i agree because it gives you a goal and you can actually do what you want. i would rather grind for 400 levels than to not be able to do it at all.

I also agree. If I would like to spend a stupid amount of time smacking mobs at an xp farm, let me. I'll spend hours for a single upgrade to a single enchantment, let me waste my time, lol.

@@mauriciomendoza720true!

so true

It would actually be interesting to see if you could break the game if the enchantment cost is over the 32 bit integer limit

Right? I hate that mechanic so much. If I want to spend 100 levels on an enchantment, then f off and let me.

@@Bioniclema90 Wait, you aren't able to do that? I've been playing since 1.5.2 and this is news to me. I can't believe this is only a feature in modded Minecraft.

@@mz7315 yeah after a certain level cost (40 i think) it will say its too expensive and just not let you do it no matyer how many levels you have

I want them to keep the too expensive and instead impliment curse enchantments to reduce the cost making it less expensive. Risk reward type thing.

@@michaelbalfour3170 fuck no

They've changed some old features to be better, like double-sided signs, cactus being used to breed camels, cauldrons being able to have lava and snow in them, so on so forth, they don't tunnel vision things.

​@@PhonyLyzardThey have changed some sma things but they have taken years and years to do so and it's usually one maybe two old features an update.

​​@@PhonyLyzardFletching table, they explicitly said it will have a purpose like several years ago. It is still useless if i weren't for the Villager proffesion.

Supposedly the team thought half slabs were a mistake to add to the game, so I have no faith in the opinion of the people making the game anymore. They fundamentally misunderstand their own product

@@SeanLaMontagne Supposedly, I have no confirmation this is real so I'll base my opinion of all of the 600 employees at Mojang based on this unconfirmed statement.

That's what happens when every update is practically entirely self contained

Yes I've noticed a ton of old stuff is clashing with the new... we have new enchantments, but then this stuff exists

I remember back when I was younger,I’d just throw every enchantment on everything when I was playing creative but now the game limits enchantments to certain items and they can’t conflict with certain other enchantments. I get it but it is kinda sad

@@cameronwilsey9334 Fr tho. They talk about integration and synchronizing uses for new updates, but so much of these updates just feel like their own unique world, and not a part of MC as a whole

Name 1 thing that doesn't work properly. I bet you can't because in your 7 year break you have no idea how Minecraft works

Exactly I don’t understand why a game would be against its player base grinding more. End game players already have near infinite xp anyway with the enderman farms

“Something to Work towards” You semi AFK at a wall of endermen for like 30 minutes, and believe it was hard work. They should add some item that lets you add more enchantments. Maybe revamp enchanting altogether.

You can enchant every item with every possible enchantment without "too expensive". Then add mending and you never have to repair it.

@@sergeantswiss2401 The hard work is spending 35 hours building the farm and making it look beautiful as well as functional. If I have to spend 400 levels on something I'm going to make a stupidly efficient XP farm and build it in a way that makes it look good. It gives you something to work for.

Agreed

Hit mobs for an hour, collect exp orbs for another 10 hours

not THAT hard, as seen in the first few seconds, that enderfarm(from own experience) is efficient as hecc, itll get you to 1k levels easily

​@@bachibak guardian farm is way better

@@bachibak nah, even with a good farm 1k levels is still 40 hours or so. That xp farm could probably only get you to 800 in the time.

@@bachibak According to the wiki, XP levels need 17 points until level 16, and afterward every level increases the amount you need cuadratically. Getting to level 30 takes way, way more than getting to level 16, and getting to level 50 takes much more compared to getting to level 30, ad infinitum. The fact you need a ridiculously strong farm or to grind for hours to begin with is the problem.

Hey people want Minecraft more grindy. So for them it’s even better if they remove the anvil and bring back the old enchanting system that takes all your levels and also remove Mending from the game.

@@georgeshaw4017not everyone wants that, dont forget little kids and casuals play this game and they dont want to spend countless hours to get a good pickaxe

@@Daniel-gk1dp I know I was being sarcastic. I don’t want the game to get more and more tedious.

