Aside from your typical enchantments made to help the player in their gameplay, Minecraft also has enchantments called “curses” that can make surviving in-game even more difficult.
One of those types of enchantments is called Curse of Vanishing. Keep reading to learn more about it and what it does.
How to obtain the Curse of Vanishing enchantment
Curse of Vanishing, like other curses, falls into the category of “treasure enchantments”. This means that you can only obtain the enchantment through random drops, such as fishing, chest loot or trading with a librarian in a village. You cannot obtain Curse of Vanishing by using an enchantment table.
An interesting thing about this enchantment is that it works on more types of items than any other enchantment in the game. Specifically, you can add it to any item that can be enchanted, even if it isn’t a weapon or armor part. Examples include a compass, pumpkin or jack o’lantern.
What does the Curse of Vanishing enchantment do?
As the name may suggest, Curse of Vanishing makes items disappear after the player’s death. Usually, when a player dies, their items are dropped on the ground. However, items that have this enchantment won’t be dropped on the ground and will instead disappear from the world forever.
Players can cheat this effect by putting the affected item in a chest or shulker box. Or, if they have access to in-game cheats, they can set the keepInventory gamerule to true and keep their inventories when they die.
Where can you use the Curse of Vanishing enchantment?
Unfortunately, Curse of Vanishing is considered one of the most useless enchantments in the game. Even as far as curses go, there is not much you can do with this enchantment that will help you or harm someone else because the player carrying it can always just remove the item from their inventory and try something else.
One way it could be useful is if you have limited resources in a Hardcore world and it’s the only thing you can find in the outside world. Since death is permanent in Hardcore anyway, it doesn’t really make a difference if you lose the item, because you’ll lose it regardless. So there, weapons and armor enchanted with Curse of Vanishing are equally as useful as unenchanted items.
Key Takeaways
When it comes to this curse enchantment, you should remember the following:
- It falls under “treasure enchantments”, meaning you can only get it from loot out in the world.
- You can put it on any item that can be enchanted, including a compass, a jack o’lantern and a pumpkin.
- The enchantment makes the enchanted item disappear from the world permanently when the player dies.
- It does not have any practical uses, except maybe as extra loot you can use in a Hardcore world since you lose everything on death there anyway.
