18w46a | Enchanting tables are no longer transparent from the bottom. | ||||
| 18w50a | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | ||||
| Enchantment tables now emit a light level of 12. | |||||
| Enchantment tables can now be crafted in the stonecutter. | |||||
| Added enchantment tables to the Creative mode inventory. | |||||
| build 11 | Enchanting tables are now craftable in the crafting table, instead of the stonecutter. | ||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| ? | Hoes can no longer be enchanted in enchanting tables. | ||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.13.11 | When Experimental Gameplay is enabled, tridents can now be enchanted. | |||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | Enchanting now consumes lapis lazuli. | |
| Enchanting has been re-balanced. | |||||
| Enchanted books can now receive multiple enchantments at once. | |||||
| 1.90 | |||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Trivia
Black-textured particles are "fired" into the bookshelves, which later emit the corresponding particle to the enchantment table. (Visible on the red book on the top-left bookshelf, and above the green book on the bottom-left bookshelf, and in the animation farther up the page as a brief flicker).
- The enchantment table actually produces the particles emitted from the bookshelves. These particles originate inside the Enchantment table and are relocated to the bookshelf almost immediately, but travel slow enough to be briefly visible. The particle that enters and leaves the bookshelf is always the same "letter", but the ones traveling into the bookshelves are black.
- Enchantment tables are mostly made of obsidian, and thus have a blast resistance of 1,200 and cannot be destroyed by TNT, although they can still be mined by any pickaxes.
- Enchantment tables are midway between slabs and full blocks height-wise, so they could be potentially used as a TNT cannon's range-amplifier instead of slabs or trapdoors
- When the player is invisible, the enchantment table can still "see" the player and open up.
- On the enchantment screen, captions in the Standard Galactic Alphabet includes several in-jokes:
- On October 1, 2011, Notch tweeted an image of the enchantment screen, with enchantments .[7] The first enchantment translates into "Well Played Internets You Are Good", the second translated into "These Names Will Be Random And Confusing", and the third translates to "Each Spell Costs Experience Levels".
- Three of the possible words for enchantments are "the elder scrolls," likely a joke at Bethesda, creator of "The Elder Scrolls" series and whose parent company, Zenimax, attempted to sue Mojang for the name of their game Scrolls.
- The words "klaatu berata niktu" are a (misspelled) reference to "Klaatu barada nikto", a phrase that originates from the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still and has been since used as a reference in many other movies, cartoons and games.
- Similarly, "Xyzzy" is a magic spell in the game "Colossal Cave Adventure" and has been used in several other games as an Easter Egg or cheat code.
- The word "embiggen" is a fictional word coined by The Simpsons quote: "A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man".
- The words "phnglui mglwnafh cthulhu rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagnbaguette" are a quote from H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu," apart from the extra "baguette" at the end.
- Of the list of words that the enchantment table uses, none of the words contain the letters "J" or "Q". Although they are not used in the words, they do have a symbol attached to them, and can be seen moving from the bookshelf and the table.
Gallery
- YA2DD.png
The new enchantment table enchanting grid with extra slot for lapis lazuli.
The enchantment table receiving knowledge from nearby bookshelves.
- Enchant Table with closed book.jpg
The enchantment table with the book closed and spinning.
Color coded texture for the book entity.
The GUI of the enchantment table in Bedrock Edition (top = no item, bottom = with item hovering on the second line).
A newly enchanted sword.
Notes
- ↑ Known as Enchanting Table in Java Edition and Enchantment Table in Bedrock Edition.
References
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kwjnt/notch_twitter_its_an_enchantment_table/c2nsx1l
- ↑ MC-177516
- ↑ MC-177521
- ↑ https://twitter.com/notch/status/119799522170912768
- ↑ https://twitter.com/notch/status/119768400129044482
- ↑ http://imgur.com/2NftV
- ↑ https://twitter.com/notch/status/120207632228298753









