ENCHANTMENTS · UTILITY
Silk Touch in Minecraft - Anvil Cost & Compatibility
Lets you mine blocks themselves (glass, ice, ore blocks) instead of their normal drop.
Max Level
1
Book Cost
8/lvl
Conflicts
Fortune
Treasure
No
Added
vanilla
Anvil Calculator
Optimal order · XP cost · Too-Expensive guardPick the gear you want to enchant. Books you add below will be merged onto it in the cheapest order we can find.
Compatible items
How to get Silk Touch
- Enchanting table: Surround a level 30 table with 15 bookshelves and roll until Silk Touch appears.
- Villager trading: Reroll librarian villagers until one stocks Silk Touch.
- Loot: Bastions, end cities and trial chambers regularly drop enchanted gear with Silk Touch.
Anvil cost worked example
Applying a level-1 Silk Touch book onto a brand-new
item costs 8
XP levels (book multiplier 8 times level
1). Adding it on top of an item that has already been on
the anvil once raises the cost by another 1
level for the prior-work penalty; twice and the penalty jumps to
3; three times, 7;
and so on by 2^n - 1.
Pair Silk Touch with cheap stuff first if you can - Unbreaking and Mending have low multipliers and don't conflict, so they're usually the cheapest path to a full endgame loadout.
Pair Silk Touch with
FAQ
- What does Silk Touch do in Minecraft?
- Lets you mine blocks themselves (glass, ice, ore blocks) instead of their normal drop.
- What is the maximum level of Silk Touch?
- Silk Touch caps at level 1.
- Which items can have Silk Touch?
- Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe, Shears.
- What enchantments conflict with Silk Touch?
- Silk Touch cannot share an item with Fortune.
- How much XP does Silk Touch cost on the anvil?
- Each level of Silk Touch adds bookMultiplier 8 times the new level to the anvil cost. At max level (1) that is 8 XP plus any prior-work penalty.