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Bookshelf | Store Books Inside! | Enchantment Table Boosting | Supports Protection Plugins
Java mod listed for Minecraft 1.8–1.19. Download on the author's site.
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About
Ever wondered why bookshelves in Minecraft cannot be used to store books? Well, now you can!
With this plugin, you will be able to open bookshelves like chests and store books inside them.
Screenshots
^The particle effect indicating that a bookshelf is being opened
^The bookshelf contents, the number of rows can be customized
Features
1. The bookshelves!
- Right-click bookshelves to open a chest-like inventory
- Bookshelves emit particles when a player is opening it (togglable in config) [1.13 or above]
- Customize the number of rows each bookshelf has (default to 2 rows in config)
- Plays a book placing sound when a player place or remove an item in a bookshelf
- Limit the type of item that can be placed into bookshelves (Default to only books-like items in config)
- Supports moving bookshelves with pistons and sticky pistons
- Supports named bookshelves! (Similar to when you name a chest and place it down, the inventory retains the chest's item name)
- Support Droppers (Need to be enabled in config)
- Experimental support Hoppers and Hoppers Minecarts (Need to be enabled in config)
(Note that it is quite resource intensive if you have too many bookshelves)
- Supports creative shift-middle-click block to copy bookshelf with items inside
2. Enchantment Table Boosting! [1.11 or above]
- Boost Enchantment Tables with surrounding it with bookshelves containing enchantment books with the enchantment of your choice!
- More books, higher chance!
- For example, if every slot of all bookshelf is Sharpness 5 books you will be guaranteed a sharpness enchantment!
- The feature can be toggled in the config as always
Supported Plugins
- Supports Bolt Protections
- Supports LWCX Protections (Requires the latest version)
- Supports BlockLocker Container Locking
- Supports WorldGuard regions (Requires at least version 7.0.0)
- Supports GriefPrevention land claim protections
- Supports RedProtect land claim protections
- Supports Residence land claim protections
- Supports Towny land claim protections
- Supports Lands land claim protections (Requires the latest version)
- Supports ASkyBlock island protections
- Supports BentoBox island protections
- Supports SuperiorSkyblock2 island protections
- Supports GriefDefender land protections
- Supports PlotSquared plot protections (Requires v4, v5, v6, or v7)
- Supports OpenInv silent chest
- Supports Essentials player vanish
- Supports CMI player vanish
- Supports SuperVanish player vanish
- Supports PremiumVanish player vanish
- Supports InteractionVisualizer bookshelf interact animations (Requires the latest dev build)
(Bookshelves are seen just like chests in most of these plugins)
Dependencies
- None!
Installation
1. Put Bookshelf.jar into the plugins folder along with the required dependencies
2. Start the server
3. Edit the config (if you need to)
4. Restart the server (if you changed something in the config in step 3)
Development Builds
Jenkins
Showcase Server
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Code (Text):
IP: mc.loohpjames.com
Commands
/bookshelf reload - Reloads the plugin
/bookshelf update - Check for updates
Q&A
Hoppers and Droppers do not work! What do I do?
You have to enable "EnableHopperSupport" and/or "EnableDropperSupport" in the config!
(Note that it is quite resource intensive if you have too many bookshelves)
Enchantment Table Boosting does not work, and there are no errors, and I've already enabled it in the config, why is that?
If you are running Minecraft version 1.8 - 1.10.2, unfortunately, enchantment table boosting feature is unsupported on these versions.
If you are running Minecraft version 1.11 or above, double check your settings and permissions or contact me!
The shift + pick block with NBT function does not work, I already gave myself permission, what's wrong?
Currently, the feature is only tested in Minecraft 1.15+. If it doesn't work in another version, it is normal and is being worked on. Thank you for being patient!
How is the Enchantment Table Boosting calculated?
Check out the wiki page: https://github.com/LOOHP/Bookshelf/wiki/Enchantment-Table-Boosting
API
Bookshelf does provide an API for developers to customize or use its functions
- When hoppers or hopper minecarts exchange items with bookshelves InventoryMoveItemEvent will fire, just listen to it just like any other bukkit events
- When a player opens or closes a bookshelf, PlayerOpenBookshelfEvent or PlayerCloseBookshelfEvent will fire. If a player does not have permission to access that bookshelf (includes protection from other plugins, it will fire as cancelled (After priority LOWEST)
https://github.com/LOOHP/Bookshelf/tree/master/src/main/java/com/loohp/bookshelf/API
More info through the link above
Permissions
bookshelf.use - Allow players to use a bookshelf [default: false]
bookshelf.reload - Reload the plugin [default: op]
bookshelf.copynbt - Allows you to shift-middle-click to copy bookshelf with items inside in creative [default: op]
bookshelf.update - Allow you to receive update messages [default: op]
Default Config
Latest Config with Descriptions
Limitations
- Bookshelves do not output a redstone signal via a redstone comparator, I will attempt to add that once I find a method that works :/
- Bookshelves transactions are not picked up by block loggers such as coreprotect, I will try to add that or create my own logging system in the future.
Notes:
I only guarantee that the plugin works perfectly and with full features in the latest version of spigot and paper
Mainly because I am a student and my time is limited, sadly you can't live with just doing what you like, writing plugins, life just doesn't work like what we all wanted

Older versions are just "supported", so they might be missing a few features or hooks, but generally should work just fine.
Nevertheless, do your own testing to be sure, just like any other plugin on this forum.
Report problems on discord (recommended) or in the discussion, not in a review. Thanks

Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.8, 1.9, 1.10
- 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 Spigot — 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.
Bookshelf | Store Books Inside! | Enchantment Table Boosting | Supports Protection Plugins is a free Minecraft Java mod. Compatible with Minecraft 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and newer. Downloaded 16,394 times (via Spigot). Download it and open it directly in the game.