There’s actually a mod that does the skilltree part you get to pick enchants but it’s super expensive to max out items

I'm not sure who you are addressing in your final thoughts, achievement developers and game developers are different in the eyes of RetroAchievements and have different goals. Steam/PSN Trophies are only supplemental to the games you're buying, but when achievements are the main content like on RetroAchievements, there will be always be user-created content that goes beyond the scope of what the game developers intended. As long as achievements can be earned within an optional mode with emulator feature restrictions invoked that brings intrinsic value, like RetroAchievements hardcore mode, there's no reason not to have "unofficial" (not made by game developers) achievements for tasks that some would consider extraneous. We're high on GameCube RetroAchievements right now, can't wait for you or the next guy to complain about their childhood classic getting ruined by an entirely opt-in achievement system.

Of course achievements are all extrinsic. In retro gaming, anyone can accomplish anything with emulator save states and cheat codes. The intrinsic nature of RetroAchievements is doing all those little tasks without emulator assistance, with enforced restrictions as if you're playing on the original console, to prove your accomplishments extrinsically, to yourself and to others. You can say you've played/beaten Earthbound without cheating and did those fights with certain restrictions you mentioned, but unless you a) have a full recording of your playthrough/battles with an unmodified game or b) are tracked on RetroAchievements hardcore mode, you won't be nearly as believable.

Ever heard of villager trading?

11:06 you dont need to rename them as tomes first off, secondly i think it would be cool to reimplement the old books by just letting you get any enchant by using its respective book instead of the material it was supposed to use, and the books would let you bypass the previous levels of the enchantment similar to how finding already enchanted gear would, thus being a further incentive to explore

this is such a cool idea, i'd love to see it as a mod

I think that many people like minecraft BECAUSE of the disconnected progression. You can do almost whatever you want. You have freedom. If you want better progression use mods

i would considder the enchantment table a very early game method of enchantments, and its setup in a way to prevent the player from becoming overpowered to early, why would you EVER try perfect your gear on an enchantment table, its borderline imposible, but its very quick and easy to slightly improve your tools in the early game. later game when you have loads of resorces to throw at vilagers you can start looking into perfecting your gear, which can be done without runing into the anvil XP cap if you do it right, i see nothing wrong with this system.

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The way I see it, Groudon is surrounded. Sure, the ocean may be surrounded by more earth, but what's all that earth surrounded by? That's right, more water.

Honestly I think the old tinkers construct mod and its modifier system was superior to the enchantment system in every way. And this could add uses to the vast amount of completely useless materials in the form of modifiers.

i think a good example of achievements is TF2. most of the achievements the player will just get naturally by playing the game or are just plain busywork, and those i cant really defend, but some of them are challenges (prime cuts or eagle eye) that the player probably wouldnt have come up with on their own.

Yo, Mr. Pletcher gave us some weird exam bro

Honestly, I don’t want to come across as harsh but I believe you’re playing the game wrong. You’re supposed to be combining lower level enchants on books and less optimally items to get the big enchants overtime (sharpness I + sharpness I in an anvil makes sharpness II) rather than wasting your time rolling dice on only level 3 rolls. Level 3 rolls are just a nice starting point for this process if the hint is good. The second slot exists as another shot for getting a hint of a low level enchant to fuse into a high one. And the game is very winnable without enchants (bar the wither).

Really cool video! Another reason why Pizza Tower's level achievements work so well is because they can all be beaten in one attempt (except for the first level), creating an extra intrinsic challenge to practice when just getting a p rank becomes too easy. This makes the 101% speedrun category feel fun, but not too tedious. Really recommend it😄

just make funny achievments hidden. that's all.

i shouldn’t need to to enslave the local population of intelligent beings to put mending on my shovel

I really liked Vivian as a character so much, that I used her as my main member throughout the final bosses in the Palace of Shadows. (Gloomtail, The Shadow Sirens, Grodus, Bowser and Kammy, and the shadow queen.) that’s how much I liked her as a character.

0:52 the grass blocks the bookshelves.

