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Step by Step Guide for a Book via Datapack

This page will guide you through a reasonably easy way to create a book without datagen. It uses the Demo Book modonomicon provides as a starting point.

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It is not recommended to manually create books. It is much more convenient and error-free to use datagen. JSON is not a great format for text editing, and can be annoying to properly format text.

The best approach is to create a datapack from the demo book, and then modify and extend it to your needs. This saves you a lot of time and effort in manually creating a valid file structure for your book.

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If you are already well-versed with datapacks you can look at the demo book here and the demo multiblocks used by the book here and simply download the individual files you want to use as a reference.

First, download the modonomicon source code, as it contains the demo book:

  1. Start by visiting https://github.com/klikli-dev/modonomicon
  2. Find the green "Code" button and click it. Then click "Download ZIP" at the bottom of the dropdown menu.
  3. Extract the ZIP file to a location of your choice.