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Hey everyone,

I haven’t had as much time to work on CivEx recently as I’d like after missing some classes from being sick, but we’re now far enough along with our Enchanting plugin to say that it’s ready for First Light. It’s been a while since I’ve talked about enchanting, so I’ll give you guys a complete rundown.

Infusion

Enchanting on CivEx uses a complete new system that we’ve developed in-house. There are nearly 40 new enchantments you can use, and many enchantment restrictions have been removed.

Enchantment tables and anvils have had their vanilla functionality removed. Instead, enchanting focuses on various “crafting” orbs dropped by mobs, and occasionally found while mining. Orbs are used by right clicking while you have an orb in your offhand and an enchantable item in your main hand.

At its most basic level, you will be infusing your items with Infusion Orbs. Each level of infusion will provide you an enchantment slot as well as a level of the item’s “natural enchantment,” sharpness for swords, protection for armor, efficiency for tools, or power for bows. These natural enchantments no longer conflict with other enchantments, nor do they take up a slot. Armor can be infused up to level four, while other items can be infused to level five.

Infusion orbs are consumed on use and have a chance to fail based on the infusion level of your item. There are three separate types of infusion orbs for armor, weapons, and tools.

Enchanting

After you infuse your item, there are a handful of orbs you can use to either add or change the enchantments on it.

Enchanting Orb: The most basic orb. It can only be used on an unenchanted item with at least two available enchanting slots. It adds two random applicable enchantments to the item, at random levels.

Scour Orb: Removes all enchantments from an item.

Celestial Orb: Adds a random applicable enchantment to an item, at a random level.

Orb of Discord: Either removes an enchantment or re-rolls all enchantments, chosen at random.

Repair Orb: Temporary beta item since our repair system is incomplete. Heals an item to full durability.

How do I get orbs?

Every hostile mob on CivEx will have some orbs on its drop tables. There are four drop tables used for varying power levels of mobs, with bosses dropping the best enchanting loot. Orbs will not always drop ready to use, and will sometimes be dropped as inert versions of themselves that must be combined with emeralds and EXP to activate. The recipes for which haven’t been decided. Infusion orbs will always drop activated.

*What new enchantments are there

Here’s the list of the new enchantments we’ve added. All vanilla enchantments are also on the roll tables, with the exception of Mending, which has been removed.

Enchantments that have been crossed out are currently bugged and disabled.

Bow enchantments require the bow to be fully charged to proc.

Feel free to leave questions and criticism about enchanting in the comments.

Progress Update

Besides getting the enchantment plugin ready, our recent progress includes:

• Assigning aspect values to all MythicItems.
• Creating drop tables for all enchanting orbs.
• Much of the mythicmobs drop planning.
• All mythicmobs planning consolidated into fancy excel spreadsheets.
• A rework of how we distributed aspect values.
• The creation of a few new mobs to fill out the leaner mob “tribes” from the overworld.
• Work on a new boss fight for said tribe.
• Drafting of the posts for our feature list and design philosophy.

Major remaining obstacles:

• Taking all our mythicmobs items and assigning them to mobs.
• Passive mob implementation.
• Filling any major gaps in mob spawning. We don’t want inviting areas to be devoid of passive mobs or any areas to lack variety of hostile mobs at night.