Complete Minecraft Enchantment catalogue — Every enchantment for each category

You can enhance your character’s attributes and gear in Minecraft using enchantments on your weapons and equipment. Each enhancement significantly augments that item, giving you a distinct advantage in the game. Many of them give you additional benefits for battle or make it easier to travel around the environment. In this guide, we’re going to cover the complete Minecraft Enchantment catalogue for every enchantment for each category in the game.

All Minecraft enchantments

Not all of them work on every item, so you might be unable to place enchantments on every piece of equipment. Many of your items require you use an enchantment book or anvil to place them on an item while playing in Survival Mode. Each enchantment has a maximum amount of levels they can reach, and the higher level of enchantment you use, the stronger the spell for your equipment.

Enchantment	Description	Max Level	Enchanting Table	Enchantment Book and Anvil
Aqua Affinity	Increases underwater mining speed.	1	Helmet. Turtle Shell
Bane of Antrhopods	Increases damage to anthropods, and it’s exclusive with enchantments smite and sharpness	5	Sword	Ax
Blast Protection	Reduces explosion damage and knockdown. Mutually exclusive amongst other protection enchantments	4	Helmet. Chest. Leggings. Boots. Turtleshell
Chopping	You have increased damage and shield stunning. Mutually exclusive with bane of arthropods, sharpness, and smite	3	Ax
Channeling	Using a Trident, you can cast down a bolt of lightning at a target. It only works during thunderstorms and if the target is not blocked from the sky	1	Trident
Curse of Binding	Prevents removal of items from armor slots	1		All armor
Curse of Vanishing (Java edition)	The item is destroyed when you die	1		All items
Depth Strider	Increases your movement underwater. Mutually exclusive with the enchantment, frost walker	3	Boots
Efficiency	Increases your mining speed. When applied to an ax, it increases the chance of potentially stunning a target with a shield	5	Pickax. Shovel. Ax	Shears
Feather Falling	Reduces your fall damage when you land from enormous heights	4	Boots
Fire Aspect	Your attack sets an enemy on fire	2	Sword
Fire Protection	Reduces the amount of fire damage you take and how long you burn. Mutually exclusive amongst other protection enchantments	4	Helmet. Chest. Leggings. Boots. Turtle Shell
Flame	Your arrows now set your enemies on fire	1	Bow
Fortune	Increases the potential for certain blocks to drop. Mutually exclusive with the silk touch enchantment	3	Pickax. Shovel. Ax
Frost Walker	You now turn the water beneath you into frost ice. Mutually exclusive with the depth strider enchantment	2		Boots
Impaling	Your trident now deals additional damage against those that naturally spawn in the ocean region	5	Trident
Infinity	Whenever you fire your bow you consume none of your regular arrows	1	Bow
Knockback	Increases the knockback against enemies when you hit them	2	Sword
Looting	You have increased chances of random loot from the mobs you encounter while using the weapon	3	Sword
Loyalty	After you throw your trident at an enemy, it returns to you. Mutually exclusive with the enchantment, riptide	3	Trident
Luck of the Sea	You have higher chances of random loot while fishing	3	Fishing pole
Lure	You don’t have to wait as long for items to catch on your fishing line	3	Fishing pole
Mending	Whenever you receive experience orbs, it repairs the item with this enchantment while you are holding it. You cannot combine this item with infinity.	1		All Items
Multishot	You now shoot three arrows at a time instead of one, but you can only pick up one	1	Crossbow
Piercing	Your arrows now go through enemies after they hit	4	Crossbow
Projectile Protection	You have reduced damage from projectile attacks. Mutually exclusive with other protection-based enchantments	4	Helmet. Chest. Leggings. Boots. Turtle Shell
Protection	You have reduced damage from all forms of attacks by four percent for every enchantment level. Mutually exclusive with other protection-based enchantments	4	Helmet. Chest. Leggings. Boots. Turtle Shell
Punch	Increases the knockback you do with bows	2	Bow
Quick Charge	It doesn’t take as long for your crossbow to charge	3	Crossbow
Respiration	You have an extended amount of time to breathe underwater	3	Helmet. Turtle Shell
Riptide	Your trident now launches you through the water. It can only work while you in the water, or it’s raining. Mutually exclusive with the channeling and loyalty enchantments	3	Trident
Sharpness	You have increased damaged while fighting	5	Sword. Ax
Silk Touch	Any blocks you mined drop themselves. Mutually exclusive with the enchantment, fortune	1	Pickax. Shovel. Ax	Shears
Smite	You do increased damage to the undead	5	Sword. Ax
Sweeping Edge (Java Edition)	You have increased sweeping attack damage	3	Sword
Thorns	Some of the damage you take is reflected back at the enemy	3	Chest	Helmet. Leggings. Boots. Turtle Shell
Unbreaking	Increases the durability of the item	3	All items