I was surprised the concept of Gold having higher enchantability isn’t used all in Minecraft. Imagine being able to enchant a gold sword for cheap and move that enchantment onto another sword. Or even imagine a golden items being able to surpass regular enchantment numbers, like gold tools uniquely having ‘Unbreaking X’

You're saying all the things I've been feeling for ages! I know many people want another end update but honestly I'd love an Enchants & Alchemy Update, making potions more useful/space-efficient, and making enchanting less infuriating would be wonderful. I've always thought a simple tweak for enchanting would be to change the three buttons from enchant quality to enchant amount, since both bookshelves and the buttons kinda just do the same thing. Being able to guarantee that I'm going to get 3 enchants on my pickaxe instead of the _stupid unbreak III and nothing else_ would be enough of a change for me. That being said I love your idea so much more, it's much more future proof and I love the idea of upgrading lesser enchantments. Though it might break Mojang's rule of adding RPG elements into Minecraft. Anywho, the one thing I don't really understand is the removal of enchanted books, I don't really see an issue with them? Especially for an SMP, being able to grind for exp and place enchantments into books to sell off to other players is a very nice business. And tomes really do seem like a nightmare for multiplayer servers, the chiseled bookshelf idea works in a situation where everyone is friends, but would certainly not work on large survival servers or factions servers.

Thought the video was almost interesting, until the furry VTuber popped up.

1:14 Plot Twist: The enemy has Water Absorb

This pretty much sums up my gripes with enchanting, but I'm not sure I agree with the proposed solution. But more ideas are good for discussion, and it is still a solution

Point that he tried to make: Achievements are unnecessary Actual conclusion: Gameplay of turn based RPGs sucks

option 1 and 2 are useful as u can combine 2 fortune 1 to get fortune 2

My face when I spend hundreds upon hundreds of levels of xp just to get maybe a handfull of usefull books.

moar ples

I feel like focusing on achievements is almost never a good idea unless you've already beaten the game, and _even then_ a poorly implemented list can easily leave a bad taste in your mouth. It's why I never 100% hi-fi rush, the idea of beating the game like 6 times on various difficulty settings sounds extremely tedious

What if Murders is a representation of Simon's testimony in court, trying to recount the story as if he were framed, but telling the truth in the end.

Undertale Jumpscare

I need it

I feel like the moon is also a great representation of the female lead, as the sky/space is often romanticized as a "sea" of some sort, and with the moon hanging over the island, it might be pointing to the moon being an isle by itself, in the sea of space, away from the male lead on Earth.

I love how both the anvil and the enchanting table are arguably the most flawed things in the game while still being essential for progression

Actually love this idea, this sounds amazing!

I will never forget the statement Toby gave on if the PS4 port will have a achievements I'm sorry So it won't have them? No, it will. That's why I said I'm sorry.

This sounds like a really cool mod idea, but unfortunately I don't think they'd do it as far as reworking enchanted books, since removing a block or item has issues with older worlds. I think the skill tree idea (and making anvils not has a cap or accelerate) are perfect tho, and making enchanted books only be from fishing, chests, or villagers (which them being from villagers still isnt great but oh well I think thats not possible to change for the same world conistaancy issue I mentioned previously) would be much better, since it'd mean there's more options to enchant without villagers if Villagers aren't your thing (because gambling like that isnt fun to do for a few Minecraft days minimum) Also the idea about making treasure enchants available via getting special books and putting them into a special craftable bookshelf is really cool. You could in-Theory make a Lecturn the method instead but they'd have to add multiple book slots to it because it'd be annoying to need to put a book in and out repeatably. And more than 1 Lecturn looks unnatural. If there was an easy place to put the books and it was quick and easy to switch which one you'd want to use that'd probably be a sweet spot

I love how at the start its so uniform

I think the the enchanting tree is a cool idea but i wouldnt like to remove the enchanted books i would make them non craftwble and make librarians dont sell treasure books intead they should gift them to a player via chance after clearing a raid , the harder the raid the rarest enchanments book the give

I agree there should be a way for us to learn enchantments as we progress through the game and then be able to choose among the enchantments, we've learned instead of relying on RNG.

As someone who is really concerned with wasting too much time, video game achievements make me feel much less anxious about spending time on them. It gives me something to actually work towards and not feel bad that I'm spending my time gaming. Though, a lot of RA's achievements in some games are ludicrous, but one's like Gex are really reasonable.

can’t wait for mind electric video

Personally I like achievements where you do something that you would never do under most scenarios, like that one btd6 achievement where you beat the cornfield map on CHIMPS mode without removing the corn, like, WHY would you ever do that if you weren't a youtuber