Enchantments

Enchantments are a property of items in Minecraft that improve an item's existing abilities or give them additional abilities. Players can obtain items that are enchanted by various means, but they can also enchant items themselves.

The main methods to enchant an item are:

• Using an enchanting table: Players can use the enchanting table item and pay experience points and lapis lazuli to enchant an item. Only items with no enchantments can be enchanted this way.
• Librarian villager: The librarian villager will enchant books for players at the cost of emeralds, rather than experience points and lapis lazuli.
• Using an anvil: Players can combine an item with an enchanted book or with another identical item that has a different enchantment. The resulting item will have both enchantments.
• /enchant command: The /enchant command will enchant the item held in the main hand of the target player.

List of Enchantments

Here is a list of all enchantments in vanilla Minecraft. In Survival mode, enchantments can be added to certain items that are equipped to certain slots. For example, some enchantments can only be granted to items for the helmet slot, while others can be granted to tools such as pickaxes, shovels, axes, and hoes. The following table lists the enchantments available, their effect on the items they're granted to, and the item types (slots) that they can be enchanted onto.

Name	Effect		Eligible Slots
Aqua Affinity	Increases speed when mining under water.		Helmet, Turtle Shell
Bane of Arthropods	Increases the damage dealt to mobs in the arthropod family and applies slowness to them when hit.		Sword, Axe
Blast Protection	Reduces the damage and knockback from explosions.		Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell
Breach	Reduces the protection granted by armor.		Mace
Channeling	Thrown trident will summon a lightning bolt when the target is hit.		Trident
Cleaving	Increases the damage dealt by melee attacks and the increases the length of time that shields are disabled after performing a melee attack.		Axe
Curse of Binding	Item cannot be removed once it is equipped. The item can only be removed when it breaks or when the wearer dies.
Curse of Vanishing	Item will disappear on death.
Depth Strider	Increases movement speed under water.		Boots
Density	Increases the damage dealt by maces per block fallen when performing smashing attacks.		Mace
Efficiency	Increases the speed with which a tool will break a block. The proper tool for the block must be used in order to receive the bonus from this enchantment.		Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe
Feather Falling	Reduces the damage taken from falling.		Boots
Fire Aspect	Sets the target on fire after performing a melee attack.		Sword, Axe
Fire Protection	Reduces the damage taken from fire and reduces burning time.		Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell
Flame	Arrows are ignited when shot and deal fire damage.		Bow
Fortune	Increases the amount of blocks dropped.		Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe
Frost Walker	Freezes water as players walk on it.
Impaling	Increases the damage dealt to mobs in water or during rain.		Trident
Infinity	Normal arrows will not be consumed when shooting.		Bow
Knockback	Increases the knockback dealt by melee attacks.		Sowrd
Looting	Increases the chances of finding good loot when mobs are killed.		Sword
Loyalty	Thrown trident will return.		Trident
Luck of the Sea	Increases the chances of finding good loot when fishing.		Fishing Rod
Lure	Decreases the time it takes for fish to bite.		Fishing Rod
Mending	Item will be repaired at the cost of experience.
Multishot	Fires three arrows per shot.		Crossbow
Piercing	Arrows will pierce through entities and continue to travel. Arrows can pierce multiple entities.		Crossbow
Power	Increases the damage dealt by arrows.		Bow
Projectile Protection	Reduces the damage taken from projectiles.		Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell
Protection	Reduces the damage taken.		Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Turtle Shell
Punch	Increases the knockback dealt by arrows.		Bow
Quick Charge	Decreases crossbow charging time.		Crossbow
Respiration	Increases underwater breathing time.		Helmet, Turtle Shell
Riptide	Thrown trident will launch the player with it while standing in water or during rain.		Trident
Sharpness	Increases damage dealt by melee attacks.		Sword, Axe
Silk Touch	Mined blocks will drop to the ground when destroyed.		Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe
Smite	Increases damage dealt to mobs in the undead family.		Sword, Axe
Soul Speed	Increases movement speed on soul sand and soul soil.
Swift Sneak	Increases sneaking speed.
Thorns	Taking damage deals damage to the attacker.		Chestplate
Unbreaking	Reduces the durability damage this item takes.		Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots, Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe, Hoe, Fishing Rod, Sword, Trident, Bow, Crossbow, Turtle Shell
Wind Burst	Launches the player into the air after performing a smash attack.		Mace

Adding Enchanted Items

Custom items can be enchanted, as well. Enchanted custom items are a great way to introduce story elements to a Minecraft experience or to add puzzle-solving or strategy elements to other types of Minecraft worlds. For example, you can use a Riptide trident to help players traverse a jumping puzzle with carefully placed water or localized rain. You could also include airdrops containing items with powerful enchantments like Multishot or Protection and combine them with a Curse of Vanishing so that they disappear when the player who looted them dies - the possibilities are endless!

To refresh your memory on how to add custom items, see Adding Custom Items.

Once you have created your resource pack and added your items, make sure that your item's .json file contains the minecraft:enchantable component. Here's an example of an enchanted chest armor that has the Blast Protection enchantment.

"minecraft:enchantable": {
  "value": 3,
  "slot": "armor_torso"
}