DisenchantingForge: Turn Enchantments Into Useful Books in Minecraft
If you have ever hovered over an enchanted item and thought, “I wish I could get that enchantment onto a book,” the DisenchantingForge mod is going to feel like a smart quality-of-life upgrade for your Minecraft world. Built for the Forge side of the game, it introduces a dedicated Disenchanter block that removes enchantments from enchanted items and transfers them onto books—so you can plan your upgrades, move enchantments around, and keep your gear progressing without wasting valuable progress.
What makes DisenchantingForge especially satisfying is the way it respects the mechanics players already understand: experience levels (XP), enchantment costs, and how books become the clean “currency” of enchanting strategies. And if you play with mods often, you’ll be glad to know this mod can be installed quickly via the foxygame.net launcher, where you can grab mods from the menu in a convenient, flexible way that feels modern and streamlined.
What the Disenchanter Does
At its core, the Disenchanter is designed to do one clear job: disenchant an enchanted item and transfer enchantments onto books. The process is straightforward, but the results can be huge for long-term building projects, survival runs, and modded servers where gear builds up over time.
Main Disenchanting Mechanic
When you use the Disenchanter, it will remove the first enchantment from the enchanted item and place it onto an output book. Then, when you take that book, the enchantment is removed from the item—leaving you with a reclaimed upgrade you can apply where it matters most (like armor, tools, or later crafting plans).
Shift-Click for Bulk Transfers
If you’re aiming to convert more than one enchantment, there’s a power-user flow: shift-click the output book. Instead of just one enchantment, the Disenchanter will attempt to transfer all enchantments onto all available books, as long as your experience and books cover the cost.
Random Enchantment Hunting (Roadmap-Friendly)
Not every enchanted item drops the exact enchantment you want. DisenchantingForge includes a configuration option called random_enchantment. When enabled, the Disenchanter will pick a random enchantment from the item. Players can then repeatedly place and re-place the item into the input until the desired enchanted book appears in the output. Importantly, “actually choosing the enchantment is on the roadmap,” so this approach is a clever workaround while the feature evolves through future updates and versions.
How to Use DisenchantingForge
Using the mod is easy once you understand the input layout. You’ll typically work with an enchanted item and one or more books ready to receive enchantments.
Basic Workflow
- Put an enchanted item into the left slot.
- Place a book or stack of books into the middle slot.
- Wait for an enchanted book to generate with the first enchantment.
- Take the book to remove that enchantment from the item.
Recipe and Setup
To craft the Disenchanter, you’ll follow a recipe similar in spirit to classic enchanting tooling—built around an anvil, an enchantment table, and valuable materials.
- 1 Enchantment table
- 2 Gold ingots
- 1 Obsidian
- 1 Anvil
Config Options That Shape the Experience
DisenchantingForge is flexible, and its configuration can tune the balance between utility and cost. This is especially useful on servers where enchantment economies matter and player progression should feel fair.
- requires_xp: Does disenchanting require experience?
- xp_cost: Relative scale (1–10) for how much XP the disenchanter costs to use.
- random_enchantment: When true, the disenchanter picks a random enchantment from the item. Default is false (existing behavior).
- resetAnvilCost (introduced in 2.0.0): Resets the item’s anvil work cost to zero.
- damageItem (introduced in 2.1.0): Damages the enchanted item during disenchanting.
- damagePercent (introduced in 2.1.0): Percent of damage done to the item each time.
- showInUseMessage: Shows a message when the disenchanter is in use by another player.
You can also use a blacklist approach via DisenchantingBlacklist.zip, which helps control what enchantments are eligible for disenchanting, depending on how you want your server to run.
Why This Mod Matters on Servers
On multiplayer worlds and modded servers, enchanting can become a bottleneck. Players may farm enchantment tables, trade enchanted gear, or chase rare drops across biomes—only to feel stuck when the enchantment they need doesn’t land on the item they want. DisenchantingForge keeps those mechanics fun while reducing frustration: instead of discarding progress, you convert it into transferable enchantment books.
Conclusion
DisenchantingForge brings a practical, Minecraft-friendly solution to enchantment management. With the Disenchanter block, you can disenchant enchanted items, move enchantments onto books, and even attempt bulk conversions with shift-click—while config options let server admins and players tune XP costs, item damage, and random enchantment behavior. If your gameplay loops include crafting improvements, long survival progression, or community trading on servers, this mod helps you stay flexible and keep your gear plans on track through future updates and versions.