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Before signing a book, players can freely doodle on its pages using a simple pixel-based drawing interface, allowing sketches, symbols, diagrams, or small drawings to be added alongside written text.
Once the book is signed, all drawings and text are permanently preserved inside the signed book, just like vanilla content. Illustrated books can then be shared, traded, or stored without losing any data.
The mod is fully server-compatible and works seamlessly in multiplayer, ensuring that all players see the same drawings exactly as intended.
Sketchy Books is designed as a lightweight, vanilla-friendly quality-of-life mod that expands the creative and practical use of books without altering core gameplay.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as sketchy_books-neoforge-1.21.8-1.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 48 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.