My favorite tool enchantment is Fortune 3 on a diamond pick axe. I have only had one but the extra diamonds and coal made it the best tool I have enchanted. I use stone tools alot for mundane task.
Fortune, hands down. I don't really need durability, as a diamond pick lasts forever anyway, and I don't need efficiency, since the pick works plenty fast on its own.
But getting 2-4x your payout for diamonds and coal? I'm all about that!
Fortune is great on either an iron or diamond pick. It lasts longer on the diamond one, but does the same thing on an iron one since any ore that's affected by it can be mined with an iron pick.
My favorite pick enchantment is unbreaking since even Unbreaking I essentially doubles the life of the pick and Unbreaking I doesn't generally cost too much in XP either (can often be had for as little as 4 levels of XP).
Fortune is great on either an iron or diamond pick. It lasts longer on the diamond one, but does the same thing on an iron one since any ore that's affected by it can be mined with an iron pick.
My favorite pick enchantment is unbreaking since even Unbreaking I essentially doubles the life of the pick and Unbreaking I doesn't generally cost too much in XP either (can often be had for as little as 4 levels of XP).
Actually from levels 1-10 you have the same chance of getting the same enchantments so just do level ones and you'll get more bang for your buck. My favorite enchantment would have to be fortune III. I like to use an unbreaking III efficiency IV pick and a silk touch pick when I go mining to silk touch ores and save inventory. When I get back to base I can either store them for later or fortune them if I need the items.
Actually from levels 1-10 you have the same chance of getting the same enchantments so just do level ones and you'll get more bang for your buck. My favorite enchantment would have to be fortune III. I like to use an unbreaking III efficiency IV pick and a silk touch pick when I go mining to silk touch ores and save inventory. When I get back to base I can either store them for later or fortune them if I need the items.
o man i never thought of that! take diamonds with a silktouch pick and save them until you have a fortune. DOING THAT NOW. yanno, if the chance ever comes up. >_>
anyway! i'm gonna go with fortune like most other people. when i get a pick with fortune i only use it for diamonds, coal, and lapis. one diamond fortune pick will last soooooooo long like that. even more so if you get lucky and get unbreaking too. can nearly use that one pick for the entire life of the world.
Actually from levels 1-10 you have the same chance of getting the same enchantments so just do level ones and you'll get more bang for your buck. My favorite enchantment would have to be fortune III. I like to use an unbreaking III efficiency IV pick and a silk touch pick when I go mining to silk touch ores and save inventory. When I get back to base I can either store them for later or fortune them if I need the items.
I find my enchanting table rarely offers anything that uses less than 4 levels of XP Yeah, I could have clicked away until I just used 1 Level; but because the passive animals are plentiful right now and I'm constantly earning a ton of XP in various ways, I really just couldn't be bothered with that right now. My point was that with Unbreaking, the amount of extension on the life of a pickaxe is signficant even at Unbreaking I. Based on an extrapolation of how much stone and iron pickaxes get extended with an Unbreaking I enchant, an Unbreaking I diamond pick should mine more than 3,080 blocks.
My pick has fortune 3, unbreaking 3 and efficiency 3. . . love it.
Fortune has to be the most useful though.
The OP mentioned about the best tool enchantment, but everyone has answered about the pick. Does anyone enchant a shovel, or axe at all?
I rarely ever use a shovel, since anything I can mine with a shovel I can just mine with my hand (except snowballs). Yeah, it takes a little longer by hand, but my hand doesn't take up a slot in my inventory. Really, the only useful enchants on an axe are unbreaking and efficiency. Efficiency on an axe is OK to a point... but if you're using a tree farm, you do have to stop and wait for the trees to grow anyway.
I find my enchanting table rarely offers anything that uses less than 4 levels of XP Yeah, I could have clicked away until I just used 1 Level; but because the passive animals are plentiful right now and I'm constantly earning a ton of XP in various ways, I really just couldn't be bothered with that right now. My point was that with Unbreaking, the amount of extension on the life of a pickaxe is signficant even at Unbreaking I. Based on an extrapolation of how much stone and iron pickaxes get extended with an Unbreaking I enchant, an Unbreaking I diamond pick should mine more than 3,080 blocks.
If you place blocks between the enchanting table and the bookshelves (I use torches), you will get the lowest enchantment levels and use XP more efficiently. I have a skeleton XP farm and I still do level one enchants on my iron armor.
