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I finally hit L50 to get the highest level enchant, and am stuck clicking, and clicking, and clicking, and clicking, and clicking trying to get a L50 enchant to pop up in my enchanting table.

Please add one variable, a loop to check the players current level, another nestled loop to check # of unobstructed bookshelves present, and a back and forward button on the enchantment book so we can choose our enchantment level.

not only is this such a simple solution, you don't get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Honestly, I don't think it was intended to be this hard. If it was, enchanting is just fail. plain and simple.

running edit:
-L50 enchant found and screenshot on page 2.
-several hours and over 5000 clicks to get it to show up.
-still only saw a L49 once through the whole process.

-ANYONE THAT ADDS AN IDEA TO THIS THREAD, NO MATTER HOW STUPID, AS LONG AS IT TRIES TO SOLVE THE CURRENT FAILED 'DICE ROLLING' SYSTEM THAT'S IN PLACE, WILL GET A +1 FROM ME.

why ducks if they would be identical to chickens? this doesn't really add anything except dying a chicken yellow with pigment.

love the paddles idea.

whales would have to be as rare as mushroom island to be 'rare and mysterious'. ocean biomes are really not that big with a boat...

i've wanted sharks since, forever.

there is already an enchant for a helm that lets you stay underwater longer.

please expand more on the seaweed idea. what exactly does it do for the player?

there are already openings and caves in the bottom of the ocean. look closely....... they are there. and yes they do have mobs and chests in them. a lot of the time they are abandoned mineshafts.

how would a flood occur naturally? the dynamic for water would have to change. maybe excess rain can cause flooding if not a properly sealed area or house...

a shark is a fish mob, you duplicated your earlier idea. and there are fish also. there are also squid.

you use a fishing pole to catch fish. what would a net bring that a fishing pole doesn't? more fish? it would be overpowered if it caught more than one fish at a time. try steak from cows, it heals more anyway.

what would seagulls add that chickens don't?

what would sargassum add that lily pads don't?

i like the paralyze from jellyfish.

please fix the animal ai so that when they wander out into the water, they 'seek' the nearest land after a minute. it is not normal for cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep to be floating out in the ocean in herds as much as they are.

something i've noticed since animals don't really despawn anymore is that animals find their way out into open water and 'get stuck' out there. what i mean by this is that moving speed is slower in water, since animals 'wander', all animals will eventually find themselves out to sea with no real way to get back to land; helplessly swimming around for days or weeks on end. searching for animals, for me in my map, requires a boat now instead of a proverbial 'walking stick'.

im not saying that it's not unrealistic to see an occasional animal out in the water, but after a good 24 hours (real time) in a map, the best place to find a cow is in the middle of the ocean, as far as i've noticed.

what im saying is that something needs to be fixed in the code that makes animals have a propensity to want to seek land after being in the water for a certain amount of time.

Quote from Muro45

Soo wait... WHAT! Now only question which version of minecraft are these coming?

no, the real question is 'are the endermen going to grief their own pillars?'

Quote from Bill545

Do you think the potions will affect you as far as health? Or will it give you get an attack boost to kill mobs?
Suggestions will be approved as well as discussion about the new potions for 1.9.

there are tons of threads that already contain info on what the potions will be ingame.

for suggestions, please post in the suggestions forums.

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However, there are more and more updates coming that don't seem to match what I initially had interpreted as 'Minecraft'.

i read your whole post and am commenting on this one sentence.

the minecraft you know and love from 1.2 or 1.3 is exactly the same as pre-release 3 for 1.9 except for the food bar.

using any or all of these additions is completely optional.

you still start out having to punch trees.

Quote from renadi

read the damn sticky
this thread is spam.

seriously, i think we're the only ones that read the sticky patch notes before posting.

i clicked your plus.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/651591-►-update19-new-features-official-report-on-new-features-part-3-is-released/

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Ok, a few things.

"You bought the game in Beta, you should've expected changes."
Yes I did, but not these kind.

