There are dozens of blocks in Minecraft, but some player favorites can be difficult to find, difficult to make, or seemingly impossible to grab. Players looking to grab grass blocks by the dozen need the right tool and the right enchantment to prevent them from turning into dirt blocks.

The Silk Touch enchantment is one of the more desirable ones in Minecraft, and it is the key to grabbing almost limitless grass blocks. As its name suggests, this enchantment gives the tool it is attached to the ability to grab blocks as they are. This means that a Silk Touch pickaxe will not break down ore or break stone into cobblestone, and a Silk Touch shovel won't remove grass from a dirt block.

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How to Get Grass Blocks in Minecraft

To get the Silk Touch enchantment, players need to first build an enchantment table. Unfortunately, there is a degree of randomness in Minecraft enchantments, and players may not find Silk Touch right away. Adding enchantments resets the offering, so players may have to add enchantments repeatedly before finding the right one.

Adding bookshelves around the enchantment table increases the odds that Silk Touch will appear, so players on the hunt should definitely build some around the block. Once found, this enchantment can be put on almost any tool but is most effective attached to a shovel in this case.

enchanting in minecraft

Attaching an enchantment in Minecraft requires the player to put the desired tool in the left slot of the enchantment screen and several lapis lazuli (3 for the most expensive enchantment level) in the right slot. As long as Silk Touch I appears as one of the three presented options, players just need to click this enchantment to complete the transaction.

Grass block Minecraft

If a player wants to harvest grass blocks with a tool with another enchantment, they need to turn to the anvil. Anvils cost a significant amount of Iron (3 blocks of the metal and 4 iron ingots) in Minecraft, but they can combine enchanted tools with additional enchantments. With a book enchanted with Silk Touch, players just have to add the tool to the far left space in the Anvil menu and the book with the enchantment in the middle block.

anvil enchanting in Minecraft

The only other way to get grass blocks in Minecraft is much less reliable and much more difficult. Often Endermen can be found holding a random block they picked up. If a player catches and kills one of these mobs with a grass block, Enderman will drop the grass block for the player to pick up. These mobs can be difficult to take down, however, and the block they carry is random.

Minecraft is available now for Mobile, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and various other platforms.

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