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Enchanting Rework

Problem Statement:
Some enchantments are disproportionately powerful, notably Mending being essential to long term survival worlds. Exploration and interaction with the enchanting table are both highly disincentivized ways of acquiring enchantments, with librarian villager trading being significantly more convenient and reliable. Interactions with lower than max tiers of enchantments are infrequent, I.E. protection levels below 4 being usually unused.

Overview:
The base idea is similar to Hollow Knight's Charm system, with each tool having a number of enchantment slots depending on how easy that type of tool is to enchant. (I.E. Gold tools have more slots than average.) From there, each enchantment and enchantment level is given a cost, and lastly, enchantments no longer become mutually exclusive unless they are mechanically incompatible with each other. A bow could have 9 slots, mending would take 4, infinity would take 4, leaving 1 for power 1, but nothing else.

Anvil:
Actions done at the anvil would no longer cost exp, and repairs may be done indefinitely, making mending less required.

Enchanting Table:
The enchanting table gets the ability to switch "pages". Enchanted books can be put on each page and have their enchants repeatedly enchanted onto items. The enchanting table can reference books stored in nearby chiseled bookshelves.

Slot Opening:
Enchanted books found by exploring have chances of reduced slot costs on their enchants. Curses add slots.

1500 char limit is difficult.

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    To continue elaborating with more characters:
    By exploring, you can find better books than trading provides, which can be put into the enchanting table pages for repeated use. Villager trades instead become a baseline where you can acquire the default full priced enchants.
    The enchanting table would still have a random enchant on page 1, but it would lose the ability to enchant books so as to not result in a self-filling enchanting table.
    By combining books in an anvil, a single template enchant could be created which would allow for quickly enchanting new gear.
    The exploring slot cost reduction would not be able to bring an enchant to net 0 or negative slots spent.

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    You're a goddamn genius omg this is literally one of the best ideas I've seen

    WE NEED THIS IN THE GAME!!! IT'S PERFECT!!!