Book

Book Recipe

How to Craft Book

Books are crafting materials used for enchanting tables, bookshelves, and written books.

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leather
Crafting
book

Ingredients Needed:

  • paper
    3x Paper
  • leather
    1x Leather

Step-by-step Instructions

  1. Open a Crafting Table to access the 3×3 grid.
  2. Arrange the materials as shown in the grid above, then place the output Book into your inventory.
  3. That’s it! You can now use or place your new item.

Ingredient Tips

Paper

Paper: Crafted from 3 sugar cane in a row; sugar cane grows on sand/grass near water.

Leather

Leather: Drops from cows/mooshrooms/horses; can be fished or found in structure loot.

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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