Book Recipe
How to Craft Book
Books are crafting materials used for enchanting tables, bookshelves, and written books.
Crafting
Step-by-step Instructions
- Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
- Place ingredients exactly as shown in the grid (shape matters unless marked shapeless) then move the resulting Book to your inventory.
- Use, place, or craft further with your new item.
Ingredients Needed
- 3x Paper
- 1x Leather
Ingredient Tips
Paper: Crafted from 3 sugar cane in a row; sugar cane grows on sand/grass near water.
Leather: Drops from cows/mooshrooms/horses; can be fished or found in structure loot.
Technical Stats
- Stack Size: 64
- Renewable: Yes
Variants & Interactions
Key Interactions:
- Combine with feather + ink for writable book
- Trading resource for librarians
Uses for Book
- Creating enchanting tables
- Crafting bookshelves
- Making written books and book and quills
- Trading with librarian villagers
Fun Fact
Books are one of the few items in Minecraft that can store large amounts of player-written text, with each book able to contain up to 100 pages of 798 characters each.
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