This data pack intends to tweak the vanilla enchanting experience by making it more balanced and more useful.
Current changes:
- Depth Strider now enchants legs. Boots have way too much favoratism for holding enchantments. This allows some more spread out enchantments while still making sense. You stride with your legs, not your feet!
- Thorns now only enchants shields. Shields need more love. Part of the goal of this datapack is to nerf enchanting and make it feel more balanced. This is spreads more love to shields while weakening the upper end of gear.
- Bane of Arthropods now effects Guardians and Elder Guardians. Bane of Arthropods needed a buff and I figured since one boss was effected by smite, one should be effected by bane. It isn't out of lore possibilites to believe the guardians are related to real life aquatic arthropods like horseshoe crabs or the extinct trilobite.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.4
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
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- Downloads as VanillaEnchantmentTweaks.zip
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 23 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.