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Suppose you wanted to make a line of awesome enchanted items in your multiplayer server that would be epic, valuable loot. If you name a diamond sword "Pride", it now costs more to repair it. And eventually, you won't be able to repair it at all, because any enchanting cost over 40 is "Too expensive!"

The quote at the bottom describes how anvil costs are calculated, and it looks like a tax analyst invented it.

L=B_k+(n_k-1)*I_k+E+2*A+I_k

Are you out of your mind?! I want to make cool, interesting items with flavour to them, and I'm being penalised? I am completely incapable of imagining what led to this system. It's like the programmer heard about fun in a pamphlet about humans on their vacation from Mars.

To find the level cost of an enchantment, one must use the following formula:
To find the level of the item in the first slot, you use:
L_F=B_k+(n_k-1)*I_k+E+2*A
Where:

• L_F is the total level of the first item
• B is the base cost of the item
• n is the tier of enchantment (sharpness 3 would be tier 3)
• I is the increment value
• E is the extra cost depending on the number of enchantments on the item
• A is the amount of times the item has been through the anvil process

When there are subscript letters (such as B_k, n_k or I_k), the k is there for each enchantment. For an item with only 1 enchantment, you would only need to add (n-1)*I, while for an item with 4 enchantments, you would do (n-1)*I for each enchantment, along with the base cost of each enchantment
To find the total cost of combining two items, you use:
L=L_F+I_k
Where:

• L is the total level from the anvil process
• L_F is the level cost of the first item (from above)
• I is the increment value

Once again, when there is a subscript k, you must add on the value for each enchantment.

So what's an easier way to calculate how much an enchantment should cost? I think they have a pretty good system going, honestly. I just hate how it can cost too much to combine enchantments sometimes.

What do you think about not making the item worse by naming it? The item costs more to repair if you name it. The item costs more to enchant if you name it.

The way naming should work, people would have prized mining picks named "Gold Digger", or something. The way naming works now, it's perfectly tuned for naming cocoa beans "poop" to leave in people's chests.

Awesome.

>Named my diamond sword "moonfire"

>mfw naming enchanted items costs more

Quote from johnqnobody

If you name a diamond sword "Pride", it now costs more to repair it. And eventually, you won't be able to repair it at all, because any enchanting cost over 40 is "Too expensive!"

False. Renamed items don't suffer increasing costs to repair. The cost becomes fixed.

It makes it so over time you have to pay more to keep most likely a good enchantment so I think it works perfectly. Yes it is over time not worth it but would you rather try to get that enchantment again?

Quote from johnqnobody

L=B_k+(n_k-1)*I_k+E+2*A+I_k

Ugh, too orderly! Is one little pointless operation or ÷ by 0 too much to ask?

Someone else already said it, but I'm not sure who's listening.
Naming an item increases its repair cost once, but it also prevents the price from going up from repeated repairs. If you personalize it, it becomes easier to maintain indefinitely.
And what's complicated about that function? It's all multiplication and addition, with one little subtraction. Bro, do you even math? Crunching functions like that is the easy part of the simple bits when you get into the interesting stuff. Honestly, I was expecting to find a natural log function or something in there. That's got a lot of factors, but every part is simple.

Quote from DoubleDongle

Someone else already said it, but I'm not sure who's listening.
Naming an item increases its repair cost once, but it also prevents the price from going up from repeated repairs. If you personalize it, it becomes easier to maintain indefinitely.

this. this. this!

if OP ever saw the algorithms that go into coding anything they'd realise why their post is ridiculous