Minecraft Dungeons Best Enchantments - Which should you choose?

Guide by James Billcliffe Guides Editor

Published on May 29, 2020

Every time you grab an item in Minecraft Dungeons, you have a decision to make: What are the best Enchantments to choose for my gear?

Enchantments are powerful effects which improve the abilities of your offensive and defensive items - but without experience of how each one works in-game, it can be a difficult choice to make.

We've added more Enchantments to the best list, as well as some more Powerful tier effects to the table.

Here are all of our picks for the best Enchantments, as well as a list of every single one we’ve seen so far.

Minecraft Dungeons Best Enchantments

While you’re levelling up during your first playthrough, don’t worry too much about the Enchantments you pick on weapons you find. You’re only going to swap them out for something new with a higher power level anyway.

Focus on choosing Enchantments that you can reliably trigger most of the time, and that you will use the most. This will most likely be Enchantments which deal more damage to mobs, or have a high damage of doing something cool.

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Sharpness/Power

You can’t go far wrong with dealing extra damage with every single hit you land. There are flashier Enchantments available, but when you’re levelling, this is one of the best.

If you don’t get one of these, then Smiting is also good since zombies and skeletons are so common.

Swirling - Powerful

Swirling is a Powerful tier Enchantment which turns the last attack in your combo into a larger, stronger hit. It’s reliable damage, and works well with small, fast weapons because it gives them a better way to deal with crowds of mobs.

If you can’t get Swirling, then Echo works similarly.

Radiance- Powerful

I was wrong about Radiance. I thought that a 20% chance to provide a burst of healing on hit was too unreliable, and that it wouldn't be much use - but really it's one of the strongest effects in the whole game.

With this one Enchantment, your character's capability to stay healthy and tank hits is considerably increased. This is particularly useful against bosses, large groups and tough enemies.

Anima Conduit

Anima Conduit is so powerful, and usually comes on Soul Collecting weapons. It restores a portion of your health for every Soul you collect, and pretty much every enemy you defeat will drop a Soul.

This means that you can mow through big groups of enemies without much care for how many hits you take, because you’ll just replenish your health by picking up Souls.

If you like getting up-close-and-personal with big groups, then Anima Conduit is the way to go.

In the earlier game, Leeching is similar, but not as good.

Accelerate

If you don’t take out a mob in one hit with ranged, then you will want to follow up as quickly as possible - especially if you’re attacking multiple mobs.

Accelerate lets you engage whole groups of enemies solely with ranged attacks, since after just a few shots you’re firing so fast.

This combos well with slower, more powerful weapons, because it negates their weakness.

Electrified

Electrified makes it so your roll deals damage to groups of enemies. This is great because it allows you to reposition your character, without missing out on an attack.

It also lets you wipe out weaker mobs all at once, and helps in a variety of situations.

Thorns

If you like fighting mobs with melee, then you’re going to take a lot of hits.

Thorns is a great Enchantment for evening the odds when you’re fighting big groups at close range, because it deals damage back to enemies without you having to attack them specifically.

Potion Barrier

While it doesn’t look great at first, Potion Barrier reduces all incoming damage by 90% after you drink a health potion.

This is extremely powerful when you’re fighting bosses in Minecraft Dungeons. It basically gives you a ton of free hits on the strongest enemies in the game, because you can drink a potion, then just tank their attacks while you hit them over and over again.

Snowball

And while Potion Barrier is incredible against bosses, the most overpowered common Enchantment in the game is easily Snowball.

It throws a stunning snowball effect at mobs, which stops them in their tracks.

Stunning mobs is already very strong. But once upgraded to trigger every second, Snowball reduces incoming hits to a laughable degree.

It lets you clean up big groups of mobs easily, and combos well with all kinds of weapons.

