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๐ chiseledEnchants
Stop gambling at the enchanting table. Choose exactly what your gear gets.
Vanilla enchanting is a slot machine โ spend your levels, cross your fingers, and hope the roll isn't garbage. chiseledEnchants adds a separate, self-contained enchanting path where you decide what lands. Stock chiseled bookshelves with single-enchant books, walk up to the table, and get exactly those enchants. No rerolling. No praying.
And it does it without a single new item or block โ so it's server-side only, and vanilla clients can join with no mods and no resource pack. Runs in single-player too.
โ๏ธ Vanilla vs. chiseledEnchants
| ๐ฐ Vanilla table | ๐ Chiseled Enchanter | |
|---|---|---|
| Outcome | Random roll | You choose |
| Powered by | Bookshelves (RNG) | Single-enchant books |
| Levels | Whatever it rolls | Always max (Sharpness V, Mending Iโฆ) |
| Cheap-book laundering | โ | Blocked โ only max books count |
| Client mod needed | No | No |
Regular bookshelves around a normal table? 100% untouched โ chiseledEnchants doesn't interfere. The new behavior only kicks in at the special table.
โจ How it works
- Craft the "Chiseled Enchanter" โ a special enchanting table (dragon head + netherite + obsidian). Its name carries a rarity color a vanilla anvil can't reproduce, so it's genuinely craft-only.
- Ring it with chiseled bookshelves in the usual enchanting-power spots (one-block air gap).
- Stock the shelves with single-enchant books for whatever you want to guarantee.
- Enchant โ the table applies the enchants you chose instead of a random roll.
๐ฏ The rules that keep it fair
- ๐ Only max-level books count. A book counts only at that enchant's max โ Sharpness V, Unbreaking III, Mending I. Below-max books are flagged and ignored, so nothing is averaged: you can only ever replicate a tier you already earned, never launder cheap books into a higher one.
- โ 6 max-level books = a 100% guarantee. Fewer books give a proportional chance to land, and everything that lands comes at its max level.
- ๐ One option, real costs. It unlocks for a flat lapis-block cost (default 14 blocks, not gems); XP scales with what you guarantee. Extra lapis beyond the cost protects your books from being consumed โ a full stack reaches the cap.
- โ๏ธ Conflicts resolve by book count. Sharpness vs. Smite โ whoever has more books wins; an equal tie blanks the table on purpose so you can spot it and add a book to break it.
- ๐ข Live status bar. A boss bar above the table shows green = ready or red with the exact reason โ mixed shelves, a tie, or a below-max book.
- ๐ฐ Treasure enchants are guarantee-only. Mending, Soul Speed and friends can be targeted here โ never from a random roll โ behind a per-enchant whitelist and curse/treasure master switches.
Books are sourced the intended way โ villager librarian trades.
๐ In-game guide book
Rename a book & quill to chiseledEnchants in an anvil to get a full in-game guide: how the table works, the costs, the status bar, and every command โ written from your server's live config, so the numbers always match your actual settings. It's a normal signed book, so it renders fine on a vanilla client.
โจ๏ธ Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/cench |
Summarize the table you're looking at |
/cench preview |
What you'll get on your held item |
/cench table |
What the shelves are set to apply |
/cench find <enchant> |
Trace particle threads to each shelf holding it |
/cench about |
Mod info and links |
/cench admin โฆ |
Op tools: set / get / whitelist / reload / reset โ edit the whole config in-game, with tab completion |
โ๏ธ Deeply configurable
Everything lives in config/chiseledenchants.json and hot-reloads with /cench admin reload โ no restart, recipe book included. Shape the balance however you like:
- Guarantee strength & chance curve
- The lapis (blocks or gems) + XP economy
- Book-protection rates and conflict handling
- Curse / treasure switches and a per-enchant whitelist
- How the special table is gated โ craft-only, anvil-rename allowed, or any table with chiseled shelves
- Even the crafting recipe itself
Admins can edit every setting from in-game with /cench admin set โ full tab completion, no text editor required.
๐ฆ Compatibility
| Loaders | Fabric and NeoForge โ one universal jar runs on both |
| Minecraft | 26.1.x and 26.2.x |
| Fabric API | Required on Fabric ยท not needed on NeoForge |
| Side | Server-side โ vanilla clients fully supported, single-player too |
| Extra libraries | None โ fully standalone |
Enjoying it? Hop in the Discord ยท โญ the repo ยท explore the rest of Lunixia's Minecraft QOL Mods
โ๏ธ Small, focused mods that cut out the boring stuff.


