The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Enchanting Guide | Anvil, Enchants Explained, Enchantment Table & More!

The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Enchanting Guide
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Learn everything you need to Know about Enchanting Basics in Minecraft 1.20, Including How to Use Anvils, All 30+ Minecraft Enchantments Explained How to Get Better Enchantments in Minecraft with Easy Enchanting Tips, Info about How to Use the Grindstone, How to Get Bookshelves for Enchanting, the Best Enchantment Table Set Up, Item Enchantability, How to Use the Enchanting Table in Minecraft, All Minecraft Enchantments and their use, and Much More in this Minecraft Java and Bedrock Enchanting Guide
📑Chapters📑
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Best Enchanting Set Up
1:24 - Torches to Lower Levels
2:00 - How to Enchant Items
4:00 - Refreshing Enchantments
5:14 - Item Enchantability
7:02 - Enchanting Books
7:36 - Anvils and Enchanting
11:15 - Every Enchantment Explained
14:45 - Mutually Exclusive Enchantments
15:06 - The Grindstone

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[@hansimuli]

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[@oBrieff]

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[@liguelxi1610]

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[@RokonGaming]

As a reminder, you can force a great enchantment seed by putting in a golden tool/weapon/armor first, and then replacing the golden equipment with a book or the equipment you want to enchant.

[@derricks.615]

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[@q7o254]

On java or bedrock?

[@RokonGaming]

@@derricks.615 Mhm, though I recently learned it only works on armor, not weapons. Still, nice way to get great enchants

[@lukemaitland1210]

Will be trying this! Nice one 👌

[@chen_plays4173]

Do i need to enchantment the golden tool first?

[@Sandvall]

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[@Eyecraftmc]

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[@migsch]

@@bahaaghemrawi7989 probs cause you’re 8

[@joebootay725]

I didn’t realize diamond was so low on enchant-ability. I appreciate this knowledge! Thanks

[@a_lonely_guitarist3359]

Ikr!!!!

[@Yo-ic2go]

Probably gonna enchant iron picks first

[@Zokere]

I find it funny that some great hardcore players say that diamond enchants better than Netherite. Just from playing what I have, I can say that I consistently get better enchantments on Iron and Netherite than I do with diamond. I think I've only had one diamond pickaxe that got efficiency 4 with unbreaking and fortune 3 on the table out of MANY tries. You'd be better off raiding end cities to find good enchanted diamond

[@myvalorantclips8703]

me 2 like wtf !😅

[@jarlboof]

​@ChrisJohnson-mg4ut guess i was lucky because the first diamond pic got me silk touch+unbreaking 3, but i put that away (because silk touch isnt that great some times), and the second one is fortune 3+efficiency 4+unbreaking 3, which is really good

[@coconutking675]

13:11 A quick not about this is that Bane of Arthropods applies to all arthropods and not just spiders. It affects spiders, cave spiders, silverfish, endermites, and bees.

[@klondano4401]

Still an enchantment that is very underapreciated

[@chonky_fox4067]

@@klondano4401 still useless though, sharpness does the same

[@marcodestefano7119]

@@chonky_fox4067 tbf bane does more damage than sharpness would, but bane affects a much smaller group of mobs

[@axdn5669]

@@marcodestefano7119 sharpness 4 and up will one-hit all of the mobs you mentioned.

[@333dae]

@@klondano4401 Not really underappreciated, it's just a waste of a spot when Smite affects way more mobs and Sharpness is a jack of all trades

[@Wihf]

One thing to add, you can’t get soulspeed from villagers, only from piglin trading and bastions

[@randomguy514]

I got one from fishing one time.

[@VattiVonSlatti]

you can get everything from auto fish farm

[@Wihf]

@@randomguy514 that too, thanks! Didn't know that lol

[@YoutubeCommenter1st]

@@scythear Ik this is unrelated but do you have any tips to killing the wither?

[@YoutubeCommenter1st]

@@scythear thanks man, I’ll try your method out and see how it goes.

[@yorha19F]

This was very useful, i quite never understood any of these complex aspects of the game, like potion brewing and enchanting, i only played casually to make my house and have fun. You're making me understand new mechanics in a wonderful way, thanks a lot

[@harambe8372]

Yeah same scenario for me except with redstone. I have never actually utilized it in any of my survival worlds, only played around a little bit in creative some years ago.

[@AliasSchmalias]

Trust me, when you play on a pvp server you learn these things really fast ^^

[@Shy0z]

Me too! I enjoy just building in minecraft rather than having a survival world and having insane stuff...

