Minecraft Sharpness enchantment
Sharpness adds 1 extra melee damage at level I and 0.5 more per level after that, against every target: 3 extra damage at Sharpness V.
- Max level
- V
- Rarity
- Common (weight 10)
- Anvil, from item
- ×1 per level
- Anvil, from book
- ×1 per level
Which items take Sharpness
Swords and spears, and books.
Axes: an anvil adds it, and some chest loot comes with it.
The table offers an enchantment only on its primary items; an anvil can add it to anything that can hold it. See every enchantment an item can hold in the max enchantments by item tool.
Conflicts
Sharpness can’t share an item with Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Impaling, Density and Breach. An anvil refuses the combination, and the table never offers them together.
Enchanting table odds
Chance that one offer in the bottom slot (level 30, 15 bookshelves) includes Sharpness, on a diamond sword and on a book.
| Level | Diamond sword | Book |
|---|---|---|
| Sharpness I | — | — |
| Sharpness II | — | — |
| Sharpness III | 21.8% | 7.3% |
| Sharpness IV | 16.4% | 1.0% |
| Sharpness V | — | — |
| Any level | 38.2% | 8.3% |
Try other items, materials and bookshelf counts in the enchantment table calculator.
Power window per level
A table roll picks the highest level whose window contains the roll’s modified enchantment level. These are the registry’s min_cost and max_cost, not the level cost shown on the table.
| Level | Min | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Sharpness I | 1 | 21 |
| Sharpness II | 12 | 32 |
| Sharpness III | 23 | 43 |
| Sharpness IV | 34 | 54 |
| Sharpness V | 45 | 65 |
Anvil cost
An anvil charges ×1 per level when Sharpness comes from another item and ×1 per level when it comes from a book, so adding Sharpness V from a book costs 5 levels before any prior-work penalty. Work out a full combine in the anvil cost calculator.
Command
Hold the item in your main hand and run this with cheats on. /enchant refuses an item that can’t hold Sharpness and any level above V.
/enchant @s minecraft:sharpness 5Sharpness: common questions
- What is the maximum level of Sharpness?
- Sharpness goes up to level V (5).
- Can you get Sharpness from an enchanting table?
- Yes, on swords and spears, and on books. Axes can hold it too, but the table never offers it on them: it goes on at an anvil, from an enchanted book or another item that has it. Axes from ruined portal, bastion and trial chamber chests can also come with it already on.
- What does Sharpness conflict with?
- Sharpness can't share an item with Smite, Bane of Arthropods, Impaling, Density and Breach.