How to Easily Combine Enchantments in Minecraft

Gear with thebest enchantmentsis always desired the most. However, it’s pretty much impossible to get some of them without combining enchantments. You may sometimes get lucky and obtain a perfect diamond pickaxe from an end city, but you’ll want to be geared up with some essential and high-level enchantments before you beat the game. So, with that said, we’ll be teaching you how to easily combine enchantments in Minecraft. If you’re ready, let’s begin!

Ways to Get Enchantments in Minecraft

You can getMinecraft enchantmentsin three different ways:

The enchanting table is the most common way of obtaining enchantments. It’s a block thatallows you to apply enchantmentsto gear if you provide it with lapis lazuli and XP levels. However, as you probably know, this block requires a total of 15 bookshelves for the highest-tier enchantments. Otherwise, you won’t get very good enchantments.

Enchanted books, on the other hand, are items with enchantments attached to them. You can get them in various ways, like trading with librarianvillagers,fishing, and looting chests in structures. These books can have special enchantments, or just the plainest ones possible.

On their own, enchanted books are not very useful, but if you combine them with the gear pieces, you’ll be able to easily make them overpowered.

The third way implies you obtain enchanted items by killing mobs, fishing, or looting chests. These items can contain various enchantments and usually need to be combined with enchanted books or other enchanted gear to get upgraded.

What Do You Need to Combine Enchantments

Now that we know how to get enchantments, let’s see what you need to combine them. The answer is one simple block called the anvil. This is the only requirement you have to combine enchantments in Minecraft, as you cannot do this in any other utility block

Tomake an anvil, you needthree blocks of ironandfour iron ingots. So, in total, that’s 31 iron ingots, which isn’t cheap.

Once you make and place the anvil, you can interact with it. You’ll see it has twoslots with the “+” signbetween them. There is an arrow between the second and third slot, which indicates the slot on the right is the output slot.

Also, there is a bar at the top, which you can edit to change the name of the item. The anvil is one of the most frequently used blocks, no matter whether you’re in the early or late game.

But there is a bit of a twist. You see, the anvil will slowly break over time. It has three stages: the first one has the regular anvil texture, the second is slightly damaged, and then third one is very damaged.

When you use a very damaged anvil for some time, it’ll eventually break completely, forcing you to make a new one. This mechanic further emphasizes the importance of the anvil.

In case you’re thinking: “Why can’t we just combine enchantments in the enchanting table?” Well, the answer is you can’t. You can only enchant an unenchanted item in the enchanting table. So, if it already has enchantments, this magical block won’t work anymore.

How to Combine Enchantments

Once you have got an anvil and some enchanted gear or enchanted books, follow the steps below to combine the enchantments in Minecraft. We’ll be focusing on the different enchantments first, but in case you want to see how to combine the same enchantments, check out the section below.

1. Combine Two Enchanted Gear Pieces

2. Combine Gear Pieces and Enchanted Books

Now, let’s see how you can combine an item and an enchanted book in Minecraft.

3. Combine Two Enchanted Books

In addition to combining enchanted items, you can also combine enchanted books. This is how to do that:

How to Combine the Same Enchantments

In the previous section, we focused on combining gear with different enchantments, but here, we’ll be combining identical ones. So, follow the steps below:

Combining the same enchantments depends on the level they have. So, if you have let’s say a sword with sharpness IV and a book with sharpness V, by combining them the sharpness IV enchantment gets completely deleted and replaced. This is because sharpness V is the higher and more valuable enchantment, so it takes priority.

The same happens when you combine two enchanted books or two enchanted items. The lower-level enchantments is deleted in the process, while all other enchantments just get added together.

However, you’ll get a different result if you combine two similar enchantments that are also of the same level. So if you have a sword with sharpness IV and a book with IV, combining them won’t yield sharpness IV but sharpness V. So you have a chance to create a better enchantment even if you just have low level ones.

Technically, you could get sharpness V from lots of sharpness I enchantments, though the only disadvantage to this method is that it’ll cost a lot of levels to combine all of them. So, it’s much better tomake sharpness V out of two sharpness IVenchantments than lots of sharpness I enchantments.

So that’s how you combine enchantments in Minecraft. If you have never done this before, do not worry, it only seems complicated but is really not. All it requires is for you to be lucky and get the enchantments you need and also to have sufficient levels to combine them.

So, feel free to check out our guide on thebest farms to gain XP in Minecraft, as you will need it for extensive enchantment combining sessions.

You may not be able to combine enchantments if they’re mutually exclusive or it’s too expensive levels-wise.

You can, but Sharpness I will get deleted in the process, so only Sharpness II stays.

Yes, by combining fortune II and fortune II you’ll get fortune III.

No, unbreaking III and unbreaking III won’t produce unbreaking IV. This enchantment doesn’t exist in the vanilla game.

Yes, it works very similarly to combining pieces of gear.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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