Enchanment List, Repairing Item with Anvils and Smelting/Cook Things

Anvils and Item Repair

There are two ways to repair items in Minecraft: with and without an Anvil.

Repairing Items the easy way

Items such as weapons, armour and tool can be repaired by placing two damaged items of the same type on a crafting grid:

The two items will be combined to a single one with durability equal to the two plus a small bonus (so to get best value from the repair, both items should be used until they are below 45% durability.

Any enchantments will be lost when repairing items this way.

Anvils

Anvils allow you to rename items, repair enchanted items, and even combine the enchantments from different items, at the cost of experience points.

Crafting

You'll need 3 blocks of iron, plus 4 more iron bars, for a total of 31 iron bars.

Renaming items

Now your enchanted sword can be called Excalibur if that's what you want, or indeed you could call an apple "Derek" if that's what takes your fancy.

Place your item on the left and type the new name in the box. The experince cost will be displayed, and if you're happy, take the renamed item from the right.

Item repair

Enchanted items can be repaired by placing either another item or the material from which they are made in the second slot.

An enchanted diamond axe can be repaired using either a diamond, or another diamond axe.

Combining Enchantments

Place two enchanted items of the same type on the left, and if possible their enchantments will be combined into a new item.

Two enchanted pickaxes can be combined to make an even better one - note that their durability is added so this is a repair job too.

• Not all combinations are possible — you can't have both Sharpness and Smite on the same sword, for instance.
• Enchantment ranks can be added — you can combine two Bows with Power I to get one with Power II
• The order in which you place the two items makes a difference: the anvil takes the first item and tries to add enchantments and durability from the second item if possible. This affects the cost, so try both ways round.

Using Enchanted Books

Anvils are used to transfer an enchantment from an enchanted book to an item; place the item and the book in the slots - easy!

Two enchanted books can be combined on an anvil to make a new book with both enchantments.

Limitations

The cost of repair depends on a number of factors, including how many times the item has been modified with the anvil. Operations that would cost more than 40 experience levels are not allowed.

These two pickaxes have a lot of high-level enchantments each, and combining them would just be too awesome to be allowed.

Enchantments

Here are the available enchantments in the game.
Some enchantments are available at different strength levels.

Armour Enchantments

The "Protection" enchantment is effective against all types of damage, but the specific enchantments are stronger: if you're fighting Skeletons, "Projectile Protection IV" will be better than "Protection IV".

Protection

Makes your armour more protective. Max level IV.

Fire Protection

Reduces damage from fire; reduces the length of time you stay on fire. Max level IV.

Blast Protection

Reduces the effects of explosions. Max level IV.

Projectile Protection

Reduces damage from arrows and fireballs. Max level IV.

Helmet Enchantments

Aqua Affinity

Allows you to break blocks more quickly when underwater (works better when standing on the bottom than when swimming).

Respiration

Increases the length of time you can stay underwater before drowning. Max level III.

Chestpiece Enchantments

Thorns

A chance of damaging your enemies when they attack you. Max level III. The level affects the chance of doing damage, not how much damage.

Boot Enchantments

Feather Falling

This enchantment reduces the damage you take when you fall. Max level III.

Sword Enchantments

Sharpness

Increases damage dealt. Max level V.

Smite

Increases damage dealt to "undead" enemies (Zombies, Zombie Pigmen, Skeletons and the Wither).

Bane of Arthropods

Increases damage dealt to spiders and silverfish. Max level V.

Knockback

Increases the distances enemies are knocked back when you hit them. Max level II.

Fire Aspect

Sets the target on fire. Max level II. Use this on your farm animals and they will drop cooked meat! Not so useful in the Nether whaere most of the bad guys are immune to fire.

Looting

Mobs will drop more loot — very useful when killing your farm animals for meat or leather. Max level III.

Bow Enchantments

Power

Increases the damage dealt by your arrows. Max level V.

Punch

Increases the distances enemies are knocked back when you hit them. Max level II.

