Hidden Enchantments
by bosscjgioia
Hidden Enchantments is a small NeoForge mod that adds seven new enchantments, most of which stay out of the enchanting table and turn up in ancient cities or librarian trades.
What it does
Seven enchantments are added. Four of them, Shocked, Crippling, Replant and Night Vision, can appear on the enchanting table at normal scaling. The other three, Lifesteal, Smelter and Homing, cannot be rolled on the table at all. They are found in ancient city chests, where each chest has a 3% chance of holding an enchanted book, or bought from librarian villagers, who sell them at double the emerald price that vanilla treasure books cost.
Homing arrows curve toward a target up to 50 blocks away, but only when the target is in line of sight and not behind a wall. Other enchantments in the set are Lifesteal, Smelter, Replant and Multishot, and several pairs are mutually exclusive: Lifesteal blocks Mending, Smelter blocks Silk Touch, and Homing blocks Multishot. The set is tuned by hand, and each enchantment has its own tooltip, with the name in a color and a gray description line below it that explains the effect, similar to how potions show their effects.
Testing of the mod was carried out on Minecraft 1.21.1 using NeoForge. Its jar is the same on client and server and works on dedicated servers. Installing NeoForge is the only prerequisite. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source.
Key features
Seven new enchantments
Shocked, Crippling, Replant and Night Vision appear on the table, while Lifesteal, Smelter and Homing are treasure-only.
Homing arrows
Arrows curve toward a target within 50 blocks that the shooter is aiming near, provided the line of sight is clear.
Mutually exclusive pairs
Lifesteal conflicts with Mending, Smelter with Silk Touch, and Homing with Multishot, so each combination is limited.
Detailed tooltips
Each enchantment shows its name in color and a gray line below it that states what the effect does.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
1.21.x11 of 11 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Basic Enchantments is an open source Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt mod for 1.21.1, with the MIT License, and only the server needs it. Lifesteal Enchantment from silvers covers 1.21.2 – 1.21.8 across the same four loaders, with All rights reserved and only the server needed. Hidden Enchantments is NeoForge only, for 1.21.1 – 1.21.11, and both sides run the same jar.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden Enchantments | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-05-15 |
| Basic Enchantments | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2025-03-09 |
| Lifesteal Enchantment | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 1.21.8 | Server required, client optional | 2025-09-09 |
Questions
Does Hidden Enchantments need to be installed on the server?
Why can't the table roll Lifesteal or Homing?
Which Minecraft versions does the mod support?
In the catalog
Hidden Enchantments is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,992 Magic mods for NeoForge. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Hidden Enchantments A small, hand-tuned NeoForge mod that adds seven new enchantments to Minecraft. Most of them aren't in the enchanting table you find them in ancient city chests and rare librarian trades. No bloat, no power creep, no 50-enchantment dump. Each one does a single specific thing and tells you what it…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/hidden-enchantments
- Owner
- bosscjgioia
- Published
- 2026-05-15
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-15
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
