How to make a quill in minecraft

Players can craft books in bulk but besides using them to create enchantments, what is the purpose of a book in Minecraft? Instead of finished books in the Overworld to read, Minecraft allows players to write their own books. This can help you save progress and remember where you last left off.

Players can use books to leave reminders, a to-do list and all kinds of unique, creative writing projects. You may want to use a book to craft a treasure hunt or surprise a friend on their birthday. Books and Quills in Minecraft offer infinite possibilities for a creative mind.

Required Materials to craft a Book and Quill

To craft Book and Quill in Minecraft, you will need the following:

You must first learn how to craft a Book first.

In a Nutshell:

Place an Ink Sac in the center of the 3x3 crafting grid of a Crafting Table. Place a book to the left of the sac and a feather directly below the sac.

Step 1- Obtain Ink Sac

Ink Sacs can only be found when killing Squids, which are found in bodies of water.

Step 2- Obtain a Feather

Feathers can be generated when killing Chickens and secondarily Parrots, which are found in Grassy biomes.

Step 3- Find or craft a Book

Please follow this guide to obtain a book. They can be found in chests.

Step 4- Access a crafting table with your gathered materials

Step 5- Place your materials in the exact configuration shown below

Step 6- Congratulations! Drag your Book and Quill to your active equipment slot to use it!

Interact with the Book and Quill while it is equipped to begin writing. The player can write lengthy books in-game! You can write stories, a journal, notes for other players, recipes and all kinds of fun books to add to the story of your Minecraft World. You can write up to 100 pages, though these pages are relatively compact. Players can even use formatting similar to formatting found on social media sites.

Writing a book

However, be aware that once a Book is completed and Signed by anyone, it cannot be edited. If you want to make changes, you will have to start the book over from scratch!

Finished Books have a purple glow.

Interacting with a Finished Book does not allow editing

Q. Can you enchant these books?

Character written books cannot be edited in any way, including enchanting them.

Q. Is there a way to get past the 100 page limit for Minecraft books?

For multiplayer servers or other playthroughs of Minecraft that require length background or instructions, it is technically possible to bypass this limit. However, the player must go outside the book and use commands or manually edit the books themselves.

Book and Quill is one of those Minecraft items that seems to have no actual gameplay purpose. But the joy of Minecraft is creating stories through emergent gameplay. Tell a funny story, weave a tale of woe, or simply keep up with a journal by creating this item. You will grow to cherish these memories, especially considering you can create a series of books to memorialize any given playthrough of the game. You may want to even export these stories for safekeeping!

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

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

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Book + Ink Sac + Feather

Natural generation[]

Usage[]

Crafting ingredient[]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Written Book	Book and Quill + Written Book	2 3 4 5 6 7 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[]

By pressing use item or long pressing screen anywhere‌[Bedrock Edition only] while holding a book and quill in their hand, the player can open a text editor GUI.

Using this GUI, the player can write a single book up to 100‌[Java Edition only] or 50‌[Bedrock Edition only] pages long, with up to 798 characters per page. The player can write up to 79,800‌[Java Edition only] or 12,800‌[Bedrock Edition only] characters inside the entire book. No page may be longer than 14 lines and each line can have a width of 114 pixels (see pixel width of each character here).

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

In singleplayer, the world pauses while a book is being edited.‌[Java Edition only]

Lecterns[]

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

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

Formatting codes[]

Main article: Formatting codes

Text in a book can be styled ‌[Bedrock Edition only] using codes starting with the § character (section sign).

§ + k creates randomly changing characters.
§ + l creates bold 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 so text after it appears normally.

If the player uses multiple codes, and continue typing past the end of a line, the next line exhibits only the last formatting code used.

Signing[]

Books can be signed by pressing the "Sign" button while in the interface. In Java Edition, when signed, a book bears the name of the player who wrote it and a title chosen upon signing. In Bedrock Edition, the book doesn't display the name of the player as the author; instead, the author can be any text the player wants. After it has been signed, it cannot be edited again – it has turned into a written book.

Special characters can be used in the title, if typed from a keyboard that supports them. Alt codes do 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 title of the book can be up to 16 characters long, and the player cannot paste into a title. A "workaround" for the 16-character limitation is to manually rename the book at an anvil, which always costs 1 experience level. This can be done with either a written book or a book and quill – both versions will always display the changed name. If a custom name is removed from a written book, it will revert back to the title it was given during the signing process.

Trading[]

Expert-level librarian villagers buy a book and quill for one emerald. ‌[Bedrock Edition only]

Expert-level librarian villagers have a 50% chance to buy 2 book and quills for one emerald.‌[Java Edition only]

Sounds[]

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Book and Quill	writable_book	Item	lectern_books	item.minecraft.writable_book

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Book and Quill	writable_book	510	Item	item.writable_book.name

Item data[]

Java Edition:

Main article: Player.dat format

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

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Item format.

Video[]

History[]

Issues[]

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

Trivia[]

The in-game restrictions on books are not hard limits. Third party editors or commands can make books have more than 100 pages‌[Java Edition only] (2,147,483,639 pages), more than 256 characters per page (32,767 characters per page), can change author names, and can have colored titles, among other things. These books still function properly in vanilla Minecraft, meaning the player may encounter such books on adventure maps or multiplayer servers.[2]
If the player renames a book and quill in an anvil before signing it, it retains the name from the anvil instead of taking the name from signing.‌[Java Edition only]
If the player renames a book and quill in an anvil before writing in it, they cannot write anything in the book. If something is written in it before it is renamed, then it functions normally.