Enchants and Expeditions

Enchants and Expeditions is a comprehensive reimagining of almost the entire vanilla enchanting system - namely enchanting tables, anvils, bookshelves, enchanted books & even the enchantments themselves. This is achieved through a plethora of systematic tables - including enchanting table attributes, blessings, enchantment reworks and much more.

Using the Enchanting Table

Enchanting Tables

• requires bookshelves in order to function
• can now re-enchant already enchanted items up to the enchanting limit
• the pool of available enchantments is highly customisable, and determined by a new set of enchanting attributes

Enchanting Attributes

• Mana - primary attribute which represents classic magic & enchantments (ie sharpness, efficiency, physical protection)
• Frost - primary attribute which represents cold magic (ie icebound, frostbite, chilled)
• Scorch - primary attribute which represents fire magic (ie smiting, flame, blazing)
• Flow - sub-attribute of mana & frost which represents water & movement (ie depth strider, respiration, quickstep)
• Chaos - sub-attribute of frost & scorch which represents an unpredictable combination of elements (ie thorns, elemental protection, entropy)
• Greed - sub-attribute of scorch & mana which represents a need for treasure (ie fortune, looting, luck of the sea)
• Might - sub-attribute of all 3 primary attributes which represents strength (ie knockback, riptide, cleaving)
• Corruption - represents the chance to receive a curse, defaults to 0
• Divinity - represents the chance to receive a blessing, defaults to 0

Bookshelves

• the vanilla Bookshelf slightly increases all attributes, excluding Corruption & Divinity
• the Arcane Bookshelf increases Mana & its sub-attributes and is crafted with calcite
• the Glacial Bookshelf increases Frost & its sub-attributes and is crafted with packed ice
• the Infernal Bookshelf increases Scorch & its sub-attributes and is crafted with blackstone
• full details can be found in-game on the tooltip of each block

Altar & Tomes

• the Altar is crafted from Deepslate & Amethyst, and is used in order to place Tomes which can significantly influence the Enchanting Table and allows you to receive Blessings
• 7 main tomes (Mana, Frost, Scorch, Flow, Chaos, Greed, Might) which each increase Divinity and Corruption simultaneously, alongside increasing their respective attribute & decreasing opposing ones
• 2 modification tomes (Stability & Power) which reduces Corruption and increases enchanting power respectively
• full details on the exact properties of each Tome can be found in-game as part of their item tooltips

Where to find Tomes

Structures in rounded brackets are part of Legacies & Legends integration

• Tome of Mana: found in Strongholds (and Ruined Libraries or Simple Dungeons)
• Tome of Frost: found in Igloos or Shipwrecks (and Frozen Dungeons)
• Tome of Scorch: found in Fortresses (and Spires or Infernal Dungeons [with Wilder Wild])
• Tome of Flow: found from slain Elder Guardians [and in Remnants' ominous vaults]
• Tome of Chaos: found in Woodland Mansions (and Verdant Dungeons)
• Tome of Greed: found in Ancient Cities (and Arid Dungeons)
• Tome of Might: found in Trial Chambers ominous vaults (and Deep Dungeons)
• Tome of Stability: traded from max level Librarians (requires VillagerConfig) and found in Mineshafts [and Remnants' library barrels]
• Tome of Power: traded from max level librarians (requires VillagerConfig) and found in Trial Chambers [and Remnants' library barrels]

Using an Anvil

Anvils

• repairing or renaming items no longer requires XP
• combining enchanted items uses a new experience formula, which is static based on the enchantments being combined and the final output item
• as such, there is no XP limit on the Anvil, you can do what you want so long as you do not exceed the enchantment cap

Enchanted Books

• now have 4 durability, and only lose 1 when applied to an item
• can be repaired with lapis lazuli
• this makes treasure enchantments useable indefinitely once collected
• enchanted books are still combined into one when merged, and cannot be enchanted at the enchanting table

Systems

Experience Improvements

Enchants and Expeditions adds a new, rebalanced experience formula (toggle-able in the config). The rebalance keeps level 1-30 balance very close to vanilla, whilst higher levels only increase slightly, ensuring players are not punished for collecting XP beyond level 30.

