Interactive bookshelves

On Sunday Market, every bookshelf is a small inventory. Right-click to open it. The shelf still works as a vanilla enchanting-table booster, plus the books you put inside affect what enchantments you see.

What changes vs vanilla

In vanilla, bookshelves are decorative — placeable, mineable, but not interactable. On Sunday Market:

• Right-click any bookshelf to open it as an inventory
• The inventory has 3 rows / 27 slots
• It accepts only book-type items (plain books, writable books, written books, enchanted books, knowledge books)
• The shelf still boosts nearby enchant tables — and the books inside count

This makes bookshelves a real organizing system, not just wall decor.

What goes in a bookshelf

Whitelisted to:

• Plain books — the empty book item
• Writable books (book and quill) — books you can edit
• Written books — books that have been signed
• Enchanted books — the magical kind, with enchantments
• Knowledge books — recipe-unlock books

This isn't a generic chest. Try to put a stone in and the slot rejects it. Use vanilla chests or vaults for non-book storage.

Why book-only

Two reasons:

1. Thematic — bookshelves should hold books, not random loot
2. Mechanical — the boost-the-enchant-table feature checks the shelf contents, so the system needs to know what counts as "books"

You can use a bookshelf as an in-world archive of your written stories, your enchant collection, your recipe library — and have the wall itself help you enchant.

Enchant table boost — the books inside count

Vanilla bookshelves boost a nearby enchanting table just by being there. On Sunday Market, the books inside the shelf also count:

• A standard 15-bookshelf ring around an enchant table gives the vanilla bonus (level 30 enchants available)
• Filling each shelf with enchanted books further boosts the tier of enchantments offered

The boost stacks up to a meaningful improvement (roughly up to 80% better enchant outcomes when the shelves are full of high-tier enchanted books). Worth doing if you're running a serious enchant operation.

Practical patterns

The library

A 15-bookshelf ring around an enchant table, filled with stack-of-enchanted-books each. Top-tier enchant runs out of this setup. Add a few comfy chairs for vibes (sit on stairs — see Quality of life).

The lore wall

Wall of bookshelves at your base, each holding a written book documenting your builds, your trips, your trades. A real in-game journal that other players can read.

The recipe trade

Stock a shelf with knowledge books for recipes you've discovered. Sell the shelf contents at a chest shop (yes, the books inside an in-shop bookshelf are tradeable as items).

Particles when active

Bookshelves emit small brand-red and cream particles when opened or when boosting an enchant table. Cosmetic only, but it signals at a glance which shelves are powering the enchant.

Storage limits

A single bookshelf holds 27 book-type items. For a serious archive, you'll want a wall of bookshelves — each one is its own inventory.

The only practical cap is wall space. There's no per-player bookshelf limit; place as many as you want at your base.

Linked chests can't link bookshelves

Bookshelves are their own thing — they don't participate in linked chest networks. Each shelf is a standalone inventory.

See also

• Linked chests — for chest networks (non-book storage)
• Enchantments — the custom enchants worth filling a library with
• Quality of life — other vanilla papercut fixes