RLCraft Enchantment Recipes
You have slain the dragon, plundered dungeons, and hoarded a vault overflowing with glowing gems, dragon bone, sea serpent scales, and hydra hearts. Yet, you still find yourself galloping across the map, checking every village, hoping a wandering librarian will finally sell you a Protection IV book. It is a slot-machine grind that kills momentum. RLCraft Enchantment Recipes changes that entirely. This add-on transforms your hard-earned endgame materials into the exact enchanted books you need, giving every rare drop a meaningful purpose beyond decoration.
Stop Trading, Start Crafting
The core philosophy of RLCraft Enchantment Recipes is simple: every enchantment gets one crafting recipe at its maximum level. No more settling for Sharpness II and hoping to chain it up through an anvil. No more wasted XP on intermediate tiers. The ingredients are the very items RLCraft forced you to work for, turning your vault of trophies into a workshop of power.
This mod pairs beautifully with its companion, RLCraft Villager Tomes, allowing you to give enchanted books to villagers for them to permanently learn. It is a complete overhaul of how you approach gear progression.
What You Get: 208 New Recipes
This isn't a small patch. RLCraft Enchantment Recipes introduces 208 brand-new recipes covering vanilla and modded enchantments alike. We are talking about the full spectrum:
- Mending and Protection IV
- Supreme Sharpness and Ancient Sword Mastery
- The entire Advanced and Supreme tier
- All the Runes
- Specialized combat and utility enchantments
Every single recipe is always max level. There is no stacking, no anvil chains, and no wasted XP on a low-tier book you will throw away. The recipes are also themed to the enchantment itself. Fire Protection demands blaze rods, Viper requires a hydra heart and a wither skull, and Luck of the Sea asks for ocean loot. Your rarest drops finally have a use beyond sitting in a chest.
Full JEI Integration and Difficulty Settings
Wondering how to craft something? Full JEI integration means every recipe is self-describing. Look up any enchanted book, and the crafting grid is right there. No guesswork, no alt-tabbing to a wiki. Additionally, the mod features three difficulty settings, allowing you to price the entire mod up or down with a single option. Nothing here trivialises the game. These are endgame recipes for endgame materials, designed to turn a slot-machine grind into something you can plan and work toward.
Signature Recipes
Let's look at a few standout examples that showcase the mod's design philosophy:
- Protection IV: A full diamond armour set surrounding a plain book.
- Unbreaking III: Anvils and obsidian around a book, with glowing ingot corners.
- Mending: Glowing ingots, experience bottles, and a full XP Tome.
- Strengthened Vitality V: An ender dragon head, Lifesteal and Vampirism books, and a Ring of Regeneration.
For those deep into progression, the mod also adds a Stage 5 Dragon Skull Upgrade. Place a stage 4 skull in the centre, surround it with dragon bone, and use glowing gems in the corners. The dragon type carries over seamlessly. You can disable this feature by setting ENABLE_DRAGON_HEAD_UPGRADE to false.
Configuration and Pack Mode
Since version 1.1.2, the mod sorts out pack detection automatically. PACK_MODE defaults to auto and works out whether you are on RLCraft Dregora or base RLCraft when the game launches. Coming from an older version, your config switches itself over the first time you run it. You can still force it to dregora or rlcraft if you prefer, but remember to restart after changing it by hand since recipes are built at startup.
All configuration is handled in config/rlcraftenchantrecipes.cfg or in-game via Mods → RLCraft Enchantment Recipes → Config. Key options include:
- CONSUME_XP_BOOK_ON_CRAFT: Default false. By default, a full XP Tome is drained, not destroyed, giving you the empty tome back like a bucket.
- DIFFICULTY_MODE: Easy, normal, or hard. Shifts every recipe's glowing-material cost one step along the glowstone → glowing powder → glowing ingot → glowing gem → glowing gem block chain.
- DISABLED_RECIPES: A list of recipe IDs to turn off entirely, one per line. Wildcards like
*work anywhere in an entry. - XP_TOME_LEVEL: 0 to 30, default 30. How full an XP Tome must be for recipes that use one.
If you want to disable specific recipes, add their IDs to DISABLED_RECIPES. For example, supreme_* disables every Supreme tier recipe, while *sharpness* catches Advanced and Supreme Sharpness too. To find a recipe's ID, check your log at startup for "Registered tome recipe" lines. Remember, PACK_MODE, DIFFICULTY_MODE, and DISABLED_RECIPES only take effect on launch.
Playing Base RLCraft
If you are playing base RLCraft, you do not have to do anything. The mod spots it on its own and swaps a handful of ingredients to things base RLCraft actually has. For example, Ice and Fire copper ingots become silver ingots, hydra hearts become fire or ice dragon hearts, and Spartan Weaponry iron scythes become iron hoes. Ocean materials are stepped down deliberately since they are harder to come by in base RLCraft. Ten enchantments don't exist in base RLCraft and simply have no recipe there, but you gain access to Subject English and Subject Science instead.
Requirements and Installation
To run this add-on, you need Minecraft 1.12.2, Forge 14.23.5.2847 or newer, and either RLCraft Dregora v1.1.2b or RLCraft 2.9.3. JEI is technically optional but highly recommended. There are no hard dependencies, so if something is missing, the affected recipe just doesn't register. The game never crashes over it.
For a seamless experience, many players choose to download RLCraft Enchantment Recipes directly through the foxygame.net launcher. This launcher offers a one-click install process that handles version compatibility automatically, ensuring the mod lands in the correct mods folder without manual file management. The foxygame.net add-on catalog keeps RLCraft Enchantment Recipes updated, so you always have the latest recipes and bug fixes without hunting for new files on your own.
To learn how to install manually, simply drop the downloaded jar file into your mods folder and launch the game. The mod will detect your pack and configure itself automatically. If a recipe isn't showing up, check your log for "Could not find" lines, which name exactly what the skipped recipe was looking for.
Feedback and Final Thoughts
RLCraft Enchantment Recipes is a masterclass in quality-of-life modding. It respects the player's time and effort, turning tedious villager trading into a satisfying crafting progression. The recipes are well-priced, the JEI integration is flawless, and the config options give you total control over difficulty. Whether you are a veteran of RLCraft Dregora or a base RLCraft purist, this mod is an essential addition to your pack. Feedback and suggestions are welcome, especially on recipe costs and anything that looks mispriced. The mod is licensed MIT, so feel free to fork it, modify it, or bundle it in your modpack, just remember to credit the author.