• Levels 1-30 increase requirements every 5 levels, with level 30 requiring slightly more than vanilla (1500 vs 1395 cumulative)
• Levels 31-90 increase requirements every 10 levels, with the overall increase being much slower than vanilla (lvl 90 requires 9000 cumulative XP rather than vanilla's 20393)
• Levels 91+ have a spike in experience requirements, as beyond this point is intended to serve as recognition for player survival and grinding, rather than being efficient for enchanting. Lvl 95 requires 10000 cumulative XP, lvl 100 requires 15000 cumulative, and each level beyond 100 requires exactly 5000 xp per level

Together, these serve to make it much more viable to earn XP beyond level 30 for enchanting, whilst still having a jump at 90-100 to avoid the level number being over-inflated.

Blessings

• Blessings are the opposites of Curses
• cannot be grindstoned
• appear at the top of enchantment tooltips as golden/orange
• maximum 1 per item

Curses

• new maximum of 1 per item

Enchantment Cap

• there is a cap of 3 enchanments per item, excluding a Blessing & Curse
• this can be configured to any number you'd like in the config (including being disabled entirely)

Enchantment Levels

• all enchantments have been rescaled to have a maximum level of either I or III
• this doesn't mean they've been nerfed - their levels (and thus usefulness per level) has been rescaled for consistency's sake

Enchantment Descriptions

• all enchantments now have descriptions visible when holding shift over their item's tooltip
• enchantments also have descriptions visible in the enchanting table

Enchantable Animal Armor

• horse, nautilus & wolf armor can be enchanted with many new and existing enchantments

Repair & Enchant

• all vanilla items without repair materials now have one (ie bow with string or trident with prismarine shard)
• additionally, all enchantable items which previously could not (ie Elytra or Shield) can now be enchanted at the Enchanting Table

Misc

• All Compasses can be enchanted with Blessing of Bounding or Curse of Vanishing

Useful Enchantment Tags

• #enchants_and_expeditions:disabled_enchantments can be used to disable any enchantments you don't want
• many vanilla tags have been replaced by equivalent Enchants & Expeditions ones. For the full list, check here

Useful Item Tags

• #enchants_and_expeditions:unboundable blacklists items from working with the Blessing of Bounding
• for the full list, check here

Enchantments

Damage & Protection Enchantment Reworks Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Protection, Bane of Arthropods, Smite and Fire Aspect have all been removed. This is due to them being reworked into replacements as shown below, to compensate for their uselessness in vanilla.

• Arcane Protection | Gives protection against magical damage, including potion effects and sharpness damage
• Elemental Protection | Gives protection against environmental damage, including fire and freeze
• Physical Protection | Gives protection against physical damage, including standard melee and ranged damage
• Chilled | Attacks provide a chance to freeze an enemy. Deals additional damage against cold-weak mobs such as arthropods
• Smiting | Attacks light targets on fire. Deals additional damage against fire-weak mobs such as the undead
• Sharpness | Unchanged

Reworked Vanilla Enchantments

• Thorns -> Now Chestplate-only, but far more useful
• Feather Falling -> Now a treasure enchantment found in End Cities
• Channeling -> Blessing of Channeling
• Infinity -> Blessing of Infinity
• Mending -> Blessing of Mending
• Frost Walker -> Blessing of Frost
• many other vanilla enchantments have had changes to improve them, or changes to their incompatible enchantment lists. There are too many changes for me to bother listing here, but they still behave as you'd expect, with some tweaks & improvements here and there

Blessings

• Blessing of Mending (any tome) - as per vanilla, uses collected experience to mend equipped items (any)
• Blessing of Infinity (Tome of Mana) - provides infinite arrows, and you don't need any in your inventory (bows)
• Blessing of Frost (Tome of Frost) - turns water to ice as you travel (boots, horse armor)
• Blessing of Inferno (Tome of Scorch) - damaging a burning entity deals bonus damage and extends the fire duration (weapon)
• Blessing of Tempering (Tome of Scorch) - repairs your armor whilst in fire (armor)
• Blessing of Fluidity (Tome of Flow) - regenerates health whilst submerged in water (helmet)
• Blessing of Channeling (Tome of Chaos) - summons lightning during both rain & thunderstorm (trident)
• Blessing of Conductivity (Tome of Chaos) - charge attacks summon lightning during rain & thunderstorms (Spear)
• Blessing of Bounding (Tome of Greed) - retains the item after death (any)
• Blessing of Vengeance (Tome of Might) - increases attack damage at low health (weapon)

