Ancient Manuscripts

The Ancient Manuscripts mod offers a unique system for creating enchanted books by restoring ancient manuscripts. In the Minecraft world, you can find scattered pages from mystical tomes lost for centuries and assemble them into powerful enchanted books.

Core Concept

Ancient pages can be discovered in chests throughout the game world. Experienced village librarians sometimes keep such manuscripts and may sell them for the right price. Wandering traders also occasionally find pages during their travels, and witches use magical texts for spellcasting, so eliminating them can yield valuable finds.

Creating Enchanted Books

Binding Table

Creating enchanted books requires a special binding table. It can be crafted from three logs, two wooden fences, and a book. Different wood types (oak, dark oak, spruce, birch, acacia, jungle, mangrove, warped stem, crimson stem, cherry, and bamboo) create tables with different appearances, but all have the same functionality.

Book Glue

An empty glue bottle is crafted from a stick, feather, and empty bottle. This bottle is reusable and returns after the glue is used up.

Magical book glue is made from a bucket of water, honeycomb, bone meal, glowstone dust, slime ball, and empty glue bottle. One bottle can glue up to 20 manuscript pages. As glue is used, the bottle visually empties, and hovering over it shows remaining uses.

Binding Process

The enchanted book creation process is simple: add the desired number of manuscript pages to the binding table. The more pages you use, the more powerful the enchantment:

• 1 page = Common
• 2 pages = Uncommon
• 3 pages = Rare
• 4 pages = Very Rare

To guarantee maximum level enchantment, you can add a diamond to the special slot. The binding process takes 15 seconds, and during this time you can add or remove pages.

Enchantment Blacklisting

Using a JSON file in the configuration directory, you can block specific enchantments. The ancient_manuscripts_blacklist.json file is automatically created when the mod loads. On servers, the server config takes priority over the client one.

To find the exact enchantment name for blocking, use the /enchant command - it will show all available enchantments with their identifiers.

Additional Features

Data Packs

Starting from version 1.1.6, you can add manuscript pages from other mods via data packs. Create a JSON file at: /data/ancient_manuscripts/tags/items/manuscripts.json

Configuration

The mod offers many settings:

• Disable diamond usage
• Enable curse enchantments
• Limit to vanilla enchantments only
• Disable treasure enchantments
• Adjust binding time

Supported Languages

• English (US)
• Simplified Chinese (provided by junshengxie)
• Traditional Chinese (provided by junshengxie)

Technical Information

The mod works only on Forge. Porting to Fabric is not currently planned.