Flame

Fires flaming arrows, which cause extra damage and can set off TNT. Max level II.

Infinity

Firing your bow doesn't use up arrows. You still need to carry at least one arrow with you, though.

Tool Enchantments

Efficiency

Increases the speed of mining, digging or chopping. Max level V. An Efficiency V shovel shifts sand and gravel so fast you won't believe it, and mining obsidian becomes almost bearable with an Efficiency V pickaxe.

Silk Touch

Certain blocks that normally turn into something else when mined can be collected with a Silk Touch tool. For example, grass would normally be turned into dirt, but you can use a silk touch tool to collect grass blocks (great if you want to grow a lawn underground or in the Nether).
Other blocks that can be collected with Silk Touch include Ice, Mycelium, huge mushroom blocks and all kinds of ore.

Fortune

Increases the drop rate of items from blocks. Max Level III.
This enchantment lets you get more items from blocks that turn into items when mined, such as diamonds, emeralds, coal, redstone, lapis lazuli, glowstone, melons and flint. A Fortune III shovel turns all of the gravel you dig into flint.

Unbreaking

Increases the durability of your enchanted item, making it last much longer. Max level III.

Enchanting Other Items

Some of these enchantments can be applied to other items if you use an Anvil to transfer them from an Enchanted Book.

Unbreaking

Unbreaking can be applied to all types of Armour and Weapons, as well as Hoes, Shears, Flint and Steel and Fishing Rods.

Shears

Shears can be enchanted with Silk Touch — useful for collecting cobwebs.

Axes

Axes can be given all of the Sword enchantments.

Thorns

Thorns can be applied to Helmets, Leggings and Boots.

Furnaces and Smelting

Furnaces are used for smelting ore to turn it into usable metal. They are also used to turn sand into glass, to bake clay into bricks and to turn cobblestone back into smooth stone.

Furnaces are also used for cooking food.

Making a Furnace

Furnaces are made by combining 8 cobblestone blocks on a crafting table.

Using a furnace

When you right-click on a furnace, you are presented with a new version of your inventory screen:

Place fuel in the lower slot and the items to be cooked or smelted in the upper slot. When done, the product will appear to the right.

Tip: Once you have loaded up your furnace, you can press 'E' to close the window and go about your business. You don't have to stay and watch! Flames will be visible on the active furnace, and will disappear when your selting or cooking is done.

Fuel for your furnace

Coal

You will mostly use coal for smelting and cooking. It's very abundant and once you start mining and exploring underground you'll have more than you know what to do with. However, there are other options if you need them. One piece of coal burns long enough to smelt or cook 8 items.

Wood

Wood blocks, wooden planks, sticks and tree saplings can all be used as fuel. If you're burning wood, the most efficient form to use is wooden planks; two planks will smelt or cook 3 items. However, more efficient still is to make charcoal.

Most other wooden items such as fences, wooden tools and crafting tables can be used as fuels in a pinch.

Charcoal

Charcoal is a form of coal that is made by baking wood blocks in a furnace. It has exactly the same properties as coal; it is an efficient fuel and can be used to make torches.

Other Fuels

Lava buckets and blaze rods will also act as fuel. Lava buckets provide enough heat to cook 100 items (and yes, you do get the empty bucket back afterwards).

The Overworld

The Overworld is where you start in Minecraft, and probably where you will spend most of your time.
The Overworld is millions of times larger than the Earth, and has many different types of terrain, known as biomes.

Biomes

Biomes are the different types of environment you will find. Some plants and animals can only be found in particular biomes.

Forest

The forest contains lots of oak and birch trees, as well as tall grass, mushrooms and flowers. It's one of the places where you can find wolves.

Plains

The plains have a lot of tall grass, and you will often find lots of animals. NPC villages can be found.

Desert

The desert has lots of sand, but also you will see lots of lakes and ponds, often with sugar cane growing next to them. In the desert you will find cacti, NPC villages, and sometimes wells and temples built by mysterious strangers. There are no trees in the desert.