[@teathomas]

Just in case the way the bookshelves were placed in the video confused anyone, the corners *do* count toward your enchanting levels even if there are bookshelves on either side of them. Some people just prefer the aesthetic.

[@drakehellstone208]

where can i look up to to check what the radius for the enchanting table cuz i wanna try thing

[@MaxLeCnkerant]

@@drakehellstone208 only bookshelves 2 blocks away from any direction from the enchanting table count towards it

[@bonaaq86]

@@drakehellstone208 if there's a block in-between is fine

[@user-bx4go2jr2r]

I tested this (no mods btw), and that was not the case

[@peppep8738]

Dude i have 15 BOOKSHELVES AND ITS STILL NOT MAXED OUT

[@ultralysp]

14:00 - Fortune in 1.18 works on metal ores too, assuming you’re not using Silk Touch. It is the go to enchantment for mining now.

[@someone-ji2zb]

It has always been the go to

[@SanctuaryReintegrate]

Clogs up inventory way fast. I prefer to silk the ores, then place them in my base to hit them all with fortune closer to my storage. Before I have access to ender chests and shulkers of course

[@jamesstrickland8696]

@@SanctuaryReintegrate you can just turn raw iron into raw iron blocks. That way you don’t have to mine the same iron ore twice. I don’t foresee a situation where I mine so much iron in a single trip that I can’t hold anything anymore. And if so, we have the raw iron block trick

[@matthewparker9276]

@@jamesstrickland8696 most my caving sessions end up with my inventory clogged with items, usually I go until I have near a stack of raw iron blocks.

[@nameless_x4228]

watching this in my wedding suit while drinking tea

[@sndr.]

Lol!

[@Lionman441]

Is it your wedding or someone else's?

[@lolsadboi3895]

8:48 if you have a bunch of enchantment books you'd like to add to an item, there is very much a strategy to use the least amount of xp doing so. The order you add them to the item, and the order you combine the books together, can both effect the total xp cost. What that strategy is, I don't know, but I know there is a best way of doing it.

[@KainaX122]

Watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fanCpGhjh7WWkNU It breaks down how it works pretty well

[@imjustspeakingfactsbro4189]

You always put the most expensive item (most enchanted) in the first slot and combine it with the lesser enchanted item

[@imjustspeakingfactsbro4189]

This will cost less xp

[@wuzzyyy_]

Just swap around

[@YounesLayachi]

@@imjustspeakingfactsbro4189 the strategy is to always put equally expensive items on both slots. It's not only good to minimise experience cost but it's also the only way to obtain fully enchanted boots in most situations. Combining haphazardly will almost always result in "too expensive" pair of boots before the final enchant. Gnembon has a video explaining this, it works in a tree like fashion because the cost of the most expensive item overrides the cost of the lesser expensive item, so by having them be equal cost, it minimises the penalty. Swapping the items around is off limits as it changes which item is getting repaired. At that point no need for a strategy.

[@josephcola9662]

Pro tip: If you want mending, an incredibly easy way to have literally unlimited access to it is via villager: Just aquire 1 non-nitwit villager and a lectern. Curing a zombie villager or kidnapping an already-extant one doesn't matter, just make sure they're unemployed or you haven't traded with them at all. Place the lectern to make them a librarian. If their first trade offered isn't a book and emeralds for an enchanted book with Mending, break the lectern, and place it back down. As long as you haven't traded with the villager, breaking the job-site block will make them unemployed, and placing it again will offer a new pool of trades. Just keep re-rolling until you get mending.

[@priscillaspets]

this works so well!

[@synkt8759]

you can also re-roll for other items enchantments, in my newest world I have 3 villagers that sell Fortune III, Mending, and Efficiency V

[@combatrex7980]

Thanks bro

[@pen6237]

rather than breaking it, use a sticky piston with a lever so it isn't so tedious 👍

[@glowerworm]

After like 8 years of working with villagers, I really want to never do it again. So I was hoping for an easier way to get mending without trading. Perhaps by fishing? Enchanting doesn't really work well because you constantly have to refill levels and iron for anvils.

[@restoredtuna8264]

On the subject of dummy enchantments, I often do that with iron tools, then they become a useful item that I can use for lesser projects. An iron pick with unbreaking 1 is still a worthy tool in my eyes, especially when you don’t want to waste diamond tool durability.

[@retromess5396]

mending exists

[@retromess5396]

@@serialstrayidk why he would have a enchantment table before he has villagers

[@carsoneastman5709]

@@retromess5396 i never have villagers, I just get a mob farm and enchant away never seen the point in them

[@lumical2475]

@@carsoneastman5709 you play as a caveman or soemthing? A simple villager setup gives you easy max enchants + mending to never break your tools, + anything you want, like golden carrots (best food in the game)

[@angelcalderon6328]

I've never heard of people talking about dummy enchanting, if the last enchantment isn't what I want I'll use the first one on my same tool then use the grindstone. I only lose 1 level and get some of it back after thr grindstone.

