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How to Craft Bookshelf in Minecraft

BUILDING BLOCKS SHAPED CRAFTING TABLE
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Bookshelf

Ingredients

  • Any Planks6×Any Planksany of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …
  • Book3×Book

Result: 1× Bookshelf

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Crafting Bookshelf step by step

Bookshelf is a shaped crafting recipe that uses 9 items: 6 Any Planks and 3 Book. Place the ingredients exactly in the pattern shown above. The pattern can sit anywhere on the grid as long as its shape stays the same. It needs the full 3×3 grid, so you have to use a crafting table. "Any Planks" means any of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …

  1. Open a crafting table (3×3 crafting grid).
  2. Place 6 Any Planks and 3 Book in the pattern shown above.
  3. Take the Bookshelf from the result slot and move it into your inventory.

Read the Bookshelf article in our Minecraft wiki

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How to get the ingredients

Any Planks
Any Planksany of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks … Oak Planks recipe

What you can make with Bookshelf 1 recipe

LecternLectern

Other ways to get Bookshelf

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LibrarianNovice Emerald9 Emerald 1× Bookshelf

Bookshelf recipe FAQ

What do you need to craft Bookshelf in Minecraft?

You need 6 Any Planks and 3 Book — 9 items in total, arranged as shown in the crafting grid. The recipe gives you 1× Bookshelf.

Do you need a crafting table to make Bookshelf?

Yes. The recipe needs the full 3×3 grid, which only a crafting table offers.

Is the Bookshelf recipe shaped or shapeless?

It is a shaped recipe: the arrangement matters. You can shift the pattern around the grid, but the shape must stay the same.

Can you use different kinds of an ingredient for Bookshelf?

Yes. "Any Planks" means any of 13 kinds: Oak Planks, Spruce Planks, Birch Planks, Jungle Planks …

What can you make with Bookshelf?

Bookshelf is an ingredient in 1 crafting recipe, for example Lectern.

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