Enchanting Plus: Take Control of Your Enchantments
If you have ever rolled the vanilla enchanting table and felt like the game was playing dice with your best pickaxe, you are not alone. Enchanting Plus is a Minecraft mod built for players who want predictable power: you choose the enchantments, you tune the levels, and you pay for that clarity with a noticeably higher experience cost. Think of it as trading RNG for planning, while still keeping the fantasy of books, tables, and late-game progression.
What Enchanting Plus Changes in Your World
Instead of guessing what the next row of glyphs might mean, you work with an Advanced Enchanting Table that behaves more like a workshop than a slot machine. The mod keeps Minecraft’s core identity—crafting, EXP, and incompatible enchantment rules—but shifts the moment-to-moment gameplay toward intentional builds. That makes it a strong fit for modded servers where economy, progression, and fair competition matter as much as raw damage numbers.
Crafting the Advanced Enchanting Table
Once the mod and its dependencies are installed for your Minecraft version, you can craft the Advanced Enchanting Table at a crafting table, or craft a table upgrade item to convert an existing enchanting table in the world. After placement, right-click the advanced table to open its menu. If you maintain several bases across biomes, the upgrade route is handy because you do not have to rebuild your entire enchanting room from scratch.
How the Advanced Table Menu Works
At the top of the interface, you will find an item slot for the gear you want to enchant. When an item is inserted, the center panel lists every valid enchantment you can adjust. If more than four enchantments are available, use the side bar to scroll through the full set.
- Slide a control to the right to raise an enchantment’s level, and to the left to lower it.
- Green backgrounds indicate enchantments you can modify right now.
- Red backgrounds mean an enchantment is unavailable, often because you selected something incompatible (for example, Silk Touch and Fortune cannot coexist on the same tool).
As you tweak selections, the enchanting cost updates in real time. Enchanting Plus charges EXP points rather than whole levels, and the top-left info box shows both your current EXP points and the total cost. That box can also surface helpful tips while you learn the mod’s finer mechanics.
Paying the Price: EXP Points and Balance
The mod’s philosophy is simple: full control should not be free. Expect higher totals than vanilla enchanting when you stack powerful combinations, especially on servers where players min-max gear for bosses, deep caves, and large-scale farms. Because costs are expressed as EXP points, you can make clearer decisions about when to enchant, when to bottle experience, and when to bank levels for big upgrades after a mining session.
Curses and Treasures: Special Rules
Some enchantments are classified as curses or treasures, and they do not behave like ordinary rolls. Curses such as Curse of Binding have unusual timing requirements: they can only be applied near midnight on a night with a full moon, and you have about four real-life minutes centered on in-game midnight (two minutes before and two minutes after). Watch the moon’s position in the sky—when it sits above you, you are likely near midnight. Full moons occur once every eight in-game nights (roughly once per week in Minecraft time). Stand close enough for the book to open; if purple smoke candles appear around the table, the conditions are met. Treasures are not currently available through the advanced table in the way curses are, though the mod author has noted plans to explore a good implementation path.
Configuration, Compatibility, and Mod Ecosystems
Enchanting Plus ships with configuration options so pack makers can tune costs, blacklist specific enchantments, or block certain items from the advanced table entirely. That flexibility helps modpack authors keep progression fair across updates and versions. The mod is also built to recognize enchantments added by other mods; if something misbehaves, it is worth reporting so the interaction can be improved. If you like scripting your world, CraftTweaker support exists through ZenScript helpers such as blacklisting items or enchantments. For quick in-game discovery, Just Enough Items includes an info tab on relevant items and blocks so you can see a concise summary without leaving your recipe workflow.
Installing Mods Without the Headache
When you are juggling dependencies across Minecraft versions, a launcher that keeps profiles tidy saves a lot of time. If you are assembling a small kitchen-sink pack for friends, this mod can be easily installed via the foxygame.net launcher—a convenient, flexible, and modern Minecraft launcher where you can download mods right from the menu—so you spend less time troubleshooting paths and more time testing enchant combinations on a practice sword before you commit EXP to your main gear.
Practical Tips for Modded Play
- Enchant in a safe, well-lit base so moon checks and midnight windows do not turn into surprise mob encounters.
- Plan incompatible pairs before you open the menu, especially for tools that might swing between mining ores and collecting grass.
- On servers, agree on blacklists and cost tuning so “perfect gear” does not erase challenge from dungeons and bosses.
Conclusion: Precision Enchanting for Serious Builders
Enchanting Plus does not remove Minecraft’s enchanting fantasy; it sharpens it. You still earn experience, respect incompatibility rules, and weigh opportunity cost—but you replace blind luck with deliberate loadouts. Whether you are preparing for the End, optimizing a modded tool line, or running a curated server economy, the Advanced Enchanting Table turns enchantments from a gamble into a craft, one slider at a time.