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Tool progression overhaul

Tool progression and enchantments in Minecraft are broken.  It involves a lot of mundane grinding and tedious tasks.

To start off, the enchantment table.  Enchanting is widely accepted as one of the most hated and annoying tasks.  The player must grind for days to get level 30 enchantments, and most likely will not get the desired enchant.  Then, if the player wants more enchantments, they have to do this for every tool and armor.  The player can build an experience farm, but these are boring to use.

Then there is the anvil.  When the player finally gets their hands on a desired enchant book, they need to grind even more experience to put it on their tools.  The anvil also takes a lot of experience, rather than just 1-3 levels like the enchantment table.  The worst part of all, "Too expensive!".

Enchantment obtaining through villagers is also broken.  The player must break and replace a lectern for a villager until they get the right enchantment, which is boring and doesn't make sense.  It also encourages the player to make "trading halls" which are laggy, strange, and boring to use.  This is the main way to get desired enchants, and no one enjoys it.  Even then, they still have to go through the anvil.

We need a tool progression overhaul which involves a consistent and unique way of obtaining specific enchants.  This would make tool progression fun and unique, involving a variety of tasks to get desired enchants.  Experience needs to play less of a role too.

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    I ran out of characters to add any suggestions for a new system, but feel free to discuss them here in the comments.  My idea was craftable enchants (possibly at an enchantment table) or rare enchantment mob drops, or tool upgrades, but this can be fixed in many ways.

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    I agree with the points you made and agree that the game needs a major overhaul of enchantment.
    But I will give even louder theses to clarify my opinion:
    1. Enchanting is an optional grind part of the game, like potions, building beacons.
    2. Experience farms under spawners - abusive speculation on underdeveloped AI and an unbalanced eternal source of monsters.
    3. The old reroll with the breaking of the pulpit is also a speculation on a flaw.
    4. Old bookshelves should be removed, chiselled bookshelves will replace them.

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    Anvils are the worst part of all.

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    Villager enchantments are being changed to make more sense. Hopefully it sticks!

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    Anvils should have a consistent price :(