Jungle

In the jungle you will find tall jungle trees with cocoa beans growing on them. There is also bushy undergrowth, making it hard to get around. As in the desert there are ancient temples to explore. There are spotted wild cats called Ocelots that can be tamed.

Swampland

Swampland is flat, with lots of water and oak trees covered with vines. In the water you can find clay, and Slimes will spawn at night. In addition to mushrooms and sugar cane, you will find lily pads on the surface of the water. If you see a hut, beware, it's where a witch lives!

Taiga

This iss a cold area with spruce trees, snow and wolves.

Ice Plains

This tundra biome has very few trees, and a whole lot of snow and ice.

Extreme Hills

Extreme hills offer dramatic scenery and very few trees. Underground, you may find emeralds.

Ocean

Water, water everywhere! Ocean biomes can be vast. You can find clay along the edges.

Mushroom Island

Mushroom islands are the strangest part of the overworld. They are home to cow-like animals called Mooshrooms. Instead of dirt and grass they have blocks of mycelium, a dirt-like substance on which mushrooms grow to giant size.

Hills

Hills can form in Forest, Taiga, Desert, Jungle or Tundra biomes.

Villages

Sometimes you may find villages consisting of a few buildings, some crops and a well. Read more about them here!

Temples and Pyramids

These ancient buildings, hidden away in deserts and jungles, are full of treasures and surprises.

Underground Structures in Minecraft

As you explore underground, you will find many structures that will either present an opportunity for adventure, or get in the way when you're trying to do your mining, depending on your mood.
Exploring these structures can be an effective alternative to mining for ores.

Caves

These are natural caverns, usually consisting of long, winding passages and caverns, often containing underground streams and lakes. As you go deeper, you will increasingly run into pools of lava, too.

Dungeons

These structures contain a mob spawner, and 1 or 2 chests full of treasure! You will have to battle skeletons, zombies or spiders to get the goodies, though.

The green mossy cobblestone is a sure sign of a dungeon.
Inactivate the mob spawner by placing torches all around it, or destroy it with a pickaxe.

Placing torches like this will make the spawner safe.

Abandoned Mineshafts

You're not the first person to mine these lands after all! You will often come across somebody else's abandoned mineshafts.

They contain rails, wooden supports, treasure chests, and spawners producing poisonous cave-spiders.

The spider-webs can be cleared with a sword or shears to provide string (and string can be converted to wool). The supports provide a good underground source of wooden planks and fence posts (which can be burned for fuel).

Ravines

These huge chasms are spectacular sights, but don't fall off a ledge!

Strongholds

These underground fortresses are built from a different kind of stone brick, and contain doors and railings that are not found elsewhere. You will also find mystical libraries, and a special mob called a Silverfish that isn't found anywhere else.

The final thing you will find is a champer containing an End Portal, and that's your main reason for wanting to find a Stronghold.

 

Exploring Underground Structures

Exploring underground is a fun part of the game; it can also be a great way to find precious ores and minerals.
There are three main dangers when exploring underground; monsters, falling into lava, and getting lost.

What to take with you

Essential items

• Torches!
• Wood (to make more torches! You should find plenty of coal as you explore). Also, you might want to make a crafting table and chests to store your treasure.
• Food.
• Tools: pickaxes and shovels are essential, an axe is useful in abandoned mineshafts where you might want to hack at the wooden supports.
• Weapons - a sword, a bow and lots of arrows.

Optional items

• A bucket of water - useful if you set yourself on fire.
• An empty bucket might be useful for moving water and lava around.
• Redstone and/or redstone torches to help you navigate.
• Some people take saplings to they will never run out of wood.
• Wolves: they will fight monsters for you, but might also get in the way.
• A compass to find your way home if you emerge somewhere unexpected. A Map might be useful too.

