5 things you didn't know about silk touch in Minecraft

Silk touch is a wonderful enchantment in Minecraft that helps users make the blocks they harvest drop themselves instead of components. This is useful because gamers can gather items that they normally wouldn't be able to get without silk touch, such as grass and clay blocks.

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Five surprising things about silk touch in Minecraft

Users can obtain silk touch either from purchasing a book from a librarian, finding a book enchanted with silk touch, or from an enchanting table. The easiest method is using a librarian villager to obtain one.

They simply need to place a lectern and trade with the villager. If it does not have the enchantment they want, gamers can break the lectern and place it down again to try the trade once more.

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1) Players can use silk touch to mine glowstone

Players can use silk touch to mine glowstone and keep its glowing properties (Image via Minecraft)

Those looking for an easy way to mine glowstone for using it as a source of light should look to use silk touch to help them harvest it. Instead of breaking the glowstone into glowstone dust, the block will drop itself, and players can pick it up to use it how they see fit.

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2) Silk touch can be used to harvest leaves

Users can use tools with silk touch to harvest leaves, much like using shears (Image via Minecraft)

Like gamers are able to use shears to harvest leaves, they can use a tool such as a pickaxe enchanted with silk touch to harvest them as well. Making the tool a true jack of all trades, players can easily and quickly chew through leaves, clearing out trees and stocking up on leaves to use them for other building components.

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3) Players can use silk touch to collect ender chests

Using silk touch with a pickaxe on an ender chest can allow users to bring their ender chest anywhere they go (Image via Minecraft)

When gamers mine an ender chest with a normal pickaxe, it will drop eight obsidian but not the eye of ender. This can be mitigated by using silk touch on the ender chest.

Not only will this cause the chest to stay intact, but players will not be down an eye of ender for moving their chest. This is an excellent way for players to take an ender chest wherever they go.

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4) Users can create unique walls of certain blocks

Gamers can make walls of certain blocks, such as diamond ore, to create unique and expensive textures (Image via Minecraft)

Certain ores, like diamonds, look great when they are in the ore form. Players can use silk touch to break the ore blocks and keep them in their ore form.

They can then pick up these blocks and create walls out of them so that they can have an entire house or building made out of specific kinds of ore.

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5) Moving occupied beehives

Users can become beekeepers and move occupied beehives easily by using a tool enchanted with silk touch (Image via Minecraft)

Gamers who want to be beekeepers can take an occupied bee nest or beehive and use a silk touch enchanted tool to break it. If the bee nest or beehive is occupied, it can continue to house 1-3 bees so that players can move it to a new, more desired location to place the nest down to continue honey production.

This is a good way for users to manage a honey farm.

Note: This list is not in any particular order and purely reflects the writer's opinion.