Crafting the Enchanting Infuser with Crying Obsidian
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The 
Enchanting Infuser is crafted at a crafting table by combining a standard Enchanting Table with Crying Obsidian, an Amethyst Shard, and a Book.
Required Crafting Ingredients
To assemble the foundational Enchanting Infuser, gather the following magical and metallurgical components:
- 1 vanilla
Enchanting Table (crafted from 4 obsidian blocks, 2 diamonds, and 1 book). - 1
Book (crafted from 3 paper and 1 piece of leather). - 1
Amethyst Shard (harvested from budding amethyst blocks inside underground geodes). - 4
Crying Obsidian blocks (bartered from piglins in the Nether or harvested from ruined portal frames).
Ensure you possess a diamond or netherite pickaxe to mine crying obsidian safely without breaking the blocks.
Crafting Grid Layout and Assembly
Open a standard three-by-three crafting table and position the gathered components in the following arrangement:
- Top row: place 1 Book in the middle slot; leave the top-left and top-right slots empty.
- Middle row: place 1 Crying Obsidian in the middle-left slot, 1 Amethyst Shard in the center slot, and 1 Crying Obsidian in the middle-right slot.
- Bottom row: place 1 Crying Obsidian in the bottom-left slot, your vanilla Enchanting Table in the bottom-middle slot, and 1 Crying Obsidian in the bottom-right slot.
- Retrieve the completed Enchanting Infuser from the crafting output slot.
This shaped recipe combines ancient enchanting architecture with crystalline amethyst resonance to create a non-random enchanting station.
Operating and Enhancing the Base Infuser
Once placed in your workshop, the Enchanting Infuser transforms your enchanting routine:
- Unlike vanilla enchanting tables, the infuser eliminates randomized three-choice enchantment rolls.
- Players select the exact enchantments they desire from an interactive visual menu using experience points.
- Surround the base Enchanting Infuser with vanilla bookshelves (up to 15 bookshelves) placed with a one-block gap to unlock higher enchantment tiers.
- The infuser provides complete transparency, showing the precise experience level cost required for each selected modifier before application.
- Players can enchant swords, pickaxes, bows, armor pieces, and blank books directly without needing anvil combinations.
- Inspect item slots in the infuser interface to preview available enchantment costs before committing valuable experience levels.