Helpful Tips

Keep your hunger at bay by eating regularly, so that if you lose health from a fall or a mob attack, it will start regenerating straight away.
Light up all the caves and passages you explore with torches; that way they should be safe areas where monsters don't spawn.
If you have collected some valuables, maybe a few diamonds or a lot of ore, consider building a chest to store it in safely. Be sure you will be able to find it again though!

Getting lost

It's very confusing underground. Try to make it easy to find your way back by always placing torches on the same side. Redstone and redstone torches can be used to leave markings.
If you're really lost, you may have to dig a staircase to the surface and find your way home. Be aware that there's a very good chance you will come up under the ocean and have to swim to the surface quickly before you drown.
A compass will help you find your way back to your original spawn point, or the last bed you slept in.

If you die

If you fell in lava, all your stuff is gone.
If you died by falling or were killed by mobs, you might be able to reclaim your stuff if you can find it in 5 minutes. You will be tempted to rush, but make sure you have armour, weapons, food, torches and at least a pickaxe before you go!

Enchantment things and Making Potions

How to Enchant Items in Minecraft

Enchanting is the way to make magic armor, weapons or tools. To enchant an item, you trade in experience levels. The more levels you trade in, the stronger the enchantment will be — but you won't know what you're getting until after it's done!

Enchantable Items

You can enchant all kinds of armour, swords, bows and tools including shears, fishing rods and flint-and-steel.

Enchantments

There are many types of enchantments: see the full list here.

How to Enchant Items

Get some experience points

Enchanting works by trading in experience levels (the green number above your toolbar) for enchantments. You get experience points (XP) in several ways, the main ones being killing mobs and from cooking or smelting things in furnaces.

Build an enchantment table

You will need obsidian, two diamonds and a book (made from paper, which is made from sugar cane, and leather, for which you will have to kill a cow).

Enchant your item

Right click on the enchantment table to bring up the enchanting interface.

Place the item you wish into the slot, and three potential enchantments will be offered.

The number of levels the enchantment will cost is shown in green; if you don't have enough levels the enchantment will be greyed out. Generally, the more levels you spend, the better the enchantment you will get.

The mysterious characters can be decoded, but they are not helpful. You can not tell what the enchantment will be until you purchase it.

If you don't fancy any of the enchantments offered (perhaps you wanted to spend a particular number of levels), you can pick up and replace your item and you will get a new set of offers.

Higher Level Enchantments

A basic Enchantment Table will only allow you to spend up to 8 levels on an enchantment. For more powerful enchantments, you will need to build bookshelves and place them near the enchantment table.

Each bookshelf increases the maximum available enchantment by 1 or 2 levels, up to a maximum of 30 levels (15 bookcases).

Bookshelf placement

Bookshelves should be 2 blocks away from the table, on the same level or one higher. There must be nothing between the bookshelf and the table.

Enchanted books

Instead of enchanting an item, you can enchant a book instead. The enchantment can be saved for later, and applied to an item using an Anvil.

Why would you want to do this?

• Maybe you have a lot of experience levels but don't have anything to enchant at the moment.
• Maybe you really want a Fortune enchanted pickaxe and don't want to waste diamonds on yet another Silk Touch tool.

Combining Enchantments

Once an item is enchanted, it can't be further enchanted using an Enchanting Table.

However, you can combine two enchanted items, or add a second enchantment from an enchanted book, using an Anvil.

Repairing Enchanted Items

You can repair enchanted items with an Anvil.

How to Brew Potions in Minecraft

Collect the stuff you will need

This is the hard part! You need some things that can only be found in the Nether.

Go to the Nether

You'll need to build a Nether Portal to get to the Nether. If this is your first trip there, be careful! You will need good armour, a bow, and plenty of arrows. If you have armour with a Fire Resistance enchantment, so much the better.

Find a Nether Fortress

Find a Nether Fortress; this is a building made out of Nether Bricks.

A nether fortress; look out for the dark Nether Bricks.

Get some Nether Wart

Explore the fortress until you find some Nether Wart; it will be growing in Soulsand at the bottom of a staircase.

