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.

⚒️ 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.

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.

🎲 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:

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

✨ Bonus Pools

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.

🌟 Rare Abilities

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

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.

🧪 Recipes

Enhancement Ingot — Tiered Recipes

Jelly Ingot — Tiered Recipes

Protection Jelly

Repair Ingot

Enhanced Anvil

⚙️ 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.