The bookshelf recipe calls for books and wood planks, but you don’t have to craft one yourself.
The Minecraft Bookshelf recipe requires three books and six wood planks.
Move the bookshelf from the crafting interface to your inventory.
Mining a bookshelf out in the world will yield books if you dont have the silk touch enchantment.
you might make them with the base ingredients of sugarcane and leather.
Sugarcane is often found growing next to bodies of water, and you could plant it to grow more.
Leather can be obtained from killing mobs like cows and pigs.
Here’s how to make a book in Minecraft:
Place three sugarcane in the middle row.
Move the paper to your inventory.
Place two papers in the middle row, then place one paper and one leather in the bottom row.
Move the book to your inventory.
While youre out exploring, you may get lucky and run into some bookshelves.
Heres how to find bookshelves in Minecraft:
Locate a village or stronghold.
Throwing an Ender Eye in the air will lead you to the nearest Stronghold.
Locate a library within the village or stronghold.
If using a regular pickaxe, gather the books and craft them into bookshelves.
If using a pickaxe with the silk touch enchantment, gather the bookshelves.
Each villager trades different items based on their profession, and a librarian villager will trade bookshelves.
Here’s how to trade for bookshelves in Minecraft:
Locate a village.
Locate a librarian villager.
Trade with the villager.
When you find a librarian that’s offering bookshelves, execute the trade.