Collect all the Nether Wart, and dig up the Soul Sand while you're at it. If you see more Soul Sand on your way back to your Portal, get some more.

Get Blaze Rods

Find Blazes, kill them and collect at least one Blaze Rod.

Be careful, Blazes are a dangerous enemy, and it's better to pick them off with arrows from a distance.

You can find Blazes hanging out anywhere in a Nether Fortress, but sometimes you will find rooms with a Blaze Spawner: it's dangerous to get too close to these.

Now head back to your Portal and get ready to brew!

Set up your Brewery

Nether Wart Farm

First, place the Soulsand you brought back, and plant some Nether Wart on it. This is your Nether Wart Farm. Nether wart is an ingredient in almost all the useful potions.

Craft a Brewing Stand

Use your Blaze Rod and some Cobblestone.

Place your brewing stand. Nearby you will also want a chest, a crafting table, and a well.

Water supply, brewing stand and storage.

To start brewing, you will need some glass, some Nether Wart, and some potion ingredients (check out the recipes to see what you'll need).

Brewing Potions

Prepare Water Bottles

Make some glass bottles:

Fill three bottles with water by right-clicking on your well (the water bottles do not stack; they will appear elsewhere in your inventory, so make sure you have some free slots first.

Load the Brewing Stand

When you right-click on your Brewing Stand, the brewing interface will open.

Place the water-bottles in the bottom three spaces.

Add the first ingredient

The first ingredient will almost always be Nether Wart. Place it in the top slot and brewing will start.

When the brewing is completed (it takes 20 seconds), your water bottles will have been turned into potions! This potion is called Awkward Potion, and it is not useful on its own. You must add a second ingredient.

Add the second ingredient

It's time to add a second ingredient. This ingredient will determine what kind of potion you are making. Glistering Melon will give you a Potion of Health; use Sugar for a Potion of Swiftness, Blaze Powder for a potion of Strength, or check out the other recipes here.

When this step has finished, you will have three useable potions!

Optional Ingredients

Further ingredients can be added to make a stronger potion, or a splash potion that can be thrown at friends or enemies.

	Redstone	Makes the effects of your potion last longer.
	Glowstone	Makes the effect of your potion stronger.
	Gunpowder	Makes a splash potion that can be thrown and will affect nearby players and mobs when it breaks.

Drinking Your Potion

Hold down the right mouse button, just like eating food.

Potion Recipes

Ingredients

See the full list here.

Glowstone

This optional ingredient increases the strength of your potion.

Redstone

This optional ingredient increases the duration of your potion.

Recipes

First place Water Bottles in the Brewing Stand. Then add these ingredients in order.

Useful Potions

First	Second	Third	Fourth
Potion of Healing Restores your health.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Regeneration Restores health over time.
		or (optional)
Potion of Fire Resistance Gives immunity to fire and lava. Great for fighting Blazes.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Strength Increases the damage you do in melee combat.
		or (optional)
Potion of Swiftness Increases your speed.
		or (optional)
Potion of Night Vision You can see in the dark.
		(optional)	-
Potion of Invisibility Makes you invisible, but you have to take off your armour.
			(optional)

Useful Splash Potions

First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
Splash Potion of Healing Harms Skeletons, Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Withers.
		(optional)		-
Splash Potion of Harming Heals Skeletons, Zombies, Zombie Pigmen and Withers, but harms other mobs.
			(optional)
			(optional)
Splash Potion of Weakness Useful against cave spiders; also can be used to heal Zombie villagers.
anything or nothing		(optional)		-

Not-very-useful Potions

The splash versions of these might be useful in the multiplayer game.

First	Second	Third	Splash
Potion of Poison Causes damage over time, but won’t kill. Why would you drink this?
		or (optional)
Potion of Slowness Restores health over time.
Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Fire Resistance		or (optional)
Potion of Weakness Additional ways to make the thing.
Potion of Strength or Potion of Regeneration		or (optional)