best anvil enchantment order minecraft
Seven enchantments on boots look simple, but the anvil charges more each time the same piece is used. This page opens the calculator ready for you to build the plan step by step and compare it with the naive order.
Every step carries the boots accumulated penalty (0, 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63), so the naive order is not feasible in Survival.
It costs more in total than necessary, but every step fits within 39. Rearranging the pairs lowers the total to 66, and the optimizer looks for that kind of improvement.
The resulting book is the same in both cases; only the anvil slot changes the cost.
The step cost is the target prior work penalty, plus the sacrifice one, plus the enchantment costs (and 1 level if renaming). Each sacrifice enchantment costs its final level on the result times the table multiplier, with separate columns for book and item. Enchantments the target cannot take are ignored.
Not always. Pairing lowers the prior work penalty, but you pay twice for enchantments that appear in the combined books. With few books, adding straight to the item can be cheaper; with many, only pairing keeps steps under 39. The calculator compares both strategies for your set.
Switch the criterion in Options to see the lowest-step plan, pair books up, or trim the plan by removing an expensive enchantment. A piece with high prior work is almost always the cause: items used 5 times already carry 31 levels of penalty.
No. The rules are Java Edition. On Bedrock, according to minecraft.wiki, the enchantment cost uses only the difference between the final and initial level on the target, so values are lower and the best order may change.
One by one (highest / total): 65 / 163 (-97) Too expensive