User talk:MentalMouse42/Book Mechanics

Starting to analyze book costs.
Use of books clearly doesn't fit neatly into our tables for anvil use. I'm trying to analyze the new rules.

Iron picks
Starting with iron picks and the tool enchantments. All the ingot and sacrifice-repair stuff I've tried matches the current table, so I'm focusing on books, combining various levels of enchanted pick with various books:

Efficiency: 0+N: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 1+N: 2, 2, 4, 5, 7 2+N: X, 3, 3, 4, 6 3+N: X, X, 3, 3, 5 4+N: X, X, X, 4, 4 5+N--> X, X, X, X, 4 N+ Silk Touch: 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 Silk Touch+N: 5, 6, 8, 9, 11

Unbreaking: 0+N:2, 3, 5 1+N: 2, 2, 4 2+N: X, 3, 3 3+N: X, X, 3 N+Silk Touch: 8, 8, 9 Silk Touch +N:  5, 6, 8

Fortune: 0+N: 3, 6, 9 1+N: 4, 4, 7 2+N: X, 5, 5 3+N: X, X, 5 N+Silk Touch: 2, 3, 4 Silk Touch+N: 3, 4, 5

Silk Touch: 0+Silk Touch: 6 Silk Touch+Silk Touch: 6

--Mental Mouse 03:16, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

General Notes

 * 1) Using books is cheaper than combining items.  This is as it should be, since we already paid for books at the enchanting table.
 * 2) Naturally, we're not paying repair costs, either.
 * 3) Interestingly, we don't seem to be paying base-value costs for the target item.