Minecraft Enchanting: You use Anvils WRONG :( 

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Should’ve mentioned that you cannot enchant anything that costs more than 39 levels in survival

I never thought 1+1 could be this hard

1 + (AnvilUses) = (1 + AnvilUses) I think I've seen everything... That's some galaxy brain math.

A man hammers books into each other in a field while talking to himself for 4 minutes.

2:07 Ah yes, my favorite enchantment. That one with the red letters.

The lesson I got out of this: anvil mechanics are bs

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you should be dropping the anvils on enemies, thats what Warner Bros taught me

basically anvils are like banks charging interest

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I sure do love my curse of binding swords!

Misticat: You use anvils wrong Me who use anvils as a building material in survival:

61 levels would be considered too expensive in survival, so i guess you’ve shown another way to use the anvil incorrectly

and remember, you dont have to splat all the enchantments in your sword at once or it will be too expensive to add even the first time, you can split the difference using a book that has like 50%-75% of the enchantments you need, and the second one with the little ones you left out so even if your sword already has 1 anvil use, it wont be too expensive to not being able to add them

You can’t even put a 61 level book on a sword, because more than 39 in survival will come out as, “Too Expensive!”.

The most important premise in this video is incorrect, making most of the content wrong. The number of anvil uses ("prior work" or pw) on the resulting item is always going to be *one more than the HIGHEST* of the two combined items - not the second item in the anvil. For example, combining a book with 3 uses and a book with 1 use doesn't result in 2 - it results in 4. Because of the way you're doing it in this video, you're trying to create a sword with a pw of 6, not 2, which is why the cost is outlandish and not actually doable in Survival. When you combine the 4-enchant book with Curse of Vanishing, the resulting book has a pw of 3, not 1; then adding the Binding/Unbreaking book increases it to 4, and then adding Mending brings it to 5. You're basically making the same mistake as you demonstrated with the sword in the first place. Items with a prior work of 0 (or 0 anvil uses) add no additional cost for the prior work. For 1 prior work, the penalty is 1 level added to the cost; for 2 prior work, the cost is 3 additional levels; for 3 prior work, it's 7, for 4 it's 15, and for 5 it's 31. You add the pw penalty for each item, so it doesn't matter what order the items are in the anvil in for this calculation. The reason the numbers are different when you swap the books is because there is a cost for each enchant that's on the item being sacrificed (i.e., the item in the second slot). Each enchantment is a different cost - for example, Unbreaking III is 3, Mending is 2, Looting III is 6, etc. These are all listed on the link at the bottom of this post. These costs are double if you're sacrificing a piece of equipment rather than a book, by the way. But this explains why the price skyrockets when you're trying to sacrifice the combined books - it's because of the *enchantments* on the second book, not the prior work on it. (Side note: Combining two items to *upgrade* an enchantment, such as a Sharpness III book and a Sharpness III sword, will cost what the resulting enchantment will be, not what the sacrificed item is. So in this case, the cost would be 4 for Sharpness IV instead of 3 for Sharpness III. But for this post, we'll assume the max level for each enchantment.) Here's one way you'd make your exact sword in Survival: 1. Enchant the sword at the enchanting table first so as to avoid incurring a prior work penalty on the sword. Looting III is the most expensive enchant to sacrifice off a book (6), so go for that in the table to avoid the cost of adding it to the sword later. (Cost: 3 levels for using the enchanting table) 2. Add one of two curses to the sword - doesn't matter which since they have the same cost. Let's say Curse of Vanishing. The sword now has two enchants with only a pw of 1. (Cost: 4 for sacrificing Curse of Vanishing) 3. Combine the other Curse with Unbreaking III into their own book, which we'll call "CU". CU's pw = 1. (Cost: 3 for sacrificing Unbreaking III) 4. Combine the sword with CU. The sword now has 4 enchants and a pw of 2. (Cost: 9 for sacrificing both Curse of Vanishing and Unbreaking III, plus a prior work penalty of 1 on both the book and the sword) 5. Combine Sharpness V and Knockback II into their own book (book SK). SK's pw = 1. (Cost: 2 for sacrificing Knockback) 6. Combine Fire Aspect II and Mending into their own book (book FM). FU's pw = 1. (Cost: 2 for sacrificing Mending) 7. Combine SK and FM into a new book (book SKFM). SKFM's pw = 2. (Cost: 8 for sacrificing both Fire Aspect and Mending, plus 1 each for the prior work on the books) 8. Combine the sword and book SKFM. The sword now has a pw of 3 and all 8 enchants. (Cost: 19 instead of 61, for sacrificing all 4 enchants on the book and adding 3 each for the prior work on both items) The Ultimate Sword (no curses, includes Sweeping Edge III): 1. Enchant the sword with Sweeping Edge III or Looting III at an enchanting table (if you get Smite, Sharpness, or Bane of Arthropods, make sure it's one of those three you want because you can't change it - hit the grinding stone with it otherwise and start over) 2. Add the other (Sweeping Edge or Looting) to the sword 3. Add Fire Aspect II to the sword 4. Combine Sharpness/Smite/Bane & Knockback (SK) 5. Combine Unbreaking & Mending (UM) 6. Combine SK and UM (SKUM) 7. Combine the sword with SKUM: You get all 7 enchantments with an end pwp of 3. I've done a lot of enchanting and tested the method above before posting this, so I know this is correct. Everything can be sourced from here, including all the math and enchant costs: minecraft.gamepedia.com/Anvil_mechanics

