Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-184.6.178.144-20151217170714/@comment-26172435-20151217183544

War Pig1237 wrote: Unfortunately, a replacement for the current enchanting system, is planned for future Updates...

If that is the case, then why isn't the subject mentioned in those lists?

In response to the OP:

Nice suggestion, but like portal creation it has a downside of enforcing players in 'far away' lands (like Tauredain) to venture to the good-evil extremities of Arda to gather the required materials for this recipe. I would prefer to allow for crafting of enchantment tables (conversion of experience) in a 'not-too-late-phase of gameplay'. It's so very annoying when one has gathered 30+ levels of experience to not be able to convert them into something valuable with some serious local mining effort (the game is still called 'minecraft'). The server hARDA uses a very nice simple recipe for enchantment tables that is properly balanced for 'ME world only' gameplay in line with these considerations. I'd prefer to use that or something similar to keep it simple.

Maybe Mevans actually plans for something radically different, maybe similar to the 1.8 Vanilla MC enchantment system, maybe something similar to the Heroes plugin enchantment system (incl. revamp of the experience system). I don't expect Mevans to change the experience orb system though. Based on that, he could choose to add a feature to store orbs in direct enchantments, books or some storage item. It would be nice when some NPC interaction would be required to either have them enchant items (earlier suggestion on paying blacksmiths to enchant items) or teach you the trade of enchanting (craft and use enchantment tables). Downside of that is the many NPCs and factions, which would all have to be accounted for. I'd expect and rather hope for some simple system to be implemented.

I don't know if there have been any discussions or even public sharing of ideas/concepts with Mevans on this subject ever since he posted his ideas on removing diamond on his blog. If so, please help us find them. Thank you!