Blessing

Blessing

BlessingPrayer of PrometheusBlessingPrayer of Lu BanBlessingElegy of Icarus

Type	Enchanted book
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Base item	minecraft:enchanted_book

A blessing is an enchanted book crafted from a Hell-Bound Book and a set of themed ingredients. Blessings are the main way to get enchantments in Matcha Flavoured, replacing the enchanting table. Each one stores a fixed set of enchantments at fixed levels and is named, in its tooltip, as a prayer or elegy to a deity or mythological figure: the Prayer of Prometheus grants Unbreaking, the Elegy of Icarus grants Feather Falling.

Obtaining

Crafting

Every blessing is a shaped crafting recipe with a Hell-Bound Book in the center slot. The surrounding slots (up to eight) hold ingredients tied to the enchantment and the figure it is named after. The recipes are in the pack's recipe/blessing folder. Crafting a Hell-Bound Book unlocks all 23 blessing recipes; since 1.12.9 the "Unholy Knowledge" advancement for that craft unlocks them as well.

Blessing	Stored enchantments	Ingredients around the book
Elegy of Arachnae	Bane of Arthropods V	4 × Spider Eye
Elegy of Hyacinthus	Zephyr I, Wind Burst I	4 × Wind Charge, 3 × Feather, Hyacinth
Elegy of Icarus	Feather Falling II	4 × Wind Charge, 3 × Feather, Wax
Prayer of Aeolus	Anemos	7 × Wind Charge, Block of Gold
Prayer of Apollo	Impaling III, Piercing II	4 × Spectral Arrow, 3 × Gold Ingot, Disc Fragment
Prayer of Ares	Lunge II, Breach II	Iron Helmet, Iron Sword or Iron Spear, Red Dye, Shield
Prayer of Artemis	Power II, Multishot	4 × Spectral Arrow, 3 × Raw Porkchop, Silver Bullion
Prayer of Cronus	Swift Sneak II, Soul Speed II	4 × Sculk, 3 × Echo Shard, Iron Hoe
Prayer of Daedalus	Efficiency III, Unbreaking III	4 × Estus Ash, Amalgamated Pith, Diamond Axe, Diamond Pickaxe, Diamond
Prayer of Demeter	Frost Walker II, Frost Protection II	4 × Golden Apple, 3 × Blue Ice, Golden Hoe
Prayer of Eros	Silk Touch	4 × Arrow, 3 × Estus Ash, Shakudo Alloy
Prayer of Glaucus	Luck of the Sea III, Lure III, Loyalty I	3 × Nautilus Shell, Azure Bluet
Prayer of Lu Ban	Mending	6 × Diamond, Amalgamated Pith, Block of Diamond
Prayer of Man	2 Warding, Smite II	4 × Nazar, 3 × Lapis Lazuli, Silver Bullion
Prayer of Midas	Fortune, Looting III	4 × Estus Ash, 3 × Block of Gold, Ominous Bottle
Prayer of Paris	Infinity	7 × Spectral Arrow, Stable Void
Prayer of Prometheus	Unbreaking II	4 × Estus Ash, 3 × Diamond, Pith
Prayer of St. Clement	Trailblaze III	2 × Any wool, 2 × Obol, Leather Boots
Prayer of Talos	Density II, Knockback II, Punch II	7 × Block of Iron, Steel Alloy
Prayer of The Light	Smite IV, Channeling	4 × Estus Ash, 3 × Silver Bullion, Gold Ingot
Prayer of Will	Reach I	4 × Stable Void
Prayer of Yama	Flame, Fire Aspect I, Fire Protection III	4 × Fire Charge, 4 × Gold Ingot
Prayer of Yamm	Depth Strider II, Riptide I, Aqua Affinity, Respiration II	4 × Nautilus Shell

The Prayer of Daedalus and the Prayer of Lu Ban need an amalgamated pith, and the Prayer of Prometheus needs pith, which makes Unbreaking, Efficiency and Mending the most expensive enchantments to craft. Protection and Sharpness have no blessing at all and come only from Ofuda, loot or adamant equipment.

Usage

A blessing is combined with a piece of equipment in an anvil, like any enchanted book. Blessings do not stack. Because the pack sets the anvil cost multiplier of every vanilla enchantment to 1 (and of most of its own to 0) and gives the player 10,000 experience levels when they use an anvil, applying a blessing is cheap; see Enchanting#Applying enchantments.

Old enchantment ids

All blessings store the pack's enchantments under their current matcha ids. Before 1.12.3, five blessings (the Prayer of Aeolus, Prayer of Demeter, Prayer of St. Clement, Prayer of Will and Elegy of Hyacinthus) stored the ids from before the move to that namespace, which the pack converted when the item was worn or held. The pack keeps those old enchantments in a main namespace only to update items from earlier versions.

Blessings are not the Hell-Bound Book itself: the crafted book stores only the blessing's enchantments, not the Curse of Binding that a blank Hell-Bound Book carries.

Appearance

All blessings share the item name "Blessing". The prayer or elegy name is shown as a dark gray lore line, and each blessing has its own texture. The Prayer of Man and the Prayer of Talos have rare (aqua) rarity and the Prayer of Lu Ban has epic (purple) rarity; the others use the default rarity of an enchanted book.

The three elegies are named after tragic figures of Greek myth (Arachne, Hyacinthus and Icarus), while the prayers address gods, Titans, heroes and saints.

Advancements

Advancement	Description	Requirement
Unholy Knowledge	Craft a Hell-Bound Book	Craft a Hell-Bound Book.
Apocrypha	Steal Prayers from a long-dead God	Craft any blessing. Until 1.12.8-beta the Prayers of Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Cronus, Glaucus and Talos did not count.
Demonic Emissary	Steal every prayer from every once-god	Craft each of the 23 blessings. Until 1.12.7-beta it also needed a Hell-Bound Book, and in 1.12.8-beta only 17 blessings counted. A challenge that rewards 10 Obols.

History

0.4-alpha	The Prayer of Prometheus now gives Unbreaking II.
0.5-alpha	Added textures for all blessings and translation support. The Prayer of Icarus now gives Feather Falling II. The Prayer of St. Clement now works.
0.6-alpha	The Prayer of Demeter counts toward the blessing crafting advancement.
1.10	Buffed the Prayer of The Light recipe, nerfed the Prayer of Man recipe and changed the Prayer of Aeolus recipe. The blessing then called "Prayer of God-King" is renamed "Prayer of The Light" in the language file; its internal key stays god_king. Added the "Demonic Emissary" advancement.
1.12.1-alpha	Added the Prayer of Midas. Fixed blessing recipe unlocks.
1.12.2	The pack's enchantments moved to the matcha namespace, but five blessings still gave the old main: enchantments, which are converted when the item is equipped.
1.12.3	All five blessings store the current enchantments directly, so they combine and apply like normal books.
1.12.8-beta October 23, 2026	Wind Burst I moved from the Prayer of Aeolus to the Elegy of Hyacinthus. The recipe IDs are now named after each blessing's figure (matcha:blessing/will instead of matcha:blessing/reach, and so on); the recipes are otherwise unchanged. "Demonic Emissary" needs only the 17 blessings that count for "Apocrypha", no longer the Prayers of Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Cronus, Glaucus and Talos or a Hell-Bound Book.
1.12.9 October 31, 2026	"Apocrypha" counts all 23 blessings, and "Demonic Emissary" needs all 23 again; in 1.12.8-beta both skipped the Prayers of Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Cronus, Glaucus and Talos. "Unholy Knowledge" also unlocks the blessing recipes.

See also

• Enchanting
• Enchantment
• Ofuda