btw, enchant your weapon once first, makes things a bit easier you'll already have some enchants you need

To explain this simply: Each item has a counter saying how many times you hammered it. When you have all the books and items you want to combine always combine items that have the same amount of anvil uses to conserve as much xp as possible. The anvil always adds one to the item that has more anvil uses and slaps it onto the resulting item

I play vanilla survival 1.16 I use the enchantment table... to get protection or sharpness IV if possible with additional enchantments on the gear and the rest I get from e.t. books or trading books (additional enchants are especially useful for boots) Then I start adding enchantment books with 0 or 1 anvil uses and I stay below 39 levels to get the most optimal setup in survival without curses, I go by the cheapest first then the more expensive ones

Pro tip: Try getting some of the desired Enchants from an Enchanting Table directly on your tool/armor, so it will cost way less to combine in an Anvil later. Also, you can't combine anything in an Anvil that costs more than 39 levels in Survival, because it will say "Too Expensive!"

For those curious, I added up the total levels required for the 'efficient' method, and it comes to a total of 121 levels (4 + 5 + 3 + 9 + 7 + 15 + 17 + 61) vs the earlier method with 277 levels (6 + 5 + 5 + 12 + 19 + 34 + 67 + 129). Even disregarding intermediate / total level costs, the cost of final combine alone is rather insane; ~60 levels can mean up to 20 level 3 rolls on the enchanting table! ps. I really enjoyed the no-bs content you put out on the mob / item farms! :)

“1 + (Anvil Uses) = (1+Anvil Uses)” Hmm yes the floor is made out of floor

Pro tip (at least on bedrock, idk about Java but I assume it’s the same) Enchantment tables don’t count for this number so it costs less xp to get one of (or more) the enchantments you want by directly enchanting an object in an enchantment table

Additionally, of you use an enchanting table to get one or two enchantments you want, you don't need as many books (and therefore levels) to max out your sword

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It’s worth mentioning that investing in a good enchantment table can help sometimes too. Suppose you have an enchantment table at the maximum level. It isn’t too incredibly hard to get something like Sharpness IV, Fire Aspect II, and Knockback II on a single sword with a perfect enchantment table. After all, you can get a near-perfect pickaxe in one enchantment as well with a maxed out enchantment table. You could then enchant a different sword with Sweeping Edge III and Sharpness IV (the odds of you getting three specific enchantments for each sword is low which is why I didn’t say looting). If you really want to save levels, combine those two swords and you’ll find it’s relatively cheap and you almost have a perfect sword. They both have 0 anvil uses. Yes, it uses more resources and yes it’ll still require some levels, but you can use the grindstone for failed attempts and if you understand what enchantments you need and adapt to what you get, you save a lot of levels. I do this all the time.

