How to Upgrade Pet Armor and Speed Up Mining

Beyond standard player weapons and armor, you can enchant gear for your tamed animals and unlock bulk-mining power to clear underground stone and mineral veins much faster.

Adding Extra Protection to Wolves and Horses

1. Find pet armor enchantments: Loot chests in structures like Ancient Cities, Desert Pyramids, and Bastions, fish in lakes, or let a Sniffer dig in dirt to uncover special defensive books.

2. Enchant the armor: Place horse armor or wolf armor into an anvil alongside a compatible book (or test the armor in an enchanting table) to add protective effects.

3. Gear up your companions: Equip the enchanted armor on your tamed wolf or horse before entering caves, Pillager Outposts, or nighttime fights so your pets can survive heavier damage.

Breaking Stone and Ore Instantly

1. Prepare a mining pickaxe: Enchant pickaxes at an enchanting table or combine rare books on an anvil until you obtain the mining effect that targets bulk blocks.

2. Excavate veins and tunnels: Take the upgraded pickaxe underground and mine stone or ore as normal. Instead of clearing one block at a time, the enchantment breaks large amounts of stone and ore instantly, letting you hollow out caverns and harvest entire ore pockets rapidly.