Minecraft Dungeons All Enchantments

Minecraft Dungeons Enchantments
Enchantment Name	Enchantment Effect	Item Type	Rarity
Committed	Deal between 50-100% extra damage to wounded mobs	Melee	Common
Prospector	Between 100-300% extra chance at Emeralds	Melee	Common
Freezing	Reduce speed of nearby mobs by between 20-40%	Melee	Common
Stunning	Between 5-15% chance to stun enemy on hit	Melee	Common
Weakening	Reduces damage from nearby enemies by 20-40% for 5 seconds	Melee	Common
Rampaging	Defeating a mob gives 10% chance to increase attack speed by 50% for between 5-15 seconds	Melee	Common
Thundering	30% chance to deal damage to nearby enemies on hit	Melee	Common
Sharpness	Increases weapon damage by between 10-33%	Melee	Common
Fire Aspect	Sets mobs on fire for three seconds	Melee	Common
Smiting	Increases damage to undead mobs between 20-40%	Melee	Common
Looting	Between 100-300% increased chance for mobs to drop consumables like Shadow Potions	Melee	Common
Echo	Some attacks are followed by another with a between a 3-5 second cooldown	Melee	Common
Leeching	Defeating mobs heals you for between 4-8% of mobs max health	Melee	Common
Poison Cloud	30% chance to spawn a damage dealing cloud	Melee	Common
Chains	30% chance to bind mobs together for between 1-3 seconds	Melee	Common
Anima Conduit	Each soul you absorb grants between 1-3% of your max health	Melee	Common
Enigma Resonator	Gives between 0-25% chance to deal triple damage based on number of souls you have	Melee	Common
Shockwave	Last attack in combo launches damaging Shockwave	Melee	Powerful
Gravity	Pulls mobs in range towards your weapon's impact point for between 1-2 seconds	Melee	Powerful
Swirling	The last attack in a combo performs a large swirling move that deals more damage	Melee	Powerful
Exploding	Enemies explode on defeat and deal between 20-60% of their health as damage	Melee	Powerful
Radiance	Has 20% chance to spawn healing aura	Melee	Powerful
Supercharge	Charged shots deal between 20-40% more damage	Ranged	Common
Punch	Increase arrow pushback by between 200-400%	Ranged	Common
Poison Cloud	30% chance to summon poison cloud for 3 seconds	Ranged	Common
Multishot	Between 20-40% chance to shoot 5 arrows	Ranged	Common
Ricochet	Between 20-60% chance to ricochet arrow to another mob	Ranged	Common
Bonus Shot	Fires an extra arrow at a nearby enemy with between 10-24% power	Ranged	Common
Infinity	Has a 16-48% chance to immediately replenish arrow after shooting	Ranged	Common
Radiance Shot	20% chance to spawn healing aura	Ranged	Common
Piercing	Every 1-3 arrows penetrates multiple mobs	Ranged	Common
Wild Rage	Between 20-40% chance to turn mob hostile to its allies on hit	Ranged	Common
Unchanting	Projectiles deal between 50-100% extra damage to enchanted enemies	Ranged	Common
Accelerate	Increases attack speed by 8-12% for consecutive shots	Ranged	Common
Power	Boosts arrow damage by between 10-33%	Ranged	Common
Rapid Fire	Boost attack speed by between 10-20%	Ranged	Common
Fuse Shot	Evrey 5th-3rd shot explodes dealing 100% damage to nearby mobs	Ranged	Common
Growing	Fired shots grow in the air and deal between 25-75% extra damage	Ranged	Common
Tempo Theft	Steals between 17-50% of mobs speed and gives it to you for 4 seconds	Ranged	Powerful
Gravity Pulse	Pulls enemies towards you with between 100-200% range every 5 seconds	Ranged	Powerful
Chain Reaction	Has between 10-30% chance to fire five arrows in all directions	Ranged	Powerful
Electrified	Deal damage on roll	Armour	Common
Cowardice	Deal 20-40% extra damage at full health	Armour	Common
Surprise Gift	When you use a healing potion between 50%-150% chance to trigger random consumable	Armour	Common
Food Reserves	Whenever you use a healing potion craft between 1-3 random food items	Armour	Common
Thorns	Return between 100-200% of damage to attacker	Armour	Common
Speed Synergy	Increase movement speed by 20% for between 1-3 seconds after Artifact activation	Armour	Common
Deflect	Between 20-60% chance to deflect incoming projectiles	Armour	Common
Recycler	Being hit by between 10-30 projectiles crafts a quiver of arrows	Armour	Common
Potion Barrier	When using a healing potion, take 90% less damage for between 5-9 seconds	Armour	Common
Fire Trail	Rolling leaves a damaging trail behind you	Armour	Common
Explorer	Restore between 0.3-1% health for every 100 blocks explored on map	Armour	Common
Frenzied	At less than half health, deal between 10-30% extra damage	Armour	Common
Swiftfooted	Rolling makes you between 30-50% faster for 3 seconds	Armour	Common
Health Synergy	When activating Artifact, regain between 3-5% health	Armour	Common
Cool Down	Reduces cool down of Artifacts by between 10-27%	Armour	Common
Snowball	Fires a snowball that stuns enemies every 5, 3, and 1 seconds	Armour	Common
Soul Speed	When you gather a Soul gain 1% movement speed for between 2-4 seconds.	Armour	Common
Final Shout	When you drop to low health, all of your Artifacts are used regardless of cooldown	Armour	Powerful
Chilling	Emit a blast every 2 seconds that slows enemies between 20-60%	Armour	Powerful
Gravity Pulse	Every 5 seconds, pull enemies towards you with 100-200% range	Armour	Powerful
Protection	Reduce all incoming damage between 6-15%	Armour	Powerful