Scholar

## 1.2.0 - 2026-06-15 _New features:_ - **Book Reading Animation** - Opening Book and Quill or Written Book changes the user's pose and the book model in hand. - Book and Quill makes it a "writing" animation, adding a feather to the hand. - This is controlled by presence of a `scholar:book_open` component on the item. - Some humanoid mobs support this animation as well. - **Literate Mobs** - Zombies, Husks and Skeletons have a 5% chance to spawn with a book in hand and will be reading it from time to time. - Book has a 50% chance to drop when the mob dies. - Book item is controlled by a `scholar:entities/literate_mob_book` loot-table. - **Changeable Author** - Author field on the book signing screen is now editable. - And it even allows formatting. - **Bookmark** - Books in hand have a small red button above the pages, clicking on it sets the bookmark on that page. - Next time the book is opened it will open on that page. - **Exporting Signed Books** - Exported to the same **.txt** format that Book and Quills can import. - **Lectern Book Tooltip** - Displays placed book when looking at a block. Same system as Chiseled Bookshelf tooltip. - **Lectern Book Model** - Displays actual color of the book. - Added some shading on the pages under the ones that stick out. - **Golden Book Skin** - Patreon supporters of **Gold** tier and above can change the book appearance to golden, by pressing a button in the book editing screen. - Holding [Shift] when changing page now jumps to the start/end of the book. - It works in steps - first jump is to the first page with content on it, if already on it or past - jump to end. - [Scroll Wheel] changes pages. - Added sound to book opening - Added sounds to formatting actions - Added item dyeing recipes to JEI. - Includes leather armor recipes as well. _Changes:_ - Inverted behavior of [Shift] key when copying/pasting text or importing/exporting book - formatting is now included by default, and excluded if [Shift] key is held. - Insert Empty Page and Remove Page keyboard shortcuts can be changed. - Default binds have changed as well. - Toggle Extra Tools button icon changed to a pencil icon instead of a question mark. - It will also flash red until the player toggles it tools for the first time - to help new players discover the feature. - Moved definition of book item colors from Chiseled Bookshelf `chiseled_bookshelf/item_colors` built-in resourcepack to Colored Books `book/item_colors` built-in resourcepack. - Restructured config. Moved some config options from client to common for convenience. - Added "requires_sneaking" config option for showing in-world tooltips. - Removed old deprecated colored books (when each color was a separate item - 'scholar:green_written_book', etc.). _Fixes:_ - Fixed page numbers not being centered properly. - Fixed signing screen buttons being slightly misaligned. - Fixed Chiseled Bookshelf tooltip still displaying when the GUI is hidden.