How to Remove Enchantments in Minecraft

Dec. 31, 2021

Enchantments in Minecraft are always fun to explore. But that doesn’t mean all of them are desirable. You can find several enchanted items in this sandbox game but with negative enchantments on them. Or, you might end up putting the wrong enchantment while learning to use anenchanting table in Minecraft. Irrespective of the way you end up with an undesirable enchantment, removing it is really easy. To learn how to remove enchantments in Minecraft, we will need to craft a grindstone. It’s the only tool you can use to remove enchantments in bothMinecraft Java and Bedrock editions. Alternatively, you can alsoinstall Forge in Minecraftto find unique and easy mod-based solutions for the same. But most players don’t need to take that complex route. So, without further ado, let me teach you how to remove enchantments in Minecraft from tools and weapons.

Which Tool is Used to Remove Enchantments in Minecraft?

As mentioned earlier, the only tool you can use to remove enchantments in Minecraft is agrindstone. In traditional Minecraft worlds and in the real world too, a grindstone is used to polish and upgrade weapons and tools. However, Minecraft allows you to use it to grind away any enchantments on your tools too. It works on any type of enchantment equipment from swords to a carrot on a stick. Many players use this to collect XP (experience points) but more on that later. First, let’s figure out how to get a grindstone in the game.

Naturally, grindstones are onlygenerated next to weaponsmiths’ housesin villages or inside the weaponsmith shelters. If you get that lucky, you can directly skip to learning how to remove enchantments in Minecraft. Such villages are not easy to come across, but you can use ourbest Minecraft village seedsto improve your chances. However, you can also craft grindstone in the game using the following items:

We already have a guide in place tomake a Crafting Table in Minecraft. It will also help you discover how to make wooden planks in the game. Placing these wooden planks vertically next to each other in the crafting area results in creating wooden sticks in the game.

The final and main ingredient you need to make a grindstone is a stone slab. Fortunately, Minecraft offers two unique ways to obtain stone slabs. However, for either of them, we need to get stones in the game. Stone can be created byheating cobblestone inside a furnacein Minecraft. And since cobblestone is one of the most abundant blocks in this sandbox game, it shouldn’t take long for you to collect and get started with making stones.

Once you have a stone in the game, you can find a village with astonecutterin it. Stonecutters are usually easier to find than grindstones. Or, you canplace 3 stones in the bottom row of the crafting tableto easily craft stone slabs. This method will get you 6 stone slabs, even though we only need 2 to remove enchantments in Minecraft.

Once you have collected all the items, you need to combine them to make a grindstone. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. You first need toplace a wooden stick on either side of the first rowof the crafting area.

2. Then,place a wooden plank below each stickin the second row. Finally,place the stone slab in the middle cellof the first row (between the wooden sticks). This crafting recipe will give you a grindstone in Minecraft.

To remove any enchantment from your tools or weapons, you just need toplace them in the grindstone. There are two columns in the grindstone (see screenshot below), and you can use any of them. Just make sure that the other column is empty or has the same item in it. This process doesn’t cost anything in terms of experience, fuel, or time.

Other than removing the enchantments in Minecraft, you can use the grindstone to: