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🛠️ Axe enchantment calculator

Balance weapon-grade axes beside standalone timber queens without letting exclusivity bleed across builds.

Enchantment order

Calculator

Same math as enchant-order — pick levels, then optimize combine steps.

About enchantments in Minecraft

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 for future workings. Once that penalty gets too high, you simply can't add any more enchantments and the anvil says "Too Expensive!". This tool helps you plan the optimal order of combining and applying books, to give you the cheapest possible cost.

About this tool

This tool assume your gear and books start with zero "work penalty". That means you have not previously combined the books (e.g. to turn two level 1 books into a single level 2 book) or worked the items or books in an anvil in any way. To create gear with the maximum possible enchantment, you cannot combine lower-level books and must start with high-level books from villager trading.

Allowing incompatible enchantments may be useful for combining protection-type enchantments (1.14 to 1.14.3pre-1) and mending/infinity (1.9 to 1.11.1).


One level per column — incompatible groups alternate like enchant-order. Why order matters · Too Expensive

Choose a philosophy

Is an axe better with Sharpness or as a lumber tool?

Many players run two axes: Efficiency + Fortune/Silk for wood, or Sharpness for combat—Sharpness conflicts with Smite/Bane on the same axe.

Fortune or Silk Touch on an axe?

Same rule as pickaxes: one or the other. Fortune helps melon/sapling farms; Silk Touch keeps leaves and bee nests intact.

What is the cheapest axe enchantment order?

Put Mending and Unbreaking early, Efficiency V and your damage or Fortune/Silk spine later—use Calculate above for your exact books.

Role Typical perks Gameplay signal
Raid cleaver Sharpness V, single-target cleaver swings. You duel shielded vindicators nightly.
Hybrid explorer Efficiency plus limited melee perk. One slot for backpacking both mining and chopping.
Pure lumber axe Efficiency V, Fortune or Silk Touch, upkeep trio. Megabase tree farms hogging spruce rows.

Melee math reminder

Axes spike harder per fully charged swing in Java-era combat—which means Smite gimmicks slaughter undead miniboss arenas when you willingly sacrifice sword reach. Beds still matter for Nether debris; axes simply diversify hotbars. Never forget sword calculators when theorycraft overlaps.

Merge choreography

Throwaway axes love cheap Mending/Unbreaking first—but weapon hybrids want Sharpness spines anchored late like swords. Punch Calculate after every librarian shuffle so mirrored JSON ladders stay truthful.

Axe trivia FAQ

Strip logs without Silk?

Use dedicated axes with shift-right precision or accept bark waste—Silk still king for museum builds.

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