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![A cave with a fully-powered enchantment table, showing bookshelves hanging above the normal enchantment area.](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/mEEnna6o\/images\/10f32f0c17bb7ac7797c60c6e87c63918fad1ede.png)<\/p>\n

Extended Enchantment Range alters the distance at which an enchantment table can detect bookshelves.<\/p>\n

By default, it extends the horizontal range by an additional 2 blocks, and the vertical range by 3 blocks up and 2 blocks down.<\/p>\n

![A mockup of the expanded bookshelf detection range; the smaller inner box is the vanilla range, the outer yellow box is the new range.](https:\/\/cdn.modrinth.com\/data\/cached_images\/86a0a70515096e54a6fe66733b5c969363843637_0.webp)<\/p>\n

To facilitate this, the enchantment menu now performs a breadth-first search from the bookshelf toward the enchanting table — the old vanilla approaches to blocking bookshelves won’t work the same way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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