Silk Touch

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Silk Touch

Maximum level	1
Primary items	👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image 👁 Image
Secondary items	👁 Image ‌^{[BE only]}
Enchantment weight	1
Identifier	`silk_touch`
Incompatible with	Fortune
Overleveling behavior	No change

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Silk Touch is an enchantment applied to tools that causes certain blocks to drop themselves instead of their normal drops.

Obtaining

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Silk Touch can be obtained from enchanting tables, drops from mobs that have spawned in a raid‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}, books obtained by fishing, monster room chests, librarian villagers, and non-village structure loot.

Usage

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Silk Touch changes the items dropped from mining certain blocks. For example, mining a stone block using a pickaxe without Silk Touch would drop cobblestone; however, when using a pickaxe with Silk Touch, the stone block itself drops. The table below lists blocks that do not normally drop themselves as items:

Block	Normal drops	Obtainable with Silk Touch?	Notes
👁 Image Amethyst Bud	Nothing	Yes	The bud keeps its growth stage.
👁 Image Amethyst Cluster	4 👁 Image Amethyst Shard with a pickaxe, otherwise 2 👁 Image Amethyst Shard	Yes
👁 Image Bee Nest	Nothing	Yes	When mined with a Silk Touch tool, the nest can still contain 1-3 bees.
👁 Image Beehive (occupied)	👁 Image Beehive (empty)	Yes	When mined with a Silk Touch tool, the hive can still contain 1-3 bees.
👁 Image Blue Ice^[a]	Nothing	Yes
👁 Image Bookshelf	3 👁 Image Book	Yes
👁 Image Budding Amethyst	Nothing	No
👁 Image Cake^[a]	Nothing	No
👁 Image Campfire	2 👁 Image Charcoal	Yes
👁 Image Chiseled Bookshelf	Nothing	Yes	Any books placed in the bookshelf are dropped.
👁 Image Clay	4 👁 Image Clay Ball	Yes	Clay can also be obtained by crafting with the clay balls the block drops, or killing an enderman holding the block.
👁 Image Coal Ore^[a]	1 👁 Image Coal	Yes (only with a pickaxe)
👁 Image Cobweb^[b]	1 👁 Image String	Yes	Drops itself when mined with shears.
👁 Image Copper Ore	2-5 👁 Image Raw Copper	Yes (only with a stone pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Coral Blocks^[a]	👁 Image Dead Coral Blocks	Yes (only with a pickaxe)
👁 Image Coral^[a] 👁 Image Coral Fans^[a]	Nothing	Yes
👁 Image Creaking Heart	1-3 👁 Image Resin Clump	Yes
👁 Image Decorated Pot	4 👁 Image pottery sherd(s)/👁 Image brick(s) when broken with a tool in the main hand, else it drops itself.	Yes
👁 Image Deepslate	👁 Image Cobbled Deepslate	Yes (only with a pickaxe)	Can also be smelted from cobbled deepslate.
👁 Image Diamond Ore^[a]	1 👁 Image Diamond	Yes (only with an iron pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Double Slab	2 👁 Image Slab	No	All slabs except wooden drop nothing when mined without a pickaxe.
👁 Image Emerald Ore^[a]	1 👁 Image Emerald	Yes (only with an iron pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Ender Chest	8 👁 Image Obsidian	Yes
👁 Image Farmland	👁 Image Dirt	No
👁 Image Fire^[a]	Nothing	No	Fire cannot be obtained as an item, but it can be created using a flint and steel or fire charge..
👁 Image Frosted Ice^[a]	Nothing (becomes a 👁 Image water source)	No (no water source forms)	Frosted Ice cannot be obtained as an item, but can be created using Frost Walker boots.
👁 Image Gilded Blackstone^[a]	90% chance for 👁 Image Gilded Blackstone and 10% chance for 2-5 👁 Image Gold Nuggets	Yes (only with a pickaxe)
👁 Image Glass Pane^[a] 👁 Image Glass^[a]	Nothing	Yes
👁 Image Glowstone	2-4 👁 Image Glowstone Dust	Yes	Can also be crafted with 4 glowstone dust.
👁 Image Gold Ore	1 👁 Image Raw Gold	Yes (only with an iron pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Grass Block	👁 Image Dirt	Yes	Can also be obtained by killing an enderman holding the block.
