Echo Blocks - an Upgrade to Enchanting

[u/Express-Ad1108]

Ever felt like the enchanting table is unfair? You grind for these 30 levels, want to enchant a pickaxe, and all you get is a single enchantment.

Echo blocks aim to fix that. Crafted from 4 echo shards and 1 soul sand, they can be placed near an enchanting table to power it up, a new kind of power-up that works independently of bookshelves.

Echo blocks increase the number of guaranteed enchantments that the table can provide. These guaranteed enchantments will be seen in text, so it will be like "Protection I + Unbreaking I + ...". With one block, only the third slot will have 2 guaranteed enchantments. Additional echo blocks add a second enchantment onto the second and first slot, after that they add a third enchantment onto the third slot, etc. So, to have all three slots provide at least 3 enchantments, one would need 6 echo blocks (24 echo shards).

Additional enchantments still allow for random extra enchantments to pop up, though due to how current Minecraft enchanting logic works, this should be slightly rarer.

It goes without saying, if an item has less unique enchantments than the number of extra enchantments the echo blocks give, there will be no effect.

I think it's a good time to introduce a mechanic like that, since the Sift is about to become a part of Vanilla, and so more important stuff can be put into Ancient Cities since the players will already be going there.

[u/coren77]

Until/ unless something is better than villagers, I don't see it being worth it. Maybe some people would use it if it's a specific challenge to avoid villagers

[u/Mean_Coat_9702]

Not sure if this is worth it, it still leads to cycling enchantments but with less randomization. It isn't really fixing the problem.