I have mentioned enchantments several times over this blog, but have never posted on them. Now I will finally fill your Minecrafting heads with knowledge about enchantments.

There are two ways to enchant things. I will go over both of them.

Way 1: Enchantment Tables

Enchantment tables are the more random way of enchanting. They are also necessary for both kinds of enchanting. You craft enchantment tables like this:

Note to everyone: USE A PICKAXE! If you destroy an enchantment table without one, you won’t get it back!!!!

When you build your enchanting table, you’ll want to surround it with bookshelves. Aside from being decorative, these bookshelves increase the maximum enchantment level of your table.

Enchantment tables enchant all of the tools, except the hoe, books, and all the armor and weapons. To enchant anything though, you require lapis lazuli. As this picture illustrates,

There are two slots in the enchanting table. The first is for what you want to enchant. The second is for the lapis lazuli. You know how much lapis to use by looking at the numbers on the left. The number on the right is how many enchantment levels you need. The weird language on the enchanting options is the standard galactic alphabet.

This usually doesn’t tell you what enchantment you’ll get, but there is a hint when you scroll over the option. In other words, don’t bother translating. But it still makes a fun secret code.

Way 2: Anvil

Anvils are crafted like this:

To enchant with an anvil, you first have to get an enchanted book. These can be enchanted in a table, or you can trade with a villager. Then, you put the thing you want to enchant in the first slot, and the book in the second. You now have an enchanted thing!