1 Answer. No, you still need a pickaxe for ores. From the wiki entry on silk touch (emphasis mine): Allows the collection of normally unobtainable blocks such as Ores , Grass , Mycelium and Huge Mushrooms .
Can you put silk touch on a wooden pickaxe?
Can a wooden pick with Silk Touch mine iron ore, gold ore, obsidian, etc? A wooden pick wouldn’t be able to mine ores above it’s level regardless of enchantment. (that means no.)
What can you mine with a silk touch pickaxe?
Silk touch now works. It can acquire these previously non-obtainable blocks: grass block, stone, coal ore, redstone ore, lapis lazuli ore, diamond ore, bookshelves, glass, ice. Mushroom blocks now drop when mined with Silk Touch. Silk Touch can no longer pick up ice.
Can you have mending and silk touch on the same pickaxe?
No Silk Touch and Mending Pickaxes.
Does silk touch work with wrong tool?
Silk touch works if you mine even with wrong tool.
Is mending useless on silk touch?
Nothing I dig up generates XP so the pickaxe doesn’t mend! The XP doesn’t have to come from mining blocks. With Mending, you can repair items with XP regardless of where the XP came from.
Does mending still work with silk touch?
Mending requires XP to mend the item. In this case the pickaxe. Mining with Silk Touch yields no XP. It just gives you the ore, not the mineral.
What to do with the Silk touch pickaxe?
You could use an MFR Disenchanter and get the silk touch book, and then put it on a new pick. Mfr disenchanter can rip those enchantments off to books. You can then use bibliocraft to copy the book for backups so you don’t have this problem if you want silk touch again.
How to get two Ender quarries with silk touch?
Mfr disenchanter can rip those enchantments off to books. You can then use bibliocraft to copy the book for backups so you don’t have this problem if you want silk touch again. It’ll take some more xp this route but if you want two ender quarries with silk touch it’s a decent way to go.
What can you do with the Silk touch enchantment?
With this enchantment, you can gather items that are fragile and break such as glass or ice. Or you can mine and gather the block itself such as diamond ore or coal ore (instead of getting diamond and coal drops). You can add the Silk Touch enchantment to any pickaxe, shovel, or axe using an enchanting table, anvil, or game command.
Can you use fortune and silk touch at the same time?
If commands are used to apply both Silk Touch and Fortune to an item, the Silk Touch enchantment takes precedence over the Fortune enchantment for blocks affected by both enchantments. Silk touch is also [ JE only] technically incompatible with the Looting and Luck of the Sea enchantments.
