A simple yet effective idea I had was for emeralds to be usable as "disenchanters" for items. Basically, when you get an enchantment you don't like, you can craft an emerald with that item to turn it back to normal. The item's durability will stay the same, and the emerald will be destroyed.
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Why would you ever want to remove an enchantment? It would be more efficient to work with the one you have and just wait to enchant another.
This would have made more sense in the 1.2.5 enchanting system to be honest.
You just spent 50 levels on a sword and got Knockback 2. You don't want to waste any more diamonds on a new sword because Knockback 2 alone stinks, so you disenchant it with an emerald.
Or (which is probably more possible with the current system) you spend 30 levels on a diamond pick, get Efficiency IV/III, get angry for wasting your levels, and disenchant the item.
Or you just enchant a weapon with a low level enchantment with the thought of just making another weapon to enchant when you have more levels, only to find that when you do have 30 levels that you don't have enough diamonds for a new sword.
It's pretty much for when you are low on materials and don't want to make/can't make another tool to repair it to disenchant it, but you somehow have an emerald. Considering that an emerald is (in my book) more valuable than a diamond tool, it's a little worthless. On the flipside, as said by the person above, it's good for disenchanting diamond armor. But, in all honesty, that's all it's good for.
Why would you ever want to remove an enchantment? It would be more efficient to work with the one you have and just wait to enchant another.
Say you have an XP farm, but only 3 diamonds, and you want a decent diamond pick, then all you get is silk touch. With this idea you could give it another shot, as long as you are willing to get the levels again.
Sir, to repair a diamond chestplate, you must waste 9 diamonds. I'd rather use an emerald, or, even better, a piece of lapis, giving lapis some worth.
I think lapis might be a little unbalanced, as it is quite easy to obtain.
For people saying "Why not just repair the tool or make a new one?", the emerald would be lest costly than making an entire new tool, or one to repair it with. If I got a crappy enchantment on a diamond helmet, I'd much rather use an emerald to change it back than use 5 diamonds to repair/replace it.
I still don't see why you should use an emerald instead of a lapis. You are losing more than you can get from it, since emeralds are rare and you will lose your all the xp you used just to enchant the weapon.
Essentially, using the emerald on a diamond pick that has a bad enchantment would be saving you a diamond pick. It should take something valuable to be able to do so. Also, lapis is meant to be a tool for decoration, and IMO has a lot of uses.
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If you knew for sure that the next 5 iron swords are used for your mob grinder where there won't be any spiders you wouldn't want to have Bane of Athropods on all of them.
Also, I agree with the lapis. Maybe use an entire 3x3 grid with lapis blocks or everything filled with lapis blocks except for the middle which might be filled with a gold block to craft some kind of gem to remove existing enchantments. Not much of a waste since you can get 1 to 1 1/2 stacks of lapis (~9 blocks) from a single lapis vein if you have a Fortune III pickaxe.
Well, I don't grind, so that kind of nit-pickiness is irrelevant for me.
1) Still better off using what the diamond pick has instead of disenchanting it IMO.
2) Alot of uses? Tell me what other uses they have besides to dye wool, dye sheep, mix it with another dye and make a lapis block.
1) You would disenchant the pick with the sole purpose of enchanting it again, I don't know what you thought it was for.
2) Those are the things lapis is for. I use all mine personally, putting lapis above leafblocks and outlining them in glowstone makes nice looking ceilings.
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This would have made more sense in the 1.2.5 enchanting system to be honest.
You just spent 50 levels on a sword and got Knockback 2. You don't want to waste any more diamonds on a new sword because Knockback 2 alone stinks, so you disenchant it with an emerald.
Or (which is probably more possible with the current system) you spend 30 levels on a diamond pick, get Efficiency IV/III, get angry for wasting your levels, and disenchant the item.
Or you just enchant a weapon with a low level enchantment with the thought of just making another weapon to enchant when you have more levels, only to find that when you do have 30 levels that you don't have enough diamonds for a new sword.
It's pretty much for when you are low on materials and don't want to make/can't make another tool to repair it to disenchant it, but you somehow have an emerald. Considering that an emerald is (in my book) more valuable than a diamond tool, it's a little worthless. On the flipside, as said by the person above, it's good for disenchanting diamond armor. But, in all honesty, that's all it's good for.
Say you have an XP farm, but only 3 diamonds, and you want a decent diamond pick, then all you get is silk touch. With this idea you could give it another shot, as long as you are willing to get the levels again.
I think lapis might be a little unbalanced, as it is quite easy to obtain.
For people saying "Why not just repair the tool or make a new one?", the emerald would be lest costly than making an entire new tool, or one to repair it with. If I got a crappy enchantment on a diamond helmet, I'd much rather use an emerald to change it back than use 5 diamonds to repair/replace it.
Essentially, using the emerald on a diamond pick that has a bad enchantment would be saving you a diamond pick. It should take something valuable to be able to do so. Also, lapis is meant to be a tool for decoration, and IMO has a lot of uses.
Well, I don't grind, so that kind of nit-pickiness is irrelevant for me.
1) You would disenchant the pick with the sole purpose of enchanting it again, I don't know what you thought it was for.
2) Those are the things lapis is for. I use all mine personally, putting lapis above leafblocks and outlining them in glowstone makes nice looking ceilings.