Remove Enchantments Minecraft

Enchantments in Minecraft are assets that offer new abilities and bonuses to your items. These can be applied to your armor, weapons, and tools to give you an edge in combat and exploration.

One way to enchant items is to use an Enchanting Table, which requires Lapis Lazuli and a handful of player experience points (XP). Another way is by combining an item and an Enchanted Book using an Anvil with no XP required. While these methods can be expensive in the early game, Enchanted Books and already-enchanted items can easily be found by looting chests and trading with villagers.

If you’re lost on how to add enchantments, be sure to read our guide on how to enchant items!

Enchanting is easy once you get the hang of it, but the real challenge is finding the enchantments you want for your equipment. Thus, players may want to remove enchantments on an item to replace them with more suitable ones, preserve the item itself, or gain XP from disenchanting.

There are two tools you can use to remove enchantments in Minecraft: the Grindstone and the Crafting Table. Both tools remove all enchantments on an item except for curse enchantments, which are the Curse of Binding and the Curse of Vanishing. No method in standard gameplay also allows you to select the enchantments you want to remove, so keep these in mind!

The Crafting Table is one of the easiest things to make in Minecraft, needing only 4 Planks of any type. This method requires two damaged items of the same type, enchanted or not. Doing this combines the durability of these items and removes any enchantments aside from the curse ones.

Open your Crafting Menu and place 4 Planks in a 2×2 formation. Then, take your Crafting Table and put it down to access it.

In the crafting grid, put your two damaged items. The output slot will return a repaired version with the combined durability of both items and without the enchantments.

The Grindstone is a craftable block commonly used to repair items, but it can also be used to remove enchantments. Unlike the Crafting Table, removing enchantments with this tool gives you XP. The higher the level of the enchantments, the more XP you will get.

Additionally, putting two of the same items, whether enchanted or not, in the Grindstone combines the durability of both items into one disenchanted item and gives it an additional 5% durability bonus. Putting only one enchanted item does not change its durability but still drops some XP.

This is the opposite of what an Anvil does, which is to combine enchantments even as it repairs them.

If you want the XP and durability bonus, you may want to take the extra step to get a Grindstone. Follow the steps below to find out how you can do it.

To craft a Grindstone, you need 2 Sticks, 2 Planks of any type, and 1 Stone Slab. Combine them using a Crafting Table. Then, take the Grindstone in the output slot and set it down to use it.

You can also find naturally generated Grindstones in village weaponsmiths.

In the Grindstone’s interface, place the enchanted item in the input slot. Doing this will return a disenchanted item in the output slot. 

You can put up to two items to repair and disenchant in the Grindstone to get a repaired item with the combined durability of both items, an additional 5% durability bonus, and some player XP.

The Curse of Binding and the Curse of Vanishing can only be removed by breaking the cursed items or dying. The Curse of Binding is an enchantment that prevents the item from being removed unless the player dies or breaks it. The Curse of Vanishing, on the other hand, only disappears when the player dies, but the item goes away with it too.

Luckily (or unluckily), there are many ways to die in Minecraft, so if you have nothing to lose, you can simply wait to for something to kill you. If you don’t want to die, you can do any of the following:

You can wear the cursed item out until it gets destroyed. This means using the item until its durability is fully depleted. All tools, weapons, and armor eventually break over time as long as you use them. This option can be time-consuming but it is much safer than dying. You can always check your inventory to see how much durability the item has left.

If you are wearing cursed armor, there are many things you can do to deplete its durability. Here are more creative methods you can try: