Artifacts are the staple of any build in Minecraft Dungeons, offering lots of mobility, strong defensive boosts, or powerful offensive capabilities. Mixing and matching certain ones can be a good way to get through levels without taking damage. It is recommended to stick to a main theme if you play in a group.
With so many available, it can be hard to decide what to equip. While some work best with specific weapons and playstyles, others are ideal for specific situations and bosses. You get overwhelmed when you can blast through dozens of mobs at full health, but taking on a Redstone Golem or Enderman can take a life or two off your run.
I will review the top 10 artifacts in Minecraft Dungeons. You must have all the information you need to be successful in all aspects of the game!
10. Boots of Swiftness
Found in: vine forest, spooky crypt & desert temple
One of the simplest artifacts, Boots of Haste, provide a temporary speed boost for approximately 3 seconds. As you can imagine, it’s great for getting through maps quickly, but it’s also great for beating mobs or bosses.
Redstone Golems are particularly easy to manipulate with this artifact. Just like the final boss in Obsidian Pinnacle (when he uses his lasers).
9. Golem Kit
Found in: pumpkin grasses
Summoned creatures are pretty terrible in Minecraft Dungeons. They deal low damage, barely attract other mobs, and have low health, with a low cooldown. You’re much better off with other artifacts, unless you’re interested in the Golem Kit.
It will summon an Iron Golem to fight alongside you, dealing heavy damage to each enemy it attacks. Just like the original Minecraft, it also comes with a large pool of HP so you don’t die instantly.
8. Corrupted Beacon
Found in: cactus canyon, red stone mines and pumpkin grasses
Found early on, Corrupted Beacon is the main artifact to kill bosses early in the game. Collecting souls across the map, only to release them all in a huge laser beam is pretty impressive, few bosses can survive.
Once the souls are full, it will fire for up to 4 seconds, though it can’t be cancelled. This makes it pretty ineffective against mobs, as you’ll be using a lot more souls than are actually needed.
7. Regeneration Totem
Found in: soggy swamp & burning forge
My personal favorite healing item, placing it on the ground will provide a nice heal over time effect for up to 10 seconds.
Pair it with healing enchantments on your weapon, place a regeneration totem on the ground, and you’ll come out unscathed by a lot of mobs.
It is also used to recharge your health once you have reached safety.
6. Soul healer
Found in: Soggy Swamp and Fiery Forge
Possibly the best healing artifact available, depending on your playstyle. The total amount of healing is a bit less than the previous entry, but it comes in a big burst, rather than over time.
So against bosses or other hard-hitting creatures, Soul Healer is preferable.
However, using souls to charge your uses can be detrimental. It will mean you risk running out of souls if you also have offensive soul-based artifacts, though that can be minimized with a full soul build.
5. Protection Totem
Found in: lower hallsDesert Temple and Cactus Canyon
One of the few must-have artifacts for an archer build, but also amazing in just about any other playstyle. Totem of Shielding will block all incoming projectiles for up to 10 seconds, depending on power level.
Being surrounded by mobs from a distance is a frustrating situation. Well, until you drop one of these on the ground!
Useful vs. ender’s heartthis totem actually blocks their lasers!
4. Iron Skin Amulet
Found in: Fiery Forge
Upon activation, the Iron Skin Amulet will reduce incoming damage by 50%, lasting up to 15 seconds with a 25 second cooldown (unaffected by cooldown reduction).
In building a tank, along with other items (such as armor to reduce incoming damage by 35% and the Blaze weapon enchantment), you can make yourself nearly unkillable. Perfect when you have a teammate by your side to deal damage!
3. light feather
Found in: arch shelterHighblock Halls and Pumpkin Pastures
Mobility is very important in any dungeon crawler game, none more so than Minecraft Dungeons. Light Feather provides an additional “roll” and also stuns nearby enemies for up to 5 seconds upon landing.
With a woefully low cooldown, you can feather-jump as much as you can roll. Essentially doubling his mobility. The stun doesn’t work on bosses, but it’s good for escaping or chasing pesky mobs from a distance.
2. Harvester
Found in: Soggy Swamp and Redstone Mines
For a huge, no, massive explosion in a radius around you, look no further than the Harvester. There are few methods to deal such high damage over a large area in the entire game.
Combining a Harvester with a Light Feather and Boots of Speed will allow you to traverse the map quickly, blow up whole hordes of mobs and get a chance to fight mobs. I love this method, however you can mix and match one or two artifacts to suit your specific play style.
1. Death Cap Mushroom
Found in: High block halls and creeping woods
Considered by many in the community to be the premium artifact for researching builds. There’s even a dual Death Cap build, simply because of the amount of attack and movement speed it grants.
Players are constantly trying to find a way to maximize uptime, so much so that there are many builds to have a near 100% uptime kill cap.
Easily crush mobs, bosses, and animals while this artifact is activated. Just make sure the rest of your build provides some kind of healing!