What Aqua Affinity is, and what it can do?

In Minecraft, there is a condition for mining underwater. If you are just in 1 block of deep water and digging the block underwater, it will mine the block with the same speed as when you are on the ground.

But when you are 2 blocks or deeper underwater, The condition will trigger when the mining takes almost 5 times more than normal mining, and this makes mining very hard for deep water. As we have to breathe, go to the point, dig the block and come back to the surface. Mining with such a rate makes game progress not just slow but also increases the chance of being attacked. And to counter this Aqua Affinity is used as a better advantage.

Aqua Affinity helps to remove this effect of slow mining while being underwater. And by doing so it helps to get more items without spending much time. Also if you have to dig underwater for making any kind of underwater tunnel, this helps a lot to give you enough time to mine more blocks in just 1 dive until you run out of breath.

Uses of Aqua Affinity with other items

The Enchantment is very useful if you use it on Turtle Shell. It provides you a good amount of underwater breathing capability and with faster mining, You can mine more amount of items underwater at the same time.

You may also use Conduit to provide underwater breathing, But to obtain this, you need to defeat Elder guardians to gather Prismarine. Which consumes time and resources, and can slow our progress more.

So as a better resource using Turtle Shell is a very useful combination with Aqua Affinity

Applicable on

This Enchantment is only applicable to all types of Armor items. It is Armor specific and only use if the armor you enchanted is worn, No matter what material it is made of or part of the armor is enchanted. You can still use the enchantment by just wearing the armor.

Compatibility

This Enchantment works with almost all Enchantment which is used over Armor. But not with tools or weapons, Because It should not be enchanted on tools. It is possible to enchant them, But using any tool is waste of time.

Holding any tool that is enchanted by Aqua Affinity won't work. It is only working if the item is worn.

So please be careful, using this Enchantment is a waste of both XP and Enchantment book if enchanted on any tool, Use a good armor, that has decent health, or just use Turtle Shell, Because you only need both of them to mine underwater and enchanting Aqua Affinity on Turtle Shell provides a good amount of time for deep digging.

You can also use Respiration Enchantment on any type of helmet and can breathe underwater. Which gives you more chances of getting rare items in the game.

Availability

You can get it by fishing or from Enchantment Table. Otherwise, it is hard to obtain from villagers. You have to ensure that you are getting one of the rare chances when Librarian offers you Aqua Affinity. But getting it through the Enchantment table is actually more efficient in comparison to spending time with the Librarian.