Reaching high levels in Minecraft is hard, because each level requires more XP than the last.
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\nSince Anvils and Enchantment Tables work off of levels, not off of collected XP, that means the higher your level, the higher the actual cost in terms of XP.
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\nTax Free Levels flattens the curve of the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs , meaning you’ll always pay the same amount of XP, regardless of how high your level gets.
\nIt by default also removes the “Too Expensive!” anvil limit and makes it so that renaming an item always only costs 1 level.
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\nMore precisely:
\nInstead of paying X levels in an Anvil, you pay the amount of XP needed to get from level 0 to X.
\nIf your Enchanting Table has a level requirement of 30, instead of paying 3 levels, you pay the XP needed to get from level 27 to 30.
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\nNote: For version 1.3 the XP cost is always calculated as the amount of XP needed to get from level 30-X to 30, having no effect on costs below player level 30. This behavior can be restored in 1.4 by setting the “Level Base” to 30. Version 1.3 also does not remove the anvil limit.<\/p>\n
* for Minecraft 1.16 and above
\n* requires Cloth Config. Fabric also requires Fabric API. (Both since 1.4)
\n* required on the server and client
\n* (it *does* work server-only, but there’s issues like the “Too Expensive!” message popping up and the level cost not showing correctly when renaming items, but those are purely visual.)
\n* compatible with Draylar1’s Reroll
\n* compatible with Enchanting Overhauled
\n* compatible with Enchanting Infuser
\n* compatible with Charm \/ Charm Reforged’s Grindstone enchantment extraction
\n* compatible with Spectrum’s Bedrock Anvil
\n* compatible with Waystones (older (Neo)Forge versions, newer ones use an XP cost by default. Fabric tip: [Wraith Waystones]([https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/fwaystones](https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/fwaystones)) can set fixed XP cost)
\n* compatible with Apotheosis \/ [Zenith]([https:\/\/www.curseforge.com\/minecraft\/mc-mods\/zenith](https:\/\/www.curseforge.com\/minecraft\/mc-mods\/zenith)) (7.2.0+ \/ 1.0.0+ cost calculation will be replaced, note that the shown XP cost isn’t always accurate)
\n* compatible with Tetra’s Workbench (1.18 – 1.20.1)
\n* compatible with Dis-Enchanting Table (1.21.1 Fabric\/NeoForge, 1.20.1 Fabric\/Forge)
\n* compatible with DisenchantingForge (1.18 – 1.20.1, 1.21.1) and Fabric (1.18 – 1.20.1)
\n* compatible with Twilight Forest’s Uncrafting Table (Forge 1.20.1)
\n* **incompatible** with Balanced Enchanting (the mod does effectively the same thing as this mod, minus all the compatibility stuff, choose one or the other)<\/p>\n
### Comparison<\/p>\n
Say you’ve just slain the Ender Dragon for the first time and reached level 68.
\nIn Vanilla, you can level 3 enchant a total of 13 items.
\nWith Tax Free Levels, this changes to 35 items, your Ender Dragon kill actually counts for something!
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\nSay again, you reached level 68 and want to apply another enchantment on your pick which has a very high repair cost and it’d cost 35 levels.
\nIn Vanilla, you pay 10220 XP (the XP needed to get from level 33 to 68).
\nWith Tax Free Levels, you pay 2045 XP (the XP needed to get from level 0 to 35). <\/p>\n
You’d normally lose 8000 of your 12000 XP dragon reward here and there!<\/p>\n
### No Small Tax<\/p>\n
One small tidbit about vanilla Minecraft is that paying levels doesn’t actually touch the percental experience progress.
\nSince higher levels are worth more XP, this means you actually not only pay levels but also a small amount of XP.
\nTax Free Levels gets rid of this tax as well, even at lower player levels.<\/p>\n
### Attribution
\nThis is meant as a partial replacement for user11681’s limitless, specifically the “level normalization”. No code was taken, only the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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