👁 Image Dirt Path	👁 Image Dirt	Yes‌^{[BE only]}
👁 Image Dirt Path	👁 Image Dirt	No‌^{[JE only]}
👁 Image Gravel	90% chance for 👁 Image Gravel and 10% chance for 👁 Image Flint	Yes	The block always drops itself if it falls into an occupied block space.
👁 Image Ice^[a]	Nothing (Becomes a 👁 Image water source)	Yes
👁 Image Infested Block	Spawns 1 👁 Image Silverfish	No	When mined with a Silk Touch tool, it drops the original version of the block, not the infested block, and no silverfish spawn.
👁 Image Iron Ore	1 👁 Image Raw Iron	Yes (only with a stone pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Lapis Lazuli Ore^[a]	4-8 👁 Image Lapis Lazuli	Yes (only with a stone pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Leaves	0-1 👁 Image Saplings 0-2 👁 Image Sticks 0-1 👁 Image Apple from oak and dark oak leaves	Yes	Leaf blocks can also be obtained by mining them with shears.
👁 Image Melon	3-7 👁 Image Melon Slice	Yes	Can also be crafted with 9 melon slices, or killing an enderman holding the block.
👁 Image Monster Spawner^[a]	Nothing	No	The monster spawner drops experience if mined with a pickaxe.
👁 Image Mushroom Blocks	0-2 👁 Image Mushrooms	Yes
👁 Image Mycelium	👁 Image Dirt	Yes	Can also be obtained by killing an enderman holding the block.
👁 Image Nether Gold Ore^[a]	2-6 👁 Image Gold Nugget	Yes (only with a pickaxe)
👁 Image Nether Quartz Ore^[a]	1 👁 Image Nether Quartz	Yes (only with a pickaxe)
👁 Image Nylium^[a]	👁 Image Netherrack	Yes (only with a pickaxe)	Can also be obtained by killing an enderman holding the block.
👁 Image Ominous Vault^[a]	Nothing	No	It cannot be obtained as an item and cannot be moved by pistons.
👁 Image Packed Ice^[a]	Nothing	Yes
👁 Image Podzol	👁 Image Dirt	Yes	Can also be obtained by killing an enderman holding the block, or buying it from a wandering trader.
👁 Image Powder Snow	Nothing	No	Can be collected with a bucket.
👁 Image Redstone Ore^[a]	4-5 👁 Image Redstone Dust	Yes (only with an iron pickaxe or better)
👁 Image Reinforced Deepslate^[a]	Nothing	No
👁 Image Sculk 👁 Image Sculk Catalyst 👁 Image Sculk Sensor 👁 Image Calibrated Sculk Sensor 👁 Image Sculk Shrieker 👁 Image Sculk Vein^[a]	Nothing	Yes	Every sculk family block except sculk vein drops experience when mined without Silk Touch.
👁 Image Sea Lantern	2-3 👁 Image Prismarine Crystals	Yes
👁 Image Short Dry Grass 👁 Image Tall Dry Grass	Nothing	Yes	Can also be obtained by mining them with shears.
👁 Image Snow^[a]	In Java Edition: 1 👁 Image Snowball (per layer) In Bedrock Edition: 1 👁 Image Snowball for 1-3 layers 2 👁 Image Snowball for 4-5 layers 3 👁 Image Snowball for 6-7 layers 4 👁 Image Snowball for 8 layers	Yes (only with a shovel)	At 8 layers, drops a snow block instead.^[1] Can also be crafted with 3 snow blocks.
👁 Image Snow Block^[a]	4 👁 Image Snowball	Yes (only with a shovel)	Can also be crafted with 4 snowballs.
👁 Image Soul Campfire	👁 Image Soul Soil	Yes
👁 Image Stone^[a]	👁 Image Cobblestone	Yes (only with a pickaxe)	Can also be smelted from cobblestone.
👁 Image Suspicious Gravel 👁 Image Suspicious Sand	Nothing	No	Can be obtained by making the block fall for more than 30 seconds.^[2]
👁 Image Turtle Egg^[a]	Nothing	Yes
👁 Image Twisting Vines	33% chance for 👁 Image Twisting Vines	Yes	Also drops 100% of the time if broken with Fortune III or shears.
👁 Image Weeping Vines	33% chance for 👁 Image Weeping Vines	Yes	Also drops 100% of the time if broken with Fortune III or shears.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab The blocks drop nothing when they are destroyed by hand.
↑ The suitable tools to break cobweb are shears and swords. Using shears to break cobweb always causes it to drop itself, no matter whether the shears have Silk Touch; in Java Edition, a sword with Silk Touch can be obtained only by executing commands.

