Enchantments

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Enchantment Reference

Every enchantment in Enchanting 2, grouped by what it goes on: armor first (head to feet), then elytra, shield, weapons, tools, and anything durable. Each enchantment is listed once, under the narrowest group that covers it. The Fits column says exactly which items take it.

In game, holding Ctrl over an item shows these descriptions beside each enchantment.

Status

• Vanilla: a Minecraft 1.21.11 enchantment, kept under its vanilla ID (most go to level V here)
• Built: ours, added by Enchanting 2

Cost is in XP levels, for adding the enchantment at the table or anvil:

• 1/lvl: the default, 1 level per enchantment level (V = 5). An upgrade pays only the added levels.
• 10: every single-level enchantment except Mending and the curses.
• 2/lvl: Frost Walker only (V = 10).
• 6/lvl: Speed and Flight (elytra) (V = 30).
• Treasure (like Mending): the table offers it only with 15 bookshelves, librarians charge double, and mobs never spawn wearing it. Health and Last Stand.
• Mending: 2, plus 2 for every level of every other non-curse enchantment on the item.
• Curses: 0, and each one takes a percentage off the item's enchant cost (see Curses below).

Unknown or third-party enchantments use the default 1/lvl unless enchantments.json5 says otherwise.

Everything here is configurable, in enchantments.json5 or the in-game config screen (Mod Menu): each enchantment can be turned off or kept out of the table, loot or trades, priced, and given a different max level, up to 255 (Efficiency 100 works). Where extra levels stop doing anything (Thorns past VII, Depth Strider past III), the screen says so. Where they'd break the game (Lure past V, Quick Charge past IV, Riptide past VII), they're capped. A max level change applies after a restart (or reopening the world). Every key: CONFIG.md.

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Armor

Helmet

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Respiration	5	1/lvl	helmets	longer underwater breathing	Vanilla
Aqua Affinity	1	10	helmets	normal mining speed underwater	Vanilla
Vision	1	10	helmets	Night Vision while worn (players only), no flicker, removed when taken off	Built
Calm Gaze	1	10	helmets	endermen don't get angry when you look at them (like wearing a carved pumpkin); hitting one still does	Built
Clarity	3	1/lvl	helmets	Blindness, Darkness and Nausea last a third shorter per level (III = immune, even to endless ones); works on mobs too	Built
Phantom Ward	1	10	helmets	phantoms don't target you, even when you haven't slept (they still spawn and still go for other players); one you hurt hunts you until it loses you	Built
Sustenance	5	1/lvl	helmets	4% less hunger drain per level from everything (V = 20%); multiplies with Endurance and Curse of Hunger	Built

Chestplate

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Cushion	3	1/lvl	chestplates, elytra	less damage from flying into walls	Built
Last Stand	3	1/lvl	chestplates	treasure; once per cooldown (10 / 8 / 6 min), a hit that would kill you leaves you at half a heart with Absorption I for 5 s; a Totem of Undying goes first and leaves the cooldown alone; not against the void or /kill; works in PvP unless the server turns it off; the cooldown shows right of the hotbar	Built

Leggings

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Swift Sneak	5	1/lvl	leggings	faster sneaking (capped at walking speed)	Vanilla
Step Assist	1	10	leggings	step up full blocks without jumping	Built
Anchored	5	1/lvl	leggings	10% knockback resistance per level against hits (not explosions)	Built
Endurance	5	1/lvl	leggings	sprinting and sprint-jumping cost 5% less hunger per level (V = 25%)	Built
Sure Footing	3	1/lvl	leggings	a third less slowdown per level on soul sand, honey and powder snow (III = none); in powder snow you still sink and freeze	Built

Boots

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Feather Falling	5	1/lvl	boots	less fall damage	Vanilla
Depth Strider	3	1/lvl	boots	faster underwater movement (full effect at III, so it stays at 3)	Vanilla
Frost Walker	5	2/lvl	boots	freezes water under you as you walk; no magma or campfire damage	Vanilla
Soul Speed	5	1/lvl	boots	faster on soul sand and soul soil	Vanilla
Swiftness	5	1/lvl	boots	more movement speed	Built
Double Jump	1	10	boots	one extra jump in the air (not in water or lava, on a ladder, riding, flying or gliding), ready again on landing; it breaks your fall; with an elytra, the next press takes off	Built
Lava Walking	1	10	boots	stand and walk on lava (still or flowing) at normal speed; sneak to sink, and once under you swim as usual; standing on lava still burns, so bring Fire Resistance; a fall onto lava hurts like a fall onto ground; works on mobs too	Built
Snow Walker	1	10	boots	the leather-boots effect on any boots: walk on and climb powder snow, sneak to sink, no freezing; works on mobs too	Built

