Enchanting Order Calculator

Pick your item and the enchanted books you have. You get the cheapest order to combine them on the anvil, step by step. Java Edition rules.

1 · Item

2 · Enchanted books

Curses

3 · Options

Times this item has already been used in an anvil

Ignore the 39-level limit (Creative mode)

–Total cost

–Most expensive step

–XP points

0Books

–Compared to adding books one by one

How it works

Every anvil use adds a prior work penalty to the item: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31 levels… The penalty grows with each use, so the order you combine books in matters a lot. Combining books with each other first keeps the tree shallow and the penalty low.

This calculator tries every possible combination order and picks the one with the lowest total level cost. If two orders cost the same, it picks the one with the cheaper biggest step. Any single step of 40 levels or more shows Too Expensive! in survival.

XP points assume you pay each step with exactly that many levels. Higher levels are worth more points, so a few small steps cost fewer points than one big step.