How do you get Book in Minecraft?

Book is crafted from Paper and Leather at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, and Book from trading with villagers, not just the recipe above.

How many Book can you stack?

64 Book fill one slot, and filling it costs 192 Paper and 64 Leather: 64 crafts. A shulker box of Book comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

What is Book used for?

Book is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Book and Quill, Bookshelf, and Enchanting Table.

Where do you find Book in chests?

Book is chest loot in stronghold library chests (about 97%, 1 to 3 at a time), ancient city chests (about 69%, 1 to 10 at a time), shipwreck map chests (about 35%, 1 to 5 at a time), and desert pyramid chests (about 22%). It shows up in 17 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

When was Book added to Minecraft?

Book was added in the early Alpha development period.

Can Book be enchanted?

No, there is no enchantment that goes on Book in vanilla Minecraft.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Book

A crafting ingredient made from paper and leather. Used to make bookshelves, enchanting tables and book and quill.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Book at a glance

Minecraft files Book under Miscellaneous: an item you get from crafting, chest loot, and trading with villagers. Stack Book 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Keep Book around: 3 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. Of the 17 kinds of generated chest that can hold Book, stronghold library chests are the best bet at about 97% per chest. It sits between Bone Meal and Book and Quill in Miscellaneous, number 11 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Paper
Paper
Paper
Book
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Book has the grid for Book

Used to craft

From Book and Quill to Enchanting Table, 3 recipes use Book, and 2 of those sit in Miscellaneous. The links below go straight to the recipes that take Book.

How to obtain

Crafting
Chest loot
Trading

Notes

Shapeless recipe using 3 paper and 1 leather.

Frequently asked questions about Book

How do you get Book in Minecraft?
Book is crafted from Paper and Leather at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from chest loot, and Book from trading with villagers, not just the recipe above.
How many Book can you stack?
64 Book fill one slot, and filling it costs 192 Paper and 64 Leather: 64 crafts. A shulker box of Book comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
What is Book used for?
Book is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Book and Quill, Bookshelf, and Enchanting Table.
Where do you find Book in chests?
Book is chest loot in stronghold library chests (about 97%, 1 to 3 at a time), ancient city chests (about 69%, 1 to 10 at a time), shipwreck map chests (about 35%, 1 to 5 at a time), and desert pyramid chests (about 22%). It shows up in 17 kinds of chest in total. Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
When was Book added to Minecraft?
Book was added in the early Alpha development period.
Can Book be enchanted?
No, there is no enchantment that goes on Book in vanilla Minecraft.

Building with it

Three paper and one leather make a book, and books make bookshelves, the enchanting table itself and enchanted books at a table or from a librarian. A working enchanting setup needs fifteen bookshelves, which is forty five paper and fifteen leather before anything is enchanted.

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