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Infinity Enchantment Overhaul

Make arrows optional.

If a Bow has the Infinity enchantment, you shouldn't need to have an arrow in your inventory. However, if you do have arrows, they should be used up before firing Infinity Arrows. This change synergies well with the behaviour of tipped arrows, increasing parity between their behaviour and the behaviour of regular arrows.

 

Make Infinity Arrows cost xp.

There should be a source and I believe this source should be the player's xp bar. Anytime a player shoots an Infinity Arrow, 8 xp should be deducted from their xp bar. This xp cost is the cost added to a Bow's enchantment cost with Infinity applied. Continuing on this theme, for every level of Power on this bow, there should be an additional 1 xp added to the cost of each arrow as each level of power adds 1 to the enchantment cost of the bow. If you were to apply every legal maximum enchantment to an Infinity bow, it would cost 27xp to fire a single arrow. (This is equivalent to defeating 6 adult zombies).  I believe this cost to the Infinity enchantment will create a much better balanced system, while also giving players something to do with their vast amounts of xp they tend to accumulate.

 

Graphical Arrow Differences

Time to get creative. Arrows that are retrievable, arrows shot by hostile mobs and arrows created by Infinity should be more easily distinguishable. This is more of a minor change, however, would certainly be a great quality of life change to see in the game.

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• March 31, 2020 02:38
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  • April 07, 2020 05:57
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  I think 8 xp might be too much for new players. Maybe a bit less, and also add levels of infinity that act like unbreaking, in that it is only a chance to use xp. Plus, adding to the xp cost of the bow would make it so you could never repair or add to your bow again in the future. Mending should also be allowed again on bows, as it is not op, just time-saving and convenient. All of the other mutually exclusive enchants make sense to me, except this one.

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  • March 26, 2021 22:15
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  Your suggestion would make arrows even more useless than they are now. Now you'll at least need 1 to fire an infinity bow. (And making an item useless is further away from what they likely want)

  I'd suggest making infinity like unbreaking instead; It gets 3 levels, giving it a chance to not consume ammo when fired. Then extend it to also includes potion arrows. Doing this would make the system would be a lot better.

  A single stack of arrows(takes up as much inventory slots as the singular arrow) could fire around ~4 stacks worth of arrows.

  A single crafting instance of a tipped arrow would give you ~32 tipped arrows worth of shots. Which suddenly makes that dragon breath nearly worth it.