Guide to Creating a Lectern in Minecraft: Step by Step

The Lectern is an indispensable item in the cubic world for those who love to play with others. It allows multiple players to read the same book simultaneously, creating an atmosphere of a true shared adventure or, for example, placing important information in adventure maps. In short, it’s an essential block for creating great stories!

However, for beginners, the crafting process might seem unclear. In this guide, we’ll explain step-by-step how to make a lectern in Minecraft, as well as how to use it.

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Required Items for Creating a Lectern in Minecraft

Before we get into the detailed crafting process, let’s list the total number of ingredients needed:

All these items can be found in standard and common Minecraft biomes. Sugar cane, for example, spawns on blocks of sand and dirt near water. It’s also quite low-maintenance, so make sure to plant some cane on your farm!

Trees grow almost everywhere, except in biomes like the plains, desert, and Badlands. Leather drops from cows, donkeys, llamas, and can also be crafted from four rabbit hides.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Lectern

Once all the ingredients are prepared, let’s move on to crafting! You’ll need a few simple materials:

First, you’ll need paper, which is made from sugar cane. You can craft 3 sheets from 3 sugar cane. Place them horizontally in a row as shown in the image.

Image: youtube.comNext, let’s create the book. For this, you’ll need:

It doesn’t matter where you place them on the crafting grid as long as they’re there.

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Finally, we can craft the bookshelf. You’ll need:

Simply place them in the crafting grid like a sandwich: wooden planks on the top and bottom, with books in the middle.

Image: reddit.comBy the way, if you're having trouble gathering some materials or simply want to learn more about bookshelves, we recommend checking out one of our articles on this topic. It’s one of the most useful blocks in the game since you need it to enchant your gear with powerful buffs!

Now, moving on to the final ingredient for crafting—the wooden slabs. You can use any wood type—cherry, oak, or birch. Simply place them in a horizontal row on the crafting grid.

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Now all that’s left is to combine all the crafted components to get the lectern. You can find the recipe in the image below. 

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Done! Take the block from the crafting grid and find a place on your base to place it. Now, let’s move on to its main uses.

How to Use a Lectern in Minecraft

The Lectern is not just a decorative block; it’s a real all-rounder in the Minecraft world. You can use it to assign work to a lazy villager: just place it next to them, and they will turn into a librarian—a useful and respected member of the village. However, for the player, the librarian is only useful as a trader of paper, compasses, books, and various enchanted items, or ink.

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Additionally, the Lectern is great for reading: open a book, and you can flip through the pages together with other players. However, note that you can’t edit the text directly from the lectern.

Redstone enthusiasts will also find a use for it—the act of turning a page on a book placed on this block can serve as a trigger and emit a strong pulse. A comparator, for example, detects the reading of the book by the player and, depending on which page is being read, sends a corresponding signal.

And if you happen to run out of furnace fuel, you can use the Lectern instead of wood or coal. It will get the job done and smelt about one and a half items.

Finally, for music lovers: place the Lectern under a Note Block, and you’ll hear a deep bass sound—a perfect accent for a musical composition.

If you don’t want to deal with creating this unusual item, you can always find one in the open world.

Natural Generation Locations

The easiest and most convenient way to find a Lectern, if you don’t want to craft it, is to search nearby villages. Look for something resembling a library. The obvious and clear sign will be the many bookshelves, which you can take with you to decorate your base.

It can also be found in ancient cities beneath statues. But in this case, you’ll need to spend a lot of time in the mines to find this rare structure. Alternatively, you can use a map viewer like ChunkBase. Just enter your world’s seed and search the map for the underground city. However, be careful with this method! You might lose the most important part of the Minecraft experience—the joy of exploring new lands.

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We hope this guide helped you understand how to create a Lectern! As you can see, the item is simple, and the resources for it can be gathered within the first few hours of gameplay. By the way, this block will be especially useful in multiplayer or on your own custom map. With its help, you can create an authentic medieval or fantasy adventure. Go ahead and experiment!

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