How To Create A Lectern

A lectern is a librarian's task site block found in villages. It is used to concord books for multiple players to read in multiplayer.

one Obtaining
- 1.1 Natural generation
- 1.2 Breaking
- i.3 Crafting
2 Usage
- 2.1 Belongings books
- 2.2 Changing profession
- 2.3 Redstone signal
- two.4 Fuel
- two.v Notation Blocks
iii Sounds
4 Data values
- 4.1 ID
- 4.two Block states
- 4.3 Block information
five History
vi Issues
7 Gallery
8 References

Obtaining [ ]

Natural generation [ ]

Empty lecterns tin generate naturally in village libraries, up to 2 for some library variants. They also generate as function of aboriginal city.

Breaking [ ]

Lecterns tin be broken with any tool, merely an axe mines it the fastest. Lecterns drib themselves and the book they are belongings.

Block	Lectern
Hardness	ii.5
Tool
Breaking time^[A]
Default	three.75
Wooden	1.ix
Stone	0.95
Atomic number 26	0.65
Diamond	0.5
Netherite	0.45
Golden	0.35

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded past players with no status furnishings, measured in seconds. For more information, encounter Breaking § Speed.

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Any woods Slab + Bookshelf

Usage [ ]

Lecterns are the job site cake of Librarian villagers.

Librarian villagers practise not utilise lecterns, such every bit placing books into them. They only stare at the lectern from less than a block abroad every bit "working".

Property books [ ]

The UI when reading a book on a lectern.

Lecterns tin can too hold a single book and quill or written book that other players tin can read at the same time. Correct-clicking an empty 1 with a book and quill or written book places it. Correct-clicking a lectern with a book already occupied opens an interface to read the book. Books occupying a lectern can be retrieved through the interface,‌^{[ Coffee Edition only ]} punching the lectern‌^{[ Bedrock Edition merely ]} or by destroying the lectern, even when /gamerule doTileDrops is false.

Lecterns cannot concur enchanted books or normal books. Instead, right clicking the lectern with an enchanted book or a normal book does nothing and the book won't exist placed.

Irresolute profession [ ]

If a village has a lectern that has not been claimed by a villager, any villager has a chance to change their profession into librarian if those villagers take not already chosen a job site block.

Redstone bespeak [ ]

Lecterns belongings a book emit a full-force redstone pulse that is one game tick long (0.v redstone ticks) when a page is turned. A redstone comparator also records volume reading and sends a indicate, depending on what page the thespian is currently on. Because Boulder Edition displays ii pages of the book at in one case, the aforementioned signal force increments require double the number of pages.

For Java Edition a book with only i page gives maximum betoken strength, however page 1 always gives i bespeak force no thing what if a book contains at to the lowest degree 2 pages.

Due to this, to calculate the betoken force $S$ of books with more than 1 page, utilize the post-obit formula:

$S=\left\lfloor 1+{\frac {14(P-1)}{M-1}}\right\rfloor$

Where $\lfloor \,\rfloor$ is the "floor" operation (round downwardly), $M$ is the maximum number of pages the book on the lectern has, and $P$ is the current page number the lectern is turned to.

This is most noticeable when a book has two pages where the point forcefulness is either i on page 1 or fifteen on page 2.

A volume that would step upwardly or downwardly in increments of one per page would be 15 pages long.

For Bedrock Edition the formula is slightly unlike. Due to Bedrock Edition showing 2 pages at one time and counting a change to the book's output only if the highest even numbered page contains data, a redstone comparator treats books with 3 pages the aforementioned equally those with one or ii pages of data, the same as how Coffee Edition would treat a book with just i page.

For 4 or more pages of information utilize the following formula to calculate signal strength.

$S=\left\lfloor 1+{\frac {14(P'-1)}{M'-1}}\right\rfloor$

In this example $M'$ is half of the maximum folio number rounded down, and $P'$ is one-half of the electric current highest page number containing data displayed on the volume interface, rounded down.

Rounding downwardly is required to eliminate the discrepancy caused by books containing an odd number of pages. For example, a book with 8 pages gives a signal strength of xv when looking at pages 7-8. A book with nine pages has a signal strength of 15 when looking at either pages 7-8 and 9-ten.

In Boulder Edition, a book that steps up or downward in increments of i per page turned must exist exactly 30 pages long, with information left on page 30.

Fuel [ ]

Lecterns can be used as fuel in furnaces to smelt 1.5 items.

Notation Blocks [ ]

Lecterns can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass" sound.

