Domix’s Guidebook is a simple, data-driven API for creating in-game guidebooks for Fabric mods.
It allows mod developers to define guidebook content entirely through JSON, including pages, images, items, and recipes, without needing to write custom UI or rendering code.
The API is designed to be lightweight, flexible, and easy to integrate. Mods can register their own guidebooks, provide custom assets, and extend the system with additional element types if needed.
The guidebook system was originally part of my Domix’s Creatures mod, and has since been reworked into a standalone API that can be reused across my own projects and integrated by other modders.
The guidebook is used by right-clicking an entity that has a corresponding entry, or by right-clicking while holding the guidebook in one hand and an item with an entry in the other. A small magnifying glass icon will appear under the cursor if an entry is available.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Ships as domixs-guidebook-1.0.0-release.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 176 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.