Unknown Curses

Curses start unknown for each player in each world. Unknown curses can appear as scrambled Minecraft obfuscated text, or sometimes pretend to be believable vanilla enchantments.

Examples:

• Curse of Fire can appear as Fire Protection
• Curse of Projectiles can appear as Projectile Protection
• Curse of Explosions can appear as Blast Protection
• Curse of Vulnerability can appear as Protection
• Curse of Counterfeit can appear as Protection
• Curse of Fragility can appear as Unbreaking
• Curse of Pulling can appear as Knockback on melee weapons or Punch on bows and crossbows
• Curse of Backlash can appear as Thorns on armor, Sharpness on melee weapons, or Power on bows and crossbows
• Curse of Concrete Legs can appear as Feather Falling
• Curse of Dead Wings can appear as Unbreaking or Mending

Research

To fully reveal a curse:

• Put a cursed book or cursed item in slot 0 of an enchanting table.
• Put lapis in slot 1.
• Press the Research button.

Base research costs:

• Cursed book: 5 XP levels + 2 lapis
• Cursed item, tool, or armor: 12 XP levels + 4 lapis

Bookshelves matter. Missing bookshelves make research more expensive.

Protection-style fake curses can also enter a middle state: taking matching damage can reveal the real curse name, but the detailed effect stays locked until research.

Ominous Offering

Ominous Offering is a rare enchanting-table option that gives stronger enchantment rolls at the cost of guaranteed curse risk.

Bad Omen makes Ominous Offering and extra curses more likely. Hero of the Village reduces curse pressure.

Ominous Offering can also very rarely roll one vanilla enchantment above its normal max level, controlled by hidden config.

Cursed Boons

Some newly cursed items can receive a small positive boon:

• Weapons can gain attack damage
• Tools can gain mining speed
• Armor can gain armor or toughness
• Bows and crossbows can gain projectile damage

The goal is simple: make players ask, "Is this item worth the curse?"

Cursed Equipping

If an enchanted item receives a visible curse, it can automatically equip into its matching slot so the player cannot dodge the curse by leaving it in the enchanting table.

Hidden fake curses avoid auto-equipping so they do not immediately reveal themselves.

Fake enchantments are item-aware. Weapon curses can disguise themselves as believable weapon enchants such as Sharpness, Knockback, Looting, or Power; armor curses use Protection, Thorns, or a matching protection enchantment. Curses without a convincing match stay scrambled instead of displaying an invalid disguise. The same rules apply to normal tooltips, anvil displays, and debug reports.

Curse of Fragility

Leveled curse. Items can take extra random durability damage when damaged. Can fake as Unbreaking.

Curse of Hunger

Durability loss can consume hunger instead. With Fragility, the hunger cost can become much harsher.

Curse of Echoes

Durability damage can repeat back into the item.

Curse of Soulbinding

Soulbound items stay in your inventory after death and cannot be thrown out or dropped.

Curse of Backlash

When you damage something, there is a chance you take damage yourself.

• Level 1: 8% chance
• Level 2: 17% chance
• Level 3: 25% chance

Can fake as Thorns on armor, Sharpness on melee weapons, or Power on bows and crossbows.

Curse of Blindness

Applies to helmets and anything worn on the head. Can blind the wearer.

Curse of Pulling

When you hit a target, you are pulled toward them. On melee weapons it can fake as Knockback; on bows and crossbows it can fake as Punch. Knockback and Punch make the pull stronger.

Curse of Concrete Legs

Applies to boots and leggings. Reverse Feather Falling: fall damage starts sooner and scales harder.

Curse of No Jumping

Applies to boots and leggings. Blocks normal jumping and swimming upward.

Curse of Curses

Acts like getting hit with all supported curse effects at once. Rare because it is intentionally awful.

If worn on armor, it can also project held-item debuffs onto the item in your hand.

Curse of Bad Omen

Applies Bad Omen. The longer you survive with it, the higher the level can become.

Curse of Reduced Reach

Four-level curse that reduces reach. Armor gives a passive reach penalty; held items give an active penalty.

Curse of Fire

Armor curse with 4 levels. Can fake as Fire Protection, but fire damage is increased and taking damage can ignite you.

Curse of Projectiles

Armor curse with 4 levels. Can fake as Projectile Protection, but projectile damage is increased.

Curse of Explosions

Armor curse with 4 levels. Can fake as Blast Protection, but explosion damage is increased and explosions can jolt you upward.

Curse of Vulnerability

Armor curse with 4 levels. Can fake as Protection, but all incoming damage is increased.

Curse of Counterfeit

Armor curse. Can fake as Protection, but the cursed armor piece gives no armor or toughness damage reduction. Other enchantment effects still work. Idea: Melmi.

Curse of Crossed Wires

Reverses controls, including movement, jumping/sneaking, and mouse buttons.

Curse of Dead Wings

Applies to elytra. Elytra flight can randomly fail for a short unpredictable time. Can fake as Unbreaking or Mending.

Curse of Mercy

Can prevent killing blows by leaving the target alive at 1 health.

Curse of Magnetism

Pulls nearby dropped items and incoming arrows toward the cursed player.

Curse of Uncontrolled Aim

While active, the player's aim can smoothly drift and stay offset instead of immediately returning to center. Normal movement, bow and crossbow aiming, and Elytra flight each have different levels of interference. Elytra flight is affected the most.

Curse of Psychosis

While worn on the head, Psychosis can make the player send random configured messages in chat after an unpredictable delay. Idea: Melmi.

Curse of Wayward Projectiles

Applies to held items and has four levels. Ranged projectiles can veer in random directions, with higher levels causing stronger deviation.

Suggestions Welcome

Suggestions are welcome for curses, enchanting-table ideas, fake enchantments, cursed books, and ways to make risky gear worth using.

I am happy to consider any idea, even if it is strange, unfair, or experimental. Most suggestions that fit the mod's focus will be added eventually, tested, or refined into a version that works well in Minecraft.

The main direction is still simple: deepen Minecraft's existing enchanting and curse systems without turning the mod into a separate magic overhaul.

Debug Command

/cursesrevamped debug item

Shows the held item's real enchantments, curse discovery state, fake display state, boon data, and active curse effects.

Hidden Config

Config files are plain hidden config files, not Mod Menu screens.

• Base config: cursesrevamped.properties
• Additional config: cursesrevamped-additional.properties

Base owns shared settings such as cursed boon chances. Additional owns addon-specific settings such as fake anvil curses and Ominous Offering behavior.

Base also provides creativeDiscoveryBypass=false by default. Set it to true only when Creative players should always see every curse without researching it.

The Additional config also controls Curse of Psychosis:

psychosisEnabled=true
psychosisMinMinutes=3
psychosisMaxMinutes=300
psychosisMessages=Can someone sleep?|On my way|Where are you?

Messages are separated with |, selected randomly, and sent only while the curse is worn on the head. The delay is randomly chosen between the minimum and maximum number of minutes. Values are capped at one week and messages are limited to 256 characters.