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Minecraft Enchantment Guides: Every Enchantment Explained
Every enchantment has its own guide with the exact numbers: the damage formula for Sharpness, the burn time of Fire Aspect, the share of damage Protection removes, the armor Breach ignores. Each page lists the maximum level, the items the enchantment applies to, the enchantments it conflicts with, how to obtain it and when it is worth the anvil levels. Read the conflicts list before you commit books to a build, because an enchantment that conflicts with another one on the same item cannot be combined with it.
The pages are grouped by what the enchantments do: general enchantments and curses, melee weapons, armor, tools and fishing, and ranged weapons. All Minecraft Enchantments is the complete list if you prefer one table to browse. Conflicts matter most for weapons and armor: Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods exclude each other, and so do the Protection types on a single piece.
When you are ready to choose a full set for a specific item, the best-of lists rank the enchantments for you, and the calculator prices the cheapest order in which to combine them, so you pay anvil levels only for enchantments that earn their place.
General Enchantments and Curses
All Minecraft Enchantments: The Complete List
Every enchantment in current Java and Bedrock Edition, grouped by category, with a link to the full reference page for each one.
Mending Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
The exact XP-to-durability conversion rate behind Mending, and why it can't coexist with Infinity on a bow.
Unbreaking Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
The real durability-saving-chance formula behind Unbreaking, and why it works differently on armor than on tools.
Curse of Binding in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Avoid It
What Curse of Binding actually locks in place, how it's removed, and why it's usually a risk rather than an upgrade.
Curse of Vanishing in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Avoid It
What Curse of Vanishing destroys on death, how to avoid triggering it, and why it applies to almost any item.
Melee Weapon Enchantments
Sharpness Enchantment in Minecraft: Exact Damage Formula and How to Use It
What Sharpness actually does, the real Java vs. Bedrock damage formulas, and when a specialist pick beats it.
Smite Enchantment in Minecraft: Exact Damage vs. Undead Mobs
The real damage bonus Smite adds against undead mobs, the full undead mob list, and when it beats Sharpness.
Bane of Arthropods Enchantment: Damage, Slowness, and How to Use It
Exact bonus damage and Slowness duration per level against spiders, silverfish, and other arthropods.
Sweeping Edge Enchantment: Exact Sweep Damage Formula
The real sweep-attack damage formula per level, and why it's sword-exclusive and Java-only.
Looting Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and Does Looting Give XP?
Exactly how Looting increases common and rare mob drops per level, and whether it affects XP.
Fire Aspect Enchantment in Minecraft: Burn Duration and When to Use It
Exact burn duration per level, and why Fire Aspect is a real tradeoff rather than a default pick.
Knockback Enchantment in Minecraft: Exact Distance Per Level
The real knockback distance added per level, and when it helps or hurts your build.
Density Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Density scales Mace smash-attack damage with how far you fell — the exact per-block, per-level bonus, and what it conflicts with.
Wind Burst Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Wind Burst launches you back into the air after a Mace smash attack, letting you chain another one before fall damage catches up.
Breach Enchantment (Mace) in Minecraft: Armor-Ignore Percentage Explained
Exactly how much armor effectiveness Breach ignores per level, and when it beats Density on a mace.
Lunge Enchantment (Spear) in Minecraft: Speed, Hunger Cost, and How to Use It
Exact dash speed and hunger cost per level for the Spear's signature Lunge enchantment, when it does not activate, and how to get it.
Armor Enchantments
Protection Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Protection cuts incoming damage from every source by 4% per level — the broad, all-purpose armor pick, vs. the specialist Protections below.
Blast Protection Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Blast Protection cuts explosion damage by 8% per level, double plain Protection's rate, plus 15% less explosion knockback per level.
Fire Protection Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Fire Protection cuts fire and lava damage by 8% per level and shortens burn duration by 15% per level, up to fire immunity at a full set.
Projectile Protection Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Projectile Protection cuts arrow and other projectile damage by 8% per level, double plain Protection's rate against ranged attacks.
Thorns Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Thorns gives attackers a flat 15% chance per level to take reflected damage — at the cost of extra durability on the armor piece that triggers it.
Feather Falling Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Feather Falling cuts fall damage by 12% per level, up to 48% at level IV — a boots-only enchantment with no effect on any other damage type.
Depth Strider Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Depth Strider restores full underwater movement speed by level III — and directly competes with Frost Walker for the same boots slot.
Frost Walker Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Frost Walker turns water into temporary walkable ice as you step — the exact radius per level, and why it conflicts with Depth Strider.
Respiration Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Respiration extends underwater breathing time and cuts the odds your air ticks down at all — the exact numbers per level.
Aqua Affinity Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Aqua Affinity cancels the 5x underwater mining penalty entirely — a single-level helmet enchantment with no stronger version to chase.
Soul Speed Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Soul Speed speeds up movement on soul sand and soul soil by up to 61.5% at level III — a treasure enchantment found only in Bastion Remnant chests.
Swift Sneak Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Swift Sneak adds 15% of normal walking speed per level while sneaking — a rare leggings enchantment found only in Ancient City chests.
Tool and Fishing Enchantments
Efficiency Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Efficiency's real +2/+5/+10/+17/+26 mining-speed bonus per level, and why it's close to a free pick on any tool build.
Fortune Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
How Fortune multiplies block drops, why it conflicts with Silk Touch, and when to pick it over the alternative.
Silk Touch Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
How Silk Touch preserves the mined block itself, why it conflicts with Fortune, and the spawner myth it doesn't break.
Lure Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Lure cuts the wait before a fish bites by 5 seconds per level — and stacks freely with Luck of the Sea for the Max Fishing Rod.
Luck of the Sea Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Luck of the Sea shifts fishing loot odds toward treasure and away from junk — the exact probability numbers per level.
Bow, Crossbow and Trident Enchantments
Power Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Power adds 25% × (level+1) bonus arrow damage with no exclusions — exactly why it belongs on every bow build at max level.
Punch Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Punch adds extra horizontal knockback per arrow hit — a crowd-control pick, not a damage one, and free to combine with anything.
Flame Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Flame ignites a bow's target for 5 seconds of burn damage — a damage-over-time add-on, separate from the arrow's own hit.
Infinity Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Infinity stops a bow from consuming arrows as long as you carry one — but it directly conflicts with Mending, never both.
Multishot Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Multishot fires 3 arrows from one consumed arrow in a 10° spread — the crowd-control half of the crossbow's central enchantment fork.
Piercing Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Piercing lets one crossbow arrow pass through up to 4 extra lined-up targets — the precision half of the crossbow's central fork.
Quick Charge Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Quick Charge cuts a crossbow's 1.25-second reload down to 0.5 seconds at level III — directly attacking its biggest weakness.
Loyalty Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Loyalty brings a thrown trident back to your hand — but it's a hard conflict with Riptide, which never lets the trident leave at all.
Riptide Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Riptide launches you forward through rain or water using a thrown trident — the exact formula, and why it excludes Loyalty and Channeling.
Channeling Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Channeling summons real lightning on a thrown trident's target during a thunderstorm — the exact conditions it needs to trigger.
Impaling Enchantment in Minecraft: What It Does and How to Use It
Impaling adds up to 12.5 bonus trident damage against aquatic mobs — and works completely differently in Java vs. Bedrock Edition.