Enchanting in Minecraft is a way to upgrade your equipment, either by improving its attributes or by providing it with new abilities. I always like to enchant weapons when I play in an RPG setting to enhance my experience. Here we explain the best sword enchantments in Minecraft and which ones you should use more often than others.
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We've put together a list of the best Swords enchantments in Minecraft, based on our experience playing Overworld adventures and battling mobs. If you want to venture outside the scope of the main dimension, you can always visit the Nether and End, but you can also enchant the rest of your gear, as those environments are much more hostile.
Smite is an extremely useful enchantment for fighting the undead mobs in the game. The reason for this is that the enchantment gives a significant damage boost depending on the enchantment level. You will also be fighting a lot of zombies and other undead at some point in the game. Because of this, I recommend Smite as a go-to enchantment that should always be on your sword, since undead are one of the most common mob types in the game.
Bane of Arthropods also has a similar effect, but instead of a boost to undead creatures, you deal increased damage to subsequent creatures.
