Inscription

Inscription gives any game enchantment at the level you need — exactly, with no enchanting-table lottery. The same Confluence altar writes it: the thing under the Heart, the inscription's things on the plinths, distillate in vessels nearby, a touch of the Conduit. The enchanting table keeps its place: it is cheap and random, the altar exact but a rite. Entries — Inscription and Forgotten Enchantments.

How to inscribeCopy Anchor Link

1. On the central plinth — a thing the enchantment fits (as with an anvil: Sharpness — swords and axes, Protection — armor), or a book: a plain one comes out an Enchanted Book, into an Enchanted Book the enchantment joins the others. The book is then put on the thing with an anvil.
2. On the side plinths — the inscription's level I things (2–4, each enchantment its own; the table below) and one opaline for every level above the first: Sharpness III — flint, flint, an iron ingot and two Opaline.
3. Distillate — the enchantment's currents in vessels or a Gyre within twelve blocks.
4. Before you start, the Heart tells what will come out: "Ready: Sharpness III · distillate: 24", the Confluence tier and whether there is enough calm. A touch of the Conduit begins.

To start with — Sharpness I on a sword: two flints, an iron ingot and two parts each of Bane, Edge and Lattice. It is a simple Confluence: a bare altar holds it any day or night.

Level and priceCopy Anchor Link

• The level is how many opalines: 1 + the opalines on the plinths. No higher than the enchantment's top level, and higher than what the thing already has: Sharpness II rises to IV with three opalines.
• Every level costs twice as much distillate: Sharpness I — 6 parts, Sharpness V — 96. Raising from one level to another costs only the difference — what was paid for earlier levels is not taken again.
• Every other enchantment on the thing makes the price a quarter higher (weavings do not count here).
• Reach stones lower the price, as for any Confluence.
• A higher level means more things and distillate, and so a higher Confluence tier: Sharpness I is simple, Sharpness III mid, Sharpness V great — it needs weirs and calm stones.

Rules and refusalsCopy Anchor Link

Inscription does not get around the rules of the world — the Heart tells you why a thing will not take the inscription:

• conflict: one thing will not take Sharpness, Smite and Bane of Arthropods together; the protections with each other; Fortune and Silk Touch; Mending and Infinity; Frost Walker and Depth Strider; Loyalty and Channeling with Riptide; Multishot and Piercing;
• above the top: more opalines than the enchantment has levels;
• already there: the thing has this level or higher;
• the wrong thing: Sharpness on a pickaxe — put a book or a thing the enchantment fits.

Inscription writes no curses.

Forgotten EnchantmentsCopy Anchor Link

Mending, Frost Walker, Soul Speed, Swift Sneak and Wind Burst the enchanting table never gives — they are found only in chests and with villagers. The currents remember them, and the altar writes them the same way, only harder: none of them is ever a simple Confluence. Mending is always great: build the altar with weirs and calm stones.

The table of inscriptionsCopy Anchor Link

Plinth things and distillate are for level I; "to the top" is the distillate from a bare thing up to the top level.

Compound currents (Bane, Edge, Ward…) come from source things and the Mixing Vat. Every inscription is data: in the Confluence reference.

The Flux SheathCopy Anchor Link

Besides the game's enchantments, Inscription writes one of its own — the Flux Sheath (I–V): a shield over armor, golden hearts of absorption that fill up again from the land's flux. Each level on a piece of armor or a trinket setting gives half a heart of shield; all you wear together — no more than ten hearts. The shield tops up half a heart every two seconds, a unit of chunk flux at your feet; in a murky chunk it does not charge. It is written the same way: the thing in the middle, two pinches of quickdust and an opaline for every level above the first; Ward and Halo in vessels. Entry — Flux Sheath.

The Unweaving ClothCopy Anchor Link

The Unweaving Cloth moves one enchantment of a thing into a book whole, at the same level — a grindstone would erase it. Put the cloth, the thing and a plain book on a crafting table: the cloth pulls out the rarest enchantment (among equally rare — the highest level) and lays it into the book; the thing keeps the rest. It does not touch curses. Without a book the cloth unravels the thing's last weaving — and the tension goes with it. The cloth has 24 threads: a transfer costs a thread per level, a forgotten enchantment twice as much, a weaving three. Entry — Unweaving Cloth.

Rite RepairCopy Anchor Link

Confluence mends a worn thing with its own material and leaves everything on it: enchantments, weavings, the Forge's tempering. The anvil's work cost does not grow — a thing the anvil no longer takes ("Too Expensive!") the rite mends again and again. Entry — Rite Repair.

• The thing on the central plinth, pieces of its material on the side ones (iron for iron, diamonds for diamond): a piece is a quarter of durability; the Heart will not take extra pieces.
• Distillate by wear: two parts of Craft per quarter and half the currents of the material itself. An iron pickaxe worn by a tenth needs three parts, worn by nine tenths nineteen.
• It is a simple Confluence; a costly thing with heavy wear makes it mid. A thing with no repair material (a bow, a fishing rod) the rite does not mend.

What nextCopy Anchor Link

• The altar, calm and weirs: Confluence.
• Enchantment distillate — from vessels and the Gyre: Vessels, Siphons and Distilling.
• The Memory Obelisk saves experience for the anvil: Artifice Devices.