When talking about Minecraft enchantments, there are a few cases where one enchantment is so powerful that it is considered essential to use if you want to get meaningful progress done.
Fortune is such an enchantment. It is an enchantment you absolutely need for resource gathering, and if you keep reading, you’ll find out why that is!
How to obtain the Fortune enchantment
Fortune is a simple enchantment in Minecraft that doesn’t have many specifics about how to obtain it. It can be applied to tools such as pickaxes, shovels, hoes, and axes.
It can be obtained directly by using an enchantment table or by finding either the item itself or an enchanted book somewhere in the wild, for example, a village’s chest.
It is mutually exclusive with Silk Touch, meaning that a single item can only have one of these two enchantments.
What does the Fortune enchantment do?
There is a lot of math involved in the specifics of what Fortune does, but to put it simply, it is an enchantment that increases both the chances that a specific item will drop and the number of items that will drop from breaking a specific block.
For example, if you use a Fortune pickaxe to mine diamond ore, then you might get 2 or 3 diamonds instead of 1 when the block breaks.
There are 3 levels of this enchantment. The chances are calculated according to the formula (2 / (level+2)) + ((level+1)/2).
This effect is applied to the following types of blocks:
- Ores – coal, diamond, emerald… this also includes nether gold ore, nether quartz ore, and amethyst clusters.
- Seeds
- Misc blocks – glowstone, melons, nether wart, sea lanterns and more.
Where can you use the Fortune enchantment?
Because it has benefits related to mining and general resource gathering, Fortune is essential for anyone looking to build a strong resource bank in Minecraft. It can help players mine more diamonds for less effort, making it easier to get a full set of armor and tools very fast.
It can also be used in farming, as the enchantment can also be applied to hoes.
Key Takeaways
When you talk about Fortune, you should remember the following things:
- It is an enchantment that you can apply to tools such as pickaxes, hoes, axes, and shovels.
- The enchantment increases the chance for an item to drop from a block and the chance to receive multiple drops from breaking a single block.
- There are 3 levels of enchantment, each increasing its effects.
- It is essential for mining, as it allows players to get more resources for a shorter amount of time and for less effort.
