Draw In Books

⚠️ Update the mod and the server plugin together. 1.1.0 changed how drawings reach the server, so a 1.1.0-or-newer client will not save to a 1.0.x server or plugin. Both sides have to be on the same release.

Everything since 1.0.0.

New

• Green and yellow inks. Five colors now, all mixable on one page. Existing books are upgraded automatically and keep their colors.
• Copy and paste whole pages with ⓒ / ⓟ on the toolbar, or Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V. Works across books. Pasting stamps over what's already on the page instead of wiping it; Shift-click ⓟ to replace the page completely.
• Middle click picks a color. Takes the ink under the cursor, instead of cycling through all five to find it.
• Lecterns show drawings. Put a drawn book in a lectern and everyone reading it sees the drawing. Works with Scribble installed too.
• Tools hide where they can't save. On a server with neither the mod nor the plugin, the toolbar doesn't appear and says why once in chat, so nobody spends ten minutes on a drawing that was never going to survive. Drawing still works in singleplayer, on a supported server, and in creative anywhere.
• A proper button texture for the draw/write toggle.

Fixed

• Saving a book with several drawn pages disconnected you, and took the text you had just typed with it. A full drawing exceeded vanilla's packet size limit; it's now sent in chunks.
• Alt-tab and fullscreen threw away the drawing in progress. Anything unsaved was lost the moment the game rebuilt its screens.
• Pages with only a drawing on them vanished from the page count. A book could say "1 of 12" while pages 13 and 14 held drawings you couldn't reach.
• Erasing a drawing didn't sync on servers. The old drawing came back.
• Crash on older Fabric API. The mod claimed to work with any version; it now correctly requires Fabric API 0.154.0 or newer.

Requirements

Minecraft 26.2 · Fabric Loader 0.19.3+ · Fabric API 0.154.0+ · Java 25