Enchantments are some of the most critical aspects of the end-game content in Minecraft. You must know what purpose these enchantments serve in the game to utilize them fully. This guide features some helpful insight into the best ones to use.
The newest update did not bring us any new enchantments, but we will have newer players jumping into the game due to its popularity. That is why knowing enchantments and their purpose is essential to learning their overall game mechanic.
The game has many enchantments, and learning all of them can prove difficult, especially if you are new to the game. This guide will highlight the most important ones that will bring you the most value in your playthrough.
A List of the Best Minecraft Enchantments for Update 1.20
There are more than 30+ enchantments in the game. They can be applied to armor, weapons, and tools to increase their durability, strength, status effects, and more. You must know how to utilize them to see how they affect your gameplay.
That is why making this list of the best enchantments overall is an excellent start to seeing what these enchantments can do to your gameplay. Let us get into it.
(Note: This list is the writer’s own opinion and should not be considered the final list)
9. Multishot
Multishot has a simple effect on your crossbow. Instead of a single arrow, it will shoot three, and the best part is that it just consumes a single arrow from your inventory. Not only will this enchantment save you materials, but it will triple the damage if your enemy is up close.
Pair this enchantment with your multishot attachment with a crossbow and use it like a shotgun to destroy enemies up close. You can also duplicate fireworks rockets with this enchantment. However, the crossbows with this enchantment use three durability points instead of one.
8. Efficiency
Mining is one of the most critical activities in the game since it provides the player with important metals and items. You can use this enchantment on your pickaxe to save time and do the activity a little quicker.
This attachment increases the mining speed of the pickaxe, but it has five different levels. Every time the enchantment receives an upgrade, the mining speed increases by 5 %. The speed increases up to 45 %. In addition to increasing the mining speed, it also increases the chance of the player stunning a shield.
7. Fortune
Combine the last enchantment with this one, and you will make yourself a fortune. The Fortune enchantment increases the number of specific item drops while destroying blocks during mining.
There isn’t a drastic increase in drop percentage, but it certainly helps when you are on the lookout for rare materials in the game. For example, if you have an enchanted pickaxe and mine iron, the number of iron ores dropped from the block increases. You can increase the level and the percentage drop by upgrading this enchantment.
6. Luck of the Sea
Fishing might not seem important to the game, but it is. Players can apply this to their fishing rods and lure to increase the chance of catching treasure. As usual, every time you upgrade this enchantment’s level, its effectiveness of it increases.
In addition to increasing the chances of catching rare treasure, it also decreases the chance of getting junk treasure. You can upgrade this enchantment to three levels, so if you are a huge fisherman, then we recommend getting this fully upgraded.
5. Sharpness
This is a simple enchantment, but it is quite effective. Sharpness is an enchantment that increases the melee damage one does with a sword or an axe. With this enchantment, you can upgrade to five levels; the more you increase the level, the more damage your weapon does.
This enchantment is incompatible with the Bane of Arthropods, Smite, and Cleaving, so combining these with Sharpness is useless. This is one of the most important enchantments in the game for killing mobs and enemies in general.
4. Unbreaking
This is one of the best enchantments in Minecraft. Combine this with Mending, and you have got yourself an unbreakable weapon. Unbreaking ensures that your weapon does not decrease its durability points when it is used. Therefore, the best equipment for this enchantment would be melee weapons such as the axe or the sword.
You can obtain this enchantment by fishing, using an enchanting table, or trading with a villager. You can also find an enchanted book for the same in the dungeons.
3. Protection
Your defense is just as important as your offense in the game. That is why, you should spruce up your armor by enchanting it with the Protection enchantment. The enchantment has a total of four levels, and you can use those levels to ensure that your armor cannot be pierced by anything.
The enchantment is incompatible with Blast Protection, Fire Projection, and Projectile Protection. This enchantment will be really important in the end-game as you want as much Protection as you can get.
2. Infinity
As the name implies, putting this enchantment on a bow prevents regular arrows from being spent on that shot. If everything goes well, you can keep using the bow and arrow to continuously shoot without worrying about running out of ammunition for the weapon.
Combine this enchantment with the Multi-Shot, and watch how you can be an unstoppable force against any mob in Minecraft. However, this combination won’t work on crossbows, so you can only use it on bows and arrows.
1. Mending
It is natural that when you use an item, you will farm experience points while the durability of the weapon decreases. But what if we could make it so that the experience itself repairs the weapon’s durability? It would result in an unbreakable weapon. Say hello to the Mending enchantment.
This enchantment uses the experience points collected from the weapons to repair the durability of the weapon, making it the best enchantment in the game. This enchantment is incompatible with Infinity. Although a combination of this and unbreaking would be a good option for any tool.
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