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What I always do - before I resort to using books in an anvil, I simply enchant a few pieces of equipment (for example a few diamond swords) because that's the easiest way to get maximum level enchantments. That way I can already have about 5 enchantments just by merging 2-3 swords together. Then I just have to add something like Mending and I'm set. It's all about being efficient and going for the highest level enchants to minimise anvil usage.

Additionally, combining tools to combine or add enchantments, if I remember correctly, you use the more damaged tool then add the enchanted item second and it’s cheaper. I’ve had enchantments go from 26 to 8.

“129 levels, that’s not that bad”

Why’d he put the curse of binding and vanishing books... it really hurt me

Wooooow, I had no idea anvils worked that way! It always were a huge pain to have the need to stack lots and lots of levels to stack good enchantments. Who knows now I can save a little bit ! Amazing vídeo as always

This kick-started my research on anvil/enchants. It's crazy. There's stuff with enchantment multipliers which is multiplied by the prior anvil use, therefore it's smarter to combine CERTAIN books together in a particular order to get even cheaper. Thanks Mysti

I've literally never added enchantments to swords one-by-one though

Also remember, adding enchants in descending order by the level of the enchantment can also reduce costs

You forgot to mention that every previous addition always adds up the level cost. The first sword actually cost a total of 277 levels and the second only ended up costing 121. Even more saved levels than you stated in the video.

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Thank you for making this, I was just about to make my god armor on a public server I'm on this Friday and I would've wasted sooo many levels.

I had no idea how anvils worked. I just found this video from your post on the forums, and everything makes way more sense now.

This goes against everything my math teacher taught me

The anvil usage of the combined item is always (max of anvil usages of the two items) + 1. The difference of prices of combining the same two books in different orders is the cost moving different enchantments from the second book onto the first.

The key is actually to keep the same number of anvil uses the same 0+0=1, 1+1=2, 2+2=3 and you have to include the item in the list so that you aren’t trying to do 0+3=4 at the end

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Good info! Might've subscribed if you weren't so dang condescending...

This video is wrong. 1. Anvil uses in the first slot add up with the second slot, then +1 for the resulting slot 2. The second slot goes into the first slot, the action costs as much as the enchantment value (Σ multiplier * level) 3. At the end of the video the book has 4 anvil uses, not 0. 4 anvil uses = 2^4-1 = 31 levels. Enchantment value of the book is 30 levels. This explains why it costed 61 levels. (31 + 30 = 61) Which checks out with the equation according to the wiki: Experience cost = [Value of sacrificed (right placed) item] + [Work Penalty of target (left placed) item] + [Work Penalty of sacrificed (right placed) item] + [Renaming Cost] + [Refilling Durability] + [Incompatible Enchantments (Java Edition)]

Overall if you add all the enchantments to the sword at one it costs like 250-ish (if I remember correctly) and if you combine them into one book its only 121 total which is only 5 less then putting the last enchant on the sword

1:35 "If you saw" which I didn't, cause there was text right over the cost

will disenchanting my tools with a grindstone remove my anvil uses?

bruh i just enchant from the table and combine multiple swords, huge time save and if you prioritize getting fortune first it's not a terrible use of materials

I was trying to learn about how to get new enchantments on the same sword, but this helps because I have no anvil but I did an iron run!

