Scholar

1.2.0 - 2026-06-15

New features:

• Book Reading Animation
  • Opening Book and Quill or Written Book changes the user's pose and the book model in hand.
  • Book and Quill makes it a "writing" animation, adding a feather to the hand.
  • This is controlled by presence of a scholar:book_open component on the item.
  • Some humanoid mobs support this animation as well.
• Literate Mobs
  • Zombies, Husks and Skeletons have a 5% chance to spawn with a book in hand and will be reading it from time to time.
  • Book has a 50% chance to drop when the mob dies.
  • Book item is controlled by a scholar:entities/literate_mob_book loot-table.
• Changeable Author
  • Author field on the book signing screen is now editable.
  • And it even allows formatting.
• Bookmark
  • Books in hand have a small red button above the pages, clicking on it sets the bookmark on that page.
  • Next time the book is opened it will open on that page.
• Exporting Signed Books
  • Exported to the same .txt format that Book and Quills can import.
• Lectern Book Tooltip
  • Displays placed book when looking at a block. Same system as Chiseled Bookshelf tooltip.
• Lectern Book Model
  • Displays actual color of the book.
  • Added some shading on the pages under the ones that stick out.
• Golden Book Skin
  • Patreon supporters of Gold tier and above can change the book appearance to golden, by pressing a button in the book editing screen.
• Holding [Shift] when changing page now jumps to the start/end of the book.
  • It works in steps - first jump is to the first page with content on it, if already on it or past - jump to end.
• [Scroll Wheel] changes pages.
• Added sound to book opening
• Added sounds to formatting actions
• Added item dyeing recipes to JEI.
  • Includes leather armor recipes as well.

Changes:

• Inverted behavior of [Shift] key when copying/pasting text or importing/exporting book - formatting is now included by default, and excluded if [Shift] key is held.
• Insert Empty Page and Remove Page keyboard shortcuts can be changed.
  • Default binds have changed as well.
• Toggle Extra Tools button icon changed to a pencil icon instead of a question mark.
  • It will also flash red until the player toggles it tools for the first time - to help new players discover the feature.
• Moved definition of book item colors from Chiseled Bookshelf chiseled_bookshelf/item_colors built-in resourcepack to Colored Books book/item_colors built-in resourcepack.
• Restructured config. Moved some config options from client to common for convenience.
• Added "requires_sneaking" config option for showing in-world tooltips.

Fixes:

• Fixed page numbers not being centered properly.
• Fixed signing screen buttons being slightly misaligned.
• Fixed Chiseled Bookshelf tooltip still displaying when the GUI is hidden.