best pickaxe enchantments minecraft
The pickaxe is the simplest item to enchant: few books, one real choice and low costs. Below, the recommendation and the numbers the calculator gives for each version.
Fortune is the priciest book because its multiplier is twice the Efficiency one.
Every step stays under 39, so you can do it without planning. The last one reaches 9 because of the 3 accumulated uses.
Saves 4 levels in total. The worst step drops from 9 to 8.
It is the cheaper of the two, with the worst step at 7.
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.
No. They are in the same exclusive group. If you try, the anvil charges 1 level and the pickaxe keeps what it already had.
Efficiency goes up to V, Fortune up to III, Unbreaking up to III, and Silk Touch and Mending only have level I.
In the Java 26.1 data, axes, shovels and hoes accept Efficiency, Fortune, Silk Touch, Unbreaking and Mending like the pickaxe. Book costs are the same.
Not always. With a new pickaxe, one book at a time already fits in 39. The calculator pays off when the tool has already been through the anvil, or when you merge more books.
One by one (highest / total): 65 / 163 (-97) Too expensive