Actually there is a fourth way: you can obtain a Silk Touch enchanted Book by fishing, but it’s so rare that I wouldn’t consider this option at all. If you want to check exactly how breaking a block is affected by Silk Touch, you can check here.īasically there three different ways to get Silk Touch: by trading with Villagers, through the Enchanting Table and by using commands. See also: How to find ALL Mob Spawners in Minecraft. It doesn’t work on Mob Spawners: if you break a Spawner with a Silk Touch enchanted Pickaxe, the Spawner will break without dropping anything. Or a Diamond Ore will drop a Diamond Ore block instead of a Diamond. For example, a Stone block will drop a Stone block instead of a Cobblestone one. If you break a block with a Silk Touch enchanted tool, the block will drop exactly itself instead of what it what would usually drop.

Spawners cannot be moved in any way in Minecraft Survival mode. If you try to hit a Spawner with a Silk Touch enchanted Pickaxe you will only break it and nothing will drop. No, you can’t use a Silk Touch enchanted Pickaxe (or any other tool) to pick up a Spawner. It also comes in handy when you want to obtain a large amount of blocks that would require other slower and tedious processes (like Stone blocks, that require smelting).īut can you Silk Touch Spawners in Minecraft, so to speak? Let’s see It allows you to obtain blocks that you couldn’t get otherwise, like metal ores for example.

Silk Touch is a very interesting Minecraft enchantment.

Can you get spawners with silk touch