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Best Netherite Helmet enchantments in Minecraft

Everything the Netherite Helmet can take at once, each enchantment at its highest level, and the order to combine the books on an anvil for the fewest levels — worked out under the game’s own rules.

The max set: 6 enchantments

  • Aqua Affinity
  • Mending
  • Protection IV
  • Respiration III
  • Thorns III
  • Unbreaking III

Where you must choose

  • Protection IV, or Blast Protection IV / Fire Protection IV / Projectile Protection IV: only one of them per item.

45 levels in all, in 6 anvil steps; the most expensive step costs 23 levels.

Enchantments

Anvil order

45 levels

Most expensive step: 23 levels

  1. 1Netherite Helmet + Book (Protection IV)4 lv
  2. 2Book (Respiration III) + Book (Mending I)2 lv
  3. 3Netherite Helmet (Protection IV) + Book (Mending I, Respiration III)10 lv
  4. 4Book (Thorns III) + Book (Aqua Affinity I)2 lv
  5. 5Book (Aqua Affinity I, Thorns III) + Book (Unbreaking III)4 lv
  6. 6Netherite Helmet (Protection IV, Mending I, Respiration III) + Book (Unbreaking III, Aqua Affinity I, Thorns III)23 lv

Java Edition anvil rules. Assumes a fresh item and one enchanted book per enchantment; costs are experience levels.

Best enchantments, item by item

From the game files: Minecraft Java Edition 26.3.

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