Sounds [ ]

Coffee Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Clarification	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
Cake cleaved	Blocks	One time the block has broken	`cake.wood.interruption`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	0.eight	sixteen
None ^{[sound i]}	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.wood.fall`	None ^{[sound one]}	0.5	0.75	xvi
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being cleaved	`block.forest.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.five	xvi
Block placed	Blocks	When the cake is placed	`block.woods.identify`	`subtitles.block.generic.identify`	i.0	0.8	16
Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	`block.wood.pace`	`subtitles.cake.generic.footsteps`	0.xv	i.0	sixteen

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Boulder Edition:

Audio	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resources location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
?	?	Blocks	In one case the cake has broken	`dig.wood`	?	1.0	0.8	?
?	?	Blocks	Falling on the block with autumn damage	`fall.wood`	?	0.iv	one.0	?
?	?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.wood`	?	0.23	0.5	?
?	?	Blocks	Jumping from the cake	`jump.wood`	?	0.12	1.0	?
?	?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`country.wood`	?	0.18	ane.0	?
?	?	Blocks	Walking on the cake	`stride.wood`	?	0.3	one.0	?
?	?	Blocks	When the cake is placed	`utilise.wood`	?	1.0	0.8	?

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Lectern	`lectern`	Block & Item	`cake.minecraft.lectern`

Name	Identifier
Block entity	`lectern`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Particular ID^{[i 1]}	Translation key
Lectern	`lectern`	`449`	Block & Giveable Item^{[i two]}	Identical^{[i iii]}	`tile.lectern.name`

↑ ID of cake'due south directly item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
↑ Bachelor with /requite command.
↑ The cake's direct item form has the same id with the cake.

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	`Lectern`

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	`n`	`eastward` `north` `south` `due west`	The management the lectern is facing. Opposite from the direction the histrion faces when placing a lectern.
has_book	`false`	`simulated` `true`	If the lectern currently has a book.
powered	`false`	`false` `true`	If the lectern is currently outputting a redstone point.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
direction	`0x1` `0x2`	`0`	`0` `i` `2` `3`	`0` `1` `2` `3`	The direction the lectern is facing. 0: South facing 1: Due west facing 2: North facing 3: East facing
powered_bit	`0x4`	`imitation`	`faux` `truthful`	`0` `1`	If the lectern is currently outputting a redstone signal.

Block information [ ]

A lectern has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data nigh the block.

Java Edition:

Block entity information
- Book: The book detail, without the slot tag, currently on the lectern, may not be.
- Page: The page the book is currently on, starting from 0, does not exist if there's no book. If higher than the full corporeality of pages in the book, gets set to -1.

Boulder Edition:

Come across Bedrock Edition level format/Cake entity format.

History [ ]

Coffee Edition
August 18, 2012		The lectern was an old project of Dinnerbone's. It was meant to be a stand up for written books, and then they could be easily read. He was well on his fashion to creating it when he encountered bug and scrapped the thought, but mentioned that he might pick up work on the lectern in the near hereafter.
December 18, 2013		Dinnerbone states in his Reddit AMA that he has revisited lecterns, merely scrapped them once again every bit "something virtually them just didn't feel right".
October 18, 2018		Dinnerbone reveals that the lectern is once more in development.
1.xiv	18w44a	Added lecterns.
		Lecterns are currently obtainable only from the artistic inventory and have no functionality.
		Lecterns currently have a `BookItem` field, which holds the book particular to be displayed. However, this field cannot be set and is not written to the block entity.
		In that location is a file `lectern.png` which has each texture of the lectern on a big sheet. However, this is unused, as carve up files ae as well nowadays.
	18w45a	The inventory icon of lecterns has been slightly changed from to .
		Removed the unused `lectern.png` file.
		The texture of lecterns has at present been inverse.
		The lesser texture of lecterns has been changed from to .
	18w47a	The bottom texture of lecterns has been changed, again.
	18w48a	Lecterns at present generate in the updated plains villages.
	18w49a	Lecterns now generate in the updated savanna villages and the new snowy tundra villages.
	18w50a	Lecterns now generate in the updated desert and taiga villages.
	19w02a	Lecterns now have a crafting recipe.
		Lecterns can now exist used to hold books.
		Lecterns now emit a redstone pulse when a page is changed.
		Lecterns now utilise the right cullface argument for its lesser confront.
	?	Lecterns now use some corrected side cullface arguments for the front and back of their base plate.
	19w03a	Certain blocks can no longer be supported by the acme of a lectern.^[1]
	19w03c	Lecterns now use right cullface arguments on the left and right mitt side of their base plate.
	19w11a	Lecterns at present serve every bit librarian villagers' job site cake.
one.17	21w08a	Lectern position inside the Redstone tab has been moved out of the "essential" group in the artistic inventory.
one.17	21w11a	Tweaked the lectern model.
1.xviii	Pre-release 5	The base texture of lectern has at present been changed.
Upcoming Coffee Edition
i.19	22w13a	Lectern now generate every bit part of ancient city.
Bedrock Edition
i.10.0	beta 1.ten.0.3	Added lecterns.
1.11.0	beta 1.eleven.0.i	Lecterns now emit a redstone pulse when a page is turned.
PlayStation four Edition
1.xc		Added lecterns.