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Want to know how to make paper in Minecraft? Books can be used for enchanting, crafting, or even to make an enchanting table and a lovingly crafted bookshelf to sit alongside it.
Books can also be enchanted themselves, and when combined with a Minecraft anvil, they can enchant other items, such as your weapons or your Minecraft shield. There are a few different ways to get your hands on enchanted books: you can trade them with librarian villagers, see them in rare pillager raid drops, or even from fishing. If you have an abundance of these enchanted Minecraft books, you can disenchant them with a Minecraft grindstone.
There are other ways of getting books. You can obtain three books by mining a bookshelf. However, if you’d rather save yourself the trouble, here’s everything you have to know about creating a Minecraft book yourself. The number one element you need to make a book is, of course, paper, so here are all the details you need to get started.
How To Make Paper In Minecraft?
Making paper in Minecraft is very simple. All you need to do is put three sugar canes in the middle row of the crafting grid. This will give you paper!
Tasty paper, from the sound of it. You can create a lot with paper, including maps, banner patterns, and books. There are two other kinds of maps in Minecraft: normal maps that show an area and locator maps. To make them, either fill the crafting squares with paper to make a regular map or enclose a compass in the center square with paper to make a locator map.
Map Recipe
- 9x paper
Locator Map Recipe
- 8x paper
- 1x compass
To make banner patterns, you’ll need one sheet of paper and an object to act as the pattern’s emblem. So, for instance, if you like to create a banner showing the Mojang logo, place one paper sheet on the left, and an Enchanted Golden Apple in the center.
Craftable Banner Logos
- Enchanted Golden Apple – Thing (looks like the Mojang logo)
- Wither Skeleton Skull – Skull (is primarily a skull and crossbones)
- Creeper Head – Creeper (A Creeper’s face)
- Oxeye Daisy – Flower (similarly a daisy)
- Brick block – Field Masoned
- Vine – Bordure Indented
How To Make A Minecraft Book
Here’s what it takes to make a book in Minecraft.
- 3x paper
- 1x leather
You’ll need to put one piece of paper in the bottom left-hand corner of the crafting grid and the leather to its right in the middle of the bottom row. Then, put the remaining two pieces of paper in the two slots above them, on the left-hand side of the middle row.
How To Make A Minecraft Book & Quill
Want a Minecraft book you can write in? You’ll need the following:
- 1x book
- 1x ink sac
- 1x feather
Set the ink sac to the right of the book in the crafting grid and the feather beneath the inc sac – now you’ve got a book and quill, which you can use to carve your words of wisdom; place it on a Minecraft lectern for extra authority.
There you have it – that’s how you create paper in Minecraft and create your own books. If you can’t be bothered to make your own, you can also see books in ships, strongholds, or Minecraft villages; if you want to find a village quickly, check out these Minecraft seeds.
As for things you can use books for, they play a key part in Minecraft enchantments, as they’re part of the enchantment table recipe. If you want to know more about what’s coming to Minecraft, we have elements on the upcoming features in the Minecraft 1.19 Wild update. These features include frogs, tadpoles, and much more.
FAQs
Q: Can you make paper out of wood in Minecraft?
A: To punch a tree, just press and hold the left mouse button (PC), press the Left Bumper button (Xbox) while facing the trunk, or simply tap the trunk with your finger (PE). If you already have a Crafting Table, you can skip to the section on making paper.
Q: Can you make paper out of bamboo in Minecraft?
A: Bamboo in the latest snapshot isn’t very helpful other than fuel or making sticks. Since ancient civilizations utilized bamboo to make paper we should be able to too. Have three bamboo pieces get one piece of paper instead of three bamboo pieces getting three pieces of paper like sugar cane.