Ever know that you have an enchanted book somewhere, in some chest? But which chest?

Enchanted Book Index solves your problem. yay

If you don't play Minecraft but want an idea of how Ebi works, check out the non-technical overview.

• Fill lots of chests with enchanted books (probably from fishing).

• Give each chest some kind of identifier. I like banners, but you could use signs with 128-bit UUIDs, item frames, memorable phrases, or an x/y location. You could name your chests on an anvil, but that ID is not visible until you open the chest. Or name an item (via the anvil) you place in an item frame. That's visible on hover.

• Open a chest. Run Ebi.
• Ebi will hover the mouse over each Enchanted Book in the chest, collecting all enchantment names.
• If any new enchantments are found, you'll be asked to identify each enchantment. The first time you run Ebi, every enchantment is new to the system – and they'll be remembered in future runs.
• Ebi writes the index to a CSV file. Import the file into the spreadsheet of your choice.
• When you need a Looting III enchantment, search your spreadsheet. There you will find the ID and slot of the chest storing the enchantment. For instance

chest #9, row 2, column 9

• Find the chest and slot, find your enchanted book, celebrate.
• Mark that book as used, or remove it from the spreadsheet.

Java 8. Ebi was developed using Java 8, though does not use any Java 8 features that I know of.

Maybe during the beta program, if you can give me access to your Minecraft server.

If you know of similar projects, let me know so I can add them to the list.

• Spigot Book Finder If you run and have access to Spigot, this mod looks super convenient and is a lot easier to use.