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Dec 2 2025

What Are The Best Enchantments For A Pickaxe In Minecraft?

The pickaxe is the most essential tool in Minecraft, necessary for gathering stone, iron, and diamonds to progress in the game. To truly maximize your mining potential and speed, you must have the best pickaxe enchantments applied to your diamond pickaxe or netherite pickaxe.

A powerful pickaxe transforms tedious mining into an efficient rush for resources, allowing you to focus on building and adventure. Knowing which enchantments to combine on the anvil is the difference between a brittle tool and the best pickaxe possible.

This guide will break down the best enchantments for your pickaxe, explaining how to enchant for ultimate speed, durability, and resource gain in the latest game version. Prepare to learn the secrets to instant mining and massive hauls of valuable ore blocks.

Best Enchantments For Pickaxe

When it comes to minecraft pickaxe enchantments, the best enchantments always focus on speed, durability, and resource multiplication. These enchantments will be applied to both of your main pickaxes.

Efficiency V

Efficiency V is the maximum level for this enchantment and is critical for maximizing mining speed. This enchantment makes your pickaxe break blocks mineable by the pickaxe much faster. Combined with a Beacon haste effect, it enables instant mining.

Unbreaking III

The Unbreaking enchantment, specifically Unbreaking III, is a must have for any pickaxe. Unbreaking III increases your pickaxe's durability and gives it a random chance to avoid losing durability upon use. This iii enchantment is iii similar to the protection iv you will seek for your armor.

Mending

Mending is arguably one of the best pickaxe enchantments because it grants the pickaxe infinite life. Mending uses XP from mob drops or xp farms to automatically repair your pickaxe durability, preventing pickaxe breaking forever.

Fortune III

Fortune III is one of the most exciting enchantments for mining. This iii enchantment grants a random chance to effectively quadrupled the blocks dropped from ore blocks like coal, diamonds, and lapis lazuli.

Silk Touch

Silk Touch is the ultimate utility enchantment and is mutually exclusive with Fortune. This enchantment causes blocks to drop their block's direct item form instead of their usual contents (e.g., stone instead of cobblestone, or diamond ore blocks instead of diamonds).

Curse of Vanishing (if you're playing on a PVP world)

The Curse of Vanishing is a detrimental enchantment that is sometimes found on the pickaxe. If your pickaxe has this enchantment, it will vanish when you die. It is a curse you want to avoid unless you are on a PVP world where you do not want your enemies to get your best pickaxe.

Pickaxe 1: Main Mining Pickaxe

This pickaxe is your primary resource gatherer, optimized for raw speed and multiplying your diamond haul. This best pickaxe will be used almost exclusively in deep caves.

Efficiency V

The maximum Efficiency V is non-negotiable for this pickaxe. It speeds up your mining incredibly, which is essential for quickly clearing blocks to find new veins.

Unbreaking III

You will be doing a lot of mining with this pickaxe, so Unbreaking III will greatly prolong its life and prevent annoying pickaxe breaking.

Mending

Since this pickaxe will gather so many resources, you will likely want to enchant it with Mending to automatically repair it using the XP you gain from mining ore blocks.

Fortune III

Fortune III is the centerpiece of this pickaxe. When you find that rare diamond vein, Fortune III will multiply your yield, often giving you three or four planks worth of resources from a single ore blocks.

Pickaxe 2: Utility & Building Pickaxe

This pickaxe is reserved for specialty tasks, primarily used for building and collecting blocks that require Silk Touch to obtain their original form.

Efficiency V

Efficiency V is just as important here; whether you are gathering blocks or building, you want the mining speed to be as high as possible.

Unbreaking III

Again, Unbreaking III saves your pickaxe from pickaxe breaking while you are engaged in large construction projects or mining for specific blocks.

Mending

Mending is always recommended for late game tools. You can use XP gathered from skeleton farms or wither skeleton farms to keep this pickaxe permanently repaired.

Silk Touch

Silk Touch is what makes this pickaxe unique. You can use it to collect blocks like stone, glass, many blocks of ice, or entire bee nests without changing them into their usual drops.

All Pickaxe Enchantments Listed

The following enchantments are all possible pickaxe enchantments available in the latest game version (Minecraft 1.21). You can enchant your pickaxe using the enchanting table or combining enchanted books on the anvil.

Remember that Unbreaking III, Mending, and Efficiency V are the best pickaxe enchantments for longevity and speed.

How To Enchant A Pickaxe

You have two primary methods to enchant your pickaxe and achieve your best pickaxe setup.

1. Enchanting Table Method (Early Game):

   • Place your pickaxe and lapis lazuli into the enchanting table.

   • The enchanting table will present you with up to three random enchantments at various enchantment levels (iii).

   • This method is the cheapest way to get Efficiency IV or Unbreaking III in the early game, but it will rarely give you the specific enchantments you want.

2. Anvil and Enchanted Books Method (Late Game):

   • This is the superior method for the late game. You must have enchanted books to apply Mending or ensure you get Efficiency V and Fortune III.

   • Find enchanted books by trading with a librarian villager, looting dungeon chests, bastion remnant chests, jungle temples, or raid drops, or from ruined portals.

   • Use the anvil to combine the enchanted books with your diamond pickaxe or netherite pickaxe.

   • Use the anvil to merge multiple enchantment orders onto the pickaxe at the same total cost.

Conclusion

Mastering Minecraft pickaxe enchantments is the key to mastering Minecraft. The best pickaxe will be a netherite pickaxe or an enchanted diamond pickaxe equipped with the core three: Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, and Mending. This iii v combination ensures instant mining and never-ending durability.

Always keep two pickaxes handy: one with Fortune III for diamonds and one with Silk Touch for utility. Combine your enchantments on the anvil using enchanted books from a librarian villager to build your perfect tool. Your mining life is about to get much faster.