atm9 (can confirm all versions) -(current) forge 47.2.8

The enchantment applicator does not increase levels of the enchanted item/book beyond the vanilla values, in ATM8 these values were changed to allow IF / EA to get enchantments higher. what is needed to allow this in atm9?

I believe this is intentional, but can be changed in the Industrial Foregoing config machine-misc.toml

You can believe what you want, but this is not the first time this issue has been discussed! The IF config has one option, vanilla level max, or unlimited. Level 9 is not a option in the config. You can make a issue with IF and see if they will add a config and code to respect Apotheosis max level... but this has been a "issue" for years now, so good luck with that.

It's more or less exactly as aAndrew3030 put it, the IF enchanter will either do vanilla, or upto 255, and so in atm7,8,9 we have it set to not ignore max levels, and only do the vanilla levels.

So yes, currently intentional, unless something has changed in IF or Apoth to enable compatibility with the increased level caps.

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