It’s as if they don’t want people playing the game anymore 💀

@@theanxoiushero800 They want people going to Bedrock over Java because they can more easily milk it

waaaah anvil too hard make it baby mode waaaah

@@smeggiamagarwine Lol, nice bait.

​@@smeggiamagarwineI'll still leave a serious answer lol Convenient ≠ Easy Anvil isn't hard to use, it's just stupid and doesn't make sense. As simple as that

@@DrakoWulf what if it isn't bait? what if it truly is my unfiltered response hmm? what then?

@@smeggiamagarwine Unfiltered, maybe, but clearly not something you care enough to have a discussion about.

Aha.. Well that explains my struggles. Definitely a mechanic that needs to be adressed

If you're adding the merged books one at a time to your gear, then it's going to drive up the Anvil Uses super quickly. You need to combine the merged books with each other so you get multiple enchants on the same book. It doesn't even matter too much what order you do it in, just try to keep Anvil Uses consistent across your items. And that includes the gear, so sometimes it's best to slap a single enchant on said gear to keep its Use Count in line with the other books.

​@@abderianagelast7868 true but for boots it would still go to the 'too expensive' error Boots have so many enchantments

imo books shouldnt be combined with an anvil, but with a lecturn

@@jayd5694 I'm legitimately shocked I hadn't even considered that until now, but it would make so much sense! Though I guess it would make the redstone capability a bit harder to do. There's probably a way to keep both!

Mojang is Anti- Right to repair!

Isnt that makes sense tho? You cant repair something over and over. Each repair will require extra care considering the previous repairs. And i think mojang adding "mending" to the game was more than what you need. You cant enchant a single sword to its godly state so you can peasy the game and get bored. The mobs arent balanced for this. Considering your weapon's state and limitation of choice while enchanting is part of the game and your decision style. Limitations what makes the each gameplay different.

@@sayochikun3288 makes sense? this is minecraft, it doesn't need to make sense, in fact, many things don't make sense anyways. Why keep a feature that makes the game worse?

@@sayochikun3288 To repair a sword you just need materials, and it wouldn't cost more each time. It makes zero sense. There should be a set price based on how good a tool is.

@@Tasorius you cant re-repair something with exact same effort and materials. each repair is a wound on the thing that will never act as if it was not damaged. logically, it totally makes sense to require more materials and experience to fix a car that has been damaged and somewhat fixed before.

Share with the class

​@@allymadison8112 his ass is not sharing

Link. NOW.

He probably lost the mod guys..

@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 theres probably like, 3 million fabric and forge mods like this

Yeah there’s a whole guide, and you can make a singular mistake before you just have to restart with fresh items

yeah but mOdDeD bAd

Hey, can you send a link to the modpack? The way they fixed enchanting sounds cool :D

​@@sleepysentinel7703 a good alternative is Fixed Anvil Repair Cost by Serilum

There is also a mod called Limitless, which removes any enchantment limitations

Fabrication & Forgery fixes this and maaaany other bugs related to the game

Has someone written down the order for 1.19?

@@Sephlock You dont really need a specific order, just make sure you combine the books with each other first and to combine high cost with low cost enchantements, else the final combination can be too pricey.

Honestly i just use the enchant table for the base enchants like Efficiency, Unbreaking, Protection etc. because they don’t increase the cost to enchant them in an anvil. Then I add the more specific enchants like Fortune or Fire aspect.

​@@Sephlock there's an order yes, but not a SPECIFIC order if that makes sense 😅. Pretty much you want to combine the books together in PAIRS in a pyramid like scheme, leaving at least one book at the end so that it has zero anvil uses. This makes it the cheapest way to enchant your items safely. For example, if you have an item that needs 5 separate enchantments for it to have all enchantments, you would combine one pair together, another DIFFERENT pair together, combine those two pairs together (which gives a book with 4 enchantments) leaving one book with zero anvil uses and finally combining the last two books, putting the book with ONE enchantment in the last slot of the anvil.

