How to enchant in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta

How do I enchant items in Minecraft?

Late-game scenarios in Minecraft, including boss battles and Nether trips, often require you to add some pizazz to your items using an enchantment table. Here's everything you need to know about enchanting in Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.

• How to craft an enchantment table
• Advanced enchantments
• How to enchant an item
• List of enchantments
• Enchanted books
• How to repair enchanted items

How to craft an enchantment table

The first thing you need to do on your road to enchantment is craft an enchanting table.

You will need:

• Obsidian: Created when water touches lava, and can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe. You will need four blocks of obsidian.

• Diamond: Found only deep below the surface, mine diamond ore blocks with an iron or better pickaxe to get diamond. You will need two diamonds.

• Book: Craft a book using three pieces of paper and one piece of leather.

Advanced enchantments

Using an enchantment table on its own allows for enchantments up to level eight. To go higher — you definitely don't want to stop at level eight — you need to craft bookshelves and place them near your enchantment table.

Each bookshelf you place will raise the maximum enchantment level by two levels, up to level thirty.

Bookshelves must be placed no more than two blocks away from the enchantment table, and there cannot be any blocks between. Bookshelves must be at the same height or one block higher than the enchantment table to apply their boost.

How to enchant an item

Now that you have an enchantment table ready to go, it's time to enchant an item. There are a few things you'll need before you can begin.

• Lapis lazuli: This blue ore found deep beneath the ground turns into lapis lazuli when mined. You will need a healthy supply, as each enchantment can take up to three pieces of lapis lazuli depending on the level.

• Experience: The green bar over your hotbar fills up with XP when you mine some ore, kill monsters, and complete certain other tasks. Your current level is displayed in the middle. Enchantments take various levels of XP.

• A decent tool: There's not much point enchanting wooden tools — wait until you have at least iron tools before you start enchanting them.

You have all the resources needed — here's how to enchant an item:

1. Right-click the enchantment table.

2. Place the item you want enchanted in the left slot.

3. Place lapis lazuli in the right slot.

4. Mouse over the enchantment list to see what the enchantments are. Click an enchantment to apply it to the item.

5. Place the enchanted item in your inventory.

   If you're not happy with the list of available enchantments, you'll have to enchant a different tool first or enchant a book to get a new list of enchantments.

Enchanted books

Books are enchanted the exact same way you enchant tools. Place the book in the left-hand slot, place lapis lazuli in the right-hand slot, and click an enchantment.

Enchanting books is especially useful when you don't want to use any of the listed enchantments on, say, your pickaxe, but don't have any other worthwhile tools to enchant.

Enchanted books can be saved for later when you finally find enough diamond to finish your set of armor or finish making a new set of tools. Enchantments can be combined at an anvil using an enchanted tool and an enchanted book.

To enchant an item with a book, you need to use an anvil. Craft one from three blocks of iron and four iron ingots.

1. Right-click the anvil.

2. Place the item you want to enchant in the left slot.

3. Place the enchanted book in the middle slot.

4. Click the name and type to change it — this is optional.

5. Click the helmet in the right slot and place it in your inventory.

You can add multiple enchantments to the same item by placing the enchanted item in the left slot and a new enchanted book in the middle slot. As you can see, this helmet will now have Aqua Affinity I and Thorns III.

List of enchantments

Not all items can be enchanted — here's a list of enchantments and the items they can be applied to

How to repair enchanted items

If your enchanted item gets worn down, don't fret — you won't have to make an entirely new item. You can use your anvil to repair the enchanted item.

1. Right-click the anvil.

2. Place the damaged enchanted item in the left slot.

3. Place an identical item (unenchanted) in the middle slot.

Take the repaired item from the right-side slot. The unenchanted item used in the repair will disappear.

Your enchantments

Do you regularly use enchantments? What is your strategy; do you hoard enchanted books in case you die and lose XP, or do you directly enchant tools? Let us know in the comments section below!