What is Minecraft Breach Enchantment? Explained
Jun. 14, 2024The latestMinecraft 1.21update has brought a mace along with three mace-specific enchantments that can help enhance its power. This guide focuses on the breach enchantment, from how you can obtain it to what it does in Minecraft. With that said, let’s learn about it.
How to Get the Mace Breach Enchantment
Players can get the breach enchantment for the mace using two ways – using an enchanting table or an enchanting book.
The first method is easier than the latter and requires you to use theenchanting table. Simply put themacein the left slot on the enchanting table and lapis lazuli next to it.
Breach enchantment might appear in one of three available slots. If there are 15bookshelvesaround this block, providing the enchanting table maximum level capabilities, then you can get Breach 3 on the mace at most. This means you’ll need tocombine the enchantmentsto get the maximum Breach 4 enchantment. Our linked guide explains this process in depth.
The second method to get the enchantment is to find it inenchanted bookform in the world. All structures with enchanted books can generate the breach enchantment in Minecraft. However, the most reliable place to visit is thetrial chambers, where the breach enchanted book can be obtained from theominous vaults.
After you apply the breach enchantment on the mace weapon, it’s time to learn what it does. Breach allows the mace toignore a percentage of the enemy’s armor value. Each level of breach will add 15% to this percentage. So, breach 1 will reduce the effectiveness of the target’s armor by 15%, but breach 4 has a much greater advantage, as it disregards60% of the armor value.
In practice, this means that breach only has use against armored mobs and players. It does nothing in a fight with regular mobs. To put in perspective how powerful breach is, here’s a little rundown of what it can do at the maximum breach 4 level.
Because of these facts, Breach enchantment is a lot more suited for multiplayer PvP battles than single-player survival mode. One more noteworthy thing to mention about the breach is that it isincompatible with the other damage enchantments, such as the density, smite, and bane of arthropods. So, if you are playing in your solo survival world, don’t bother obtaining Breach, as it’s not very useful.
With that said, that is all you should know about the breach enchantment in Minecraft. There are two moremace-exclusive enchantmentsavailable and they are far better than Breach in the single-player worlds.
However, if you’re playing with your friends then Breach 4 mace will be the most powerful weapon against theirnetherite armor.
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