How do you get Bookshelf in Minecraft?

Bookshelf is crafted from Planks and Book at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from mining, not just the recipe above.

How many Bookshelf can you stack?

64 Bookshelf fill one slot, and filling it costs 384 Planks and 192 Book: 64 crafts. A shulker box of Bookshelf comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

Can Bookshelf be used as fuel?

Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Bookshelf burns 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. It is made from Planks and Book, 15 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Planks and Book. Nothing burns until it is Bookshelf: Book on its own does not.

How long does Bookshelf take to break?

Mining Bookshelf works against 1.5; explosions on it work against 1.5. Both numbers on Bookshelf being equal is the usual case, and it is not built to hold off explosives. Any axe will do on Bookshelf, from wood upward. Java 26.2 is the release Bookshelf was read from, figure by figure on it.

Can Bookshelf be enchanted?

No. Bookshelf sits outside the enchanting system entirely in vanilla Minecraft.

What is Bookshelf used for?

Bookshelf is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Lectern.

MiscellaneousCraftable

Bookshelf

A decorative block that boosts the level of a nearby enchanting table. Drops 3 books when broken without Silk Touch.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Bookshelf at a glance

Bookshelf comes from crafting and mining, and Miscellaneous is where it sits as an item. A single slot takes 64 Bookshelf, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest. It is worth 1.5 smelts in a furnace, 96 once a full stack burns.

Bookshelf additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Lectern. The game rates Bookshelf at 1.5 hardness. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. Any axe will do on Bookshelf, from wood upward. It sits between Book and Quill and Bottle o' Enchanting in Miscellaneous, number 13 of 147 there.

Crafting recipe

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

Used to craft

Only Lectern uses Bookshelf as an ingredient, so this list runs to a single link. Each link below opens that recipe with Bookshelf in the grid.

Lectern

How to obtain

Crafting
Mining

Fuel value

Bookshelf burns for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Bookshelf

Notes

Place 15 bookshelves one block away from an enchanting table for level 30 enchantments. Can be used as furnace fuel.

Frequently asked questions about Bookshelf

How do you get Bookshelf in Minecraft?
Bookshelf is crafted from Planks and Book at a Crafting Table, in a single step. It also comes from mining, not just the recipe above.
How many Bookshelf can you stack?
64 Bookshelf fill one slot, and filling it costs 384 Planks and 192 Book: 64 crafts. A shulker box of Bookshelf comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
Can Bookshelf be used as fuel?
Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Bookshelf burns 15 seconds apiece, or 1.5 items out of a single one. It is made from Planks and Book, 15 seconds a piece, so burning it spends Planks and Book. Nothing burns until it is Bookshelf: Book on its own does not.
How long does Bookshelf take to break?
Mining Bookshelf works against 1.5; explosions on it work against 1.5. Both numbers on Bookshelf being equal is the usual case, and it is not built to hold off explosives. Any axe will do on Bookshelf, from wood upward. Java 26.2 is the release Bookshelf was read from, figure by figure on it.
Can Bookshelf be enchanted?
No. Bookshelf sits outside the enchanting system entirely in vanilla Minecraft.
What is Bookshelf used for?
Bookshelf is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Lectern.

Building with it

Six planks and three books make a bookshelf, and fifteen of them around an enchanting table unlock the highest enchantment levels. That is forty five books, which means a serious enchanting room is really a sugar cane farm and a cow herd standing behind a table.

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