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Minecraft Give Enchanted Book Generator

This Enchanted Books generator makes it easier to create books with stored enchantments to apply to items via an anvil. Use the enchantments on the 'book' tab. The 'enchantments' tab is applied to the object (don't use that one unless you know what you are doing).

Compatibility: Enchantments can only be applied to some items. Non-compatible enchantments disappear, or if no enchantments are compatible the book can not be applied to the item.

Max levels: Levels over max level don't transfer to your item, the max level will be applied in that case.

Curse Enchantments: The curse enchantments don't transfer over to items, but are there if advanced users that have something in mind.

Other give options: Many of the common give command data options are still included, some are not relevant to enchantment books, but many map makers have very interesting projects with specific requirements.

Testing: Make sure you are in survival for proper testing. If you need some xp, try the give player xp command.

Give player levels
/xp add @p 10 levels

Give player xp points
/xp add @p 100 points

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I want to set a command to give a player an Unbreaking V book (rare item in crate) however I'm not sure how to do it, as the way I normally give enchanted items just gives me a enchanted book with Unbreaking V but it can't be applied to items through an anvil, so I'm assuming it's different for books?

Or, alternatively, is it that it's impossible to give out-of-vanilla-Minecraft enchanted book, as Unbreaking III books would still be sufficient!

pppery

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asked Jul 20, 2015 at 19:12

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Enchanted books store the enchantments that they're going to pass onto other items slightly differently than normal enchantments actually on an item. Otherwise, the enchantments on the book intended for passing on would be usable (set mobs on fire with a fire aspect book, or get more loot with a fortune book).

Rather than the ench list, the pass-on enchantments are in a StoredEnchantments list, everything else is the same.

For 1.13+:

/give @p enchanted_book{StoredEnchantments:[{id:"minecraft:unbreaking",lvl:5s}]}

For previous versions:

/give @p enchanted_book 1 0 {StoredEnchantments:[{id:34s,lvl:5s}]}

answered Jul 20, 2015 at 19:51

SirBenetSirBenet

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Just because I keep forgetting that 1.13 has changed things up a bit and I keep running across this when I lookup how to enchant a book I wanted to add this.

http://mapmaking.fr/give/

/give @p minecraft:enchanted_book{StoredEnchantments:[{id:"minecraft:unbreaking",lvl:5}]} 1

or if you want to use the ID you still can

/give @p enchanted_book{StoredEnchantments:[{id:34,lvl:5}]} 1

answered Oct 4, 2018 at 9:48

If you want enchanted books try using this:

/give <name> minecraft:enchanted_book 1 0 {StoredEnchantments:[{id:16,lvl:3}]}

To add more enchantments to the book use

/give <name> minecraft:enchanted_book 1 0 {StoredEnchantments:[{id:16,lvl:3},{id:34,lvl:3}]}

Memor-X

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answered May 4, 2017 at 5:17

It's very simple here's the answer

/give @p minecraft:enchanted_book 1 0 {StoredEnchantments:[{id:34,lvl:3}]}

You can only seem to give yourself enchanted books that exist in the game.

Penguin

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answered Mar 26, 2016 at 19:37

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