This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft an enchanted fishing rod with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, an enchanted fishing rod is one of the many tools that you can make. You can increase your chances of catching more rare items when fishing by enchanting your fishing rod. Enchantments can be added to items using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command.

Let’s explore how to make an enchanted fishing rod using an enchanting table.

Required Materials to make an Enchanted Fishing Rod

In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft an enchanted fishing rod:

3 Lapis Lazuli
1 Fishing Rod

Enchantments for Fishing Rod

In Minecraft, you can enchant a fishing rod with the following enchantments:

Enchantment Description
Curse of Vanishing Cursed item will disappear after player dies
Luck of the Sea Increases chances of catching valuable items
Lure Increases the rate of fish biting your hook
Mending Uses xp to mend your tools, weapons and armor
Unbreaking Increases durability of item, in effect, by decreasing the chance of the tool, weapon, or armor taking durability damage when used
  • Enchantment is what the enchantment is called.
  • Description is the description of what the enchantment does.

See a complete list of Minecraft Enchantments that is interactive and searchable.

Steps to Enchant the Fishing Rod

1. Open the Enchanting Table

First, open your enchanting table so that you have the Enchant menu that looks like this:

2. Enchant the Fishing Rod

In the Enchant menu, place the fishing rod in the first box. Then place 3 lapis lazuli in the second box.

TIP: In Creative mode, you do not need to place the lapis lazuli in the second box.

Once you have placed your fishing rod and lapis lazuli in the two boxes, you will see the enchantment slots display up to 3 enchantment options. Each enchantment will display a number on the right which is the number of experience levels that you must have to unlock and view the enchantment (this is not the cost of applying the enchantment).

In this example, the first enchantment is unlocked if you have 7 experience levels, the second one is unlocked if you have 8 experience levels, and for the third enchantment you need 30 experience levels to unlock it.

The higher the experience points required to unlock the enchantment, the better the enchantment. If you don’t have enough levels, you can always earn more experience points by killing mobs or using the /xp command.

TIP: If you hover over the slot, you will see the name of the enchantment and the cost.

When you hover over the third enchantment, it says Luck of the Sea II and the cost of the enchantment is 3 lapis lazuli and 3 enchantment levels (ie: 3 levels on your experience bar). Luck of the Sea II is one of the 3 enchantments that you can select from the enchanting table. This enchantment should increase the chances of catching more rare items such as pufferfish or clownfish.

Select the enchantment that you wish to apply to the fishing rod.

Once you have selected an enchantment, your lapis lazuli and experience points will be spent and the fishing rod will glow purple. You can hover over the enchanted fishing rod to see its new powers.

TIP: Quite often the enchanting table will add more than just the one enchantment originally selected. So you might end up with an item that is enchanted with 2 or 3 enchantments (or maybe even 4 enchantments)!

The fishing rod is now an enchanted fishing rod and you can move it back into your inventory.

Congratulations, you have made an enchanted fishing rod in Minecraft!

Things to Do with Enchanted Fishing Rods

Here are some activities that you can do with enchanted fishing rods in Minecraft:

How to Fish
How to make a Nautilus Shell

Fish to Catch

You can use an enchanted fishing rod to catch the following types of fish in Minecraft:

How to make Raw Cod
How to make Raw Salmon
How to make a Pufferfish
How to make a Tropical Fish (Clownfish)

Other Enchanted Items

In Minecraft, you can make other enchanted items such as:

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