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Best Enchantments for Every Minecraft Tool and Weapon
The ideal build for every weapon and tool in the game: sword, bow, crossbow, trident, mace, spear, pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, shears and fishing rod. Each guide names the enchantments worth putting on the item, explains the ones to skip because they conflict, and links straight into the calculator with that build loaded so you can see the cheapest anvil order and its XP cost. Each enchantment applies only to certain items, so a build that suits one item rarely carries over to another.
This hub also holds the comparison guides for the choices that trip people up, such as Fortune versus Silk Touch and Sharpness versus Smite versus Bane of Arthropods, plus item guides for the mace and the enchanting table language. Mending and Unbreaking appear in nearly every build because they lengthen an item's life; the rest of each build depends on what the item is for.
Armor and shields have their own hub. For a ranked list across all items, the best-of guides linked below do the comparing for you.
Weapons
God Sword: The Ideal Sword Enchantments
Sharpness, Looting, Sweeping Edge, Unbreaking, and Mending all stack on one sword with zero conflicts — here's the full build.
God Bow: The Ideal Bow Enchantments
Infinity and Mending can't coexist on a bow — the real strategic choice every archer has to make, explained.
The Ideal Crossbow Enchantments
Multishot vs. Piercing IV is the crossbow's defining fork — crowd control versus a sniper's single shot through a whole line.
The Ideal Trident Enchantments
Riptide launches you like a rocket but can't coexist with Loyalty or Channeling — the trident's whole build revolves around this fork.
The Ideal Mace Enchantments
Density or Breach, never both — the mace build fork, plus Wind Burst, Unbreaking, Mending, and what Bedrock adds.
Minecraft Mace: Recipe, Smash Attack & Enchantments
How to make a mace in Minecraft: the mace recipe (heavy core + breeze rod), how to get a heavy core, how the smash attack works, repair and mace enchantments.
Minecraft Spear Enchantments: Best Build for Java & Bedrock
The best spear enchantments in Minecraft: which ones a spear accepts on Java and Bedrock, the Lunge III build, jab vs charge attacks, tiers and repair.
Sharpness vs. Smite vs. Bane of Arthropods
These three melee damage enchantments are mutually exclusive — the tradeoff between the generalist and the undead/arthropod specialists. Price any of them free.
Tools and Utilities
The Ideal Pickaxe Enchantments
Efficiency, Fortune or Silk Touch, Unbreaking, and Mending — what each does and why you can't have Fortune and Silk Touch together.
The Ideal Axe Enchantments
Axes are the only tool that can carry both a mining enchant and a full combat enchant at once — here's why, and the build to prove it.
The Ideal Shovel Enchantments
Fortune III turns gravel into a 100% flint drop — the one shovel fact worth knowing before you enchant.
The Ideal Hoe Enchantments
Hoes are the fastest tool against leaves and sculk — which makes Efficiency and Fortune genuinely useful, not a joke enchant.
The Ideal Shears Enchantments
What enchantments shears can take: Efficiency, Unbreaking and Mending on both editions, Silk Touch on Bedrock only, and never Fortune.
Max Fishing Rod: The Ideal Fishing Rod Enchantments
Luck of the Sea, Lure, Unbreaking, and Mending — the one build with zero forks or conflicts at all.
Fortune vs. Silk Touch: Can You Have Both?
Fortune and Silk Touch can never go on the same tool — here's why they conflict and when to pick each for mining. See the real anvil cost for either pick.
Minecraft Enchanting Table Language: Rune Translator
Read the Minecraft enchanting table language (Standard Galactic Alphabet): translate text to runes and back, see the rune chart, and what the runes mean.