How to get Silk Touch in Minecraft

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Apr 20, 2025, 00:24 IST

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Minecraft enthusiasts can enhance their gameplay with the Silk Touch enchantment, allowing them to collect blocks in their original form. This enchantment is useful for harvesting glass, ores, and other fragile materials. Players can obtain Silk Touch through enchanting tables, villager trading, loot chests found in strongholds and mineshafts, or even through fishing.

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The world of Minecraft features a variety of enchantments, and you can use them to enhance your tools, weapons, and gear. Among the most useful enchantments inside the game is Silk Touch, and it can help you a lot as you are collecting materials. Essentially, the particular enchantment allows you to mine blocks and collect them in their original form or unbroken state.
There are several ways for you to obtain Silk Touch in Minecraft. If you are someone looking for further details about the enchantment, check out the section below.

Everything to know about Silk Touch in Minecraft

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Silk Touch is a tool enchantment in Minecraft, and you can use it to collect the blocks in their respective unbroken state. For example, when you break blocks like glass, grass, or ores, you will generally have the item dropping in a different form or breaking entirely. When you use a tool enchanted with Silk Touch, the original block is preserved.

To give you a broader idea:

You can directly harvest glass panes, bookshelves, grass blocks, and ores like diamond or coal without breaking or converting them.
You can also pick up bee nests, mushroom blocks, and podzol, which otherwise can't be acquired in survival mode.

You will essentially be able to employ this enchantment on pickaxes, axes, shovels, and hoes.

How to get Silk Touch

Listed below are the common ways of obtaining Silk Touch in Minecraft:

1. Enchanting Table

The traditional method of getting Silk Touch is through the enchanting table. Once you have created one, you have to insert a tool (pickaxe or others) along with lapis lazuli into the table. Given that the enchantments offered are randomized, you will have to enchant several items or cycle through different tools to get Silk Touch. One thing that you can do is use a grindstone to remove unwanted enchantments and keep trying till you get Silk Touch on the required tool.

2. Villager Trading

Another method that you can try out would be trading with a librarian villager. The following are the steps that you can follow:

Find a librarian or you can create one by placing a lectern near an unemployed villager.
You must then check the book trade. If it is not Silk Touch, you must break and replace the lectern. This will reset the trade.
After you get a Silk Touch book, you must lock in the trade by buying it.

3. Loot and Treasure Chests

There is also a small chance that you can find Silk Touch in loot chests. Some of the locations include:

Strongholds
Mineshafts
Bastion Remnants
End Cities

It is essential to keep in mind that this method doesn’t guarantee the enchantment, and it relies heavily on luck.

4. Fishing and Mob Drops

The last method of obtaining Silk Touch would be by fishing with a high-level Luck of the Sea rod. Nevertheless, just like loot and treasure chests, this method is quite slow and based on luck.
After you have acquired the Silk Touch, you will be able to apply it onto any tool by using an anvil. You must simply combine the tool with the enchantment.

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