Minecraft

How to Get the Silk Touch Enchantment

Silk Touch is an Enchantment in Minecraft. Read on to learn more about Silk Touch, what gear you can equip it with, how to get it, and how to use it.

Silk Touch Overview

Silk Touch Basic Information

Silk Touch
Effect Get the exact block when mining blocks
Max Level I
Type Enchantment

Silk Touch Compatible Gear

Compatible Gear
Pickaxe Icon Pickaxe Shovel Icon Shovel
Axe Icon Axe Hoe Icon Hoe

How to Get Silk Touch

Obtain using Enchanting Tables

The most common way to obtain Silk Touch is through an Enchanting Table. You'll need XP and Lapis Lazuli to enchant an item.

Use Bookshelves to increase enchantment levels

Placing bookshelves around the Enchanting Table will increase the possible enchantment levels of an item. There must be one block of air between a bookshelf and the Enchanting Table for this to work.

Obtain by Fishing

Fishing - Minecraft
Head out into open water and use your Fishing Rod to catch items with Silk Touch enchantments. The Luck of the Sea enchant will increase your chances of catching enchanted items.

Loot from Chests

You'll find Silk Touch in Treasure Chests in structures and dungeons around the world. Make sure you're properly equipped with armor and weapons since these areas will be infested with Mobs.

Trade with Villagers

You'll be able to trade items with villagers to obtain Silk Touch. Librarians will be your best bet since you can trade Emeralds for enchantments even at Novice levels.

You'll have to level up other Villager types to obtain their enchanted stock.

How to Use Silk Touch

Mine Unobtainable Blocks

Silk Touch - Minecraft Enchantment
While you can use Silk Touch to get exact blocks, such as Ore blocks themselves instead of what they drop, this enchantment should be prioritized for getting unobtainable blocks.

This means it's particularly helpful when breaking blocks such as Glass, Glass Panes, or Ice, since these would normally just disappear upon being broken. You'll no longer waste any misplaced blocks, and you can gather blocks that you couldn't before.

Cannot be Combined with Fortune

Keep in mind that you cannot use Silk Touch and Fortune on the same tool.

How to Get the Fortune Enchantment

Related Guides

Minecraft Enchantments

Enchanting Guide: List of All Enchantments

List of All Enchantments

Aqua Affinity Bane of Arthropods
Blast Protection Channeling
Curse of Binding Curse of Vanishing
Depth Strider Efficiency
Feather Falling Fire Aspect
Fire Protection Flame
Fortune Frost Walker
Impaling Infinity
Knockback Looting
Loyalty Luck of the Sea
Lure Mending
Multishot Piercing
Power Projectile Protection
Protection Punch
Quick Charge Respiration
Riptide Sharpness
Silk Touch Smite
Soul Speed Sweeping Edge
Swift Sneak Thorns
Unbreaking

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