The book is an underused item that has tons of potential. Frankly, I see two ideas for books:
Let books be written in. When you right click a book in tool form, the book opens. A book can have a maximum 16 pages. There is an interface similar to the inventory screen that pops up, with text and arrows pointing towards other pages.
You can also add images into a book. Now, making a whole paint mini-program would be quite hard, so I have two ideas for this. Either A, you'll be able to import a bitmap image into the book, probably a maximum size of 64x64 or 128x128, or instead there will be an incredibly simple paint program with the following tools:
Quill (Craftable)
Colors, most likely those of wool. (I'm not sure if it will require corresponding coloured wool)
And a paint bucket. + eraser
To draw a picture, or write in a book, you will need to craft a quill and have it in your inventory. Quills are crafted as such:
Obsidian = ink sac
Quills must be in the inventory to edit or write books, and have limited durability. Durability is lost when writing or removing content from a book.
Books will be crafted via the new recipe:
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Wood = leather
Blank spot = paper
The paper is stackable up to 16 and the number of paper stacked is the amount of pages that will be available within the book. To make paper more accessible, paper would also require only two sugarcane to be made. Books can ONLY be stored within bookshelves, cannot be stacked, and only three may be in a bookshelf at any given time.
The new recipe for a bookshelf is the same, although now it is two parallel wooden planks, with the middle capable of being vacant until books are stored within it.
I think I've covered what I wanted to say, and so I'd appreciate both positive feedback and constructive criticism on this. The main goal of this is to add another object of value into minecraft, and allow people to create atlases, art, stories, records, etc.
Let books be written in. When you right click a book in tool form, the book opens. A book can have a maximum 16 pages. There is an interface similar to the inventory screen that pops up, with text and arrows pointing towards other pages.
You can also add images into a book. Now, making a whole paint mini-program would be quite hard, so I have two ideas for this. Either A, you'll be able to import a bitmap image into the book, probably a maximum size of 64x64 or 128x128, or instead there will be an incredibly simple paint program with the following tools:
Quill (Craftable)
Colors, most likely those of wool. (I'm not sure if it will require corresponding coloured wool)
And a paint bucket. + eraser
To draw a picture, or write in a book, you will need to craft a quill and have it in your inventory. Quills are crafted as such:
Obsidian = ink sac
Quills must be in the inventory to edit or write books, and have limited durability. Durability is lost when writing or removing content from a book.
Books will be crafted via the new recipe:
[]
Wood = leather
Blank spot = paper
The paper is stackable up to 16 and the number of paper stacked is the amount of pages that will be available within the book. To make paper more accessible, paper would also require only two sugarcane to be made. Books can ONLY be stored within bookshelves, cannot be stacked, and only three may be in a bookshelf at any given time.
The new recipe for a bookshelf is the same, although now it is two parallel wooden planks, with the middle capable of being vacant until books are stored within it.
I think I've covered what I wanted to say, and so I'd appreciate both positive feedback and constructive criticism on this. The main goal of this is to add another object of value into minecraft, and allow people to create atlases, art, stories, records, etc.
Just a thought.