Top 3 Most Useful Enchantments In Minecraft (And 3 Worst Enchantments)

Enchantments are the best way in Minecraft to improve your favorite tools and items even further with special abilities. There are quite a lot of enchantments in Minecraft and some of them are simply just much more useful than others.

Each enchantment has its own niche that they are excel at, but a few can be amazing in every situation in the game. Thus these enchantments are widely used by all players for their benefit.

Top 3 Most Useful Enchantments In Minecraft

1. Unbreaking

Unbreaking is an enchantment that can be used on any tool in Minecraft to make them last longer. The item with the Unbreaking enchantment has a chance of not losing its durability when used. The higher the level of the enchantment the higher chance it will give. This is the enchantment you would want to have immediately on your precious armor and tools.

2. Efficiency

Mining can be a daunting task in Minecraft since you have to do it a lot, plus some blocks won't give up easily. Efficiency can help you mine much faster by increasing your speed of using the tool. The downside is that as your mining speed increase, your tools will be broken faster as well.

Efficiency Best Pickaxe Enchantments Minecraft — Efficiency enchantment Minecraft

3. Mending

Mending is an excellent enchantment to go with Efficiency as it can automatically fix your tools using experience orbs. So your tools will pretty be repaired after you mined something. Combine this with Unbreaking, you can pretty much make your tools last forever.

Mending Minecraft — Mending enchantment Minecraft

Top 3 Worst Enchantments In Minecraft

1. Curse of Binding

The Curse of Binding is commonly used for pranks as the item with this enchantment cannot be removed once equipped. A well-known prank is a Carved Pumpkin head with the Curse of Binding. The player with a Carved Pumpkin head will have their vision reduced, which is very annoying. And with the Curse of Binding, there is no way they can unequip it.

Minecraft Curse Of Binding — It is very annoying to have a Carved Pumpkin head stuck on your head.

2. Curse of Vanishing

The Curse of Vanishing is something that you would never want to have on your items. The item with the Curse of Vanishing will disappear once you die. You cannot respawn and go to your death location to pick it up again. If you happen to get an item with the Curse of Vanishing, you wouldn't want to invest too much in it even if it is good.

Minecraft Curse Of Vanishing — Curse of Vanishing will cause you to lose your item forever.

3. Frost Walker

The Frost Walker enchantment does not give you a harmful effect but it is also not useful either. It allows you to create ice under your feet so you can walk on water, lava,... It is quite fun to use but that is all about it. There is a host of other things that can do a better job than this enchantment.