Dyeable Books
by keriefie
Dyeable Books lets players colour a book and quill mix into dyed, skull, heart, glowing or knowledge books through crafting recipes.
What it does
Crafting a book quill together with a dye produces a book in that colour. Other recipes pair the quill with bone, redstone dust, glowstone dust or a crafting table to make skull, heart, glowing and knowledge books, and a snowball returns a coloured book to a plain one. A dyed book quill must be made first, since it is the item that lets a book be written and dyed.
The server needs the mod, while a client may leave it out; players who join without it can still read the books. The mod is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with files for 1.21.7 – 1.21.9, and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, so it is not open source. The latest build for every loader is 1.1+mod for 1.21.9, dated 2025-10-05.
Key features
Colour dye recipes
A dye combined with a book quill crafts a book in that colour, adding variety to written books.
Themed book recipes
Bone, redstone dust, glowstone dust and a crafting table each combine with a quill to make a skull, heart, glowing or knowledge book.
Snowball reset
Crafting a snowball with a book returns it to the plain form, so a coloured book can be undone.
Dyed quill requirement
A book quill must first be dyed before a written book can be dyed, which sets the order of the recipes.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Colourful books runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt for 1.21 – 1.21.3 and is released as All rights reserved, so its code is not open source. Dyeable Tools covers 1.21.2 – 1.21.3 under the MIT License, and Judge by the Cover covers 1.21.4 under the MIT License, which means it covers a single game version. Readable Enchanted Books uses a custom license for 1.21.5 – 1.21.8. Dyed Books is a datapack for 1.21.5 – 26.3 under the MIT License.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyeable Books | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.7 – 1.21.9 | Server required, client optional | 2025-10-05 |
| Colourful books | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21 – 1.21.3 | Server required, client optional | 2024-11-06 |
| Dyeable Tools | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.2 – 1.21.3 | Server required, client optional | 2024-10-24 |
| Judge by the Cover | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.4 | Server required, client optional | 2024-12-03 |
| Readable Enchanted Books | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 1.21.8 | Server required, client optional | 2025-07-19 |
| Dyed Books | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt | 1.21.5 – 26.3 | Server required, client optional | 2026-09-21 |
Questions
Does Dyeable Books need to be installed on the client?
Which loaders are supported by Dyeable Books?
Why must a book quill be dyed first?
In the catalog
Dyeable Books is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,982 Decoration mods for Fabric. 13,427 mods support Minecraft 1.21.9.
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What the author says
Allows you to dye your books and quills to write with. You must first dye the book and quill and then write the book, dyeing the written book will not work.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/dyeable-books
- Owner
- keriefie
- Published
- 2025-08-30
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-10-05
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15