Minecraft offers lots of valuable enchantments and Silk Touch is one of them. If you have an interest in crafting and building, the silk touch will help you collect items as they are. This is quite useful in survival mode as you can collect items that are not obtainable with the usual means. But where do you find it and how does it work? This blog post will guide you on how to get silk touch in Minecraft with various methods and to understand which one best fits your gaming style.
What Does a Silk Touch Enchantment Do?
A Silk Touch enchantment allows you to pick items exactly as they are. Unlike regular tools, it breaks the block as it is. For instance, if you use an axe on a bookshelf, it only drops books and you lose out on planks and other stuff. If you want a bookshelf for yourself, you will need to recraft it over again. But if you use a silk touch axe on it, you will get a bookshelf as it is. Similarly, if you mine coal ore with an axe, it will drop coal. But with a silk touch enchanted axe, you can collect the coal core itself.
Silk touch enchantment is normally used on axes, pick axes, shovels, and hoes. In the bedrock edition, you can also put it on shears.
How to Get Silk Touch in Minecraft?
Like all other enchantments, you can get silk touch using a variety of methods. Let us take a look at them to see which one best fits your gaming style.
Getting Silk Touch from Villagers in Minecraft
Trading with librarian villagers can get you various enchantments such as mending, silk touch, etc. After the Minecraft 1.20.2 update, the mechanics of villager trading have changed. So it is important to check your version before proceeding. The good part is that we will guide you for both of the versions.
For Minecraft Versions Older Than 1.20.2
For versions older than 1.20.2, villagers can change their profession according to their profession block. Since we want to trade with a librarian villager, you have to place a lectern near a villager. This will make him a librarian villager. Next, you can trade with him until he offers an enchanted book with a silk touch on it.
For Minecraft Versions 1.20.2 and Later
Minecraft 1.20.2 update introduces villager trade rebalance experimental toggle. This means the trade items with librarian villagers depend on the biome they are in. To trade a silk touch enchanted book, you have to find a village in the snowy biome. Next, you have to find a librarian villager and make him a Master Librarian. You can do it by trading with him consistently so that he reaches the maximum level. Once he becomes a master, he will certainly offer you a silk-touch enchanted book.
Getting Silk Touch from Loots
Like every other enchantment out there, you can find silk touch in chest loots if you are lucky enough. If you are happy exploring your world and do not require silk touch quickly, you should give this method a go. Other than finding chest loots in various dungeons, you can also find it dropping from mobs during raids.
Getting Silk Touch from Fishing
You can get a silk touch enchanted book when you go fishing in Minecraft. Although the odds of it happening are very low, you can give it a try if you have time. You can increase your chances of getting treasures by the ‘Luck of the Sea’ enchantment. But even then, with so many treasures available, you have to be lucky to catch an enchanted book with a silk touch on it.
Getting Silk Touch from Enchantment Table
You can get silk touch using an enchanted table in Minecraft. You will require the following items to begin with:
- 10+ wooden shovels
- Lapis Lazuli
- 9 bookshelves to be placed around the enchantment table
Follow these steps to obtain silk touch from the enchantment table:
- Place a wooden shovel and Lapis Lazuli in the enchantment table. You will see three enchantments appearing.
- If one of them is silk touch, replace your wooden shovel with a pick axe or whatever you would like to enchant with silk touch.
- If silk touch does not appear, enchant the shovel with the cheapest available enchantment.
- Repeat the process with the new shovel. You have to keep repeating until you see silk touch.
Silk touch is a level 1 enchantment. When trying to get it from an enchantment table, it is better to limit the number of bookshelves. This will ensure that higher-level enchantments do not appear. Enchanting will cost you XP, so start with 20 to 30 levels of XP at least.
Is the Silk Touch Compatible with Fortune in Minecraft?
No, the silk touch is incompatible with the fortune enchantment. In case you do not know what fortune is, it is an enchantment that gives more drops of things. You can only have one of the two. If you plan to mine lots and lots of items, fortune is better. But if you want to collect a diverse range of items, silk touch is the best.
How to get Silk Touch in Minecraft Bedrock?
All the methods discussed above are valid for Minecraft bedrock editions as well.
Final Thoughts
Silk touch is a valuable enchantment to have. Besides helping you to craft and build more, it is fun to collect items as a whole. Trading with librarian villagers is the most reliable method that is certain to get you silk touch enchantment. But if you have time and want to obtain a silk touch while exploring your world, fishing and looting are the best methods for you.
