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Possible Compromise for Treasure Enchantments (remove Villager Mending)

I love the idea of finding enchanted books and "treasure enchants" that you cannot normally retrieve via enchanting table. However, this is somewhat ruined by Villager Trading with enchanted books; I don't think the enchanted book trade should be removed entirely, but more specifically the treasure enchants that they sell, like Mending (make mending and other similar enchantments impossible to obtain from villagers). Though I understand that this change would likely upset players (most either love or hate mending and how its retrieved through trades) and would likely require the players to explore more if they wanted these kinds of special enchantments, I think that overall it would balance the game if treasure enchantments were unobtainable via villagers. In fact, remove the ability to enchant books in the enchantment table as well.

My proposal / compromise for removing mending and treasure enchantments from villager trades is by instead adding a method to enchant with them in the enchanting table. Remove all enchantments except the originals from the table (make mace and trident enchantments into "treasure") and then add a method for enchantment tables to pull from chiseled bookshelves. If a chiseled bookshelf contains an enchanted book, then there's a possibility of it appearing and the more of these you have the higher that chance. If a player obtains a treasure enchanted book they can choose to either add it to enchanted table with low probability or to use via the anvil.

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    I ran out of room, but I think that by removing the ability to enchant books in an enchantment table it would balance the system and avoid a sort of infinite loop (create a mending book and adding it to the chiseled shelf to improve the chances until there's a high probability). I think that if players were limited to enchanting armor, tools, and weapons then it would also make it a more enjoyable experience, like instead of enchanting being a grindy task it could return to being a special boost, and then when a player comes across a treasure enchant like mending it feels like a proper reward for exploring.

    I also wanted to clarify for the end that I think it would also be well balanced to let the player choose how to use the treasure enchanted book they earned as a reward. Either they could use the anvil to use up the book, but be guaranteed to put the enchantment on what they wish, or they could place the enchanted book in a chiseled bookshelf and have a low probability of it re-appearing multiple times in the enchanting table (and if they happen to be lucky and find multiple enchanted books with the same treasure enchant then the reward is a higher probability of it appearing in the enchanting table).

    I think this should be part of the base enchantment table, but an alternative is adding an upgrade through the "echo shards"; then keep the original's functionality with enchanting books for normal enchants, but remove enchanting books for the "enchanted echo table".

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    As a side tangent, since I mentioned an upgrade to the enchanting table with echo shards I'd also like to throw out an idea to upgrade the anvil with netherite. Add in a special netherite anvil that allows players to bypass enchanting limitations, but at the cost of exponential levels (and the fact it's a netherite anvil that likely required 32 netherite ingots to create). I distinctly remember on an old server I used to play on back in 1.2.5 / 1.3.2 there used to be "God Armor" and "God Tools" where either the enchantment level was increased or in most cases non-compatible enchantments were combined, like these rare / special diamond armor had Protection 8, Fire Protection 8, Blast Protection 8, and Projectile Protection 8; or the sword had Bane of Arthropods X, Smite X, and Sharpness X. I think it would also be very interesting if there was a legal gameplay method for obtaining these kinds of "God" armor/tools/weapons at the expense of many levels (since creative mode shows we can do it for high levels).

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    no thanks