Minecraft Book Editor

Write a book page by page, with colors and styles, and get the command that puts it in your hand. Useful for a quest log, a shop guide, or a story left in a chest.

Page 1 of 1

56 letters on this page, without the codes. Press Enter for a new line. The game breaks a page when it runs out of room, so keep an eye on the preview.

How the page reads
Day one
I woke up on a beach with nothing but my hands.
The command
/give @s minecraft:written_book[written_book_content={title:"My Journal",author:"Steve",pages:['[{"text":""},{"text":"Day one","bold":true},{"text":"\\n\\nI woke up on a beach with nothing but my hands."}]']}]

Paste it into chat. Empty pages at the end are left out, so an extra page you did not fill costs nothing.

Pages
A faded number is an empty page.

How it works

  • Write your first page, then add more with the Page button. Move between them with the arrows or the numbers.
  • Click a color or a style to put its code where the cursor is.
  • Set the title and author. The title is what the book is called in your inventory.
  • Copy the command and paste it into chat. Pages you left empty at the end are dropped.
  • The same sixteen colors work on signs and in chat. They are listed on the color code page.

The command uses the item component form, which is what Minecraft 1.20.5 and later expect.

Questions

Which versions does the command work on?
1.20.5 and later. That is the release where items moved to the square bracket component form, and this tool writes that form. On an older server the command is refused, because the older shape put the data in curly brackets straight after the item name.
How many pages can I have?
As many as you like. The old limit was removed in 1.20.5. A page still holds only so much before the game moves the text on, so watch the preview rather than counting letters.
Why is my title cut off?
The game accepts 32 characters and no more, so the box stops there. A longer title would make the whole command fail rather than shorten itself.
What does generation mean?
How worn the book claims to be. An original can be copied, a copy can be copied once more, and a copy of a copy cannot be copied again. Tattered is the state past that. It only changes the tooltip and what the copying table allows.
Can I edit the book after I get it?
No. A written book is finished. If you want to keep editing in the game you need a book and quill, which is a different item. Change the text here and run the command again instead.
Do empty pages at the end matter?
No, they are left out of the command. Add as many pages as you like while you write; the ones you did not fill are dropped, so the book opens on your last real page.
Do I need to be an operator?
Yes, because /give is a command. In a single player world turn cheats on.