How to make a lectern in Minecraft? First, let’s see what a lectern is. A lectern in Minecraft is a job block and it is used to hold books or can be used as furniture. It does not take a lot of space and if you want to have enchanted books, you want to have a lectern.
A lectern is easy to make, you just need some materials as given below
- Four wooden Slabs
- One bookshelf
- Crafting table
Any type of wooden slab can be used, the wood doesn’t matter.
A bookshelf can be made with the help of cows.
A 3×3 Crafting table menu.
How to make a lectern in Minecraft: Step By Step Guide
You need the leather from cows to make books and to make a bookshelf, you need 3 books so find as many cows as soon as possible. Cows can be found easily in the grassland.

Next, you need paper and to make paper you need sugarcane. Sugarcane can be found near rivers.3 pages can be made from 3 sugarcanes and you need about 9 pieces of paper to make a book. You need 3 books and 27 pieces of paper.

You need a tree to make slabs, take down trees and use the crafting to make slabs

Use the crafting table to make paper with sugarcanes as many as you need for 3 books.

Now you need to make books, for that you have to put 9 pages in the crafting table with 3 pieces of leather and after you put all of these in the crafting table, you will have a book. Repeat the process till you have 3 books in your inventory.

Now to make a bookshelf, place the 3 books you made in the middle lane of the crafting table and wooden planks surrounding it.

Lastly to make the lectern, put the bookshelf in the middle of the crafting table and a full row of slabs in the first row and one slab below the bookshelf and you got yourself a lectern.
