RLCraft Villager Tomes

Initial release.

Enchanted books you find become permanent villager trades. Works out of the box with no setup.

Teaching

Hold an enchanted book, sneak and right-click a villager. The book is consumed and that enchantment becomes a trade you can come back to forever.

Sneaking is the trigger for a reason specific to 1.12: vanilla refuses to open a villager's trade screen while you are sneaking, so it is a click that would otherwise do nothing. That leaves the plain right-click free for trading, even with a book in hand.

Any villager, any profession, by default. Five different enchantments per villager.

Upgrading

Anvil rules. Give a villager that already sells Unbreaking II another Unbreaking II and the trade becomes Unbreaking III. A higher-level book replaces the trade outright; a lower one is refused and handed back rather than wasted.

Upgrading never uses a slot, so a villager at its five-enchantment cap can still be improved.

Price

Ten emeralds per level, plus one book. Mending I costs 10, Unbreaking III costs 30, Sharpness V costs 50. The book goes in the first slot and the emeralds in the second, the same order vanilla's own librarian trades use, so a taught trade reads the same as a natural one.

Every part of that is configurable, including separate multipliers for each rarity tier and an extra one for treasure enchantments if you want Mending to cost real money.

Modded enchantments

Enchantments are read from the registry at runtime rather than being hard-coded, so anything your pack adds works with no patch. In RLCraft that means Spellproof, Adept, Freezing, Inner Berserk, Penetration and the rest of the SoManyEnchantments set are all teachable.

Trades that never lock

1.12 has a genuine design flaw here: a villager only restocks as a side effect of being traded with, so once every trade is exhausted there is nothing left to use, nothing schedules a refresh, and that villager is bricked permanently.

NEVER_LOCK_TAUGHT_TRADES is on by default and keeps this mod's trades usable forever. NEVER_LOCK_ANY_TRADE is off by default and extends that to every trade on any villager you click, which fixes the flaw outright at the cost of uncapping emerald farming.

Config

36 settings in config/rlcraftvillagertomes.cfg or Mods → RLCraft Villager Tomes → Config, read live with no restart. Covers which villagers and which enchantments qualify, the tome cap, level ceilings, the full price formula, trade stock, and chat/sound/particle feedback.

/villagertomes list shows what the villager you are looking at knows and what each trade costs. teach, forget and clear require op. Aliased to /tomes and /vt.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.12.2, Forge 14.23.5.2847+
• No dependencies.

Server-side. Clients do not need the mod installed.

Install

Download RLCraftVillagerTomes-1.0.0.jar below and drop it in your mods folder.

Unofficial addon, not affiliated with the RLCraft or RLCraft Dregora teams. Licensed MIT.