Anvil and books

Books, combining two items, the anvil cost, overpowering, recharging, and applying a book by clicking.

Books

A book carries an id and a level in its own data. It is drawn with books.name-format (<accent><name> <roman>), the enchantment's description wrapped as on an item, and the books.lore lines under it (@book.hint: "Put this and an item in an anvil."). It shimmers when books.glow is on. Its material is item.book-material (ENCHANTED_BOOK).

The anvil

The server works out its own repair, rename and vanilla result first, and ours is added on top.

Second slot	Result
A book of ours	The book's enchantment is applied under the one rule; a refusal leaves the item as it was
An item with ours	Both sets are summed under the same limit; two of the same enchantment at the same level make the next level, as vanilla does, and a level above the maximum is held at the maximum
`charges.fuel-material`	The item's charges are topped up by `charges.recharge`, when it carries ours

anvil.enabled and acquisition.anvil.enabled must both be on.

The cost

Vanilla says "Too Expensive!" at level forty, and one number solves it. Each enchantment of ours the anvil adds costs base-cost levels times cost-exponent for each one added before it, on top of what the server charged for its own work, and the total is held at 39 so the anvil never refuses. Raising a level adds nothing.

`cost-exponent`	Feel
1.0	Flat: every enchantment costs `base-cost`
1.1	Gentle, the default
1.5	Steep: the fifth costs several times the first
2.0	Doubling: the vanilla feel without the level forty wall

vanilla-costs = true keeps the server's own arithmetic and ignores both numbers.

Overpowering

With anvil.overpowering = true, two of the same enchantment at its maximum may be pushed one level past it, up to the enchantment's own overpower-max. An enchantment that writes none, or a number at or below max-level, cannot be pushed. Only the anvil does this; a table that could would hand out a level no shop sold.

Applying a book by clicking

drag-and-drop {
  enabled   = false
  cost      = 5
  per-level = true
}

On, a left click with a book on the cursor onto a single item in the player's own inventory applies it, for cost experience levels, times the book's level when per-level is on. A stack, a right click and a click in another container are left alone. A refusal answers drop.refused and too few levels drop.too-expensive; neither takes the book nor the levels. Success says drop.applied. It ships off, so a server that upgrades does not find its anvil suddenly optional.

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