Applying Silk Touch to a Drill Head

If you want your mechanical drills to preserve delicate blocks rather than dropping their usual broken items, you can apply Silk Touch using a specific crafting material.

Material Requirements

To add the Silk Touch enchantment to an upgrade-compatible tiered drill, you need Amethyst dust. Standard enchantment books and vanilla enchanting workflows are not used for this process.

Steps to Apply Silk Touch

1. Locate a tiered drill attached to your mining rig. Ensure it is a tiered drill, as the standard Create drill cannot receive head upgrades or enchantments.

2. Hold Amethyst dust in your active hand slot.

3. Target the tiered drill block directly.

4. Right-click the drill with the Amethyst dust to apply Silk Touch to the drill head.

Operational Benefits

Once enchanted with Silk Touch, the drill harvests blocks in their original forms. This allows automated quarry setups to retrieve intact ore blocks, stone variants without converting them to cobblestone, glass, and other fragile blocks that would otherwise break or drop alternative items when excavated.