How do people learn all the things to do in this game. I love it but it’s so complicated.

i just had the realisation that the reason my shovel was being "too expensive" was because i was buying my books from a villager that sold me efficiency one and i was using all of my uses then

I just added a bow with infinity and power 5 to another with mending and unbreaking 3, But I didn't realize that mending and infinity were incompatible and I lost infinity, I should have put it in the first slot right? D:

This is still not the best way. You can get the same amount of enchantments for way cheaper. If u enchant your sword directryl through the enchantment table and get 2 or 3 enchantments, add a book that may have another 3 enchabtments and it will be way under 20 lvls to combine. It takes longer because u have to find a book with multiple enchantments but its worth it

Yes, the one action of enchanting the sword with the book with loads of enchants on it cost 61 levels. But making that book cost a total of 63 levels. Add them both and you get 124 so really only saved 5 lvls. I know every little but helps but this is pretty small savings.

i knew the first portion but i really didnt think to optimize it so far. This is really nice. thankyou.

Somebody that actually knows what they're doing knows survival mode players are only allowed to enchant items with a level 39 or lower requirement, and will enchant the item in a maxed enchanting table first before applying any new enchantments.

You're using anvils wrong too, because the new prior work penalty (PWP) is the higher of the two previous prior work penalties plus one. So if you have Item 1 = PWP3 and Item 2 = PWP2, the new item will be PWP4 (3+1). If you have Item 1 = PWP4 and Item 2 = PWP5, the new item will be PWP6 (5+1). If you have Item 1 = PWP4 and Item 2 = PWP0, the new item will still be PWP5 (4+1).

Bro you are amazing, I had a almost god sword and was going to add sharpness five to it but it wouldn't let me. I used information from this video and it worked! Thanks

I always noticed that depending on the slot i put things in itd get lower but i dodnt know why and just slapped things around. Neat.

I was always so confused by this but you explained it in a way that I can understand and you did it in four minutes. Thank you so much you are my hero!

Oooooooh yes! This is exactly what I wanted to learn, thank you so much. I've always wondered how this works and now I know. Awesome, can't thank you enough.

Me who doesn't even use anvils: Why am I watching this?

2:57 How?! 2 envil uses + 0 envil uses = 1 envil use????? how??? 2+0=2 not 2+0=1

1:35 "And if you saw, that costs 5 levels to make this." No, no I didn't. Please be a little more mindful of your text placement

1. ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS use the enchanting table FIRST. 2. Use tactical ways of anviling. (see which way it'll cost less to repair two tools) I always do these

Wait a Minute. HE USED CURSE OF VANISHING AND BINDING. I USED IT TO TROLLING PEOPLE ONLY.

This is so helpfull! Thank You

Here I am, just enchanting 2 swords with as many different enchantments as I want, disenchanting whenever I get garbage, and then finally combining the 2 swords and topping off with books

imo, the best way to do it is it to enchant a bunch of grear of the same type with most the enchants you want, then anvil them together and add the remaining books with enchants you are missing.

First time viewer. Watched til the end. I freggin died lmao at the very end lolol.

Too bad i saw dis after i got my enchantments

It’s actually not that confusing though 👌 but grinding levels makes me wanna quit Minecraft 🤣

3:56 OK OK CHILL I WILL NEVER STOP WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS

Ngl, every time you said "One Anvil use" I thought of that meme where the guy has different shaped blocks and with each one he picks out it's always "It goes in the Square Hole"

Okay I knew most of this but then the adding a 0 book to keep things lower blew my mind for order. Thank you!

You're actually adding the second slot to the first slot. That's why it's more expensive to put a higher use item in the second slot. Because it cost more to add the higher use item... Maybe it's just in how you look at it.

It's even better to pair the books then add 1 anvil use books to the sword. The reason being is that the last one will usually cost around 20 levels. Even if the total number of levels used may be the same, because of the increased costs of higher levels (meaning it takes 3 times more to go to 60 compared to 30), doing it this way saves a lot more.

