Silk Touch
Max level IJavaBedrock
Quick answer: Blocks drop themselves instead of their usual items: stone instead of cobblestone, ore blocks instead of raw ore, glass, grass blocks, bee nests with bees inside, and more.
Applies to
Pickaxes, shovels, axes, hoes, shears (Bedrock).
How to get Silk Touch
- Enchanting table
- Enchanted books (loot, fishing, librarians)
- Anvil combining
Best uses
Collecting glass, grass blocks, ore blocks for storage or decoration, moving bee nests, and mining ender chests without losing them.
Incompatible with
Fortune - an item can only hold one of these.
Related: FortuneEfficiency