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@ursak

While storing XP in a pearl does lower the player's level, my calculations are done based on amounts of exp, so it doesn't make it "faster" to level, just a little safer (like a bank with no interest).

If you're level 10, and you put all your XP into the pearl, you'll be 0. When you then level up to 10 and eat the pearl, you'll become level 14.5, exactly as if you hadn't used the pearl.

@moneybagman

In a pvp server, when you kill a player normally they drop what, 1/4th of their exp? Half if you're lucky? If they're holding any pearls, thats a perfect transference (of the exp in their pearls), just like how all their items are perfectly dropped (if they had a stack of gold bars killers don't get 20-30 of them, they get 64!), which I think is a useful mechanic. Also an exp tax would reduce trading I'd think, but since its been asked before sure I'll add it.

Edit: 1.3.2 here you go :D

@RDBruski

Not positive what you're asking in (1), but using /pearlxp 8 will attempt to store 8 levels into the current pearl (its not an admin command: it cannot store more levels than you have nor more than the maxlevel config), its just useful if you're hoping to give someone exactly 5 levels or something. I'd imagine most users would just right click to store as much as they can (up to the maxlevel per pearl setting) rather than bother with the command.

@douglast5

Here you go! Configs 'chatcolor' and 'chatcolorerror' for your organization :D

@j2ther Updated the main post to better articulate this, but /pearlxp with no arguments will tell you how much XP is in the held pearl, and right clicking a block will too (right clicking air with an unimbued pearl/eye would throw it though, careful)

@j2ther

:D!

@EKO9

Glad you think so! I suppose I'm just bad at marketing. v1.3 still works on 1.2.5 as it has since 1.1R5.

@rbos

Stacking/unstacking eyes/pearls is fine when the player does it, but when code does it its both more complicated and a bit jarring for the user in my opinion. Say you have a full inventory besides one slot in the middle, and you try to use a stack of 6 pearls in your quickbar. One pearl pops off, becomes an eye, and lands in the middle of your inventory. "Where'd the pearl go? It disappeared along with my exp-oh there it is". Plus, then I have to loop through all those slots looking for either an empty space or an eye which has the same enchantment level, and throw an error if theres no space at all. Doable, just a bit bug-prone.

You'd want the eyes to be unstackable? I could add that as a config setting, default off, though theres no serverside way to specify maxstacksize, perhaps by giving each imbued eye a totally random enchantment+level alongside the specific water enchantment I use for tracking.

XP Tax? I don't like the gameplay mechanic myself, in my opinion needing pearls is enough of a cost for the minor security they provide (if you die you still have to get the Eye back before it despawns), and I worry a tax would make people avoid the pearls altogether and just take their chances. I initially did break the eye on xp restore, but I realized between dying while lost and thieves there was plenty of opportunity to lose precious pearls and by making them single use you can't load up your 5 levels, wait a bit, restore 5 load 7, wait, restore 7 load 10. Again if you want it as an option I wouldn't mind adding it, would just be default off.

@rbos

Here you go, v1.3, now with Eyes of Ender for the imbued visual! Old imbued pearls still work just the same, though they're now even rarer :P Also, I'm stopping right-click-block with both kinds of both pearls, so its safe to right click a block to check imbued status. Right clicking air with a non imbued pearl/eye does throw it though.