BiblioCraft, a useful and aesthetically pleasing Minecraft modification began at the beginning of 2013 as a response to an accumulation of many different types of books on a heavily modded server. Between the addition of enchanted books and written books in vanilla and the many mods such as Mystcraft, Thaumcraft, MineChem, ComputerCraft, Redpower and so on that add many useful types of books and plans and so forth, I started to really want a better way to store books. So I began work on BiblioCraft. Biblio comes from the Greek word meaning “book”. The bookcase is meant to be visually pleasing as well and display added books on the shelf so one can look at the bookcase and see right away how many books are there. After that I decided, why stop there?, I realized there are many other types of items that would fare well with unique, dedicated storage blocks.
The mod adds 27 new blocks and 25 new items to the game. I went on to continue to develop and add new blocks to this project until around 2017 or so when at that point it became just a game of trying to keep up with update to the main game and that fell behind so BiblioCraft is only available for older version currently.
BiblioCraft is the largest project I’ve created. At one point, before the 2.0 re-write, BiblioCraft had over 100,000 lines of code (sure, not a great metric, but an interesting fun fact). All written in Java. I used a couple 3D modeling tools over the years to make my models, my favorite of which is Modo.
Learn more about the mod and all the blocks and items its adds at the BiblioCraft website:
www.bibliocraftmod.com
Check out the source code for the mod here:
https://github.com/Nuchaz/BiblioCraft-Source
There are many great videos on YouTube that have been made about BiblioCraft from many wonderful people all around the world. The first video was made very early on and is still one of my favorites. The next two are ones that I made showing new items I added in a couple of updates.