[Feature Request] Enchantment Analysis Table

[rabrunos]

Introduction

This is an idea I had with my friend. What I'm going to say here is not to replace how your mod was made. It's yours, you made it and you're the developer!

But as you said you are open to suggestions, I will show you how we would do it in our mod.

Enchantment Analysis Table

I will use the word "enchantments" to refer to enchantments and curses most of the time. Unlike how you did it, our idea was for enchantments to be revealed through an analysis table. This table would work in the same way as the vanilla enchantment table. But instead of 15 bookshelves, it would need 26 bookshelves to operate at full strength.

Rank I: 6 bookshelf Rank II: 14 bookshelf Rank III: 18 bookshelf Rank IV: 22 bookshelf Rank V: 26 bookshelf

Table functions:

• You put the item with hidden enchantment in one slot and in the other slot you put the item as payment. (It's something very similar to the vanilla enchantment table)
• The table has a scroll to scroll if you have multiple enchantments
• You can see the hidden and non-hidden enchantments on the table.
• You choose the rank of enchantments to unlock (I will explain below)
• To choose the rank you need the item used as payment (I will use lapis lazuli as an example) and also a certain amount of EXP levels
• The item used as payment would be defined by the config file, so the user could define any item as payment method. mod:id It would be something like this: payItem = ["minecraft:lapis_lazuli"]
• If the item had more than 4 enchantments, the scroll would scroll down 1 to 1. As in Enchanting Infuser.
• When hovering the mouse over the empty slots, a text would appear informing the usefulness of the slot.

See below how I imagined the table. All textures and fonts were used from minecraft itself and enchantment table. Nothing has been used from mods or other sources. Analysis Table - GIMP Project (I used the name of the curse present in your mod as an example in the image.)

Rank Function

This function would be to classify the enchantments and curses. Everything would be done through the config file.

The system would work as follows:

• When first starting the game with the mod, the mod would set the default rank of vanilla enchantments automatically in the config file. (Through a tier list within the mod.)
• After that, any enchantments or curses outside the config file would be randomly ranked and saved in the file. (With that, any custom enchantment or curse would automatically rank and the user wouldn't need to edit files, but it would all be random.)
• The configuration shape was inspired by the Rereskillable Rereforked configuration. It would be something like this: mod:id rankNumber

  enchantmentRank = ["minecraft:silk_touch 4","minecraft:fortune 5","minecraft:mending 5", "unidentifiedenchatments:hungercurse 1"]
  levelCostRank1 = 1
  levelCostRank2 = 3
  levelCostRank3 = 5
  levelCostRank4 = 7
  levelCostRank5 = 9

  The rank buttons on the table would work as follows:

• Each RANK would have its cost defined by the levelCostRank
• The user places the enchanted item and the pay item on the table. Now he chooses the rank he will use. If he uses Rank V, all hidden enchantments and curses will be revealed. But if he uses Rank III, only enchantments and curses from Rank III and below will be revealed. (With that, higher rank enchantments and curses would remain hidden) So, to reveal the rest, he needs to use a higher rank, spending more EXP levels.

With this system, the user can try his luck to spend less levels of exp using Rank III for example, and if his item has only Rank III enchantments and curses, he spends less. But he could also be unlucky that the item has higher rank enchantments and curses, so he would have to spend more levels to reveal the rest.

Information

We decided not to use items as a way to reveal enchantments because we haven't found a practical way to do so. And anyway the table would bring all the functionality to the fore.

But your parchment was smart, we wouldn't think about that hahaha

[rabrunos]

I speak Portuguese. So I used Google Translate to translate to English. If you don't understand something, please tell me so I can speak differently.

I gave a detailed explanation for you to get every part of my idea.

[ferriarnus]

Seems like an interesting idea. If I have some time I'll see what I can use from it. Unfortunately it is quiet complex and I don't have time right this instance.