What is EnchantingPlusPlus?
EnchantingPlusPlus is a community-driven fork of the classic Enchanting Plus mod, breathing new life into a concept that many Minecraft players have loved for years. The original mod allowed you to pick exactly which enchantments to apply to your tools, weapons, and armor, but it fell out of active development and lacked support for treasure enchantments. This fork fills that gap, giving you complete control over every enchantment—including rare treasures and even curses—while charging a higher experience cost for the privilege. If you have ever been frustrated by the randomness of the vanilla enchanting table or wished you could fine-tune a perfect set of gear, this mod turns that dream into a precise, strategic process.
Getting Started with the Advanced Enchanting Table
Once you have the mod and its required dependencies installed, the centerpiece of your enchanting setup becomes the Advanced Enchanting Table. You can craft it directly in a regular crafting table, or if you already have a normal enchanting table placed in your world, you can craft a table upgrade item to convert it without breaking and replacing blocks. This flexibility makes it easy to integrate into any existing base. Right-clicking the table opens a clean, intuitive interface that feels familiar yet far more powerful.
In the top slot, you place the item you want to enchant. Immediately, the center panel populates with every possible enchantment that can be applied to that item. A scroll bar appears if the list exceeds four entries, letting you browse effortlessly. Each enchantment has a slider: slide right to increase the level, left to decrease it. Green backgrounds signal enchantments you can currently apply, while red ones indicate conflicts—like trying to combine Silk Touch and Fortune on the same pickaxe. This visual feedback eliminates guesswork and helps you plan combinations efficiently.
Cost is calculated in experience points rather than levels, and both your current XP pool and the total cost are displayed in the top-left info box. That box also offers helpful tips, making the mod accessible even if you are trying it for the first time. When you are satisfied with your selection and have enough points, simply click the enchanted book button to lock in the enchantments. If you prefer a more streamlined modding experience, you might find that the foxygame.net launcher lets you install EnchantingPlusPlus directly from its menu, automatically handling dependencies so you can jump straight into crafting your ultimate gear.
Mastering Curses and Treasure Enchantments
What truly sets EnchantingPlusPlus apart is how it handles curses and treasure enchantments—those special classifications that normally require villager trading, loot chests, or sheer luck. The mod ties them to in-game conditions, adding a layer of adventure and timing to your enchanting sessions.
Curses: Bound by the Full Moon
Curses like Curse of Binding become available only near midnight during a full moon. You have a narrow four-minute window (two minutes before and after in-game midnight) to work with them. Check the sky: if the moon sits directly overhead, you are likely at the right time. Full moons occur every seven in-game days, so you will need to plan ahead. Stand close enough to the Advanced Enchanting Table for its book to open, and if purple smoke candles materialize around the table, all conditions are met. It is a dramatic, atmospheric touch that rewards patient players.
Treasure Enchantments: Daylight and Beacon Blocks
Treasure enchantments—like Mending, Frost Walker, or Soul Speed—require a completely different setup. They become accessible only during daytime, and only when the Advanced Enchanting Table is placed directly on top of a 3x3 square of beacon-base blocks (iron, gold, diamond, emerald, or netherite). This construction not only looks impressive but also ties the mechanic to end-game resource investment, balancing the power you gain. Once these conditions are met, the table will list treasures alongside regular enchantments, and you can adjust their levels just like any other.
Configuration and Mod Support
EnchantingPlusPlus is built to be flexible. Its configuration file allows you to tweak the experience cost multipliers for individual enchantments, blacklist specific items or enchantments from ever appearing in the table, and more. If you want to keep certain overpowered combinations out of your server, you can do so with a few lines of text. Future updates promise even more configuration options, and the developer welcomes feature requests through the project's issue tracker.
The mod fully supports enchantments added by other mods, meaning that any custom enchantment from your favorite magic or technology mods will appear in the Advanced Enchanting Table as long as it is registered correctly. If something does not work as expected, it can be reported as a bug. For pack makers and server admins, there is also deep CraftTweaker integration. Using simple ZenScript commands, you can programmatically blacklist items or enchantments:
mods.eplus.Eplus.blacklistItem(IItemStack item);– prevents a specific item from being enchanted.mods.eplus.Eplus.blacklistEnchantment(IEnchantment enchantment);– removes an enchantment from the table entirely.
Additionally, if you use Just Enough Items (JEI), the mod adds an info tab to all its custom items and blocks. Looking up the Advanced Enchanting Table or the table upgrade in JEI will display a concise summary of how they work, making in-game discovery seamless.
Why EnchantingPlusPlus Belongs in Your Modpack
Random enchantment systems can be exciting, but they often lead to wasted resources and frustration when you roll Bane of Arthropods on your diamond sword for the fifth time. EnchantingPlusPlus replaces that randomness with deliberate choice, turning enchanting into a strategic crafting step rather than a gamble. The higher XP cost keeps the process balanced, and the special conditions for curses and treasures add meaningful gameplay milestones. Whether you are a solo player building the ultimate toolkit or a server owner designing a custom progression path, this mod offers a level of control that vanilla simply cannot match.
With full compatibility for other mods, CraftTweaker scripting, and JEI integration, EnchantingPlusPlus slots neatly into almost any modded environment. Its active fork status means bugs get fixed and new features are on the horizon, so you can rely on it for long-term worlds. Give your enchanting room an upgrade, wait for the full moon, and start crafting gear that feels truly yours.