Bookshelf

Bookshelf is a block first added to Minecraft version 0.26. Bookshelves have two textures, 1 borrowed from the Plank block put on the top and bottom of the block and 1 edited version of the Plank texture put on all 4 sides.

Creative Mode
Bookshelves are available for use in Creative mode. Bookshelves are often used to make large book-stands in houses or other rooms. Sometimes players who especially like Bookshelves make entire structures out of them.

Alpha Mode
A Bookshelf can be crafted by using 6 wood blocks and 3 books in the pattern below:



As one bookshelf requires three books, books require three sheets of paper, and paper requires one reed per sheet (three at a time), nine reeds are necessary for each bookshelf block. If reeds are allowed to grow to their full height before harvesting and only the top two segments are removed, then nine reed plants will provide enough for two bookshelves, or 9/2 × 64 = 288 plants (plus 96 logs for the wood) for a full stack of 64 bookshelves in one harvest.

Bookselves can be mined fairly easily by hand, but quicker using an axe. Note that when bookshelves are broken in any way, no resource-blocks drop from them to be picked up. Bookcases should be placed with accuracy considering they can only be placed once. Bookshelves are flammable and will be destroyed easily in explosions.

Currently, bookshelves have no practical purpose; they are just for looks.

Retired Modes
This is a list of characteristics of Bookshelves in previous game modes.


 * Survival Test - Impossible to obtain without loading a pre-edited map. Destroyed in explosions. When mined drops nothing.
 * Indev - Same as Survival Test and Alpha Mode. Cannot be crafted.
 * Infdev - Presumably same as Survival Test and Alpha Mode. Cannot be crafted.