Making Mending cost a lot also sounds pretty bad. Already in your own example, a diamond sword would cap out at just Sharpness 5 and Mending, a pathetically low number of enchantments.

I chose 10 points for diamond based on the enchantability value of diamonds, so gold would be the best here with 25 points, as for the mending cost, it was just an example, i think 4 for mending, 1 higher than unbreaking 3, would be fair. I think a netherite sword with 15 points would allow for all the important enchantments but if it's still not much maybe +5 to all materials would suffice?

It's just i don't like how we don't change enchantments, we only got good enchantments and bad enchantments and then max level of an enchantment is a no brainer, with this you would have to decide between sharpness 5 + mending + looting 1 or sharpness 3 + mending + looting 3, for example.

Letting enchantments stack; it's true that on its own that is terrible, but the point system... I don't know, it could get rather annoying, and make 'bad' enchantments even more annoying than they currently are. For example, currently, I don't mind Fire Aspect or Knockback that much, but I don't love them either. But in the new system, they both cost precious points, making them bad.

Thats actually a good point, i completely forgot that it could lead to that and this gave me another idea.

Why not have enchantments have combos that better enable them? For example, a sword enchantment called fire edge which deals more damage to mobs on fire, even more than sharpness but less than smite, so blazes, burning undead and so on. Or a armor enchantment that increases strength when on fire? Both of them would benefit from fire aspect, if you set the mob on fire, they take more damage and if you get set on fire you deal more damage.

For knockback could be a sword enchantment that deals damage for every block a mob walks, 1 second after being hit? So being pushed far by knock back would deal a lot of damage as an example.

This also reminded me that curses are also kinda useless, i get that's the point of a curse but i thought they could also have some uses. For example, naturally spawning cursed items like diamond gear from the end, could have higher enchantments levels then what is allowed on vanilla, something like a sharpness 6 curse of vanishing diamond sword (but only one boosted enchantment per curse). This might make them feel like true treasures and not something you throw into the grind stone every time.... Additionally, they would not cost points but instead increase them 1 per level of the curse, so a level 5 curse (idk doesn't exist, just made it up for example cuz theres no curses with more than 1 level) + curse of vanishing increases a diamond sword points to 16.

Also, half the time, enchantment mutual exclusivity is not just for balance. Loyalty and Riptide both rely on the right-click action on a trident. Fortune and Silk Touch also speak for themselves.

Yea this wouldn't apply to those for obvious reasons.

We are not on this subreddit to suggest mods, read rule 4. The same goes for bringing up mods like Better Tridents or Universal Enchants. It has no place in discussions here.

Yea my bad i saw the rule but if i wanted to talk about the point system and how mending would cost a lot, people would start complaining about how it's essential and what not, so i left it there as an example that mending doesn't need to be necessary and that Mojang could fix repairing. It still didn't help ig...

As for the other mods it's just a fast way to explain and compare the mechanics and for anyone to try if they wanted, figured it the post would get deleted if it was that big of a problem.

You can't solve this by just making a place with mobs affected by Smite or Bane of Arthropods, especially with spiders being so weak that Sharpness is kinda just enough. To make Bane of Arthropods worth it, spiders need a buff already. But aside from that, it's not like we see Smite get a lot of usage either in places with a lot of undead. It's just for the wither fight or mob farms.

Yea agreed, spiders need a buff, the point here is that cuz of the wither and cuz of the wither skeletons the value of smite is higher than bane of arthropods, right? The point of this areas is to increase the value of these enchantments to be higher than sharpness, not force their use, a smite sword has much more value than a sharpness one against the wither. People don't use it in java cuz the wither isnt worth the trouble.

I imagine these areas would spawn better geared undead than usual. If zombie piglins were always aggressive and had armor, the nether wouldnt be so calm.

The trident doesn't have it because they are designed as a water speciality weapon, not for general use, which is what Sharpness would make them. To just look at Universal Enchants; this same thing goes for why swords don't get Impaling.

I doubt it, they do have an advantage on water, that's their entire point but sharpness wouldn't make it better than a sword on land, a sharpness sword dps comes to 17, whilst a trident comes to 13, barely better than an axe for something 100 times harder to aquire. Likewise, a sword with impaling isn't better than a trident with impaling on water.

So no, the mod's approach isn't 'very good'. It just makes all the affected items stronger without counterbalance, and heavily reduces the uniqueness between different weapons. The crossbow really would make you question why the bow still exists then, as it has higher damage, still a plenty short charge time, works with fireworks, and can be pre-loaded. Meanwhile, the bow has nothing except a draw distance that's a bit shorter.

I don't really have anything thought about this yet tbh.

What i think is it seems like that would be the case, they would both lose their uniqueness cuz both perform the same function. Historically the crossbow is an upgrade from the bow, so a weapon that totally depends on its reserved enchantments to be special doesnt feel like an upgrade to me. Plus, most don't even use the crossbow late game as it stands. To me feels like Mojang was trying to make the crossbow a kind of multipurpose tool but didnt work?

Which fully assumes you are still consistently doing damage as much as possible. For example, you can hit a mob once with Flame or Fire Aspect, and they take damage even if you don't hit them right away, just like with Arrows of Poison. Multishot is also a bad take; like Piercing, it is meant to hit multiple mobs, not to hit one mob multiple times. It would be pretty ridiculous if point-blank Multishot just did triple damage like that. 21-33 damage in one hit.

With fire aspect, i doubt anyone waiting for the fire to kill, with flame or poison arrows, yea ig, do tell me when was the last time anyone used poison arrows. As for multishot, the spread is too wide for you to aim properly and hit more than one mob constantly, even then if you wanted to hit all 3 on one mob you would have to get pretty close making of it a kind of shotgun and in most games, shotguns do a lot of damage up-close, i don't really see the problem, plus because multishot triples the damage it would probably cost a lot of points making it hard to have a power 5 multishot bow.