It's worse than that actually. If you have a sharpness 5 book obtained via trading, it will let you add more enchants after than a sharpness 5 obtained by combining 2 sharpness 4 books. This applies to all enchanted books and it means perfect enchants can only be obtained via trading because combining books isn't good enough.

I dont think I understood any of what you just said

@@uranusuranus144 TL;DR It's more XP efficient to just enchant the tool over and over again using an Enchanting Table and Grindstone to get what you want, rather than combining a number of separate enchanted books into a single enchanted book and then applying that book to your tool in an anvil.

@@tyray137wait, seriously? Even if I want totally maxed out gear?

@@64MilestotheGallon Yeah. It costs less XP overall (and thus gives you the most uses out of an anvil) to enchant the tool as best you can initially before applying books to it. If this means re-enchanting a tool over and over again using a table and grind stone, most the time it's way more efficient

@@tyray137 wow that is interesting, I guess I'll have to experiment with that -- apparently I've been doing it wrong this whole time lol

"wait what are you talking about" ... "OHH-"

I got ONE jump scared lol

>This could easily be fixed It's not broken, it's actually a good design. It incentivizes you to USE your xp levels earlier than later, instead of stockpiling them like a bank account.

@@w.o.jackson8432 which is annoying. I don't want to feel pressured into enchanting. It feels like I'm being punished for playing the game. I feel bad when I kill the ender dragon, or I'm doing something and I get to 30 levels without being close to the enchanting table.

@@rewe3536 You don't have to enchant, you can still stack levels and this does have a benefit. Honestly the difference in xp cost between doing 3 enchants at level 30 and doing 3 enchants at level 36 (for example) is pretty minor. Killing the ender dragon still gives you a ton of levels anyway, it was designed with the xp leveling system in mind.

​@@rewe3536this game is already too easy, you can build enderman xp farm and get all maxed set in like an hour or two, why would they make it even easier?

@@tubaeseries5705 Not everyone makes xp farms or other redstone based auto -farms, it's just creative mode with extra steps.

man someone finally gets it

I enjoy mods like "Tax Free Levels" for this exact reason, as otherwise you're punished for not running to the nearest anvil / enchanting table the moment you have accrued enough experience.

@@spotscott8893 or dumping the levels to a tank or a book when playing modded

Some mods that modify the enchanting system overall do this, by using xp cost rather than level cost resulting in much more efficient enchanting

It's the exact reason when I play modded I rush the first available xp storage system and abuse the living hell out of it. You can get SO much more done if you dump all your experience into the tank and then pull what amount you need to make an enchantment possible. Also doubles as a way to save exp because I do not agree with having only 4 levels left after dying one time

id say capping should never exist, it should always increase, but never limit the increase and lower the rise.

Level capping is ass. Cost increasing with use count is also ass.

@@ethandoessomestuff...8949 then what should we do, seems you are really certain these ideas are bad, what do you think is a good solution?

@@Savariable I'd rather have an in-game repair system that works like the mod silent gear or the mod tinker's construct. And have max enchantment caps unlocked but require crazy amounts of exp to increase above their current max level cap.

I mean the same could be said that everyone HAS to mine for diamonds in a new world, or they HAVE to fight withers. Anyways, villagers are required for max enchantments, for the effort you put into making a breeder the reward is crazy powerful. It's annoying, sure, but it's just part of the process. If you want to spend 5 hours hunting for books to max a shovel, then yeah anvils shouldn't have a cap. But you can spend 3 hours and just max a clean item with a few books from villagers

Debasing currency has never been about alleviating poverty. It’s a tax on the poor to benefit those in power. The currency poor people hold is now worth less and suddenly the people closest to the money printer have more. Even during c19 when nearly half of all dollars in history were printed and trillions in stimulus was handed out to the working class, much more money went to corporations

Mending is cool though cause you don't have to go mining for Netherite, maybe the anvil could just repair netherite with diamonds?

