Creating a Book

A Minecraft book is composed of an author, a title and pages. Each page can be formatted using MiniMessage’s formatting, and can contain clickable links, hover effects and more.

Create the book

First, let’s create the book itself. You can use the following expression to do so:

set {_book} to a new book with title "My Book" and author "ItsTheSky" #(1)!

You can use MiniMessage’s formatting here too! For instance:

set {_book} to a new book with title "<gradient:red:blue>My Title" and author "&6Its&cThe&9Sky"

Add pages

Now, we can add pages to our book. One element added to the pages represents one actual page of the book!

# First page (with gradient)
add "Hey there! <gradient:red:gold>I am a nice gradient :D</gradient>" to pages of {_book}

# Second page (with clickable link)
add "I am a <click:suggest_command:/say Hello!>clickable link</click>!" to pages of {_book}

# Third page (with hover effect)
add "I am a <hover:show_text:'&cI am a hover effect!'>hover effect</hover>!" to pages of {_book}

You can use lists to simplify the process of adding pages to a book:

add "First line" to {_pages::*}
add "Second line" to {_pages::*}
# ...
add (join {_pages::*} with nl) to pages of {_book}

We’ll just join, at the end, all the elements with a new line. Smart, right?

Open the book

You can finally open the book to one or more players, using the following effect:

open boosk {_book} to player

Result

This code will have the following results:

First page

Give the book

Optionally, you can give the book as an item to a player. You can use the following expression to convert your book into a Skript’s item:

set {_item} to book {_book} as item

# ... and then for instance:
# give {_item} to player