Minecraft has a long list of enchantments from which players can choose to improve their tools, weapons, and armor. Players are able to increase the speed of a tool with Efficiency, reduce fall damage with Feather Falling, and even turn water into ice with the Frost Walker enchantment. Unlocking the ability to get these enchantments can be a great boost to a playthrough of Minecraft.
Unfortunately, with so many options from which to choose, it can be difficult to remember what each enchantment does in Minecraft. For those players looking to better understand what the Fortune enchantment does in the game and when best to use it, this guide is here to help.
What Does The Fortune Enchantment Do?
Fortune is an enchantment that becomes essential as players need to gather materials and ores at a faster rate. This is because Fortune, when applied to mining and digging tools, increases the number of drops from certain blocks. There are three different levels of this enchantment, with Fortune III having the highest percentage chance to drop the highest number of items. This makes this level of the enchantment an important part of the best possible pickaxe in Minecraft.
For example, when a player uses a Fortune III pickaxe on a block of coal ore, it will average 2.2 pieces of coal with a maximum possible drop of 4. An unenchanted pickaxe averages and maxes out at just 1 piece of coal. And so, gathering ore of all kinds is much easier with the Fortune enchantment. This effect also works on the number of items players get from breaking Wheat Seeds, Nether wart, Glowstone, and a handful of other objects.
How To Get The Fortune Enchantment
The main method for enchanting is through an enchanting table at the cost of experience points and lapis lazuli. Enchantment tables in Minecraft require a book, a pair of diamonds, and four blocks of obsidian to craft. Once this has been created, players need to surround the enchantment table with a total of 15 bookshelves and have reached level 30 in order to unlock the highest level of enchantments.
Players can then interact with this enchantment table, place either a book or the tool they want enchanted in the bottom left space and several lapis lazuli in the other space to open up the enchantment options. If Fortune isn’t one of the three options, players will have to enchant something in order to reset the options.
It is recommended that players just pick whichever enchantment is the lowest cost when resetting the enchanting table in order to ease the cost on themselves. While lapis lazuli is a bit of a challenge to find despite ore distribution changes in a recent Minecraft update, levels are the real expensive piece to enchanting.
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