Check out this article for help finding a village. if you have a tool with the silk touch enchantment, you can harvest the whole bookshelf instead.
All PC and console versions: Get leather by killing cows. Put one piece of leather and three pieces of paper in your crafting area to make a 2x2 square. The exact placement does not matter. Minecraft Pocket Edition: Place three pieces of paper in a vertical column. You do not need leather.
As you probably know, you can get wood planks by placing logs in a crafting table. Get the logs by chopping down trees with an axe. You can use any type of wood planks for this recipe, and they all do not need to be the same.
In the lowest row: three obsidian blocks. In the middle row: diamond, obsidian block, diamond In the top row: (nothing), book, (nothing)
Exactly two squares away from the table. Either on the same level as the table, or one higher. The space between the table and the shelf must be empty. Even a carpet, torch, or snowfall will block the effect.
Surround the table with a large square of bookshelves, leaving a gap in between. Leave one gap in the square to walk through. Or make a 4x5 L shape out of eight bookshelves. Place a second stack of eight bookshelves over the L. (This is one more than you need, so you can skip one from the second level. ) It’s best to have 30 levels of experience when you go to start enchanting. A level-30 enchantment usually only takes around 3 levels of experience from the user. Plus, level-30 enchantments always give you the highest chance at the strongest enchantments.
