Enchanted Turtle Shell – Wiki Guide

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to craft an enchanted turtle shell with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

In Minecraft, you can add powers to a turtle shell by enchanting it. Enchantments can be added to items using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command.

Let’s explore how to make an enchanted turtle shell using an enchanting table.

Required Materials to make an Enchanted Turtle Shell

In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft an enchanted turtle shell:

3 Lapis Lazuli
1 Turtle Shell

Enchantments for Turtle Shell

In Minecraft, you can enchant a turtle shell with the following enchantments:

Enchantment	Description
Aqua Affinity	Speeds up how fast you can mine blocks underwater
Blast Protection	Reduces blast and explosion damage
Curse of Binding	Cursed item can not be removed from player
Curse of Vanishing	Cursed item will disappear after player dies
Fire Protection	Reduces damage caused by fire and lava
Mending	Uses xp to mend your tools, weapons and armor
Projectile Protection	Reduces projectile damage (arrows, fireballs, fire charges)
Protection	General protection against attacks, fire, lava, and falling
Respiration	Extends underwater breathing (see better underwater)
Thorns	Causes damage to attackers
Unbreaking	Increases durability of item, in effect, by decreasing the chance of the tool, weapon, or armor taking durability damage when used

• Enchantment is what the enchantment is called.
• Description is the description of what the enchantment does.

See a complete list of Minecraft Enchantments that is interactive and searchable.

Steps to Enchant the Turtle Shell

1. Open the Enchanting Table

First, open your enchanting table so that you have the Enchant menu that looks like this:

2. Enchant the Turtle Shell

In the Enchant menu, place the turtle shell in the first box. Then place 3 lapis lazuli in the second box.

TIP: In Creative mode, you do not need to place the lapis lazuli in the second box.

Once you have placed your turtle shell and lapis lazuli in the two boxes, you will see the enchantment slots display up to 3 enchantment options. Each enchantment will display a number on the right which is the number of experience levels that you must have to unlock and view the enchantment (this is not the cost of applying the enchantment).

In this example, the first enchantment is unlocked if you have 8 experience levels, the second one is unlocked if you have 17 experience levels, and for the third enchantment you need 30 experience levels to unlock it.

The higher the experience points required to unlock the enchantment, the better the enchantment. If you don’t have enough levels, you can always earn more experience points by killing mobs or using the /xp command.

TIP: If you hover over the slot, you will see the name of the enchantment and the cost.

When you hover over the third enchantment, it says Fire Protection III and the cost of the enchantment is 3 lapis lazuli and 3 enchantment levels (ie: levels on your experience bar). Fire Protection III is one of the 3 enchantments that you can select from the enchanting table.

Select the enchantment that you wish to apply to the turtle shell.

Once you have selected an enchantment, your lapis lazuli and experience points will be spent and the turtle shell will glow purple. You can hover over the enchanted helmet to see its new powers.

TIP: Quite often the enchanting table will add more than just the one enchantment originally selected. So you might end up with an item that is enchanted with 2 or 3 enchantments (or maybe even 4 enchantments)!

The turtle shell is now an enchanted turtle shell and you can move it back into your inventory.

Congratulations, you have made an enchanted turtle shell in Minecraft!

Durability

Durability represents how long the item will last. For tools, weapons and transportation, durability is the number of useful actions before the item is destroyed. For armor items, durability is the number of hits (that can be blocked by armor) before the item is destroyed. So the higher the durability number, the longer the item will last.

The following table shows the durability for each helmet/cap in Minecraft:

Item	Name	Durability
	Netherite Helmet	407
	Diamond Helmet	363
	Turtle Shell	275
	Chain Helmet	165
	Iron Helmet	165
	Golden Helmet	77
	Dyed Leather Cap	55
	Leather Cap	55

Other Enchanted Items

In Minecraft, you can make other enchanted items such as: