How to apply enchantment to specific items only

[OddMandrill]

I am fairly new and am not sure how to use the canEnchant() method. How do I specify what items can be enchanted? How do i define the pStack

[warjort]

Normally you wouldn't override that method.

You pick an EnchantmentCategory and that decides which items it applies to, see that class.

 

You can use your IDE to search for vanilla enchantments that do override it.

e.g. the DiggerEnchantment overrides it to also allow it to be applied to shears which isn't a DiggerItem

[OddMandrill]

Thank you very much for this info! however it lead me to a new question, how would i go about adding a new EnchantmentCategory?

[warjort]

EnchantmentCategory implements IExtensibleEnum

Here's a simple example I found using a github search: https://github.com/search?q=EnchantmentCategory&type=code

https://github.com/vemerion/Runeworld/blob/7865c63faf41e47885113f73ab125efdad4b0fa8/src/main/java/mod/vemerion/runeworld/enchantment/ModEnchantmentCategories.java

[OddMandrill]

you are my jesus thank you so much