​@@pumkin610 I think having to use Netherite would be fair, but I also think that repairing something would use 1 of the material and repair it 100% and also not count towards anvil usage.

Someone else in the comments suggested reworking mending so that all tools with mending work like the elytra were it doesn’t break it just becomes unusable and you then have to use an anvil to exchange your XP for fixing your tools

the repair system is still in the game for the early game. Late game you have mending on everything the repair system is to encourage you to repair your early game stuff when your at that stage or if you have a piece of armour thats decrotive and don't want to enchant it

I remember when Infinity was compatible with Mending, so you could have a bow that never uses standard arrows and was repairable without the anvil-repairing system. Then Infinity and Mending were made mutually exclusive. To me, Infinity was valuable because of Mending. Without Mending, Infinity is a rather useless enchantment. I'd rather stock up on arrows via mob grinders and have a bow that is repairable from said mob grinders than have a bow that will eventually rack up too much PUP to be repairable.

@@Gravity_cat bruh it takes 2 minutes to make a fully enchanted bow and they last for literal days of gameplay, I can’t even remember the last time I broke a bow before losing it some other way.

The same system but basically better already exists since you now have one guaranteed enchantment you will always get. So instead of constantly rerolling enchants to get a slightly better chance of getting a specific enchant you can constanty reroll for a guaranteed chance of getting that enchant

@@dylanb2990 Does it now? I think that might be hyperbole considering how random enchantments are. I get your point, but I still like to *keep* my equipment without fear of it ever becoming unusable through means out of my control, that is being irreperable because of a level cap. Also, I just really liked having an Infinity-Mending bow.

@@Gravity_cat lol imagine using the enchantment table, I haven’t in years.

YES

but unisport ate

Wh-what? Who fucking cares if one method would use different amounts of materials than the other method? Combining tools probably _should_ be inefficient, compared to making a spot repair on your tool. This is a ridiculous complaint.

​@@ferociousfeind8538 anti QOL user spotted, opinion discarded

Yeah you’re one of the people who shouldn’t be listened to.

Mojang hasn’t lost their touch, they’ve consistently been pumping out quality content and 1.19 and 1.20 are looking promising. Seriously, everyone just started complaining when they revealed more about their development process because apparently no-one knows how game dev works. The caves and cliffs updates were the best thing that happened to the game in recent years. What we’re facing now is a buildup of individual mechanics that are unbalanced when combined, and Mojang isn’t quick to make sweeping changes of old mechanics without a complete rework. That said, an enchantment system overhaul is definitely needed at this point

@IonRuby 🤓

The problem is not the cap, but very high repair price after a few repairs.

@@fantastikboom1094 i guess it depends on what level of "expertise" you have with the game, for newer or more casual players i would agree that the high repair prices are the main issue, but for people who always make efficient xp farms right away i believe the level cap is the main issue. so yeah, repair prices should definitely be adjusted, but the level cap should also be, if not removed entirely.

@@alicemursteinlesbefaen666 I think the problem is usage penalty, because It shouldn't count merging the enchanted books. That's where the issue is. It affects the price significantly.

Thank god i wasnt the only one who noticed it

It jump scared me lol

I agree, mending breaks the game, make it so we dont have to use it!

I agree! Exchanging exp to fix an item with mending sounds like a great idea.

Was wondering how long it would take before someone noticed. :)

😂😂😂😂😂

What did he do with the book ?

I was genuinely in shock when I heard that sound.

Ey looky here it’s Gordon freeman one callob

Without mending, netherite would be not worth it

Easy for you to say when you have Upgraded Potentials

Interesting. What about just enchanting the material with a table or anvil, so repairing with unenchanted material would proportionally degrade the existing enchantments on a tool, using enchanted material would mix in the enchantments on that, etc? Anvil repair by itself wouldn't need to cost xp at all. The current discrete enchantment level system would have to be replaced, though. I've thought before about enchantments that wear out over time, but this seems better.