Incompatibilities

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Silk Touch is incompatible with Fortune. If commands are used to apply both Silk Touch and Fortune to an item, the Silk Touch enchantment takes precedence over the Fortune enchantment for blocks affected by both enchantments.

Silk Touch cannot be applied to swords or fishing rods in normal gameplay.

Data values

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ID

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Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Silk Touch	`silk_touch`	`enchantment.minecraft.silk_touch`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Silk Touch	`silk_touch`	`16`	`enchantment.untouching`

Achievements

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Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
👁 Image	👁 Image	Total Beelocation	Move and place a Bee Nest, with 3 bees inside, using .	—	30	Silver

Advancements

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Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
👁 Image 👁 Image	Total Beelocation	Move a Bee Nest or Beehive, with 3 Bees inside, using	Unlike most other advancements, this advancement is granted upon breaking the nest, rather than it entering your inventory.

History

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Java Edition

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Java Edition
1.0.0	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4	Added Silk Touch.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4	Tools with Silk Touch can acquire these previously unobtainable blocks: grass block, coal ore, redstone ore, lapis lazuli ore, diamond ore, monster spawners, mushroom blocks, mycelium, and ice, and these blocks that are obtainable through smelting/crafting: glass, stone, and bookshelves.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	Silk Touch can no longer pick up monster spawners and lit furnaces.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5	Silk Touch is now incompatible with Fortune.
	Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6	Silk Touch can no longer pick up ice, lit redstone ore, and infested stone.
1.2.1	12w07a	Silk Touch can no longer pick up glass.
1.2.4	release	Glass can be collected with Silk Touch again.
1.3.1	12w17a	Ice and glass panes can now be collected with Silk Touch.
	12w21a	Added emerald ore, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
	12w24a	Ender chests now drop 8 obsidian unless mined with Silk Touch.
1.4.6	12w50a	Silk Touch can now be added to shears, allowing cobwebs to be collected.
1.5	13w01a	Added Nether quartz ore, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
1.7.2	13w36a	Added packed ice and podzol, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
1.7.2	13w41a	Added stained glass and stained glass panes, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
1.8	14w25a	Added sea lanterns, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
1.8	14w25a	Red and brown mushroom blocks now drop themselves when mined with Silk Touch.
1.9	15w42a	"Silk Touch I" has been renamed to just "Silk Touch".
	15w47b	Silk Touch may no longer be added to shears.
	15w47c	Silk Touch is no longer required to collect cobwebs.
1.11.1	release	Silk Touch can no longer be combined with Looting or Luck of the Sea at all.^[3] Previously it could be combined if the item with Silk Touch was put into the second slot.
1.13	17w47a	Mushroom stems can now be collected as themselves with Silk Touch.
	17w48a	Snow layers can now be collected with a Silk Touch shovel.^[4]
	18w07a	Added turtle eggs, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
	18w15a	Added blue ice, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
	18w16a	Coral blocks now require Silk Touch to be collected.
	pre10	Coral, coral fans, and dead coral fans can now be collected using Silk Touch.
1.13.1	18w32a	Added dead coral, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
1.14	18w43a	Silk Touch enchantment now works on enchanted books.^[5]
1.14	19w02a	Added campfires, which drop charcoal unless mined with Silk Touch.
1.15	19w34a	Added bee nests, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
	19w34a	Bees remain in bee nests and beehives mined with Silk Touch.
	19w37a	Silk Touch enchantment no longer works on enchanted books.
	19w46a	Moving a bee nest with 3 bees inside using Silk Touch, now gives the player the Total Beelocation advancement.
1.16	20w10a	Hoes can now be enchanted with Silk Touch.
	20w12a	Nether gold ore now drops gold nuggets unless mined with Silk Touch, in which case it drops itself.
	20w15a	Added soul campfires, which drop soul soil unless mined with Silk Touch.
	20w15a	Added gilded blackstone, which always drops itself when mined with Silk Touch.
	20w18a	Twisting vines and weeping vines now drop 33% of the time, unless mined with Silk Touch, Fortune III, or shears, it which case it always drops.
	20w22a	Nylium now drops itself only when broken with a Silk Touch pickaxe.
1.17	20w45a	Added amethyst clusters, which require a Silk Touch pickaxe to be collected.
	20w46a	Amethyst buds can now also be collected with a Silk Touch pickaxe.
	21w08a	Deepslate can now be mined only with Silk Touch, otherwise it drops cobbled deepslate.
	21w08a	Added deepslate ore, which need Silk Touch to drops itself (except iron, copper and gold ore).
	21w14a	Iron ore, gold ore, and copper ore and their deepslate variants now drop their respective raw metal, and the ore can be obtained only with Silk Touch.
1.19	22w11a	Sculk, sculk catalysts, sculk sensors, and sculk veins can now be collected with a Silk Touch hoe.
1.19	22w15a	Mangrove leaves can now be collected with Silk Touch.^[6]
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20	22w42a	Chiseled bookshelves can now be collected with Silk Touch.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20	23w07a	Decorated pots can now be collected with Silk Touch.
1.20	23w12a	Calibrated sculk sensors can now be collected with Silk Touch.
1.21	24w18a	Silk Touch is now compatible with Looting and Luck of the Sea.

