Looting

Looting is a rare melee enchantment in Minecraft 1.21. Looting increases both how much common loot a killed mob drops and the odds of its rare drops, but only when the finishing blow comes from the enchanted weapon.

Its opening level already delivers a noticeable boost — +1 max common drops, +0.5% rare drop chance per level — and it climbs from there to a maximum of level 3 (III) on your sword.

Looting tops out at level 3, shown as III on the sword, and the gap between the levels is where the enchantment's character really lives.

Each level raises the maximum common-drop count by one and bumps the rare-drop chance by a small amount, so Looting III can add up to three extra common items and meaningfully improve the odds on prizes like wither skeleton skulls or ender pearls. The minimum drop never changes — Looting only widens the top end of the roll.

Looting fits exactly one item — the sword — and nothing else will accept it, so it is a dedicated sword enchantment through and through.

Looting has no exclusivity conflicts at all, so you can layer it onto a sword alongside every other enchantment that sword accepts without having to give anything up.

Looting can be rolled directly at an enchanting table, where reaching its top level of III on a sword generally wants a fully bookshelf-powered table at roughly level 12. If the table is not cooperating, the Looting book also comes from loot chest and villager trading, ready to apply on an anvil.

Its selection weight of 2 makes Looting a rare roll: it surfaces only now and then on a sword, so you may need to re-roll several times or simply trade a villager for the book.