Enchanted Book Stack

Stack up to 54 enchanted books into a single portable item. Open it like a chest, nest it inside shulker boxes / backpacks, and reclaim the slots your enchanting library has been eating.

Anyone who hoards enchanted books knows the pain: 54 enchanted books = 54 slots in your inventory. Move them between bases, dump them in a chest "temporarily", or carry a working set into the Nether, and they fragment into half your storage. Enchanted Book Stack is the one bundle-shaped fix: hold dozens of enchanted books in a single inventory slot, look at the icon to read what's inside, drop the stack into a shulker box and forget about it.

📚 54 enchanted books per stack (vanilla large chest UI, 9×6)
✋ Bundle-style stash — hold the stack and right-click an enchanted book, or vice versa
📦 Nestable — drop the stack into shulker boxes, backpacks, or other containers
🔍 Hover preview — shows the first 5 contained enchantments, vanilla shulker-style
✨ Always glints, like an enchanted book should
🛍️ Acquirable via librarian trade (Expert level, 24 emerald + 4 leather)
🚫 Enchanted books only — by design, won't accept regular books or container items

What it does / Usage

Trade with an Expert-level librarian, or craft (recipe TBD by your modpack)
Right-click in the air → opens the 54-slot grid
Or hold the stack and right-click an enchanted book in your inventory to stash it
Hover over the stack to see what's inside (vanilla shulker preview)

Supported loaders / versions

Minecraft	NeoForge	Forge	Fabric
1.21.1	✅	✅	✅

Ships for NeoForge, Forge, and Fabric on Minecraft 1.21.1. (Minecraft 1.20.1 is not supported — the mod relies on the 1.21+ DataComponents.CONTAINER data component for storage.)

Dependencies

Fabric build: Fabric API
NeoForge / Forge builds: none

Compatibility & scope

The stack stores its contents in vanilla's own DataComponents.CONTAINER, the same component used by vanilla bundles. No custom NBT, no mixin, no shared inventory channels, no SavedData. The stack is just an item — drop it on the ground, throw it in a hopper, pipe it through a mod's logistics network, it all works.

It's also nestable: a stack can sit inside a shulker box, a backpack, an ender chest, or even another mod's container, since it's an ordinary single-slot item with NBT.

Known limitations

v0.1 doesn't search / sort the contents — the grid is in insertion order (vanilla large-chest behaviour)
No client-side filtering or hierarchical browsing (those were earlier design experiments and intentionally cut)
The stack itself cannot be put inside another Enchanted Book Stack (anti-recursion)

Install

Install your mod loader — NeoForge, Forge, or Fabric — for Minecraft 1.21.1
Drop enchantedbookstack-0.1.0.jar (loader-matching build) into mods/
Trade with a librarian or use creative

Minecraft 1.21.1 · JDK 21

Languages

English, Japanese.

License

MIT — modpack inclusion welcome, no credit required.

Author: KURONAMI