Minecraft Enchantment Calculator

1. Choose your item

4. Optimize for…

Least total levels Least prior-work penalty

A calculator to save you levels and optimize your enchantments on armor, weapons, tools, & more.

When enchanting items in Minecraft, the order in which you combine armor, weapons, and tools with books in your anvil makes a huge difference. Each time you work on an anvil, you increase the work penalty. Once that penalty gets too high, you simply can't add any more enchantments and the anvil says “Too Expensive!”. This calculator finds the optimal sequence of book combinations to keep your XP cost as low as possible.

This tool assumes your gear and books start with zero work penalty. In other words, you haven’t previously merged lower-level books (e.g. two Level 1 → Level 2) or used the anvil on that item. To achieve max-level enchantments you should begin with high-level books (from villager trading) rather than chaining smaller books.

How To Use:

1. Pick an item from the drop‑down.
2. The level buttons describe current & desired enchants.
3. Choose the least total levels or least prior‑work option.
4. Calculate & follow the step‑by‑step plan shown.

Key Features:

• Interactive UI that auto-disables invalid options.
• Prior-work input for already-used items.
• Instant, proven-optimal results (no guess-and-check).

Tips & Assumptions:

• Start all gear & books at zero prior-work.
• Use high-level books (IV+) for max-level enchants.
• Incompatible enchants are greyed-out automatically.
• Clicking a new level clears any lower choice.
• Enable “Allow incompatible” only if needed.