Bedrock Edition

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Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.12.1	build 1	Added Silk Touch.
Bedrock Edition
1.16.0	beta 1.16.0.57	Hoes can now be enchanted with Silk Touch.
1.21.30	Preview 1.21.30.22	Silk touch I has been renamed to just Silk touch for Java Edition parity.

Legacy Console Edition

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Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added Silk Touch.
TU14		1.04					Ice and glass panes can now be collected with Silk Touch.
							Added Nether quartz ore, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
							Added emerald ore, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Added stained glass and stained glass panes, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added packed ice and podzol, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		Added sea lanterns, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Silk Touch may no longer be added to shears.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Added frosted ice, which can be obtained as an item using silk touch.
TU44	CU34	1.37	1.37	1.37	Patch 14		Silk Touch is no longer required to collect cobwebs.
TU48	CU38	1.41	1.41	1.41	Patch 17		Silk touch can no longer be used to obtain frosted ice as an item.
TU63	CU53	1.67	1.67	1.67	Patch 32	1.0.13	Silk Touch now works on grass paths.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added turtle eggs, which require Silk Touch to be collected.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Added blue ice, which requires Silk Touch to be collected.
			1.91				Added campfires, which drop charcoal unless mined with Silk Touch.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

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New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added Silk Touch.

Issues

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Issues relating to "Silk Touch" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

References

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↑ MC-134408 – Breaking 8-level snow layer with Silk Touch drops snow block
↑ MC-260073 – Suspicious sand/gravel drops as an item after 30 seconds of existing as falling block – resolved as "Won't Fix".
↑ MC-116643
↑ MC-1875 – Snow layers don't drop themselves when harvested with a Silk Touch tool – resolved as "Fixed".
↑ MC-154873
↑ MC-249938

Navigation

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👁 Image Helmet	👁 Image Aqua Affinity 👁 Image Respiration
👁 Image Leggings	👁 Image Swift Sneak
👁 Image Boots	👁 Image Depth Strider 👁 Image Feather Falling 👁 Image Frost Walker 👁 Image Soul Speed

Melee weapons

👁 Image Sword	👁 Image Fire Aspect 👁 Image Knockback 👁 Image Looting 👁 Image Sharpness 👁 Image Sweeping Edge‌^{[JE only]}
👁 Image Axe	👁 Image Cleaving^{[upcoming: JE Combat Tests]} 👁 Image Sharpness
👁 Image Spear	👁 Image Fire Aspect 👁 Image Knockback 👁 Image Looting 👁 Image Lunge 👁 Image Sharpness
👁 Image Mace	👁 Image Breach 👁 Image Density 👁 Image Fire Aspect 👁 Image Wind Burst