I actually somewhat knew about this after many uses, it explains why when you put a 'many anvil uses' sword into an anvil with another sword (perhaps you're adding another enchantment or repairing it), it costs SO much level, sometimes even but if you just flip it the other way around, 20 levels :)

Love the curse of binding sword at 2:06

even though its extreamly cheep to do that, its better to do that kind that stratigy, and incorperate the sword with it sword+mending looting+unbreaking than fusing those together, but it would be saving xp rather than saving levels

I have been playing Minecraft for years and I never knew that adding a sharpness 1 book to a sword with sharpness 1 would make sharpness 2

To save people a lot of time and levels, use villagers instead. Trap a villager without a profession. Place a lectern in front of them. Once they become a librarian, check their trades. If they don't have something you want, pick up the lectern, wait for them to lose their profession and try again. Just be patient and do this until you reach the highest level of each enchant that you want with multiple villagers, and you can now buy those books any time you need to. Using the anvil with books that started at level V takes WAAAAAAY less XP than using a level V book you made from level I books. To get emeralds, just farm pumpkins, melons, carrots, and potatoes to trade to farmer villagers for easy cash.

If you add all the levels of combing the books its 60...(4+5+3+9+7+15+17 )plus the 61 to add to sword is 121. Less than 129 but not half. Still can save time by combining books as lvl xp increases... so takes longer to lvl to 60 than 30 twice

this logic is easy but the way you hear Mysticat explains is harder

Little sidenote is that at the end and little before it the 0 anvil use book won't change the anvil-uses by bringing it down to one. The anvil will use the higher value of anvil-uses between the two items and add one to it. So when you added the Curse Of Vanishing the book was actually at an anvil-use of 3 and not 1. This also means the final book had an anvil use of 5 and not 1. Just wanted to clarify since as you said "It can be a little hard to understand."

I understand making things be a lower total level for enchanting, but if you add up the levels of all the combination it really isn't that big of a savings for all the extra work. If you can grind 60 levels you can grind 120

Bruh lmao. I already subbed before the video ended but the outro solidified that sub. Great content, time to binge.

To add all the books you need 60 levels, to add the final book you need 61 levels, 60+61=121 and is not "less than half of what it was before"

I literally LOL'd at the last few seconds. Nice vid, too!

For people who don’t understand, so let’s say you just enchanted 2 books, one is sharpness 2 book with 1 anvil uses, and the other is a looting 3 book with 2 anvil uses, if you combine these two books and they don’t have the same amount of anvil uses it will essentially be way more expensive than if you combined a sharpness 2 book with 0 anvil uses with a looting 3 book with 0 anvil uses, so for less xp cost at least try to only combine items that are enchanted and have 0 to 1 anvil uses, the more uses the more xp it’ll cost. Hope this helped😊

I was keenly aware of 'anvil uses' for years but I did not realize it applied to everything, not just repairs. I had previously thought it only affected repairs.

I add nothing but the best right away. Also if you get a really good enchanted item and repair it, it'll get too expensive at some point. So don't forget mending. Super important. That way, you never need an extra anvil use.

Just tried this. *INITIAL ITEMS* *Pickaxe* enchanted from table: Silk Touch Efficiency IV Unbreaking III 2 books: - 1 with Efficiency IV - 1 with Mending I made 2 copies of my world so I can try both methods with the same exact items. *Method 1:* Adding 1 book at a time to the pickaxe Experience used: 1 for Efficiency IV & 3 for mending. _Total Levels consumed:_ *4* *Method 2:* Combining books 1st Experience used: 2 from combining the books in the lowest cost possible & an _additional _*_4_* from adding the combined book to the pickaxe. _Total Levels Consumed:_ *6*

Did the rules of previous work penalty change? I remember the target item having a penalty level of the highest penalty level of both sources plus one. For that reason I would enchant items, combine the penalty level 0 items together, then the level 1 items, et cetera to keep experience usage low. Of course I’d also keep in mind what enchantments I was transferring since not all transfer costs are the same and swapping two sources could make a huge difference. In that way I could craft any final item I wanted easily within the 39-levels limit. Anyway, yeah, adding one at a time to the same item will hit the limit quickly and before you can add much.