Draw In Books is a client-side mod that lets you draw directly in Book & Quill, right next to the text you can already write. Open a book, click ✎, and start drawing.
The best part is that other players who have the mod will also see your drawings, while players without the mod will simply see a normal book.
The mod is made to fit nicely into vanilla Minecraft. It only adds a small toolbar next to the book and does not change anything else about the game.
Everything Draw In Books offers:
- Draw in three colors! You can use red, black, and blue, and mix them together on the same page. Changing the color only affects what you draw after switching it. Anything already drawn stays the same.
- Pen and eraser with different sizes. Ctrl + click a tool to make the brush bigger, or Alt + click to make it smaller. Shift + click fills or clears the entire page, and right click always works as an eraser.
- Undo your strokes! Made a mistake? Just press Ctrl + Z to undo your last stroke.
- Drawings stay after signing the book. When you sign a book, the drawing stays with it and is shown above the text when the book is read.
- Bigger book screen! Minecraft's book screen is pretty small for drawing, so the GUI is automatically increased by one scale step. You can disable this in the config.
- Works with Scribble Mod! The two mods work together, including Scribble Mod's two-page view.
- Drawings stay with the book. Put the book in a chest, trade it to another player, store it in a shulker box, or move it anywhere else. The drawing is stored directly on the item, not in the world.
On servers
If you install the mod or the included Paper plugin on the server, drawing will work in survival for everyone without needing any special permissions.
If the server does not have the mod or plugin, drawing will still work in singleplayer and creative. However, drawings made on a normal vanilla server will only stay on your client. Vanilla Minecraft does not have a packet that allows survival players to attach this kind of data to an item.
The tools are very simple to use!
View Different Tools
| Tool actions | Result |
|---|---|
| Left click / drag | Draw with the selected tool |
| Right click | Erase, regardless of the selected tool |
| Ctrl + click a tool | Make the brush one step bigger |
| Alt + click a tool | Make the brush one step smaller |
| Shift + click the pen | Fill the entire page |
| Shift + click the eraser | Clear the entire page |
| Ctrl + Z | Undo the last stroke |
| Color button | Change the pen color |