Frost Walker and Depth Strider can share boots in this mod (vanilla forbids it). Water Walking was dropped, because Frost Walker already crosses water.

Any armor piece

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Protection	5	1/lvl	all armor	less damage from most sources	Vanilla
Fire Protection	5	1/lvl	all armor	less fire damage, shorter burning	Vanilla
Blast Protection	5	1/lvl	all armor	less explosion damage and knockback	Vanilla
Projectile Protection	5	1/lvl	all armor	less projectile damage	Vanilla
Thorns	5	1/lvl	all armor	chance to hurt attackers (V = 75%)	Vanilla
Toughness	5	1/lvl	all armor	more armor toughness	Built
Health	5	1/lvl	all armor	treasure; half a heart of max health per level per piece (a V set = +10 hearts); kept through a relog	Built

The four protections can all share one piece in this mod (vanilla allows only one).

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Elytra

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Flight	5	6/lvl	elytra	hold jump while gliding for a firework rocket's boost, a fifth of one per level (V = a rocket held down); 1 elytra durability per second of thrust; Speed scales it	Built
Speed	5	6/lvl	elytra	+10% elytra flight speed per level (V = +50%), gliding and firework boosts; dives stay vanilla; stops adding at X (double speed)	Built

Cushion (chestplate table above) also fits elytra.

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Shield

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Deflect	3	1/lvl	shields	arrows, fireballs, wither skulls and llama spit your raised shield would block fly back at the shooter at full speed, now yours (33 / 66 / 100%), once each; not tridents	Built
Shield Bash	3	1/lvl	shields	you can attack with your shield raised: a hit knocks the target back (Knockback I per level) and slows it hard for 0.5 s per level; then the shield rests 3 s	Built
Steadfast	3	1/lvl	shields	an axe disables your shield for less time: 5 s → 3.35 s at I, 1.65 s at II, never at III	Built
Spiked	5	1/lvl	shields	a melee attacker whose hit your shield blocks takes 1 damage per level (Thorns for shields); never projectiles	Built
Bulwark	3	1/lvl	shields	a blocked hit gives 1 extra heart per level for 5 s, at most once every 10 s	Built
Riposte	5	1/lvl	shields	after a block, your next melee hit within 2 s deals +3% per level (V = +15%)	Built
Steady Stance	1	10	shields	walk at full speed while blocking (blocking still stops a sprint)	Built

Shields take these from books on an anvil, like Unbreaking and Mending: vanilla shields can't go in the enchanting table. They work on modded shields in #c:tools/shield.

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Melee weapons

"Melee" in our own enchantments means swords, spears, axes, the mace and the trident.

Swords, spears and axes

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Sharpness	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, axes	more damage	Vanilla
Smite	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, axes, mace	more damage to undead	Vanilla
Bane of Arthropods	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, axes, mace	more damage to arthropods, plus Slowness	Vanilla
Knockback	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, axes	more knockback	Vanilla
Fire Aspect	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, mace, axes	sets the target on fire	Vanilla
Looting	5	1/lvl	swords, spears, axes	more mob drops	Vanilla
Sweeping Edge	5	1/lvl	swords	more sweep-attack damage (only swords sweep, so not axes)	Vanilla
Lunge	5	1/lvl	spears	lunge forward on a piercing attack (costs hunger)	Vanilla

The damage enchantments (Sharpness, Smite, Bane, Impaling, Density, Breach) can all share one weapon in this mod.