Mining isn’t obsolete because building farms isn’t for everyone. Minecraft shouldn’t be a game where you have to follow a KZfaq tutorial for everything. Past a certain point I don’t want to have to think so much during game play.

@@crimsonfire6932 No, I agree, there are areas of the game that are fun for everyone, I just mean from my perspective where I pretty much try to be as efficient as possible.

"much like mining is obsolete regardless of what updates are released due to mega farms always being better" - and thats one of the biggest problem with minecraft. That the "meta" playstyle, which I would actually call rather an exploitive style (as imo mob farms on itself - maybe expect these made from monster spawner - are exploits) is something which should be rather at least discouraged, but with how everything kinda triest to be "balanced" and "not overpowered" but mostly with ignoring the fact that even the "overpowered" solution can be make kinda obselote by the farms... which put players which doesn't want to use those exploits, which like to play in thematic way, have some aesthetic to their world... at massive disadvantage. The worst part is Mojang seems to actively support it. I mean at some point enchanted golden apple were claimed as "overpowered", becuase of... gold farm. But instead of solving the actual problem - which is gold farm - they removed... enchanted apple crafting recipes. Even though they - at least from what they were saying could do it the other way: removing golden farm. All this farm thing becomes really ridiculous. And as much as automative farming of crop kinda make sense, the other farms... well not at all. But at the same time I know that there's no real solution to this problem, as fixing all those exploits isn't really possible without hurting the normal gameplay. Therefore I think the solution is to open possibilities to make as good competition to the farm as it gets. How? Well, one of the thing is about anvil. If the cost would be massively reduced (to some sane number... mostly by removing previous use penalty, then having the cost as never more than level of all enchantment sumed up, or change in it or summed level of both items useed... something likke that), also repairing and renaming should be absolutely free of charge. This would all the gring for exp (and with that most ridicolous of all farms: exp farms) kinda unneded. Secondly the level cost shouldn't be counted as simply decreasing the player level. But instead decreasing it experience count by the number of xp points which give that many levels. So for example let's assume getting to level 3 is 1000 exp. Then "paying" 3 levels would ALWAYS actually reduce the total player exp by 1000, not just whatever is the difference betwen what level player is currently one and 3 level lower - even when it means 9999999999999999999 instead of 1000... I mean I don't get how anyone yet didn't pointed out how broken the system of paying with levels is... Well that one didn't really do much about farm issue, but it was very connected with the anvil, so I still included it (and well imo the very idea of "paying with levels" is ridiculous from the start and whole minecraft exp system should be heavily reworked) But there are also other things. Like for example REMOVING max enchantment level. This way player could increasingly combine for example fortune 3 books to get higher and higher level of fortune (or looting or whatever...). I know many would say it's op... but how is it anywhere close as op as farms? Exactly... The same goes to increasing the quality and quantity of loot in chests. To encourage rather exploration than grinding and building farms.

@@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV Mojang doesn't like farms? They've actively been nerfing them all over the years even if it hurts casual play

@@TechBlade9000 really? Could You give any examples of this farm nerfing which hurts normal gamaplay?

Imo removing the level cap and tuning down the exponential cost increase would be enough... Having said that, it could be cool to have more uses for gold

yes but this is still a dumb and unintuitive mechanic in the game that a new minecraft player wont be able to figure out or learn about by themselves. it's a completely hidden stat that varies between simply placing the items in a different order. not to mention the difference between java and bedrock making it even more complicated that only a veteran would be able to use efficiently

exactly my thinking

Every time I hear people discussing exp in Minecraft, I have to remind myself than OpenBlocks tanks are not vanilla. I legitimately can't imagine how much of a pain in the ass this system, that is still terrible on modded, must be in vanilla MC.

You can work around it but what is the reason to have a work around and not just allow normal 1 by 1 combining. The mechanic adds nothing but annoyance and is another thing for new players to read on the wiki instead of having fun in game.

@@xenosfur exactly, its not like it requires any skill to know the odd order you need to get maxed out boots