If you’ve ever invaded minecraft’s fortresses, temples, and dungeons, you’ve no doubt discovered dusty books tucked away in chests and on shelves. they can be an entertaining read or a useful enchanting tool. we show you how to make a book in minecraft so you can create your own tomes in the game.
You can create a book with a special message written by you up to 50 pages. You can also create books that contain enchantments that can be used on weapons and armor. if you just want decorative shelving in your stash, you’ll still need some books as ingredients.
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what you need
Sugar cane – Used to craft paper. You can find this ingredient growing next to a body of water, as shown above. You can also find paper stored in chests.
Leather – You can get this ingredient as a dropped item from a slain cow, donkey, horse, llama, mooshroom, or mule. However, for this guide, we craft leather using hide dropped by slain rabbits.
Crafting Table – The foundation of most crating in Minecraft. To make this table, place one wood plank block into each of the four squares next to your avatar in the inventory. When completed, drag the Crafting Table down into your Hotbar for world placement. Remember, one wood block creates four wood plank blocks.
Enchanting Table – To craft this tool, open your Crafting Table and use one book, two diamonds, and four obsidian blocks (cooled, hardened lava), then drag the resulting table into your Hotbar for world placement. After that, you can turn blank books into enchanted books that store enchantments like Piercing, Protection, Aqua Affinity, and more.
let’s move on to creating a book!
make your paper
Step 1: Open your Crafting Table.
Step 2: Place a sugar cane on each of the three blocks in the middle row.
Step 3: Drag the resulting three sheets of paper into your inventory. you will need all three sheets for your book.
craft your leather
Again, you can bypass this section altogether if you already gathered leather from a slain cow, donkey, horse, llama, mooshroom, or mule.
step 1: open your artboard.
step 2: place a rabbit skin on each of the top and center squares of the first column.
step 3: place a rabbit skin on the top and middle squares of the second column.
Step 4: Drag the resulting leather to your inventory.
make your book
Step 1: Open your Crafting Table.
Step 2: Place a sheet of paper in the top and middle squares in the left column of the creation grid.
Step 3: Place a sheet of paper in the top square of the middle column.
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Step 4: place a hide in the center square of the middle column.
step 5: drag the resulting book to your inventory.
make a bookshelf!
This requires two main steps: Create wood planks and then craft the bookcase.
part 1: making wooden planks
You need to create six wood plank blocks from any type of wood to create a bookshelf.
step 1: open your artboard.
step 2: place a block of wood (log, normal, or bare) on any square on the crafting grid.
Step 3: Drag the resulting four wooden plank blocks into your inventory.
Step 4: Repeat steps 2 and 3 for another four wooden plank blocks.
part 2: create your bookshelf
Step 1: Open your Crafting Table.
Step 2: Place a block of wooden planks on each square in the top row of the crafting grid.
step 3: place a book in each square of the central row.
step 4: place a block of wooden planks in each square of the bottom row.
Step 5: Drag the resulting shelf into your inventory.
love a book!
This method requires an Enchanting Table, one crafted book, and three lapis lazuli. You can obtain the latter ingredient by mining lazuli ore — blocks speckled with blue flakes — found between 11 and 27 blocks below the surface.
Step 1: Open your Enchanting Table.
step 2: place a book in the square on the left.
step 3: place three lapis lazuli in the square on the right.
You’ll see three enchantment options just to the right, each with a number on the far right. this number is the experience level you need to unlock and select the enchantment. if you don’t have enough experience, venture out to kill mobs for xp and then return to the table.
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step 4: select an enchantment. you’ll need to move your cursor over the enchantment to decipher the language.
Step 5: Drag the resulting enchanted book (still in the left frame) down into your inventory.
step 6: repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 until you create the enchanted book you want.
The list of enchanted books is long, so check out the full library featured on the official minecraft wiki.
make a book and a pen
For this, you’ll need additional ingredients. First, grab an ink sac dropped by a fallen squid. You also need a feather dropped by fallen chickens and parrots. Tamed cats will deliver feathers too.
step 1: open your artboard.
Step 2: Add a book to the left square in the top row of the crafting grid.
step 3: add an inc sack to the middle square on the top row.
step 4: add a feather to the right square in the top row.
Step 5: Drag the resulting book and quill into your inventory.
sign a book and a pen
Having a book full of blank pages just isn’t any fun. Why not sign it?
Step 1: Make sure the book and pen are located on your hotbar. select and open the book (right click, left trigger or long press).
Step 2: Write your message on any page. each book is 50 pages long, so make sure you leave plenty to read.
step 3: to finish typing, click/select/tap the sign button; turns green when highlighted.
Step 4: Enter a title and byline for your signed book.
Step 5: To “publish” your signed book, click/select/tap the sign and close button; turns green when highlighted.
The resulting signed book now resembles an enchanted book, though the only “enchantment” here is the enchanting messages it contains.
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