Minecraft Silk Touch enchantment
Silk Touch makes blocks drop themselves instead of their usual drops, so stone stays stone and ores drop as ore blocks. Blocks mined this way give no experience.
- Max level
- I
- Rarity
- Very rare (weight 1)
- Anvil, from item
- ×8 per level
- Anvil, from book
- ×4 per level
Which items take Silk Touch
Axes, pickaxes, shovels and hoes, and books.
None beyond the table items.
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
Silk Touch can’t share an item with Fortune. 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 Silk Touch, on a diamond pickaxe and on a book.
| Level | Diamond pickaxe | Book |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Touch I | 16.6% | 1.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silk Touch I | 15 | 65 |
Anvil cost
An anvil charges ×8 per level when Silk Touch comes from another item and ×4 per level when it comes from a book, so adding Silk Touch I from a book costs 4 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 Silk Touch and any level above I.
/enchant @s minecraft:silk_touch 1Silk Touch: common questions
- What is the maximum level of Silk Touch?
- Silk Touch has a single level, so its maximum is Silk Touch I.
- Can you get Silk Touch from an enchanting table?
- Yes, on axes, pickaxes, shovels and hoes, and on books.
- What does Silk Touch conflict with?
- Silk Touch can't share an item with Fortune.