Box of Infinite Books

This article documents an April Fools' Day joke.

 

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.

Box of Infinite Books

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The box of infinite books is a joke block only present in Java Edition 20w14∞ that provides a written book containing random text when used. It uses the texture of oak planks on all but one face, on which it has its own bookshelf-like texture randomized based on its location.

Boxes of infinite books cannot be crafted. It naturally generates in the "library" and "isolation" dimensions, and the chest in the "content" dimension. The item is also available in the Creative inventory.

Boxes of infinite books can be mined by hand, but are broken faster with an axe. In either case, it drops itself. Unlike bookshelves, it does not require Silk Touch to obtain.

Block	Box of Infinite Books
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)[A]
Default	2.25
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Boxes of infinite books naturally generate in the "library" dimension where it makes up the bulk of the dimension's terrain, and in the "isolation" dimension where 10 boxes can be found in the basement of the house.

When used, if the block is not on one of its chunk's edges and facing along that edge, a random written book is generated. This book can be thrown into a Nether portal to create a funky portal.

The random books are tied to the block such that using the same block multiple times always returns an identical book. The title of the random books given by the block is correlated with the location of the block. The title's pattern takes the format <chunk X>/<chunk Z>/<block orientation>/<distance to the chunk's edge to the right of the block>/<block Y>, so books from the same block always has the same title and content.

The author of every book is "Universe itself", obfuscated, and every book has 16 pages filled with random text. No books ever drop if game rule doTileDrops is set to false.

This section uses a sound table which may not accurately represent the sounds associated with this feature.

 

Because of MC-177082, subtitles for falling on blocks may not have existed at this point in development, so a dedicated sound table accounting for this may be required.

wood sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Box of Infinite Books	book_box	Block & Item	block.minecraft.book_box

Issues relating to "Box of Infinite Books" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".

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  The library dimension, one of the dimensions where the block generates