Andy's Disenchanting Pillar

Overview

Andy's Disenchanting Pillar is a survival-focused Minecraft Bedrock add-on that removes one selected enchantment from an item and preserves it on a new enchanted book.

It behaves like a reverse enchanting workstation: load an enchanted item, blank books, and amethyst shards; select the enchantment you want; review the XP cost; then take the output book to commit the transfer.

The costs are intentionally substantial. Moving a valuable enchantment without destroying the source item is powerful, so the add-on requires mid-game materials and recurring resources to keep the feature useful without making vanilla enchanting, exploration, loot, or anvil progression irrelevant in Survival.

Features

• Removes one chosen enchantment at a time, preserving the others.
• Works with enchanted tools, weapons, armor, and multi-enchantment books.
• A real container-style interface with drag and shift-click support.
• A safe preview before anything is consumed.
• Costs one blank book, configurable XP levels, and configurable amethyst shards (eight per extraction by default).
• Configurable surcharges for Mending and curses.
• Clears hidden vanilla prior-work history so extracted enchantments stay practical to reapply.
• 48 craft-selected vanilla body materials, plus all 16 dyes for recoloring the runes.
• Rune-only emissive rendering with dye-matched floating glyphs and a faint periodic surface glint.
• Vibrant Visuals support using stable Script APIs — no experimental gameplay toggles required.

Three workstation forms

All three forms disenchant items in exactly the same way — same interface, costs, storage, dyes, and effects. The choice between them is purely aesthetic.

• Compact Disenchanting Pillar — a one-block workstation with a stepped body, copper fittings, glowing rune panels, and an amethyst cluster at its crown.
• Tall Disenchanting Pillar — interact with a compact pillar while holding a second matching pillar to form a coordinated two-block model (two blocks is the maximum).
• Disenchanting Altar — a one-block alternate housing with a broad plinth and a directional lectern-style top. Altars do not stack, but have identical capabilities.

Crafting

The compact pillar uses a shaped crafting-table recipe; the two body-material blocks in the bottom corners set the pillar's permanent appearance:

Amethyst Shard | Lapis Block      | Amethyst Shard
Copper Ingot   | Enchanting Table | Copper Ingot
Body Material  | Obsidian         | Body Material

A tall pillar is assembled from two matching compact pillars (place one, hold the other, and interact). An altar is a shapeless recipe: one matching pillar + two copper ingots + one amethyst shard.

Body materials span 48 vanilla blocks across stone, andesite, diorite, granite, tuff, deepslate, earthen, mineral, quartz, sandstone, Nether, and ocean families. The models reference Minecraft's built-in textures — no vanilla texture images are copied into the add-on.

Using a workstation

The interface has slots for the enchanted Item, ordinary Books (up to 64), Amethyst Shards, a selectable Enchantments list, and an Output preview.

1. Interact with the pillar or altar.
2. Place one enchanted item, some ordinary books, and amethyst shards.
3. Select the enchantment row you want to remove and review the XP, shard, and book costs.
4. The prospective book appears in Output — selecting rows is free and consumes nothing.
5. Take the output book to commit the transfer.

One extraction removes only the selected enchantment; repeat with another book and shards to remove more. If the source is an enchanted book, removing its final enchantment converts it back into an ordinary book.

Costs & balance

The normal XP cost scales with enchantment rarity and level, bounded to one through four player levels by default. Mending adds a surcharge, and curses (Binding, Vanishing) are removable but intentionally expensive. Each extraction also consumes one book and eight amethyst shards at default settings.

The balance is deliberate: preserving both the source item and the extracted enchantment is powerful, so requiring an enchanting table in the recipe plus per-transfer books, shards, and XP keeps it a mid-game tool rather than a game-breaking enchantment splitter. World operators can adjust every XP category, surcharge, and shard cost.

Dyeing, visuals & administration

Hold any of the 16 standard dyes and interact to recolor a workstation's runes and floating glyphs — the body material never changes, and color is purely cosmetic. Rune channels stay emissive in darkness, sparse enchanting glyphs float near the workstation, a completed extraction produces a brighter burst, and a faint non-emissive glint sweeps the main faces periodically. The resource pack declares Bedrock's PBR capability for Vibrant Visuals.

World operators can sneak-interact (without a dye) or run /scriptevent adp:admin to adjust base costs, surcharges, and shard cost, or reset to defaults. Each player receives a signed in-game field guide on first load, and a replacement can be crafted from one book + one amethyst shard.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from CurseForge and open the .mcaddon with Minecraft Bedrock.
2. Wait for both included packs to import, then create or edit a world.
3. Activate Andy's Disenchanting Pillar [BP] under Behavior Packs and confirm Andy's Disenchanting Pillar [RP] is active under Resource Packs.
4. Start the world — no experimental gameplay toggles are required.

CurseForge is the authoritative source for supported versions and files. Back up important worlds before installing or updating an add-on version.

Credits & license

Created by Andy The Maker. Copyright © AndyTheMaker 2026 — all rights reserved, except for the separately credited CC0 floating-rune source. You may use the unmodified add-on in personal and multiplayer worlds, Realms, servers, videos, livestreams, reviews, tutorials, and showcases. Do not redistribute, mirror, sell, repackage, or modify and publish it without written permission.

Minecraft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This independent add-on is not an official Minecraft product and is not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.