Silk Touch Enchantments – Wiki Guide
This Minecraft tutorial explains the Silk Touch enchantment with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
Background
The Silk Touch enchantment allows you to mine blocks themselves instead of getting the usual dropped items. With this enchantment, you can gather items that are fragile and break such as glass or ice. Or you can mine and gather the block itself such as diamond ore or coal ore (instead of getting diamond and coal drops).
You can add the Silk Touch enchantment to any pickaxe, shovel, axe, or shears using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command. Then use the enchanted tool to mine and see just how quickly you can add those rare and fragile items to your inventory!!
The maximum level for the Silk Touch enchantment is Level 1. This means that you can only enchant an item with up to Silk Touch I, and nothing higher for this enchantment.
| Enchantment Name | Silk Touch |
|---|---|
| Min Level | Level 1 (Silk Touch I) |
| Max Level | Level 1 (Silk Touch I) |
| Description | Allows you to mine and gather the blocks themselves instead of getting the usual drops (ie: get diamond ore instead of getting a diamond). You can also gather fragile items such as glass or ice |
| Applies To |  Pickaxes Shovels Axes Shears |
| How to add Enchantment | 1. Enchanting Table 2. Anvil 3. /enchant command |
Incompatible Enchantments
In Minecraft, the Silk Touch enchantment can not be combined with the following enchantments:
- Fortune
Items to Enchant with Silk Touch
In Minecraft, you can enchant the following items with Silk Touch:
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How to make a Netherite Axe
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How to make a Netherite ShovelHold the Enchanted Tool
Once you have a tool (ie: pickaxe, shovel, axe, or shears) that is enchanted with Silk Touch, you need to hold the enchanted item in your hand. You will not be able to mine the blocks themselves until the tool is held in your hand and used.
Now when you mine an item with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, you will get the block itself instead of the block breaking into nothing or dropping another item.
TIP #1: Normally when you mine ice, it shatters and breaks. When you mine ice with Silk Touch, it will drop the block of ice.
TIP #2: Normally when you mine diamond ore, it drops a diamond. With Silk Touch, it would drop the diamond ore itself.
Congratulations, you just learned all about the Silk Touch enchantment in Minecraft.
Enchantment ID and Name
Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)
In Minecraft, Silk Touch has the following enchantment ID and Name values:
| Enchantment (Minecraft ID Name) |
Max Level | Minecraft ID | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silk Touch (minecraft:silk_touch) |
I | 33 |
Java Edition (PC/Mac)
- Enchantment is what the enchantment is called and (Minecraft ID Name) is the string value used in the /enchant command.
- Max Level is the maximum level that you can apply for this enchantment.
- Minecraft ID is the Internal number for the enchantment.
- Platform is the platform that applies.
- Version is the Minecraft version number that the enchantment was introduced for the name and ID, if applicable.
Enchant Command for Silk Touch
Enchant Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)
Silk Touch I:
/enchant @p silk_touch 1
See more examples of how to use the /enchant command.
Items Requiring Silk Touch to Gather
The following are items in Minecraft that you can only gather with a tool enchanted with Silk Touch:
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