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How to Build a High Efficiency Enchanting Setup

Jul 9, 2012 01:02 PM

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Notes:

My guides are setup like old Lego instruction booklets; picture intense/text lacking. Just remember you're building from the ground up, each step is a layer to go onto the previous layer.

Any stone block can be replaced with blocks of your choice.

Mycelium is used in this build for the added visual affect and can also be replaced.

Glowstone can be replaced with torches, but the single torch cannot be replaced with Glowstone.

Any glass seen in pictures indicates space that must remain open.

White Wool indicates ground level. (You won't need it)

Light sources are mandatory unless you like surprise mob visits; its going to be a very tight space in and out, any mob would be impossible to avoid in there, and creepers will make the pages fly.

This build will be 5W X 7L x 7H. (5x5x3 below ground / 5x5x4 Above)

You will need (Only mandatory items listed)

1 Torch

4 Glowstone (or 4 more torches)

5 Ladders

73 Bookshelves

Pick Your Ground

Firstly dig a space 7 blocks long, 5 wide, and 3 layers deep.

For my build I dug 4 layers deep and replaced it with Mycelium because the block color and the particle affect add to the feel of the area.

(Picture shows the ground you will start to build on)

How to Build a High Efficiency Enchanting Setup

Excavated rectangular pit with layered soil and stone edges.

Hard to See but Don't Miss Those 2 Ladders!

A top-down view of a Minecraft-like underground base with wooden planks and a furnace.

2 More Hard to See Ladders

A wooden cross design with bookshelves embedded, set against a textured background.

Minecraft enchantment setup with bookshelves and an enchanting table.

Enchanting table setup in a pixelated environment with bookshelves.

Minecraft-style building with wooden and stone elements.

Choose Your Lighting

Minecraft creative mode build featuring a gray stone platform with glowing blocks arranged in a cross pattern, beside a multi-colored bookshelf.

Minecraft building with stone blocks and torches arranged in a cross pattern.

Some Completed Images

From left to right:

Front/above, Front/below, Back view, Encased Front and side, Encased front.

White Wool indicates ground level.

Minecraft library building made of bricks and bookshelves.

A Minecraft-style library with brick walls and shelves filled with books.

A large, colorful bookshelf structure in a Minecraft environment.

A stylized gray block building with a bookshelf on one side.

Bookshelf in a stone wall with a doorframe.

Have Doubts?

Just in case you've seen other setups or doubt this one, I tested 6 bows choosing levels 47-49.

1: Power V, Punch II

2: Power V

3: Infinity I

4: Infinity I

5: Infinity I

6: Power V, Flame I, Infinity I (Shown below / level 47 chosen)

Minecraft enchanting interface displaying a bow with enchantments.

I hope this guide helped you and you look forward to more.

If your playing survival, make sure you plant a very large amount of reeds/bamboo before taking on this build.

(Its gonna be 657 pages/219 books for those shelves.)

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