minecraft is an enormous and expansive
game built on surprisingly simple
mechanics but with the lack of tutorials
it can be confusing for many newcomers
follow me
william strife as i cover the basics to
the advanced crafting surviving and
building welcome to the minecraft guide
in the previous part of the minecraft
guide combat was covered in all its
glory and the final thing mentioned was
experience while monsters dropped the
glowing orbs that allow you to level up
they can also be collected by mining
some ores and smelting blocks however
because minecraft isn't an RPG the
levels you gain from collecting
experience are used in a special manner
they serve as magic fuel for enchanting
before explaining how enchanting is
performed though you should understand
the value of experience the power of the
enchantments you can make is based on
your player level
so naturally understanding how expensive
it is to level up is fairly important to
that extent the first 16 levels all cost
the same it takes 17 experience to go
from level 1 to level 2 and it takes 17
experience to go from level 2 to level 3
this price is fixed until you reach
level 17 at which point each level up
costs 3 experience points more each time
in other words level 17 costs 17
experience +3 18 costs 17 +6 19 is plus
9 20 is plus 12 you get the idea
this is important because as levels get
more expensive the higher level spells
and features of enchanting become
increasingly cost prohibitive that being
said keep in mind that despite this
drawback the possible spells that can be
placed on your items are all worthwhile
and none are useless or negative
in order to begin enchanting you first
need to create an enchanting table which
is no small task you'll require for
obsidian blocks two diamonds three sugar
cane and one leather if you don't know
how to get these things you'll need to
watch the mining farming and ranching
guides respectively to acquire all the
needed materials after all enchanting is
an advanced mechanic and only crafting
is covered here however it is worth
mentioning that you in essence need five
diamonds because you need a diamond pick
to mine obsidian anyway first off you
need to make paper from sugar cane then
with the resulting sheets and one
leather you can proceed to create a book
at which point you can turn around and
craft an enchanting table with the table
built you can place it anywhere and
begin using it however by default it can
only create weaker spells consuming it
no more than eight levels to enhance the
power of the enchanting table you need
to place bookshelves around it at least
15 to be exact to create one bookshelf
you need three books and six wooden
planks if you crunch the numbers to make
fifteen bookshelves you need a hundred
and thirty-five sugar cane to make the
paper 45 pieces of leather to make the
books and 270 wooden planks to complete
the bookshelves if that seems a daunting
number of resources together then once
again check out the farming and ranching
guides in this suite as they cover in
detail how to farm these resources
anyways when placing the bookshelves
there needs to be a buffer of one block
between the table and the bookshelves
for them to work the enchanting table
will draw knowledge from the bookshelves
and the strength of the enchantments it
can create will increase also if you
have particles turned on in the game's
video settings you'll see runes
float towards the enchanting table as a
visual cue that the setup is working
that's all there is to maximizing the
enchanting tables power now for how you
actually go about infusing your items
with magic the enchanting process is
actually pretty complicated under the
hood but on the surface its
functionality is pretty simple you pop
any tool weapon armor or book into an
enchanting table and choose an enchant
based on how many levels you want to
spend that's all
however to elaborate when you place an
item in the
chanting slot 3 random spells are
generated to the right what these
enchants do is a mystery and there's no
way to find out what they are before
applying one to an item
additionally the higher the experience
cost the more likely you are to get
multiple enchants on an item at once a
feature that influences this is what any
given item you enchant is made out of
the higher the quality of material the
more likely the item is to get a
powerful enchantment with the exception
of gold which has a particularly high
magical affinity that's all there really
is to enchanting from an altar but it's
possible to further manipulate enchants
and repair enchanted items with the
anvil in Minecraft the anvil serves a
few purposes repairing items renaming
items and combining enchantments before
explaining any of them though it needs
to be stated that anvils are not cheap
being crafted from three blocks of iron
and four ingots meaning and anvil
requires no less than 31 ingots to make
additionally anvils become procedurally
damaged with every use eventually
breaking and vanishing entirely at some
point but this takes quite a long time
to happen
putting the hefty pricetag aside the
first thing the anvil can do is rename
items this is the most superfluous of
its features as doing so costs precious
experience but it has a useful
application which will be covered in a
moment first though repair repairing
items is the main purpose of the anvil
all items in Minecraft that have
durability can be repaired in your
inventory by simply combining two items
made of the same materials however this
method of repair does not preserve any
enchantments on items this is what the
anvil is for you can use it to combine
any enchanted item with the material
it's made of or an unenchanted tool made
of the same material and return it to
fold durability this process costs
experience proportionate to how damaged
the item is and it also brings up the
repair penalty each subsequent repair an
item receives on an anvil will be more
expensive than the last this isn't a
major problem in the beginning but the
rolling cost can become a very expensive
hindrance in the long run for items that
you keep for extended periods however
it's possible to circumvent this problem
by simply renaming the item when this is
done the repair cost is for some reason
reset and the repair penalty is removed
now for combining enchantments which is
almost identical to repairing items how
it's done and the way it works is fairly
simple as well you simply repair one
enchanted item with another enchanted
item of the same type like a stone sword
with a stone sword or an iron pick with
an iron pick this mechanic is especially
useful because you can also enchant
books as a sort of way to store
enchantments then you can turn around
and combine the book with whatever item
you want the enchantment applied to this
also brings up enchanting power various
enchantments in the game have multiple
levels of strength such as looting
having three levels and efficiency
having five normally the strength of
these spells is set when the enchantment
is first created but it's possible to
increase the power by combining two
enchantments of the same strength to get
the next power level in other words you
can combine two identical level 1
enchants to get a level 2 enchant but
combining a level 1 and a level 2
enchant will result in no power increase
as mentioned already though caution
should be taken when using repair as
every time an item passes over the anvil
there's an extra experience penalty when
you try to repair it again and even when
circumventing this with the rename
feature it will still be an expensive
activity to perform
that's all there really is to know about
enchanting how to perform it and the
materials you need it can take a bit to
wrap your head around it but it's truly
an activity worth the time it takes to
pursue after all the effects that you
can place on your tools can double the
speed of the work you do half the time
it takes to complete a project and make
acquiring certain materials much easier
additionally with such power at your
hands it will be easier to survive the
perils of the hellish dimension known as
the nether until next time I'm William
strife of the Yogscast and a minecraft
experts I'll see you later