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).