Bookshelf

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Bookshelf
Bookshelf.png
Bookshelf
Type

Solid Block

Requirements

None

Physics

No

Transparency

No

Luminance

No

Blast resistance

7.5

Tool

This block can be broken with any tool, but a axe is the quickest

Renewable

Yes

Stackable

Yes (64)

Flammable

Yes

Availability

?

First appearances

Classic 0.26 Survival Test (October 24, 2009) Alpha 1.0.11

Data value

dec: 47 hex: 2F bin: 00101111

A Bookshelf serves to enhance an Enchantment Table, as a decoration, or as an inefficient furnace fuel. Bookshelves naturally appear in libraries inside Strongholds, and Villages. Breaking a bookshelf will drop 3 books, but no wooden planks.

Contents

[edit] Properties

A bookshelf has two textures: one borrowed from the plank block put on the top and bottom of the block, and one edited version of the plank texture put on all four sides.

As one bookshelf requires three books, books require three sheets of paper and one piece of leather (only the paper is needed in the Xbox version); paper requires one sugar cane per sheet (crafted in batches of three), nine sugar canes are necessary for each bookshelf block. It would take 576 cane to produce a full stack of bookshelves, 192 pieces of leather for the books and 96 logs for the wood. This gives a use to sugar cane: with that kind of need for resources, the endless cane farms is an option many players consider.

Bookshelves can be destroyed fairly easily by hand, but more quickly using an axe. In either case, they will drop 3 books when destroyed, allowing the reconstruction of the bookshelf with the addition of six Wooden Planks.

Bookshelves will catch on fire, so make sure to place them in a safe area away from fire and lava.

[edit] Occurrence

Bookshelves can be found in a couple of places:

  • Villages often have libraries, and inside each library there are seven bookshelves.
  • Strongholds almost always feature a library. Small libraries feature some bookshelves arranged in 2x1 pillars, and large libraries feature more bookshelves arranged in the space below, plus there is a balcony with two walls covered in bookshelves.

[edit] Uses

Bookshelves are used to gain access to higher level enchantments when using the Enchanting Table. If an enchanting table is placed nearby, glyphs will fly towards it from the bookshelf in a manner similar to nether portal particles. To get the highest boost (level 30), you need 15 bookshelves, which means 45 books and 90 planks, or 135 paper, 45 leather and 22.5 logs.

If one places a minecart chest on a rail then breaks the rail, they can push a bookshelf onto the minecart chest with a piston, the bookshelf can then be used like a chest to store books or anything else, since the minecart with chest entity is hidden inside the bookshelf. Also great for hiding things.

[edit] Crafting

Ingredients Input » Output
Wood Planks + Books
Oak Wood Planks Oak Wood Planks Oak Wood Planks Grid layout Arrow (small).png Bookshelf
Book Book Book
Oak Wood Planks Oak Wood Planks Oak Wood Planks

[edit] Video

[edit] Achievements

Main article: Achievements
Icon Achievement In-game description Prerequisites Actual requirements (if different) Version restriction Xbox points earned
Achievement-plain.png
Grid Bookshelf.png
Librarian Build some bookshelves to improve your enchantment table Enchanter Pick up a Bookshelf from a Crafting Table. PC N/A

[edit] History

Classic
0.26 SURVIVAL TEST Impossible to obtain without loading a pre-edited map. Destroyed in explosions. When mined drops nothing.
0.28 Can be freely placed.
Infdev
??? Cannot be crafted
Alpha
1.0.11 Can be freely placed. Drops nothing and can't be used to obtain higher level enchantments.
Beta
1.9pre3 Drops 3 books, libraries and enchanting implemented
Official release
1.0.0 Can be freely placed. Drops 3 books with an axe, nothing with anything else. Can be used for higher level enchantments.
1.3.1 12w17a Crafting a book requires a piece of Leather, so making thirty bookshelves requires 90 Leather.
12w21a Emeralds can be traded for bookshelves.
12w22a The number of bookshelves required to reach the maximum enchantment level has been decreased to 15.

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