Minecraft enchanting table language

In Minecraft, players can craft an Enchanting Table, a mystical table that calls upon otherworldly powers to grant special effects to equipment.

When using the Enchantment Table, unknown characters are displayed for each enchantment, but did you know you can actually decipher them? Today, we’ll show you how to read the Minecraft Enchanting Table language!

Understanding the Minecraft Enchanting Table Language

Deciphering and translating Minecraft’s Enchanting Table language is easier than it looks.

Standard galactic alphabet

The language is a made up language called the Standard Galactic Alphabet, which first originated in id Software and 3D Realms’ Commander Keen series. Each character corresponds to a letter from the English alphabet!

Knowing this, you can pretty much translate any of the Enchanting Table phrases in Minecraft.

Let’s take a look at an example enchantment we got from putting a Diamond Sword on the Enchanting Table.

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