Breach
Reduces the effectiveness of the target's armor, allowing the mace to ignore a portion of armor.
Overview
Breach is a rare special enchantment in Minecraft. Breach makes the mace ignore part of a target's armor, so its hits land closer to full damage against well-protected enemies.
Its opening level already delivers a noticeable boost (Ignores 15% of the target's armor), and it climbs from there to a maximum of level 4 (IV) on your mace.
Effects Per Level
Max Level & Effect Scaling
Breach tops out at level 4, shown as IV on the mace, and the gap between the levels is where the enchantment's character really lives.
Each of its four levels reduces the target's effective armor by 15%, so Breach IV ignores 60% of their protection. Against an unarmored target it does nothing extra, but against heavily armored players and mobs it dramatically raises the damage that gets through.
Compatible Items
Incompatible With
These enchantments cannot be combined with Breach on the same item.
Compatibility & Conflicts
Breach fits exactly one item (the mace), and nothing else will accept it, so it is a dedicated mace enchantment through and through.
Breach cannot share a mace with Sharpness, Smite, Bane of Arthropods and Density. All of these sit in the same mutually-exclusive group as Breach, so a mace can wear only one of them at once and you choose which playstyle to commit to.
How to Obtain
How to Get It
Breach can be rolled directly at an enchanting table, where the level you pay and the enchantability of a mace together decide which level of it you can be offered, up to IV. Players who would rather not gamble for Breach can hunt the book down through loot chest and villager trading and apply it at an anvil.
Its selection weight of 2 makes Breach a rare roll: it surfaces only now and then on a mace, so you may need to re-roll several times or simply trade a villager for the book.
What the Table Has to Roll
The numbers below are for a mace: of everything that accepts Breach it has the highest enchantability (15), worth up to 6 extra points of power on top of your experience level.
At the level 30 slot the rolled power lands in the window for Breach IV under 1% of the time.
| Level | Enchanting power | At a level 30 slot |
|---|---|---|
| I | 15 to 23 | never |
| II | 24 to 32 | 30% |
| III | 33 to 41 | 70% |
| IV | 42 to 92 | under 1% |
Applying the book on an anvil costs 4 levels per enchantment level, before the anvil adds its own charge for the work you have already done to the item.
Tips & Best Combinations
The PvP specialist's mace enchantment, ideal for cutting through opponents in full netherite. It conflicts with Density and the sword damage enchantments, so a Breach mace trades the explosive fall-damage scaling of Density for reliable armor-piercing: a worthwhile swap when your targets are armored.
For the strongest setup, pair Breach with Wind Burst, Unbreaking and Mending: the durability enchantments in particular keep the item alive long enough to make the investment worthwhile.
Worth remembering: exclusive to the mace. Reduces the target's effective armor by 15% per level. At Breach IV, 60% of the target's armor is ignored. Extremely effective against heavily armored players in PvP.
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Breach FAQ
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