Minecraft: Placing Multiple Enchantments on an Item | Playable (2024)

Enchantments provide many benefits, including increasing an item's durability, increasing its attack power, or giving weapons unique properties such as fire or recoil. Here I will discuss how to place multiple enchantments on an item.

Essentials

• In Minecraft, players can use:
  • Enchantment table:Randomly apply up to three different enchantments to an item.
  • Anvil: Allows players to combineenchanted booksor items with the items they want to enchant. You can get enchanted books in Minecraft by trading or fishing with villagers.
  • Players can also place multiple enchantments on an item usingcommandant.

Here are five best methods I recommend for casting multiple enchantments on an item.

Enchanting table

In Minecraft, players can use an enchantment table to apply themselves tothree enchantmentsrandomly to an item.

1. You must use the item for enchantment, lapis lazuli and experience points.
2. Not,Right-clickon the enchantment table to access the enchantment interface and place the item to be enchanted in the left box. There are three options above the warehouseenchantment levels.
3. The enchantment level you choose determines the power of the enchantments generated. The costs for the enchantments concerningexperience puntwill also be displayed.

For more information on how to build an enchantment table in depth, read our comprehensive guideAutomatic enchantment table.

Anvil

Another way to put more enchantments on an item is to use the anvil.

1. It also offers players the opportunity to do thatcombine enchanted booksor items with the items they want to enchant. Players must capture enchanted books or items with different enchantments to apply multiple enchantments to an item.
2. From my experience I can say that the best ways to obtain them are:
   • bartering with villagers,
   • fishing,
   • or enchantingly numerous tools and objects.
3. Next, place an enchanted book or an item that already contains an enchantmentmiddle columnof the anvil. The center of the interface contains the spell. A warning message will appear if the proposed enchantment conflicts with an enchantment already on the object.
4. Post another oneenchanted bookor object with another enchantment in the center box to add more enchantments to the object. Once you have combined all the desired enchantments on the item, repeat the process.
5. In the text box at the top of the interface, you can enter a new name for the item if you want to change the name. It costs one experience point.

Trade with villagers

Villagers work in a variety of professions, each offering a specific range of occupations. Even if villagers can't enchant an item themselves, I highly recommend turning to them for enchantment books.

1. You have to find onevillager librarianto get enchanted books. Players can exchange enchanted books for gems in the library.
2. Tradeable enchantments are chosen at random and change as the villager gains expertise.
3. Players needemeraldsto trade with villagers that you can obtain through miningsmaragdmalmor trade with other villagers.
4. Once you have emeralds, talk to the village librarian and search theirstrade menu.The enchanted books intended for trade are listed along with their emerald equivalent price. The type and strength of the spell determine the price.
5. Later, use an anvil to place enchantments on the item.

Fishing

Like trading, fishing is another way to farm enchanted books, which can later be used to place more enchantments on items.

1. Players can obtain enchanted books as rare treasure items while fishing. Start fishing onright clickon the river to cast the line.
2. Then wait for the float to move up and down, indicating a fish has been caught. Retrieve the fish by right-clicking again when the float goes under water. The fish can be an ordinary fish, a salmon or a fish from a tropical area.
3. If you want to search for enchantment books, checkinventory. Enchanted books appear in the inventory in alight purple itemand the enchantments available for the enchanted books are random and depend on the level of the enchantment.
4. I don't recommend this method because it is very time consuming and the rewards are uncertain.

Commandant

In creative mode, I highly recommend using itcommandantto put more enchantments into items.

1. To use commands, open the chat window by pressingT-keyon the keyboard. To add enchantments to an item, use the command "/enchant" followed by the player's username, the name of the enchantment, and the level of the enchantment.
2. For example,"/enchant Player name sharpness 5"would addsharpness spellat level 5 to the item the player has.
3. Repeat the command with the desired enchantments and levels to add more enchantments to an item.
4. For example, "/enchant PlayerName sharpness 5" followed by "/enchant PlayerName fire_aspect 2" adds both sharpness and fire aspect enchantments to the item.
5. After using the commands to add enchantments, to confirm the enchantments, check the item in the inventory orHotbar.

My experience

When I'm in creative mode, I only use commands to enchant items. But using commands in survival mode is unethical because it violates the standard game rules for obtaining enchantments. Therefore, using an anvil and an enchantment table in survival mode, although trading with villagers, requires some preparation and resource gathering, but can yield a variety of enchantments.

Speaking of enchantments, I would definitely recommend reading these guides:

• Best Sword Enchantments Minecraft.
• Minecraft: Best Enchantments [Top 15]
• Minecraft: the best boots and their enchantments