# Souls

Souls are a special built-in currency, designed to balance powerful enchantments by charging Souls per enchant activation. They can be very simply added to any enchantment, e.g.:

```yaml
  levels:
    1:
      souls: 100
      effects:
        - 'MESSAGE:This will only activate if player had enough souls!'
```

## How to obtain souls?

Souls can be gathered by killing players using weapons with Soul Trackers applied on them. \
The Soul Tracker item is given with a command:

> /ae giveitem \<player> soultracker 1

For every player kill with an item that has a soul tracker, they will gain **1 soul on the item.** This can be changed to a different amount in **config.yml**:

```yaml
settings:
  # Amount of souls given per kill
  souls-per-kill: 1
```

Souls from mobs can be gathered by enabling this setting in **config.yml:**

```yaml
settings:
  # Should souls be collected from mobs? 
  collect-souls-from-mobs: true
```

Souls from mining blocks can be enabled by changing these settings in the **config.yml**.

```yaml
  settings:
    # Collecting souls from mining
    # This can be used as a "tokens" currency for prison servers
    miningSouls:
      enabled: false
      # Chance to gain a soul from mining
      chance: 20
```

You can also give players **Soul Gems** which can be drag & dropped onto items that have Soul Trackers applied to them. These will increase Souls on items by the specified amount, obtain these items through this command:

> /ae giveitem \<player> soulgem 1 \<soul amount>


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