Q&A for How to Use Enchanted Books in Minecraft

You apply the book to an item that you'd like to have that particular feature. For example, if you got a book with sharpness, you can put it in an anvil with a sword; the sword would then have sharpness on it.

Yes you can! Simply select the enchanted weapon as the item to enchant, then select a different enchantment than you used previously.

Yes. Enchanting items (mainly tools, weapons, and armor) does indeed make them better. An enchanted book can add useful features to the item you are enchanting, such as sharpness to a sword.

After you enchant the weapon once, take it out of the anvil. Then put the newly-enchanted weapon back in the anvil and enchant it again, ushering another book. This can be done as many times as you like.

The enchanted books can be used to make swords, armor, bows, and fishing rods better. For example, the book "Luck of the Sea" can make a fishing rod more likely to catch something.

You can enchant anything. Most experienced players, however, will only enchant tools, weapons, and fishing rods.

You combine them in your anvil: place the tool you want to enchant in the left slot and the enchanted book in the middle slot of the anvil. You can then take your enchanted tool out of the right slot.

Depending on the enchantment, you may need up to 30 levels and 3 lapis lazuli.

Yes. I would recommend choosing the item you want to enchant wisely. Once you use the book on the item, the book will disappear and you won't be able to use it again.

Pros of enchantment table: Only costs 1-3 xp levels; unlimited enchanting; and can enchant without using books. The cons of enchantment table:Random enchantments; can only enchant an item once; costs 1-3 lapis; and can only enchant certain tools. The pros of anvil: No lapis cost; can enchant one item up to six times; not random; and can enchant more tools than enchantment table. The cons of anvil: Anvil eventually breaks; higher experience cost; and needs enchanted books.

Yes, it does. So I would recommend using the book wisely.

Enchantments like "Luck of the Sea" make the fishing rod more efficient.

The Infinity enchantment makes your bow have infinite arrows but you will need to have 1 arrow in your inventory.

You cannot enchant something twice in an enchanting table, but you can add onto the enchanted item using an anvil.

You can't read enchanted books or regular books, but you can read and write in book and quills. You just hold the book and quill and use it to open it so you can read it and write in it.

You can enchant boots by putting them in an enchanting table along with lapis lazuli. You could also use an anvil to add a compatible enchanted book to the boots.

The XP required to add an enchantment to your gear varies, dependent upon when the enchantment is added, if the gear is damaged or undamaged, and what other enchantments are present.

If your anvil will not allow you to add your enchantments to your piece of gear, there are two possible problems. The first is that your enchantment is incompatible with your piece of gear; I am unable to add Sharpness V to an Iron Chestplate, likewise I am unable to add Protection IV to a Diamond Sword. This can simply be fixed by using the correct piece of gear to match the enchantment. The other possible problem is your cost to add the enchantment is too expensive. This is a result from combining too many different enchantments onto your piece of armor, making it impossible to add any more enchantments or fix your gear. Once done, this is impossible to reverse without a grindstone.

You cannot get both enchantments saved. Some enchantments are only compatible with certain items. It's up to you to make the decision of what you think is more valuable. In your case, Power V is much better, as it is much more difficult to obtain than Blast Protection II. Therefore, you would use an anvil to combine the bow with the book and get a Power V bow.

Enchanted books can be applied to any type of gear. This could be leather, gold, chainmail, iron, diamond, or netherite. However, you almost always want to put the enchantment on your best possible gear, as to not waste the book.

If your armor is already enchanted with a different protection enchantment, like projectile protection or protection, then you cannot enchant it with any other type of protection. Each piece of armor can only have 1 type of protection enchantment on it. This is probably why you cannot add blast or fire protection.

You can get obsidian in a few ways. You can pour water onto lava and then break the resulting obsidian with a diamond or netherite pickaxe. You can also find it naturally in woodland mansions, ruined portals, bastions, nether fortresses, and villages. When you enter the End dimension, you will spawn on top of an obsidian platform which can be mined for obsidian. If you build a nether portal in the nether or overworld, another portal will spawn on the other side which you can mine. There is also a chance to get obsidian from trading with piglins.

The infinity enchantment makes your bow have infinity arrows. To use this enchantment, you must to have at least 1 arrow and you can shoot as many arrows from your bow as you want.

You can't enchant animal in minecraft. Enchantment is just used for items like sword, trident, shovel and anything else, but not animal and blocks.

No, you can't. You cannot enchant anything has been enchanted with an enchantment table. If you want your trident to become better, use an anvil on it.

No. You can only enchant it on a bow. It give your bow flame arrows when you shoot.

It really depends on what kind of enchantment you have and how good it is or how many bookshelves you have.

Yes, you can enchant it with something such as Riptide, Loyalty, Impaling, or Channeling.