Ancient Manuscripts

In order to create enchanted books, you will need to make a binding table. The binding table can be crafted out of three logs, two wooden fences, and a book. Different wood types (oak, dark oak, spruce, birch, acacia, jungle, mangrove, warped stem, crimson, stem, cherry (1.20.1), and bamboo (1.20.1)) result in different table appearances to match your specific decor, but the resulting table behaves the same regardless. Once crafted and placed, simply right click on the table to use it.

An empty glue bottle is required when crafting enchanted book glue. You'll need a stick, a feather, and an empty bottle. The bottle can be used many times and is returned when the glue is used up.

Enchanted book glue is an essential ingredient when creating enchanted books. You'll need a bucket of water, a honeycomb, bone meal, glowstone dust, a slime ball, and an empty glue bottle. A glue bottle that still has 50% or less glue remaining can also be used instead of an empty glue bottle. One bottle can glue 20 manuscript pages (configurable). As glue is used, the bottle will visually empty. You can hover of the bottle to see a tooltip indicating the remaining uses once some glue is used.

The process of binding enchanted books is quite simple. Use the Binding Table and add as many manuscript pages to the table as you want. The more pages you add, the more powerful the enchantment you'll receive as a result. 1 page = Common, 2 pages = Uncommon, 3 pages = Rare, 4 pages = Very Rare. The level of the enchantment is randomly assigned - assuming an enchantment has levels (infinity, for example, does not). Add the book glue in the top left slot. Once you add a book (or enchanted book if enabled in the config) to the book slot, the binding process will begin. Binding an enchanted book takes 15 seconds (configurable) and a progress arrow indicates how long until the book is complete. During the binding process, you are free to add or remove pages from the table. The binding process will stop if you take all of the pages, remove all books, or take the book glue off of the table. Enchanted book glue is consumed during the crafting process. If there is less glue remaining than pages to be glued, the binding process will not work. Once the glue is used up, you'll have to craft more. Don't worry... you do get the empty glue bottle back.

If you want to guarantee that you'll receive a top tier enchantment, you can add a diamond to the diamond slot on the table. The resulting enchantment will have the highest level available - providing again that the enchantment has levels. If it does have levels, a diamond will be consumed. You can configure the binding table to only give top tier enchantments if you like. This is disabled by default. Adding or removing a diamond from the table while binding is in progress does not stop the binding process.

If an enchanted book cannot be created, the progress arrow will have a red X over it. There are a number or reasons why this might happen:

• There are no enchantments available at the current level either due to blacklisting, or the input book has existing enchantments that have limited the available enchantment pool.
• There are no books in the book slot.
• There is no glue in the glue slot, or the glue bottle in the glue slot is empty.
• There is less glue in the bottle than there are manuscript pages on the table.

Curse enchantments are not applied to the resulting books by default. You can enable them in the config if you want them.

If you only want vanilla Minecraft enchantments to be picked at random for the enchanted books, you can enable that option in the config. It is disabled by default. Otherwise, it is possible to receive the enchantments from all other available mods.

There is also a config option to disable treasure enchantments from appearing on the resulting enchanted books. It is enabled by default. Treasure enchantments are those that cannot be gained by using a normal enchanting table. Mending is an example of a treasure enchantment.