Minecraft’s Wild Update is still hot off the presses, which means that Mojang has given very little indication of what might be next. It’ll probably be many months before the sandbox game’s next major update, but both Mojang and its fans are always looking to the future.Minecraftcould evolve in a variety of ways in the next major update, ranging from classic biome overhauls to a once-teased rework of combat. Mojang may want to look into updating a more specific feature of the game, however: enchanting, one of the most fundamental forms of player progression in Survival.
Enchanted items make a world of difference inMinecraft.With the help ofMinecraftenchantments, players can earn vastly more ore while mining, obliterate monsters, and enhance their own durability more than armor alone can. Still, while the system is engaging, the list of enchantments available largely favors certain types of items and doesn’t tap into a variety of other potential uses for the system. Mojang would be wise to attempt to rectify this in a future update. Enchanting inMinecraftwould be far more engaging if players had a wider variety of possible enchantments to get, new enchantments for certain blocks, and perhaps even a better way to control the enchantments they get.
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How Minecraft Could Improve Enchanting
At the moment, theMinecraftenchanting system heavily favors combat. Players can choose from a wide variety of useful buffs for their weapons and armor, including a lot ofenchantments that are exclusive toMinecraft’s swords, bows, helmets, boots, and so on. In contrast,Minecrafttools fall a little by the wayside. The game does feature some excellent tool enchantments like Fortune and Silk Touch, but the list of options is far shorter than the combat enchantment list, andMinecraftalso favors offering enchantments for crucial tools like pickaxes while leaving more niche tools like compasses and spyglasses without their own special enchantments.
In order to helpMinecraftplayers get more mileage out of their enchanting tables,Minecraftshould add lots of new enchantments for both niche tools and even some blocks. For instance, compasses could get detection enchantments that make them point towards certain types ofMinecraftmobs, while spyglasses could get an enchantment that lets players see through a certain number of blocks. Utility blocks also have a lot of untapped enchanting potential. Furnace enchantments could improve fuel efficiency or experience gains, chest enchantments could raise storage capacity, and so on, all while making aMinecraftplayer’s home look more magical.
Aside from adding a wide array of enchantments, the system could use some other quality of life changes in the future. For instance,enchanting inMinecraftis heavily luck based, since players can’t always see everything they’re going to get from an enchantment. While this encourages repeated use of the table, it can be frustrating for fans struggling to get good enchantments on a favorite item.Minecraftshouldn’t just hand out all the best enchantments for free, but it would be interesting if players could spend certainMinecraftitems like glowstone, redstone, or amethyst alongside lapis lazuli to increase the odds of getting certain types of enchantments.
Enchanting may have a decent chance of getting broader changes in the next big update, since Mojang has been teasingchanges toMinecraft’s combat, which include at least one new axe-exclusive enchantment. In the process, it might add a variety of other options; at the very least, Mojang ought to add shield enchantments in the process. Of course, it hasn’t been confirmed if combat is the focus of the next big update; if Mojang focuses on updating moreMinecraftbiomes, then enchanting will probably fall by the wayside. Hopefully this doesn’t happen, though. Enchanting is a great part of theMinecraftSurvival experience, and it deserves to get freshened up.
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