Bukkit

I got tired of waiting for an update to Thebombzen's EnchantView mod. So I went ahead and made my own enchantment previewer.

This plugin does not require a client mod!

How it works.

Barely... Getting to the relevant data and using it in any manner was quite a hassle. MC normally generates the enchantments on an item in the last possible moment, i.e. when you click on the button. To circumvent this i had to pre-generate the enchanted item when you plug it in the table, save the pregenerated items and then override the enchanting process. (Believe me, it's not pretty.) The enchantment values are then (temporarily) added to the the item's Lore which enables the client to display them in the item tooltip.

But how do I use it?

Easy, just plug the .jar in the plugin directory and give yourself and anybody else you want to access it the permission "enchantpeek.allow". Ops are allowed per default. If you put an enchantable item on an enchanting table, the tooltip will be updated with 3 rows showing you what you get for the listed price.

Known problems

• The lore sometimes seems to stay in the tooltip until you close the enchantment table.
• There might be some caveats with books, those weren't tested very well.

Screenshots

And here is a small screenshot "tutorial" which visually explains how this works.

Source

GitHub