How to Use Book and Quill in Minecraft

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For the item produced after a Book and Quill is signed, run across Written Book.

A book and quill is an detail used to write written books.

1 Obtaining
- 1.1 Crafting
- 1.two Natural generation
two Usage
- 2.ane Crafting ingredient
- ii.two Writing
- two.iii Lecterns
- 2.4 Formatting codes
- 2.5 Signing
- two.6 Trading
3 Sounds
4 Data values
- four.1 ID
- 4.2 Detail data
5 Video
6 History
vii Problems
8 Trivia
9 Gallery
10 References
11 External links
12 Run across also

Obtaining [ ]

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Book + Ink Sac + Plumage

Natural generation [ ]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Adventure
Bedrock Edition
Volume and Quill	Buried treasure	Chest	1–2	18.9%

Usage [ ]

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Proper name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Written Book	Book and Quill + Written Volume	ii three four 5 6 vii 8	The input written book is not consumed. The new copies are "Copy of Original" or "Copy of Copy", depending on whether the input written book is "Original" or "Copy of Original". Copies of copies cannot be copied. Copied books of the same generation ("Original", "Copy of Original", "Copy of Copy", or "Tattered") stack.

Writing [ ]

Past pressing use item or long pressing screen anywhere‌^{[ Boulder Edition only ]} while property a book and quill in their paw, the player can open a text editor GUI.

Using this GUI, the player can write a unmarried book up to 100‌^{[ Coffee Edition only ]} or 50‌^{[ Boulder Edition only ]} pages long, with up to 798 characters per page, with line breaks counting every bit two characters. The player can write upwards to 79,800‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} or 12,800‌^{[ Bedrock Edition merely ]} characters inside the entire book. No folio may be longer than 14 lines and each line can have a width of 57 pixels (see pixel width of each graphic symbol hither).

The player has the ability to copy and paste into books. Nonetheless, the paste does not work if the text being pasted is longer than a single page. Virtually Unicode characters are available in books, and they may be pasted in without effect.

In singleplayer, the world pauses while a volume is being edited.‌^{[ Java Edition but ]}

Lecterns [ ]

One can place a volume and quill or a written book on an empty lectern.

The lectern then emits a redstone indicate depending on the displayed folio in the volume. On the last folio, the lectern emits a signal force of 15. This is why lecterns are listed in the "redstone" tab in the creative inventory.

Formatting codes [ ]

Text in a volume tin can be styled ‌^{[ Bedrock Edition but ]} using codes starting with the § character (department sign).

§ + k creates randomly changing characters.
§ + l creates assuming text.
§ + m creates strikethrough text.
§ + n creates underlined text.
§ + o creates italic text.
§ + 0 – f (hexadecimal) creates colored text.
§ + r resets any of the previous styles and so text after it appears ordinarily.

If the player uses multiple codes, and continue typing past the end of a line, the side by side line exhibits merely the concluding formatting code used.

Signing [ ]

Books can be signed past pressing the "Sign" button while in the interface. In Java Edition, when signed, a volume bears the proper name of the actor who wrote information technology and a championship called upon signing. In Bedrock Edition, the book doesn't display the proper name of the player equally the author; instead, the writer can be any text the player wants. After it has been signed, it cannot be edited again – it has turned into a written volume.

Special characters tin can be used in the title, if typed from a keyboard that supports them. Alt codes exercise not work, and the § character cannot be typed even using a keyboard that implements it, meaning titles cannot be colored or formatted in-game. However, on Linux using the compose key to produce special characters does work.

The championship of the book tin can exist up to 16 characters long, and the player cannot paste into a title. A "workaround" for the xvi-character limitation is to manually rename the book at an anvil, which e'er costs 1 experience level. This can exist done with either a written volume or a book and quill – both versions will always brandish the changed name. If a custom name is removed from a written book, it volition revert dorsum to the championship it was given during the signing procedure.

Trading [ ]

Expert-level librarian villagers buy a volume and quill for ane emerald. ‌^{[ Bedrock Edition just ]}

Skilful-level librarian villagers have a 50% adventure to purchase ii book and quills for one emerald.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}

Sounds [ ]

Audio	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
	Page rustles	?	Turning the page of a book	`item.book.page_turn`	`subtitles.item.volume.page_turn`	0.5	ane.0	16
	Volume thumps	Blocks	Placing the book on a lectern	`particular.volume.put`	`subtitles.item.book.put`	1.0	i.0	16

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Proper name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Volume and Quill	`writable_book`	Item	`lectern_books`	`item.minecraft.writable_book`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation central
Book and Quill	`writable_book`	`510`	Item	`detail.writable_book.name`

Particular data [ ]

Java Edition:

tag: The tag tag.

- pages: The list of pages in the book.
  - : A single page in the book. Each folio is a string and uses the escape sequence \northward for a line break. However, the control parser does not accept \n, because of which line breaks need to be set by a role player or using boodle tables.

Bedrock Edition:

Run into Bedrock Edition level format/Particular format.

Video [ ]

History [ ]

Java Edition
i.3.one		12w17a			Added books and quills.
1.7.2		13w36a			Books and quills can now be crafted with a written book to clone the written volume.
ane.8		14w05a			Copying written books now mark them as "Copy of Original" or "Re-create of Copy".
					The copying status of a book is now denoted in a split up line in the tooltip, beneath the author'southward name.
					Copies of copies cannot be copied.
		14w25a			Books and quills now employ JSON text components instead of plain text with the new `pages` tag
		14w25a			Book and quills are now capable of using the `clickEvent` and `hoverEvent` tags.
1.thirteen		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 386.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of books and quills has now been changed.
					Added support for editing anywhere in the book and quill.^[1]
					Books and quills now take copy/paste support.^[1]
					The page limit of books and quills has now been increased to 100 pages.
		19w11a			Librarian villagers now buy books and quills instead of written books.
Bedrock Edition
ane.2.0		beta ane.2.0.two			Added books and quills.
1.4.0		beta 1.ii.14.2			Books and quills tin can now be found inside buried treasure chests.
1.6.0		beta 1.six.0.1			Pages within books and quills can now be turned using the controller bumper buttons.
ane.10.0		beta one.x.0.3			The texture of books and quills has at present been changed.
one.11.0		beta i.11.0.4			Books and quills can now be sold to librarian villagers.
Legacy Panel Edition
TU25	CU14	i.17	Patch ane	1.0.ane	Added books and quills.
PlayStation four Edition
1.90					The texture of books and quills has now been changed.

Problems [ ]

Issues relating to "Book and Quill" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

The in-game restrictions on books are non difficult limits. Third party editors or commands can make books take more than 100 pages‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} (2,147,483,639 pages), more than than 256 characters per page (32,767 characters per page), can modify author names, and tin have colored titles, among other things. These books still function properly in vanilla Minecraft, pregnant the player may come across such books on take a chance maps or multiplayer servers.^[two]
If the actor renames a book and quill in an anvil before signing it, it retains the name from the anvil instead of taking the proper name from signing.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]}
If the player renames a book and quill in an anvil before writing in information technology, they cannot write annihilation in the book. If something is written in it before information technology is renamed, then it functions unremarkably.