New Enchantments

Attributes ensure that you are never cluttered with enchantments, as you're able to fine-tune your prefered enchantment pools. Due to the sheer amount of enchantments in both this mod & vanilla, I won't list which attribute each is found under. Instead, you should refer to the full tag lists here

Many enchantments may be incompatible with each other - such as Depth Strider / Blazing, Entropy / Sharpness, Quickstep / Swift Sneak or Frostbite / Thorns

Enchantments have been designed for interesting buildcrafting and synergy with one another (ie Quickstep + Blodlust, Smiting + Blessing of Inferno, or Icebound + Blessing of Frost)

• Blazing - grants immunity to and increased movement speed in fire (boots)
• Bloodlust - regenerates health on entity kill (weapon)
• Cleaving - increases damage and shield disable duration (axe)
• Entropy - randomly modifies the amount of damage dealt (weapon)
• Equestrian - stops horse bucking (horse armor)
• Extraction - increases XP from mined blocks (helmet)
• Ferocity - increases wolf damage (wolf armor)
• Galloping - increases horse movement speed (horse armor)
• Icebound - increases movement speed on ice (boots)
• Leaping - increases horse jump height (horse armor)
• Parry - adds a chance to deflect an attack which would otherwise disable your shield (shield)
• Quickstep - increases movement speed for a short while on entity kill (leggings)
• Recovery - allows wolves to passively regenerate health (wolf armor)
• Velocity - increases projectile speed & accuracy (bow / crossbow)
• Jousting - charge attacks whilst mounted heal the mount and grant it a burst of speed (Spear)
• Slipstream - dashing provides a brief period of projectile deflection & damage immunity (nautilus armor)

Curses

• Curse of Fragility - increases durability damage taken (any)
• Curse of Faltering - reduces projectile accuracy (bow or crossbow)
• Curse of Shattering - blocks have a chance to drop nothing when broken (tool)
• Curse of Displacement - taking damage displaces active effects to your attacker (chestplate)
• Curse of Sliding - makes all blocks slippery, like ice (boots)

Combat Reborn Enchants and Expeditions integrates with Combat Reborn in order to provide additional enchantments.

• Frostbite - parrying an attack freezes the attacker (shield)
• Scorch - parrying an attack lights the attacker on fire (shield)

Combat Reborn also includes the following enchantments itself.

• Cleaving - deal additional damage and disable shields for a longer duration (axe)
• Dueling - recharge shield strength at a faster rate when attacking (sword / spear)
• Parry - increases the shield strength damage blocked by parrying, but shortens the parry window. Also adds a chance to parry axe attacks (shield)
• Endurance - increases total shield strength (shield)
• Stagger - parrying an attack deals damage to and applies a short burst of weakness and slowness to the attacker

Misc

Ice Shard

• acquired from breaking Packed or Blue ice without Silk Touch, which allows for the crafting of Glacial Bookshelves in the early-game

Craftable XP Bottles

• allows for the crafting of experience bottles by surrounding a water bottle with lapis lazuli
• also makes water bottles stackable

Configurability

Full config descriptions are available with Mod Menu

{
    "general": {
        "enchantment_limit": 3,
        "repeat_table_enchanting": true,
        "experience_rebalance": true,
        "anvil_break_chance": 0.12,
        "craftable_experience_bottles": true
    },
    "misc": {
        "ordered_enchantment_tooltips": true,
        "enchant_function_fallback": true,
        "loot_table_injects": true
    },
    "integrations": {
        "item_tooltips_overrides": true,
        "combat_reborn": true,
        "legacies_and_legends": true,
        "trailier_tales": true,
        "remnants": true,
        "enderscape": true
    },
    "disable_enchantments": "INFO"
}

Specific enchantments can be disabled with the #enchants_and_expeditions:disabled_enchantments tag