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If you've ever used the enchanting table in Minecraft, you've likely seen some weird, runic words floating around the table and in the table's interface. While these words look like scribbles and gibberish, they can actually be translated into English! That's because these words are written in a special font that functions as a cipher. In this article, we'll teach you how to translate the Minecraft enchanting table language into English and the full list of words the enchanting table uses.
Translating the Minecraft Enchanting Table
The words in and around the Minecraft enchanting table are written in the Standard Galactic Alphabet, which can be converted to English if you know the cipher. The words don't influence what type of enchantments you get. 61 possible words that can be chosen (54 if you're not playing Java Edition).
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- The nonsensical enchanting table words present only in the Java Edition (phnglui, mglwnafh, cthulhu, rlyeh, wgahnagl, and fhtagn) are a reference to the prayer from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu." The full quote is "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates to "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." [3] X Research sourceThanks
