Stellar Enchants

A custom enchantment plugin for Paper 1.21.x

It adds three shift-activated tool enchantments that obtain via the enchanting table (best odds at the 30-level slot), villager trades, and the /stellarenchant command.

✨ Enchantments

Enchantment Tool Effect Vein Miner Pickaxe Mines an entire connected ore vein. Each extra block consumes one point of tool durability. Tree Capitator Axe Chops down a whole tree and automatically replants a matching sapling where it stood. Smelt Touch Pickaxe Ores drop their smelted ingot/result instantly (iron, gold, copper, ancient debris, …). Overrides Silk Touch; compatible with Fortune. Important: all three effects only trigger while the player is sneaking (holding Shift). Normal mining is never affected, so you won't accidentally blow up a vein or fell a tree. Each enchanted tool's lore reminds the player: "Shift and mine to …".

Smelt Touch + Vein Miner stack on the same pickaxe — shift-mining one iron ore breaks the whole vein and smelts every block into iron ingots.

Enchantment compatibility

Smelt Touch ✗ Silk Touch — mutually exclusive. Smelt Touch always smelts the ore, so Silk Touch can't be added to a Smelt Touch tool (and vice-versa) via command, anvil, or the enchanting table. Smelt Touch ✓ Fortune — fully compatible. Fortune multiplies the smelted output for iron, gold and copper ores (so a Fortune pickaxe yields extra ingots), plus coal/diamond/emerald/redstone/lapis/quartz which keep their normal vanilla Fortune drops. Ancient Debris is excluded — Fortune never multiplies netherite scrap. Tree replanting Tree Capitator replants a sapling on every base trunk column. For the four 2×2 trees (jungle, dark oak, spruce, acacia) it restores all four saplings so the giant variant can regrow, instead of just one.

🎮 Command

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/stellarenchant <enchantment> [level] Aliases: /se, /stellarenchants Permission: stellarenchantment.enchant (default: OP) Applies the chosen enchantment to the item held in your main hand. <enchantment> is one of: veinminer, treecapitator, smelttouch (tab-completion is provided). Examples:

/stellarenchant veinminer /se treecapitator /se smelttouch The command validates the tool type — e.g. Tree Capitator can only go on an axe, Vein Miner / Smelt Touch only on a pickaxe.

📦 Obtaining enchantments in survival

Enchanting Table — eligible pickaxes/axes and books can roll a Stellar enchantment. The chance scales with the chosen slot and is highest at the 30-level enchant, exactly as requested. Books can roll any of the three enchants. Enchanted Books — books carry Stellar enchants with full lore + glint. Create one with the command on a held book, roll one from the enchant table, or trade for tools that already have the enchant. Villager Trades — Toolsmith villagers may sell pre-enchanted pickaxes (Vein Miner / Smelt Touch) and Weaponsmith villagers may sell axes (Tree Capitator), purchasable for emeralds. Command — see above (admins / creative). Works on tools and books. 🔨 Anvil & Grindstone Anvil — combine Stellar enchants like vanilla: Book → Tool: apply a Stellar book's enchant to a matching tool. Tool → Tool (same type): merges, keeping the higher level of each shared enchant. Book → Book: merges two enchanted books. A vanilla-style XP level cost is charged (scales with what transfers); survival players who can't afford it can't take the result. Enchants only land where they belong (e.g. Vein Miner won't apply to an axe). Grindstone — strips all Stellar enchants from an item, just like it removes vanilla enchants. A disenchanted book reverts to a plain book.

🧱 How it works (technical)

Enchantments are stored in each item's PersistentDataContainer (PDC) as integers keyed under stellarenchants:enchant_<id>. This is fully version stable and never collides with vanilla enchantment registries (which changed heavily in 1.20.5+). The visible lore is rebuilt from the PDC whenever an enchantment is added or removed. The plugin tracks how many leading lore lines it owns via a PDC counter (stellarenchants:lore_lines) and strips exactly those on refresh — so it never disturbs other plugins' lore and never writes a stray marker glyph into the text (this fixes the unsupported-character icon some clients rendered). Enchanted items receive the enchanted glint via setEnchantmentGlintOverride. Cascading block breaks are fired as real BlockBreakEvents (so land-claim / protection plugins like WorldGuard still apply), with a re-entrancy guard to prevent infinite recursion. A hard cap of 256 blocks per activation keeps performance safe. Tool durability respects the vanilla Unbreaking enchantment.