Also if you want an almost guaranteed good enchantment, use level 30 on a bow. I find that bows almost always get something good.
If you place blocks between the enchanting table and the bookshelves (I use torches), you will get the lowest enchantment levels and use XP more efficiently. I have a skeleton XP farm and I still do level one enchants on my iron armor.
Also if you want an almost guaranteed good enchantment, use level 30 on a bow. I find that bows almost always get something good.
I found out the hard way that if you put torches within 1 block of the enchantment table it's like not having bookshelves at all. just one torch and you can not get any level 30 enchantments or anything close.
Has anyone used single XP levels to enchant a chest full of stone tools? If so was it worth it?
All of them, as each has their use. Fortune for extra tid bits. Silk touch for well what it does. Unbreaking to make last longer. Efficiency for the long haul shortened.:D
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I usualy use two picks both with efficiency IV, unbreaking III and one with silk touch for general mining( I usually do a lot of strip mining) and fortune for ores.
Leave your fortune picks at "home", take silk touch mining and you can collect/carry more ores, then fortune them when you get back for a bumper pay out.
This wouldn't make a difference. You silk touch coal, you get the coal block. You fortune coal, you get the coal. . . it takes up the same amount of inventory space when you think about it. Obviously when you fortune coal, you'll get many stacks, but would you need many stacks?
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But getting 2-4x your payout for diamonds and coal? I'm all about that!
My favorite pick enchantment is unbreaking since even Unbreaking I essentially doubles the life of the pick and Unbreaking I doesn't generally cost too much in XP either (can often be had for as little as 4 levels of XP).
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Actually from levels 1-10 you have the same chance of getting the same enchantments so just do level ones and you'll get more bang for your buck. My favorite enchantment would have to be fortune III. I like to use an unbreaking III efficiency IV pick and a silk touch pick when I go mining to silk touch ores and save inventory. When I get back to base I can either store them for later or fortune them if I need the items.
I agree with fortune, but I disagree on the second part, lol. I like big tunnels, and open caverns
o man i never thought of that! take diamonds with a silktouch pick and save them until you have a fortune. DOING THAT NOW. yanno, if the chance ever comes up. >_>
anyway! i'm gonna go with fortune like most other people. when i get a pick with fortune i only use it for diamonds, coal, and lapis. one diamond fortune pick will last soooooooo long like that. even more so if you get lucky and get unbreaking too. can nearly use that one pick for the entire life of the world.
Fortune has to be the most useful though.
The OP mentioned about the best tool enchantment, but everyone has answered about the pick. Does anyone enchant a shovel, or axe at all?
I find my enchanting table rarely offers anything that uses less than 4 levels of XP Yeah, I could have clicked away until I just used 1 Level; but because the passive animals are plentiful right now and I'm constantly earning a ton of XP in various ways, I really just couldn't be bothered with that right now. My point was that with Unbreaking, the amount of extension on the life of a pickaxe is signficant even at Unbreaking I. Based on an extrapolation of how much stone and iron pickaxes get extended with an Unbreaking I enchant, an Unbreaking I diamond pick should mine more than 3,080 blocks.
I rarely ever use a shovel, since anything I can mine with a shovel I can just mine with my hand (except snowballs). Yeah, it takes a little longer by hand, but my hand doesn't take up a slot in my inventory. Really, the only useful enchants on an axe are unbreaking and efficiency. Efficiency on an axe is OK to a point... but if you're using a tree farm, you do have to stop and wait for the trees to grow anyway.
If you place blocks between the enchanting table and the bookshelves (I use torches), you will get the lowest enchantment levels and use XP more efficiently. I have a skeleton XP farm and I still do level one enchants on my iron armor.
Also if you want an almost guaranteed good enchantment, use level 30 on a bow. I find that bows almost always get something good.
I found out the hard way that if you put torches within 1 block of the enchantment table it's like not having bookshelves at all. just one torch and you can not get any level 30 enchantments or anything close.
Has anyone used single XP levels to enchant a chest full of stone tools? If so was it worth it?
This wouldn't make a difference. You silk touch coal, you get the coal block. You fortune coal, you get the coal. . . it takes up the same amount of inventory space when you think about it. Obviously when you fortune coal, you'll get many stacks, but would you need many stacks?