My further answer to that quote:
"You came into 1.9 Discussion. So expect a mix of praise and complaints/opinions."
This is 1.9 DISCUSSION. Not 1.9 PRAISE.

the only thing that has changed from the old minecraft that you're talking about to the new one is the way you regenerate your health. and you even have the ability to disable it by playing on peaceful.

i dont understand your complaints at all.

you absolutely do not have to use the new content. its not required to be successful or whatever you consider successful in a game that has no end.

if you need hp, eat food and wait.

the poll is actually quite misleading to the OP's post.

someone 'can' miss the old minecraft but still be excited for the new content, which is where i fall.

you're forcing people to say that they do not miss the old minecraft in order to disagree with your opinion that the new minecraft sucks.

a more appropriate poll would be 'do you like the old minecraft more than the new', yes, no, whatever.

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since tnt has great potential energy, and since the enchanting system is a complete dependent on magical randomness, how about placing tnt next to the bookshelves increases the chance of a high level enchant to come up.

Umm...that one sounds ridiculously dangerous.

Hmm...since Diamonds seem to be a key component, and so does Obsidian, how about "feeding" the table more raw materials to raise its base value? Or just the presence of Obsidian and Diamond blocks counts as well as Bookshelves...possibly moreso...such that a library with a Diamond roof and Obsidian floor is even better.

What do you guys think?

I think it make sense :unsure.gif:

Here's a thought...

How about if you have to choose how much of your experience you'll spend before you get any enchantments to choose from? You can pay in as much as you want. You can't get an enchant of higher level than what you pay, but you will also get no lower than half that amount. There would still be a chance of not getting a Lv. 50, but it would be much lower due to the fact that most lower-level enchantments would be excluded at that point.

Really there's only one solution needed - non-random enchants. How it gets there almost doesn't matter to me, but I'll make a suggestion for one possible way that I would like. Let the players spend XP to unlock a enchantment type and level. From then on, you can only use unlocked enchantments to enchant your items, but it doesn't cost any further XP.

I don't care if that makes enchantment "easy". So what if it does? MC isn't a hard-core grinding RPG. It should be fun, fast and simple. Not some magic slot machine.

Puzzles!
I like puzzles!

Perhaps you can select which level enchantment AND which enchantment you want, and then you are given a sliding puzzle of varying difficulty in proportion to the level of the enchant you want (more puzzle pieces for higher levels, less for lower)
Then you have to complete said puzzle in a given time.
If you fail, you start over.

note: the pictures in the sliding puzzle should use the images from the in-game paintings, or perhaps more 'evil' looking images with the same resolution.

although i dont have 1.9pre5, when it comes out i dont want to click click click to get an enchantment i want.

P.S. Get two of the same tool and be swaping them in the enchantment box, now you only need to do one click to see new enchantments

Change the name and ingredients, I hate how Ender-things are getting so much overhype.

Otherwise this is overpowered. A lot. Getting mushroom things without looking for a biome? Too easy. Getting Nether materials - specially glowstone - without the dangers of lava and ghasts, as well as farming blaze rods without finding a fortress? Not only it's OP but it takes originality away from the Nether.

And stop bumping. It won't make your idea better.

Random enchantments is a terrible mechanic. Changing how the randomness work doesn't fix the root problem. The player should get a list of options with associated XP cost. My hope is that the first iteration of enchantment is just a proof of concept. Mojang wants to just get the magic out there and see how it goes. Hopefully the next release (the final one?) will have the enchantment system fully implemented.

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Here's what I think:
Every time you use a certain enchantment table, its average enchantment level would go up. So even if you don't have that many bookshelves, an enchantment table that you've used many times still sometimes gives you medium-to-high level enchantments.
If this was implemented, an enchantment table that you'd used many times would be more likely to give a lvl 50 enchantment (especially if you have tons of bookshelves)

Also, OP, if you could provide a screenshot or two of your enchantment room or area, someone may be able to determine your problem.

This would still cause a problem for people who don't want to waste many levels in order to get their premium enchants and on top of that if the average was high and you want to enchant something with 5 levels or 20 you'd have to get a new one and then after a while that one would be useless so on and so forth. >.<

Maybe level should give more chance to raise level of basic upgrades and special ones like silk touch and water breathing are the only ones that require a special item, idk.

Here's what I think:
Every time you use a certain enchantment table, its average enchantment level would go up. So even if you don't have that many bookshelves, an enchantment table that you've used many times still sometimes gives you medium-to-high level enchantments.
If this was implemented, an enchantment table that you'd used many times would be more likely to give a lvl 50 enchantment (especially if you have tons of bookshelves)

Also, OP, if you could provide a screenshot or two of your enchantment room or area, someone may be able to determine your problem.