Using Curse of Vanishing in Minecraft

A game of Minecraft's scale has much to live up to, and it does exactly that. It's known for its dynamic gaming experience and the number of activities to do within it. Minecraft boasts a vast array of items, blocks, mobs, and even dimensions. However, one of the most exciting and “magical” aspects of the game is enchanting.

Enchanting makes specific positive changes to any item that is imbued with it. An enchanting table and some Lapis Lazuli are required to enchant anything a player needs. The most commonly enchanted items include armor, tools, weapons, and books.

While many enchantments deal with increasing a weapon's stats or an armor piece's durability, others deal with unique aspects, like freezing water when a player is walking over it. This article will discuss one such unique enchantment: Curse of Vanishing.

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Curse of Vanishing in Minecraft: Everything players need to know

Curse of Vanishing is an enchantment in Minecraft that, when applied to an item, makes it disappear when the player using it dies. Added in Minecraft 1.11, this enchantment can be applied to any item that can be enchanted within the game.

Unlike most enchantments in Minecraft, Curse of Vanishing cannot be applied or obtained using an enchantment table.

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How does the Curse of Vanishing enchantment work?

As mentioned, when a player is killed, items imbued with Curse of Vanishing are removed from the world. However, if the item in question has already been dropped on the ground or stored inside a chest, it does not disappear.

Another way to not have the item vanish is to use the gamerule command and set keepInventory to true.

Unlike most other enchantments, players cannot use a grindstone to remove the Curse of Vanishing enchantment from an item. Additionally, if a mob drops an item with the enchantment applied to it, it works as intended.

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Obtaining the Curse of Vanishing enchantment in Minecraft

1) Chest loot

Curse of Vanishing can be obtained in chests (Image via Mojang Studios)

Players can loot any naturally generated chests around Minecraft. These can be chests in villages, libraries, strongholds, mineshafts, buried treasure, and more in the Overworld, and Nether fortress chests in the Nether.

However, the gear or books imbued with Curse of Vanishing have a higher chance of generating in the bastion and ruined portal chests.

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2) Fishing

Fishing is an exciting pastime in Minecraft. It lets players obtain rare and powerful items like enchanted books, arrows, weapons, tools, and the Nautilus shell, fish like raw salmon and pufferfish, and “junk” items like rotten flesh, string, and leather.

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3) Trading

Trading is an important part of Minecraft (Image via Mojang Studios)

Books imbued with Curse of Vanishing can be traded with Librarian villagers for emeralds and books.

The Cuse of Vanishing stands as a unique enchantment amongst the various enchantments in Minecraft. It defies the traditional enchanting rules in the game and is more annoying than helpful.