Mace

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Density	5	1/lvl	mace	more smash damage per block fallen	Vanilla
Breach	5	1/lvl	mace	ignores armor (V = 75%)	Vanilla
Wind Burst	5	1/lvl	mace	launches you up after a smash	Vanilla

Trident

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Impaling	5	1/lvl	trident	more damage to water mobs	Vanilla
Loyalty	5	1/lvl	trident	returns after a throw	Vanilla
Riptide	5	1/lvl	trident	launches you in water or rain	Vanilla
Channeling	1	10	trident	summons lightning in a thunderstorm	Vanilla

Riptide, Loyalty and Channeling can share a trident in this mod: Riptide launches in water or rain, otherwise it throws normally.

Any melee weapon

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Vampirism	5	1/lvl	melee	heals 2%/level of the health the target lost (V = 10%), direct hits only	Built
Beheading	5	1/lvl	melee	2%/level chance of a mob head on a player's melee kill	Built
Attack Speed	5	1/lvl	melee	attacks 5% faster per level (V = +25%)	Built
Quick Strike	5	1/lvl	melee	5% chance per level (25% at V) that a hit lands again at once: the damage only (no knockback, Fire Aspect or other on-hit effects, Vampirism, crit roll or durability), never a third	Built

Melee or ranged

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Withering	5	1/lvl	melee, bow, crossbow	Wither on hit	Built
Poisoning	5	1/lvl	melee, bow, crossbow	Poison on hit	Built
Freezing	5	1/lvl	melee, bow, crossbow	Slowness on hit	Built
Critical Strike	5	1/lvl	melee, bow, crossbow	5%/level chance of +50% damage	Built

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Ranged weapons

Bow

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Power	5	1/lvl	bow	more arrow damage	Vanilla
Punch	5	1/lvl	bow	more arrow knockback	Vanilla

Crossbow

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Quick Charge	4	1/lvl	crossbow	faster reload (V would be zero charge time, so it stops at 4)	Vanilla
Piercing	5	1/lvl	crossbow	arrows pass through more targets	Vanilla
Multishot	1	10	crossbow	fires three arrows	Vanilla

Multishot and Piercing can share a crossbow in this mod.

Bow or crossbow

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Flame	1	10	bow, crossbow	arrows set targets on fire (not firework rockets)	Vanilla
Infinity	1	10	bow, crossbow, water bucket, lava bucket	bow/crossbow: one arrow in the inventory is never used up (rockets still are); bucket: never empties (see below)	Vanilla
TrueShot Aura	1	10	bow, crossbow	arrows ignore gravity for 5 s, then fall normally	Built

Infinity and Mending can share a bow or crossbow in this mod.

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Tools

Mining tools

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Efficiency	5	1/lvl	pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes, shears	faster mining	Vanilla
Fortune	5	1/lvl	pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes	more block drops; only natural blocks, never placed ones (shovels: dirt, grass, podzol, sand, gravel, clay...; axes: logs, mushroom blocks, bamboo; hoes: moss, wart blocks, leaves)	Vanilla
Silk Touch	1	10	pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes	blocks drop themselves; a Silk Touch pickaxe also drops mob spawners (keeping their mob type, no XP) while silk_touch.collect_spawners is on (default on)	Vanilla
Smelting	1	10	pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes	drops come out smelted, after Fortune, with furnace XP; Silk Touch wins by default	Built
Area Mining	1	10	pickaxes, shovels	breaks 3×3 on the face you hit, only blocks no harder than the one you mined and right for the tool; each block costs durability and gets Fortune, Silk Touch, Smelting and Magnetic; sneak to break one block	Built

Silk Touch and Fortune can share a tool in this mod. By default Fortune never multiplies a Silk Touch drop.

Hoe

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Replant	1	10	hoes	breaking a grown crop (wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroots, nether wart, cocoa) replants it with a seed from its own drops; never makes a seed; young crops break as usual	Built
Tiller	3	1/lvl	hoes	tilling also tills the dirt, grass and paths around it (3×3 / 5×5 / 7×7, open sky above only), 1 durability per block; stops if the hoe breaks	Built

What an axe and a shovel take

• Axe: every mining-tool enchantment above (Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, Smelting), Reach, XP Boost, Magnetic, Ender Link, Unbreaking, Mending, and the melee weapon enchantments: Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Knockback, Fire Aspect, Looting, and all of ours under "Any melee weapon" and "Melee or ranged". Not Sweeping Edge or Lunge (sword and spear mechanics), and not Area Mining (pickaxes and shovels only).
• Shovel: Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, Smelting, Area Mining, Reach, XP Boost, Magnetic, Ender Link, Unbreaking, Mending. No weapon enchantments.

