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.

_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.