Looting
Looting is a sword enchantment that increases item drops from mobs, making it essential for resource farming and rare item collection. This valuable enchantment can be obtained through enchanting tables, villager trading, fishing, and loot chests found in various Minecraft structures.
Looting comes in three levels, increasing maximum common drops by 1 per level while boosting rare drop chances by 1% per level. The enchantment works when holding the sword in your main hand during kills, even if using projectiles or sweep attacks.
This enchantment proves invaluable for mob farming, increasing drops from zombies, skeletons, creepers, and most hostile mobs. However, Looting doesn't affect certain drops like sheep wool, fish from cod/salmon, totems from evokers, or sculk catalysts from wardens. Looting III maximizes efficiency for mob farms and resource collection, making it one of the most sought-after enchantments for survival gameplay and automated farming systems.
What can you enchant with Looting?
Enchantment For
21
What's the cheapest way to enchant Looting?
Enchantment Order Tool
Pick the enchantments you want on your Looting — the cheapest anvil order and its XP cost update live on the right.
Copper Axe
Copper Spear
Copper Sword
Diamond Axe
Diamond Spear
Diamond Sword
Golden Axe
Golden Spear
Golden Sword
Iron Axe
Iron Spear
Iron Sword
Netherite Axe
Netherite Spear
Netherite Sword
Stone Axe
Stone Spear
Stone Sword
Wooden Axe
Wooden Spear
Wooden Sword| Enchantment | Level | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Copper Axe | 1 | |
| Copper Spear | 1 | |
| Copper Sword | 1 | |
| Diamond Axe | 1 | |
| Diamond Spear | 1 | |
| Diamond Sword | 1 | |
| Golden Axe | 1 | |
| Golden Spear | 1 | |
| Golden Sword | 1 | |
| Iron Axe | 1 | |
| Iron Spear | 1 | |
| Iron Sword | 1 | |
| Netherite Axe | 1 | |
| Netherite Spear | 1 | |
| Netherite Sword | 1 | |
| Stone Axe | 1 | |
| Stone Spear | 1 | |
| Stone Sword | 1 | |
| Wooden Axe | 1 | |
| Wooden Spear | 1 | |
| Wooden Sword | 1 |
Which villagers trade Looting?
Which structures contain Looting?
Found as Loot
12
~2.8
~4.3
~5.7
~6.8
~7.1
~9.1
~9.2
~18.8
StrongholdLibraries~53.5
Trial ChambersOminous Vaults~90.9StrongholdStorerooms~1031.0StrongholdAltars~1351.0| 35.9% | 0.44 | ~2.8 | |
| 23.5% | 0.26 | ~4.3 | |
| 17.5% | 0.19 | ~5.7 | |
| 14.7% | 0.15 | ~6.8 | |
| 14.1% | 0.14 | ~7.1 | |
| 11.0% | 0.11 | ~9.1 | |
| 10.8% | 0.11 | ~9.2 | |
| 5.3% | 0.05 | ~18.8 | |
| StrongholdLibraries | 1.87% | 0.02 | ~53.5 |
| Trial ChambersOminous Vaults | 1.1% | 0.01 | ~90.9 |
| StrongholdStorerooms | 0.097% | <0.01 | ~1031.0 |
| StrongholdAltars | 0.074% | <0.01 | ~1351.0 |
How do you get Looting by fishing?
Looting can be obtained by fishing with 
in the following biome:
| All Biomes except Jungle Biome | 0.0255% | 0.0360% | 0.0468% | 0.0578% |
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