Palimpsest
Minecraft Java mod. Downloads from the MC Java Mods app on Android.
⬇ Download on CurseForge



Erase Maps and Books for reuse by rubbing with Redstone Dust.
Historically, a palimpsest is "a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off so that the page can be reused for another document" [Wikipedia]. Materials for writing were expensive to create, so were reused when possible.
This mod contains shapeless recipes that, when one of the following items is rubbed (aka crafted) with Redstone Dust, will produce a blank version of the item (consuming the Redstone Dust in the process):
- Filled Map
- Mega Map (1.14.4+)
- Written Book
- Writable Book
- Enchanted Book
Example uses
- Collected some low power Enchanted Books you don't need? Recycle them into Books to use for new enchantments.
- Accidentally create multiple Filled Maps of the same area? Erase the the duplicate Filled Maps to use again.
- Use Bibliocraft's Atlas with Filled Maps but accidentally create a Filled Map of the wrong scale level? Erase it!
Recipes

Recipe: Filled Map and Redstone Dust to Empty Map

Recipe: Writable Book and Redstone Dust to Writable Book

Recipe: Written Book and Redstone Dust to Book

Recipe: Enchanted Book and Redstone Dust to Book
My mods
- Food Funk - What is that funky smell in my backpack? Food spoils over time unless preserved. Configure any item to rot, any container to preserve items.
- Canny Composter - Compost more stuff! Turn excess organic material and rotted food into nutrients for plants.
- Mega Map - Cartographers rejoice! Mega zoomed out maps - scales of 5 aka 1:32 and greater!
- Web Slinger - Spiders shoot webbing at you - slinging webs from a distance, or when they hit you in melee!
- Pantography - Copy Map item data to other Maps including different scale Maps.
- Palimpsest - Erase Maps and Books for reuse by rubbing with Redstone Dust.
- Flourishing Foliage - Can't keep a tree down! Tree leaves regrow outward after harvesting if enough tree trunk is left.
- Saplings to Sticks - Strip saplings to get sticks. That's it - nothing more.
- Daring Debug - Do you DARE to see extra debug information? Includes TileEntity and Tag information.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- 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 CurseForge — 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 palimpsest-1.12.2-1.2.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 628 KB
- Download link checked 13 Oct 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.