8 Best Enchanting Room Ideas and Designs in Minecraft

Enchanting your weapons and armor is essential for anyone who’s serious about beating Minecraft! In order to enchant your gear, however, you’ll need at least two things: an enchanting table, and a whole lot of bookshelves (at least 15 of them).

These required items aren’t necessarily difficult to obtain, but setting up the actual enchanting room can be discouraging if you’ve got a really cool base going on, and don’t want to mess up the aesthetic. If you wanted some new ideas for enchanting room builds, you’ve come to the right place! Use this guide to find the enchanting room that’s right for you!

8 Best Enchanting Room Ideas and Designs in Minecraft

Igloo

Igloo enchanting rooms are some of the easiest rooms you can make, especially if you live in a snowy biome! You can use a naturally-spawned igloo if you don’t like to build much, but you probably won’t be able to fit many bookshelves inside of it. This igloo is incredibly roomy, and you can fit dozens of bookshelves inside! You’ll need these materials if you want to make this enchanting igloo in Minecraft:

• 116 Snow Blocks
• 18 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table
• 3 Soul Torches
• 8 Soul Lanterns
• 1 Birch Fence Gate

Island in the Sky

This enchanting room design in Minecraft is great because it can also be used as a house! You don’t have to make it house-sized if you don’t want to, but a little extra room is always nice, especially if you want somewhere to store all your extra lapis lazuli or enchanted gear. You can make this design as large or small as you want, depending on your preferences, but to build this specific enchanting room, you’ll need these materials:

• 132 Dark Oak Planks
• 53 Brick Stairs
• 16 Dark Oak Wood Blocks
• 25 Brick Slabs
• 1 Dark Oak Stair
• 1 Dark Oak Door
• 6 Grey Stained Glass Blocks
• 2 Candles (outside)
• 17 Candles (inside)
• 17 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table

Abandoned Enchanting Room

This enchanting room design is perfect for spooky season! Whether you’re really into Halloween or just really like Minecraft’s abandoned aesthetic, you’ll love this cave-dwelling abandoned enchanting room! You can add more cobwebs or fewer depending on your preference; this enchanting room’s spookiness is entirely up to you. To build this haunted structure, you’ll need these materials:

• 63 Mossy Cobblestone
• 33 Mossy Cobblestone Stairs
• 11 Mossy Stone Stairs
• 3 Mossy Cobblestone Slabs
• 1 Mossy Stone Slab
• 1 Stone Button
• 1 Iron Door
• 12 Bookshelves
• 6 Cobwebs
• 4 Chains
• 1 Enchanting Table

Fairy Room

This room has to be one of the easiest enchanting room designs in Minecraft. It’s as pretty as it is functional; you’ll have no issues with utilizing this beautiful enchanting room! This fairy room doesn’t need to be built on a mushroom tree if you can’t find any, this one was built on top of one just to add to the fairy aesthetic. If you want to build this colorful enchanting room, you’ll need these simply materials:

• 7 Red Stained Glass Blocks
• 8 Orange Stained Glass Blocks
• 8 Yellow Stained Glass Blocks
• 4 Lime Stained Glass Blocks
• 4 Light Blue Stained Glass Blocks
• 1 Magenta Stained Glass Block
• 23 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table
• 1 Spruce Fence Gate
• 4 Redstone Torches

Witch’s Library

If you’ve ever found yourself jealous of those lucky Minecraft witches living on the water, you definitely need to build this room. Like the “Island in the Sky” enchanting room, this design can also be used as a house! Who wouldn’t want to live in a floating purple library?? You can make this spooky witch library as big as you want, depending on your storage needs, but for this specific design you’ll need to gather these materials:

• 72 Crimson Planks
• 24 Dark Oak Planks
• 38 Crimson Stairs
• 24 Dark Oak Stairs
• 16 Red Nether Brick Stairs
• 16 White Candles
• 4 Chains
• 6 Soul Lanterns (outside)
• 9 Soul Lanterns (inside)
• 15 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table

Witchy Nether Hut

This enchanting room design is a bit different in the sense that it’s taller than it is wide, it’s also flat on top to mimic the tops of the crimson nether trees it’s hidden amongst. If you’re a fan of building in the nether, you definitely should about adding this enchanting room to your structure collection. To build this spooky hut, you’ll need to gather these nether-based materials:

• 45 Red Nether Bricks
• 26 Red Nether Brick Stairs
• 30 Nether Brick Slabs
• 22 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table
• 4 Black Stained Glass Blocks
• 2 Warped Doors
• 2 Soul Campfires
• 2 Soul Lanterns

Extroverted Library

Everyone loves libraries in Minecraft, but building them can time consuming and resource-draining. If you want all the benefits of an enchanted library with only a fraction of the work, you’re in luck! This enchanting room is built entirely out of bookshelves! You’ll definitely need a lot of bookshelves to build this enchanting room, but that’s pretty much all you’ll need. You’ll need these simple materials to build this enchanting room:

• 51 Bookshelves
• 12 White Stained Glass Blocks
• 10 Oak Planks (for the floor)
• 2 Stone Pressure Plates
• 1 Iron Door
• 6 Redstone Torches

Secret Underwater Enchanting Room

Whenever you’re playing Minecraft in a server or are playing with a lot of other players, it makes sense to hide some of your more valuable items. If you’re worried about other players stealing your precious enchanting table, you definitely need to build this secret enchanting room! This enchanting room design is especially perfect for those who have visited an ocean monument recently and are interested in utilizing their sponges and prismarine blocks. To build this secret structure, you’ll need these materials:

• 12 Dark Prismarine Blocks
• 42 Prismarine Bricks
• 28 Dark Prismarine Stairs
• 37 Dark Prismarine Slabs
• 2 Prismarine Bricks Slabs
• 17 Prismarine Blocks
• 4 Stone Buttons
• 1 Iron Door
• 10 Torches (inside)
• 20 Bookshelves
• 1 Enchanting Table

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None of these enchanting room designs in Minecraft are very difficult to build, so you don’t have to worry about not being a pro-builder if you want to enjoy a quality enchanting room! Be sure to stick with GamerJournalist for many more Minecraft building ideas!