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Minecraft (2011)

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Find out What Efficiency in Minecraft is.

i. Efficiency is an enchantment that increases the player's mining speed when using tools such as pickaxes, axes, shovels, or hoes². It is one of the most useful enchantments for mining, as it allows the player to break blocks faster and save time and durability.

The best efficiency in Minecraft is level 5 (V), which is the highest level that players can obtain legitimately in vanilla (unmodified) Minecraft. To get efficiency 5 on a tool, you need to use an enchantment table or an anvil. However, not all tools can receive efficiency 5 from an enchantment table. Only wooden, golden, iron, and netherite tools can get efficiency 5 from an enchantment table, while stone and diamond tools can only get up to efficiency 4. To get efficiency 5 on a stone or diamond tool, you need to combine two efficiency 4 tools of the same type and material in an anvil³.

If you use cheats or mods, you can get higher levels of efficiency than 5, but they will not make any noticeable difference in your mining speed. The maximum level of any enchantment in Minecraft is 2,147,483,647, which is the limit of Java's int32 data type. However, any additional efficiency levels past 4 or 5 are practically useless, as they will not make your tool break blocks instantly. The only exception is when you combine efficiency with haste, which is a status effect that also increases your mining speed. With high enough levels of both efficiency and haste, you can achieve instant mining for certain blocks.

To summarize, the best efficiency in Minecraft is level 5 (V), which you can get from an enchantment table or an anvil. Higher levels of efficiency are possible with cheats or mods, but they are not worth it. Efficiency is a great enchantment for mining faster and more efficiently.

ii. The difference between efficiency 4 and 5 in Minecraft is the amount of speed boost that they give to your mining speed when using tools. Efficiency 4 gives a 30% speed boost, while efficiency 5 gives a 40% speed boost². However, this does not mean that efficiency 5 is always 10% faster than efficiency 4, because there are other factors that affect the mining speed, such as the base mining time of the block, the delay between breaking blocks, and the haste effect from beacons or conduits.

For some blocks, such as dirt, sand, gravel, or logs, efficiency 4 is enough to achieve instant mining, which means breaking the block in one game tick (0.05 seconds). In this case, efficiency 5 does not make any noticeable difference, because the block is already broken as fast as possible². For other blocks, such as stone, granite, andesite, diorite, or terracotta, efficiency 5 can make a difference if you also have haste from a beacon or a conduit. With haste II (level 2), you can instant mine stone and its variants with efficiency 5, but not with efficiency 4. With haste I (level 1), you can instant mine terracotta with efficiency 5, but not with efficiency 4.

For blocks that have a longer base mining time, such as ores or obsidian, efficiency 5 is slightly faster than efficiency 4, but not by much. For example, according to one test⁶, efficiency 4 can mine 120 ore blocks in one minute, while efficiency 5 can mine 134 ore blocks in one minute. That is only an 11.7% difference, less than the expected 30%. This is because the delay between breaking blocks reduces the actual mining speed of both levels of efficiency.

To summarize, the difference between efficiency 4 and 5 in Minecraft depends on the type of block you are mining and whether you have haste or not. Efficiency 5 is always faster than efficiency 4, but sometimes the difference is negligible or unnoticeable. Efficiency 5 is most useful for mining stone and its variants with haste II or terracotta with haste I. Efficiency 4 is enough for most other blocks that can be mined quickly or instantly.

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