Description
A lectern is a wooden stand that holds a book for display and allows villagers to use it as a job site block. It looks like a small angled desk that can hold a single book and is useful for libraries, classrooms and decorative studies. Players use lecterns to show written books to other players and to add a sense of learning space to builds. When placed in a village a lectern will assign a librarian profession to a villager which makes it useful for trading and for setting up custom villager trades. The lectern can also emit a redstone signal when a page is turned in some game versions which adds interesting options for creating book powered contraptions and for marking progress in adventure maps. It is a handy block for role play and for organisers who want to build a dedicated reading room or a study area with a clear display spot for important books and notes.
What is Lectern?
A lectern is a wooden furniture like block that holds a book and can function as a villager job site. It displays written books and can interact with villagers and redstone in useful ways. It is primarily a decorative and functional item for libraries and villages.
Where to find Lectern
You will find lecterns in villages as part of library buildings and in player creations such as studies and reading rooms. They appear in generated village library interiors and are commonly placed where the village design expects a librarian building to be.
How to get Lectern
Craft a lectern using wood planks and a bookshelf or take one from the creative inventory. Use the give command to add a lectern to your inventory for fast building. In survival the materials are easy to gather and the lectern is quick to craft and place.
Release Information
First introduced: Added with villager and library enhancements
Give Command
/give @p minecraft:lectern 1
How to use Lectern
Place a book on the lectern to display it and to allow players to read pages easily. Use lecterns to assign librarian villagers and to create small trading hubs. Combine lecterns with redstone to trigger signals when a book page changes and build puzzle style mechanisms that react to reading actions.
Recipes for Lectern
Shaped Crafting Items must be placed in a specific pattern in a crafting table
Oak Slab
Oak Slab
Oak Slab
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Bookshelf
Empty Slot
Empty Slot
Oak Slab
Empty Slot
Lectern