Fishing rod

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Luck of the Sea	5	1/lvl	fishing rod	better catches	Vanilla
Lure	5	1/lvl	fishing rod	faster bites	Vanilla

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Tools and weapons

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Reach	3	1/lvl	mining tools, melee	block reach +0.5 and entity reach +0.25 per level (III: 6 and 3.75 blocks)	Built
XP Boost	5	1/lvl	mining tools, melee, bow, crossbow	+5%/level XP from kills and mining	Built
Magnetic	1	10	tools, weapons	drops from blocks you break and mobs you kill go straight into your inventory, and their XP to you (Mending applies); what doesn't fit drops	Built
Ender Link	1	10	tools, weapons	drops from blocks you break and mobs you kill go to your ender chest (XP as normal); what doesn't fit drops; with Magnetic too, the ender chest fills first	Built

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Any durable item

Enchantment	Max	Cost	Fits	What it does	Status
Unbreaking	5	1/lvl	anything with durability	uses durability more slowly	Vanilla
Mending	1	2 + 2 per other level	anything with durability (every item it can repair)	XP repairs the item	Vanilla
Keep on Death	1	10	durables (the item tag enchanting2:enchantable/keep_on_death, datapacks change it)	never dropped on death, back in the same slot on respawn, free; Curse of Vanishing still destroys it	Built

"Anything with durability" means armor, elytra, shield, swords, axes, pickaxes, shovels, hoes, spears, the mace, bow, crossbow, trident, flint and steel, shears, brush, fishing rod and the two on-a-stick items: every vanilla item that takes enchantments and has durability, so Mending already fits all of them. The water and lava buckets join them (256 uses; see below). The other enchantable items (compass, heads, carved pumpkin) have no durability, so Mending would do nothing there.

Infinite buckets

Infinity on a water or lava bucket (table, or anvil + book): placing the fluid leaves the bucket full, by hand, from a dispenser, or into a cauldron. Each placement uses 1 durability (256 uses), so Unbreaking and Mending are worth putting on it; they need Infinity on the bucket first. The last use destroys it like any tool. Only a water or lava bucket takes enchantments, never the empty bucket. It can't scoop, isn't furnace fuel, and isn't used up by a crafting recipe. Water still evaporates in the Nether. Costs 10 like any single-level enchantment.

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Curses

A curse costs 0 and takes its discount off the item's enchant cost. Discounts add up to 45%. Removing one at the grindstone (Cleanse) costs at least 30 levels.

Curse	Max	Discount	Fits	What it does	Status
Curse of Binding	1	10%	anything worn (armor, elytra, heads, carved pumpkin)	can't be taken off until death or it breaks	Vanilla
Curse of Vanishing	1	10%	durables, compass, heads, carved pumpkin	destroyed on death	Vanilla
Curse of Fragility	5	15% +5%/lvl	durables	2× durability loss at I, +0.5× per level (V = 4×)	Built
Curse of Weight	5	15% +5%/lvl	armor	−10% movement speed per level per piece; pieces add, at most −50% in total (config)	Built
Curse of Greed	5	15% +5%/lvl	tools, weapons	−10% XP from kills and mining per level (V = −50%); multiplies with XP Boost	Built
Curse of Fumbling	5	15% +5%/lvl	mining tools	−15% block break speed per level (V = −75%)	Built
Curse of Hunger	5	15% +5%/lvl	armor	+10% hunger drain per level per piece (V = +50%; four pieces at V = +200%)	Built

The five new curses go to level 5. Their discount is 15% at I and 5% more per level (V = 35%), so one curse alone never reaches the 45% cap. Like vanilla's curses, ours come from loot, librarian trades and the table (as a discount), never from mob gear. Cleansing one repays its discount at the level it has. Both discount numbers can be changed per curse in the config screen.

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Totals: 43 vanilla (2 of them curses) and 49 new (5 of them curses). Knockback, Fire Aspect, Looting, Flame, Infinity and TrueShot Aura also fit more items than in vanilla, water and lava buckets take enchantments, and Silk Touch can pick up spawners.