Jonathan Semple
- yorrrick
- yorrrick
- Europe/London
- Yes
- No
MC-164173
If an enchant
menttable is surrounded with 15 bookshelves torches placed next to the table should reduce the enchantinglevel by 2 per bookshelf that is shielded. However, if a single torch is placed on one of the flat sides of the table the reduction is only 1. Thus the achievable enchantinglevels are 30, 29, 26, 24 etc.This is not a big problem in practice but is probably not working as expected.
If an enchanting table is surrounded with 15 bookshelves torches placed next to the table should reduce the enchantment level by 2 per bookshelf that is shielded. However, if a single torch is placed on one of the flat sides of the table the reduction is only 1. Thus the achievable enchantment levels are 30, 29, 26, 24 etc.
This is not a big problem in practice but is probably not working as expected.
Enchantmenttable with shielded bookshelvesEnchanting table with shielded bookshelves
Typically each blocked bookshelf reduces the maximum level by two so the chest is a red herring. However (as you note in your Edit and the Reference), the calculation of maximum level is more complicated than I had assumed and could be 28 or 29 in this case. Thanks for the clarification.