Summary
Rune Enchanting replaces vanilla's enchanting table with a simpler, exploration-driven system: find Runes in the world and socket them into your gear using an Anvil.
The mod
Rune Enchanting creates a new system to empower your items:
Find runes in chests or by breaking mob spawners
Apply them to items with an Anvil
Each material has its own number of sockets (slots), more for lower tier items (e.g. Wood has more sockets compared to Netherite)
You can extract runes as you wish with Grindstone
Curses are a special type of rune that don't use up a slot and increase the max slots by 1. Curses are unknown and using items will let you learn them.
Fully configurable: each rune can be disabled via data pack and changed via config options. Balance as you wish.
73 Runes + 23 curses as of 1.3.2.1
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Modpack Permissions
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as runeenchanting-1.3.2.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.0 MB
- Download link checked 16 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.