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Best Netherite Shovel enchantments in Minecraft

Everything the Netherite Shovel 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: 4 enchantments

  • Efficiency V
  • Fortune III
  • Mending
  • Unbreaking III

Where you must choose

  • Fortune III, or Silk Touch: only one of them per item.

23 levels in all, in 4 anvil steps; the most expensive step costs 9 levels.

Enchantments

Anvil order

23 levels

Most expensive step: 9 levels

  1. 1Netherite Shovel + Book (Fortune III)6 lv
  2. 2Netherite Shovel (Fortune III) + Book (Efficiency V)6 lv
  3. 3Book (Unbreaking III) + Book (Mending I)2 lv
  4. 4Netherite Shovel (Fortune III, Efficiency V) + Book (Mending I, Unbreaking III)9 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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