Is there an optimum enchantment strategy in Minecraft?
Many of the various items have a list of enchantments that would be ideal. For instance, I might want Infinity, Power, Flame, and Punch all on a bow... and at the highest levels. Barring incredible luck, I will never get those with an enchantment table.
I can enchant books until I find those spells, and add them to the bow with an anvil. However, at some point (I haven't yet figured out how many times) it will no longer allow you to add enchantments to an item, saying that it's "too expensive". There is a hidden counter that is incremented every time, and once this goes past a threshold you can never add more magic (though, I've read in places you can continue to repair the item at great cost indefinitely... not clear if that's true or not).
This counter is cumulative, such that if you combine two items' magic into a single item, that won't sidestep the limit.
However, I've only just caught on that one can also combine two books. I can take two Power I books, and make a single Power II book. And I can take two of those, and get it up to Power III, and so on, but also have two spells combined in a book.
If I do this until I get all the magic I need onto a single book (or even just two or three books, supposing the books max out), will I get to the point where the books will no longer combine with the item because it's too expensive? Or are books exempt from the cumulative counter thing? It would suck to spend so much time and effort to get a powerful book and discover that it can't actually be used on anything.
Also, is it true that you can indefinitely repair, as long as you have the repair material and are at level 39? Or is that a misunderstanding of the rules (or maybe just an earlier version of the game and it no longer works like that... I'm on 1.8.9)? Does that only work for those items that can be repaired with diamond/iron, or will it work for fishing rods and bows as well?
Best Answer
I don't know the math here but it can sometimes happen that you can put a book with all the enchantments you wanted (´Power V, Infinity I, Flame I, Punch II´) on a bow and sometimes not. This depends on the order of the enchantments on the book.
I beleve that you can get the book you want when you combine 2 books. One with ´Flame I´ and ´Power V´ and the othe with with ´Punch II´ and ´Infinity I´ in the order that they are written
Combine those to get the bow you want. I believe the second book I mentiond before must go in the first slot but I am not shure. Anyway make shure to use a non damaged bow when combining it with the book.
It should cost you 39 levels of xp
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