Bookshelf icon PNG

The Bookshelf icon exactly as it appears in Minecraft 26.3, as a transparent PNG. The original texture is 16×16 pixels, and here you can scale it up without it going blurry.

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The Bookshelf texture is 16×16 pixels in game. Here it scales by multiplying each pixel by a whole number, so at 1024 px every pixel is a perfect square and the edges stay sharp. No interpolation smudging the pixel art.

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Bookshelf in Minecraft: how many you need for enchanting

The bookshelf is the block that powers up an enchanting table. Placed around it, bookshelves unlock higher-level enchantments, and 15 in the right positions reach the maximum of level 30. When they are working, you will see glyphs flying from the shelves to the table.

It is crafted from six planks and three books. Broken without Silk Touch it drops those three books, so six more planks rebuild it; with Silk Touch it drops whole. It breaks by hand, but an axe is faster.

If you would rather not craft them, plenty generate. Stronghold libraries hold 161 bookshelves on one floor and 233 with a balcony, and the large library in a woodland mansion has 180. Village libraries have them too.

They also work as fuel, 1.5 items per block, though burning books that way makes little sense. A bookshelf is the Minecraft Education icon, and its top and bottom faces use the same texture as oak planks.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Bookshelf

How to get Bookshelf

Crafted on the crafting table in this shape:

Mined with an axe. Mining it drops Book.

Recipe and drops taken from the Minecraft 26.3 data pack.

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