Usually, enchantments help the player do certain things in Minecraft that they can’t do with unenchanted tools. However, some Minecraft updates have added enchantments, such as Curse of Binding, which can make it harder for the player.
Keep reading to learn how Curse of Binding works and how it makes playing Minecraft harder.
How to obtain the Curse of Binding enchantment
Unlike many of Minecraft’s other enchantments, Curse of Binding falls into a group called “treasure enchantments”. Enchantments in this group are ones that the player can only obtain through loot, fishing, raid drops or trading with villagers.
This means that, unlike other enchantments, the player can’t use an enchantment table to get the enchantment randomly. However, knowing its effects, which we’ll go over now, you’ll understand why that’s the case and why it’s not necessarily bad.
What does the Curse of Binding enchantment do?
We briefly hinted at the start of this article that the Curse of Binding enchantment is an enchantment that hurts the player rather than helps them. This is because, as the name implies, the enchantment binds the item it is on to the player forever, making it unable to remove.
Specifically, this only works on item slots, not swords or other tools/weapons. When you equip an armor item with Curse of Binding, you will then not be able to remove the item from the armor slot you put it on. One thing you can do is die, or wait for it the item to break. However, dying would be bad if your world is set to the Hardcore gamemode, where death is permanent.
Besides those two ways, you can also remove items with Curse of Binding by using cheats (or Creative mode).
Where can you use the Curse of Binding enchantment?
Although it’s definitely not a useful enchantment for the person using the item, it can be very useful if you want to troll someone, especially in a Hardcore world. All you would need to do is set up a dispenser that will automatically equip someone with the cursed armor, and set them up to fall for the trap!
Surprisingly, the enchantment works on pumpkins as well. As you may know, wearing a pumpkin in Minecraft gives you a characteristic effect on-screen that doesn’t allow you to fully see everything in front of you. Combined with the enchantment and the fact that pumpkins have no durability, you could make someone permanently unable to see properly in-game.
Key Takeaways
You should remember the following things about the Curse of Binding Minecraft enchantment:
- It is a treasure enchantment, meaning you can only get it from drops and can’t obtain it yourself from an enchantment table.
- It does not help the player using it and instead makes the item it is on permanently bound to the player wearing it.
- Items enchanted with Curse of Binding can only be removed by dying, cheating, or breaking the item’s durability.
- You can use the enchantment on pumpkins and troll someone by forcing them to wear a pumpkin that has it.