Equipment Enhancing

Equipment Enhancing

Upgrade, customize, and repair your gear beyond vanilla limits.

Equipment Enhancing adds a risk/reward upgrade system to any weapon, tool, armor piece, or elytra — right at the Enhanced Anvil. Push your gear past vanilla stats with random bonuses, unique rare abilities, a tiered material system that scales from early game to end game, and a dedicated catalyst slot that lets you protect your gear from catastrophic failure.

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⚒️ The Enhanced Anvil

A dedicated anvil block built for enhancing (crafted with an Anvil + Iron Ingots + Planks). It has three material slots plus a catalyst slot:

• Left slot — the equipment you want to upgrade.
• Right slot — the material (Enhancement Ingot / Jelly Ingot / Repair Ingot).
• Catalyst slot (top-left, labeled Additional Material) — optional Protection Jelly.
• Output slot — the result appears here only after you press the Enhance button.

The GUI shows a live info panel: current tier, next level, success chance, required materials, XP cost, current fixed bonuses, abilities, and the last enhance result.

Material	Effect
Enhancement Ingot	Rolls a random upgrade. Success chance drops as the level grows — failure can downgrade or shatter the item!
Jelly Ingot	Guaranteed 100% success, no risk. Cost scales up as the item reaches higher tiers.
Repair Ingot	Fully restores durability without losing your Enhancement Level or bonuses.

Every successful upgrade:

• Raises the item's Enhancement Level.
• Grants +10 max durability per level (change in config).
• Rolls a random special bonus from that equipment's bonus pool (tier-gated — stronger bonuses unlock at higher tiers).
• Has a separate chance to trigger a Double Enhance and jump +2 levels at once.

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🎲 How Enhancing Works

Success & Failure

• Success — level up (+1, or +2 on a Double Enhance) and roll new bonuses.
• Failure (Enhancement Ingot only):
  • The item drops N levels (default 1) but never below its current tier floor.
  • There is a 10% chance the item is destroyed entirely — unless you used Protection Jelly.
• Cost — every attempt costs 1 XP level (configurable; free in Creative). Failure consumes the ingot regardless.

Tiered Ingot Rules

Ingots come in 8 tiers (Common → Named). The rules are strict:

• Ingot tier lower than the equipment's current tier → the enhance is rejected, nothing is consumed.
• Ingot tier higher → Enhancement Ingot gains +10% success rate per tier of difference (capped at 95%).
• Ingot tier matches → normal success rate.
• Jelly Ingot cost scales with the equipment's tier bracket: 2× (Common/Uncommon) → 3× (Rare/Epic) → 4× (Legendary/Mythic) → 5× (Ancient/Named).

Protection Jelly (Catalyst Slot)

Place Protection Jelly in the catalyst slot before enhancing to prevent total destruction on failure — the item will only downgrade instead of shattering. The amount required scales with the item's tier:

Equipment Tier	Protection Jelly Needed
Common / Uncommon	4
Rare / Epic	6
Legendary / Mythic	8
Ancient / Named	10

The Jelly is consumed on each attempt. Without it, a failed enhancement can shatter your item permanently.

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✨ Bonus Pools

Category	Possible Bonuses
Melee Weapons	Life Steal, Critical Chance, Knockback, Cripple, Fire Effect, Looters
Ranged Weapons	Continuous Shot, Speed Projectile, Fire Effect, Looter, Infinite Ammo, Chain Effect (Piercing / Ricochet)
Tools	Vein Miner, Fortune, Auto Smelt, Tree Cutter, Treasure Hunter, Area Till
Armor (all slots)	Vitality, Sturdy
Helmet	Experience Boost
Chestplate	Damage Reduction, Reflection
Leggings	Evasion, Jump Boost
Boots	Step Assist, Terrain Master

Bonuses are tier-gated: each ability requires a minimum equipment tier to start appearing in the random pool, so early levels roll common abilities while legendary+ gear unlocks the strongest ones.

Enhanced armor also passively grants Water Breathing, Fire Resistance, faster walking, and reduced fall damage as it levels up.

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🌟 Rare Abilities

Separate rare rolls can grant unique, one-level abilities on top of the normal bonus pool:

Ability	Slot	Effect
Infinite Durability	Any equipment	The item can never break
Dragon Wings	Chestplate	Glide through the air like an elytra
Hover / Aerial Stasis	Elytra / Dragon Wings	Hover in mid-air while sneaking
Night Vision & Hunter Sense	Helmet	See in the dark and reveal nearby monsters
Flash Dash	Leggings	Double-jump air dash with a cooldown
Heavy Stomp	Boots	Slam the ground on landing, damaging and knocking back nearby foes

Dragon Boost

When gliding with Dragon Wings, hold the boost key (Left Alt by default) to accelerate continuously in the direction you're looking — the longer you hold it, the faster you go, capped at a max speed. Available under Controls → Key Binds → Equipment Enhancing.

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🧪 Recipes

Enhancement Ingot — Tiered Recipes

Tier	Ingredients	Output
Common	4x Cobblestone + 2x Coal	4x
Uncommon	4x Iron Ingot + 2x Redstone Dust	4x
Rare	4x Gold Ingot + 2x Lapis Lazuli	4x
Epic	2x Diamond + 4x Amethyst Shard	4x
Legendary	4x Diamond + 2x Blaze Powder	4x
Mythic	1x Diamond Block + 4x Ghast Tear	4x
Ancient	4x Netherite Scrap + 2x Diamond Block	4x
Named	4x Netherite Ingot + 1x Diamond Block	4x

Jelly Ingot — Tiered Recipes

Tier	Ingredients	Output
Common	4x Iron Ingot + 1x Slime Ball	4x
Uncommon	4x Gold Ingot + 2x Slime Ball	4x
Rare	2x Diamond + 4x Slime Ball	4x
Epic	4x Diamond + 1x Slime Block	4x
Legendary	1x Diamond Block + 2x Slime Block	4x
Mythic	4x Netherite Scrap + 2x Slime Block	4x
Ancient	4x Netherite Ingot + 3x Slime Block	4x
Named	1x Totem of Undying + 4x Netherite Ingot + 4x Slime Block	4x

Protection Jelly

Ingredient Pattern	Output
Amethyst Shard around Phantom Membrane with Magma Cream center	3x

Repair Ingot

Ingredients	Output
Netherite Scrap + Diamond + Emerald	1x

Enhanced Anvil

Slot	Ingredient
Top row	Plank, Plank, Plank (any wood)
Middle row	Iron Ingot, Anvil, Iron Ingot
Bottom row	Iron Ingot, Iron Ingot, Iron Ingot

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⚙️ Configuration

Nearly every balance value can be tuned in the server config (equipmentenhancing-server.toml): success/failure chances, destroy chance, downgrade amount, XP cost, per-level bonus values, rare ability chances, elytra/gliding tuning, and which abilities appear in each category's bonus pool.