[MC-148986] Low-tier enchants from lv.30 standard enchanting setups

Spent some time recreating this after I got several "terrible" enchantments in my survival world.
some testing and enchanting was done with wooden tools which have a higher enchantability than diamond and even with wooden tools, I got very low-tier enchantments

(source for enchantability)[ https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Enchantment_mechanics#Step_one_-_Applying_modifiers_to_the_enchantment_level

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MC-142359 Level 30 enchanting can give lower enchantments such as unbreaking I Resolved

MC-148742 Tool enchantments given by enchanting tables aren't as good Resolved

MC-149296 High Level Enchants giving low level enchantments Resolved

MC-150513 Enchanting system either changed or it's not working how it should Resolved

MC-151077 Fortunte III Enchantment-rate dropped Resolved

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Frecho 2019-04-21T21:47:57Z

Also experiencing this, I assumed it was a undocumented feature, as the low tier enchantments only appear along high tier ones, never alone (in my experience), like a little bonus of sorts.

Gorchard 2019-04-22T17:30:06Z

Enchantability of all items seems to have dropped. It is tremendously difficult to find enchantments like fortune 3 and sharpness 4 on both diamond items and books.

S A 2019-04-23T22:03:14Z

Can confirm. I repeatedly get eff. 1 or quick charge 1 on books.

Jeremie Dexter 2019-05-06T13:49:56Z

This started happening to me yesterday. There are only a handful of available enchantments (power, sharpness, punch, pierce, protection, maybe one or two more) and they are only ever level 1, no matter the enchanting level you select. Sometimes 1 or more of the enchanting tiers will not appear on the enchanting table user interface, regardless of whether you have a high enough level to enchant.

Ouishi 2019-05-08T12:34:58Z

I managed to get alot of eff. 4, unbreaking 3 when enchanting level 30. My problem is that some enchantments are very rare. The rates seemed different/wrong.

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AgentM 2019-05-10T16:49:19Z

Confirmed and ran tests
Results are found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/b7gajr/did_fortune_iii_probability_get_changed_since/

To summarize, rates changed without mention. Newer rates are way lower than advertised and make getting for example looting III nearly impossible, while before it was more common.

Lautner 2019-05-12T11:56:25Z

The same thing happens to me and other members on our SMP
Hoping it will be fixed for 1.14.1

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coschevi 2019-05-15T16:05:20Z

As you all have noticed, we did in fact change how enchanting works in 1.14. The reason behind this change was to peak the probability of getting the rare high level enchantments at level 30 rather than level ~26 as it has been previously. While this change was meant to fix this issue, it has illuminated a completely different issue in the enchanting system that you all have taken notice to. We are not completely happy with the enchantment system as it is, and will be making adjustments to it, but these changes will not make it into any dot release of 1.14. So, for now, this bug will be marked as WAI.

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Shinui Lee 2019-05-15T20:14:26Z

Thank you for your response! I hope this means enchanting will be getting an overhaul in 1.15/1.16 🙂 so that's why you guys aren't touching it yet.

BowTieDaniels 2019-05-16T16:35:15Z

If it's not going to be fixed in a 1.14 release then will it be reverted until the problem can be properly addressed?

SullyTheUnusual 2019-05-16T17:28:43Z

Thanks for the reply, Cory. I'm happy you plan on fixing it, but sad that it's going to be like this for so long as it's quite a crippling change. I really hope you'll consider reverting or fixing it for a dot release of 1.14.

Hiram Webb 2019-05-23T04:03:42Z

Let my add my voice to the mix. My little community has been eagerly/impatiently awaiting the repair of this bug. We've found it rather crippling for our style of survival game play. We're really disappointed to hear that you don't intend to fix this at this point. We'd much prefer a reversion to the current state 😞. As is, we're considering rolling back to 1.13 over this issue and holding out for 1.15

Justerfrog 2019-05-23T11:43:33Z

my opinion on this: the table should have medium-level enchantments so you still have to work for the max, but there is still reason to max the table.

TheFlyingEpergne 2019-05-23T13:01:00Z

I don't understand what the issue is with reverting it until they can properly fix it. Right now enchanting is so unrewarding that it's better to afk fish farm for books than to use the enchantment table in its current state.

Just revert the change until the new system is properly working.

FaRo1 2019-05-25T14:28:33Z

@unknown Then WAI is not the right resolution, it should be re-resolved as "postponed".

Arcensoth 2019-05-25T17:54:07Z

Agreed with Fabian. Marking it was "WAI" will mislead posterity into believing this is how enchanting is meant to work, which, as per Cory's comment, does not seem to be the case. Not to mention these changes were never officially announced, causing great confusion for survival players.

Grenadith 2019-05-30T00:10:39Z

I'll contribute my thoughts as well-

This is a major game issue in hard survival mode. Enchanting has become such a huge part of progressing in the game, and with the way it is now, I've spent 6 hours grinding XP in hopes of getting anything good out of enchanting, only to be disappointed over and over. It is INCREDIBLY unrewarding, and requires more attention than it's receiving.

I strongly agree with Fabian and Arcensoth- this should not be marked as "WAI". It is obviously not working as intended when level 3 enchantments are giving me books with only "Piercing I" and the like. I have been very confused for the last week about why I was having such terrible luck, because it wasn't listed as any type of official change to the game. Please consider the fact that many people rely on enchantments.