Colorful Books
Decorate, organize & display your books with colour! Works with Lecterns, Chiseled Bookshelves & Enchanting Tables!
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About this Mod
📚 Colorful Books
🎨 Dyeing & Undyeing
Dye as vanilla does it! Combine dyes with a Book, Book and Quill, Written Book or Enchanted Book in crafting grid to give it a splash of color. Wash off your dye by using a dyed book on a Cauldron with water in it. Don't worry, the ink of your written pages won't come off!
✒️ Lectern, Writing & Librarian
Write with color! Book and Quills & Written Books which are dyed will display their dye on a Lectern or in their respective GUIs for everyone to see. Librarians will still accept dyed books for their Trades, and even keep the dye!
✨ Enchanting Table & Chiseled Bookshelves
Display with pride! When crafting an Enchanting Table with a dyed book, the Enchanting Table will display a dyed book in the world and in the GUI. Chiseled Bookshelves will also display the color of their books, allowing you to organize and decorate!
🏦 Enchanted Books & Loot
Enchant with mysteriouly colorful books! Enchanted Books found as Loot will be dyed based on their Enchantments. If a book has multiple enchantments, it will blend them!
Available Versions
How to Install Colorful Books on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set fabric Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the fabric loader and matching Minecraft version (26.1.2).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Colorful Books". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
26.1.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.10 (+10 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Colorful Books server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong fabric version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (26.1.2). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Colorful Books compatible with fabric?
Colorful Books officially supports fabric for Minecraft 26.1.2, 1.21.11, 1.21.10. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Colorful Books – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Colorful Books consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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