[@deaconpoole7577]

You can also use Gold Items to “Lock In” better enchantments, to then swap out with Diamond/Iron/Netherite items, as long as you put the Gold Tool in the Enchanting Table first, check what enchantments are available for it to see if there’s one you want to put on your actually good tools, then swap the gold tool out for the one you intend to enchant. (I play on Bedrock Xbox 1, so this may not work the same on Java)

[@dambugs]

15:25 There is one lesser known benefit to repairing items in a grindstone that you missed. I haven't tested this in Java yet, but I heard it definitely works in bedrock at least. Combining items to repair them in a grindstone will give you back more durability than if you combined them in a crafting grid. Both ways you still lose any enchantments on those items though, but if you want to repair something and don't mind losing it's enchantment it's still a good idea to use the grindstone so you get some of the experience points back from the items.

[@Mex_Luigi]

I feel like this is an extremely important point! Grindstones are the best way to repair tools and such (that don't have any enchantments) with the exact same item, like two iron pickaxes, etc.

[@jimmykeochinda1173]

Grindstones are hella great for unenchanted loot dropped by mobs. That’s what I mainly use them for.

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I appreciate that a lot, thank you!

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[@CeasingZulu]

The way you explain things is wonderful, you dont rush through parts or take too long on others, you keep your voice paced really well Great video, i already knew most of this but i felt compelled to watch this purely due to your level of speech. EDIT: i had no idea things had enchantability, ive been playing for 7 years and i didnt know that as the nerdy kid, kudos.

[@Eyecraftmc]

Thank you!

[@bersig]

I keep a grinding wheel near my enchanting table. That way I can enchant a random item with a low-level enchantment to reset the random seed and then immediately remove the enchantment so I can reuse the same item again. (Rather than having a whole set of trash items to serve the same function.) The added benefit is you get a tiny bit of the experience back from the grinding wheel.

[@ericopryatov7985]

This!

[@94D33M]

@@ericopryatov7985 What about using the item you actually want to enchant and just grind stoning that?

[@RafaelMunizYT]

@@94D33M exactly

[@TheLikeButtonLMAO]

Something I think you forgot to talk about is the act of combining books in the anvil to make the enchants cheaper, effectively bypassing the 'too expensive" thing.

[@taylorindustries]

yeah its the only way to get a load of enchantments on one piece of equipment. You still cant bypass the exclusive enchantments like mending and infinity

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[@retrotek0409]

When dealing with Librarians I was never sure which enchatment was a good one to lock in. Now I know what to go after. Thank you!

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[@cenaazem]

This was so helpful. I've been so confused with the enchanting system for a long time. I understood the basics, but never knew how people got so many good enchantments on one thing, or how people combined enchantments. Thank you for making this video! :)

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[@linusblindfold]

I think a very unerrated way of getting enchantments is fishing. The thing is that you can get enchanted fishing rods FROM fishing. I got luck of the sea III and lure III on my fishing rod very quickly through combining them in the anvil. In about 20 minutes, I got enough enchantment books and bows to get a Power V, Flame, Infinity enchanted bow. However, I highly advise against fishing if you hate luck mechanics.

[@paullittle835]

@13:00 worth noting that with piercing, you also have far more efficient use of arrows, as they will be stuck in terrain after penetrating mobs & can be picked up again.

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[@alanredversangel]

I know one usually comes after the other but if you can find a stronghold it's a great way to get LOTS of bookshelves from the library.

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Thank you so much for this guide!! I've been wondering how the anvils and stone grinders could help me with enchantments, so I'll like this with all the enchanted loot i get from mob farms. Incredibly useful!

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[@HaydenLau.]

If you change the number of bookcases can refresh the enchantments without having to burn a level. If your bookcases are all connected to pistons you can add or remove bookcases easily

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[@ppbuttfart2215]

One thing I thought about with dummy enchantments is using books rather than a tool that you’re going to throw away, that way you at least get some value out. You can always stockpile them and combine them on anvils too

[@theErmysick]

Would be cool if they added frost enchantments, now that we have the freezing effect.

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Why am I just figuring out that you can enchant books

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[@taylorindustries]

You forgot to mention that thorns enchantment on armour decreases your durability so your armour breaks faster. Its why i never use thorns since it breaks to fast even with unbreaking and if you have mending then it will take all your xp

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