Clever Minecraft Player Uses Glitch To Make Bookshelves Hold Books

A clever Minecraft player used an interesting glitch to make bookshelves hold books, an unintentional mechanic that has countless applications in base building. Minecraft’s social media presence has elongated the game’s mainstream popularity, with players continuously displaying their epic builds, creative designs, and useful Redstone contraptions on the internet. Last month a player made a functioning clock face in Minecraft that displays passing time like a stopwatch, and another clever player used an optical illusion to create a rocket ship. As Mojang adds new features and mechanics in subsequent updates, the possibilities constantly expand.

While Minecraft is in a fairly solid state at this point in its development, the vanilla game does still have occasional glitches – both useful and frustrating. Sometimes glitches cause problems with Minecraft’s world generation, with some spawning strange structures or massive cliff faces. Other glitches are less apparent but can be utilized by players for an unfair advantage. Just last December, a player discovered a portal glitch in Minecraft that was used to create infinite pork chops. New glitches are constantly being found and shared on social media.

A Reddit user who has since deleted their account cleverly used a Minecraft glitch to allow bookshelves to hold books. In the video posted to the social media site, the user demonstrated that they can open bookshelves and store items in them, allowing them to store books in a realistic way that Minecraft’s vanilla mechanics don’t allow players to do. The Reddit user explained that they used a glitch that allows players to open minecarts after a block is pushed against them. This makes it look like the bookshelf is opening when it’s actually a disguised minecart.

As demonstrated by the user, the minecart glitch has many uses. Originally, bookshelves are only intended to enhance Minecraft’s enchanting tables and are not actually supposed to hold anything – contrary to bookshelves in the real world. Pushing a bookshelf against a minecart completely changes the use of the block, allowing players to store their enchanted books properly. While it doesn’t offer any practical advantages in Minecraft, players can use it to decorate bases while simultaneously creating more places to store items. The bookshelf glitch is bound to make enchantment rooms or studies way more interesting. It can also be used in multiplayer servers to hide valuable items.

Minecraft players never cease to find new ways to enjoy the survival sandbox. With countless base ideas, glitches to utilize, and now the terrifying new Warden mob that’s very difficult to defeat, Minecraft continues to offer a treasure trove of experiences.

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Source: deleted user/Reddit

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