# Colourful Books
\n## Description
\nThis datapack allows you to dye books via crafting or smithing.
\nNow you might wonder, why make another dyable books datapack…<\/p>\n
## Motivation
\nWhen looking for a datapack that could do this for my SMP I noticed all of the current dyable book datapacks\/mods don’t keep a written books’ state. This one DOES without needing any janky functions!<\/p>\n
## Usage
\nPop some leather in, pick a dye and presto, a coloured book with all its contents preserved.<\/p>\n
You can freely swap out colours by doing the dyeing process again with another colour.<\/p>\n
To reset a book back to it’s vanilla texture, replace a dye in the smithing table with any potion.<\/p>\n
## Multiplayer
\nAs long as the datapack for the mod is installed on the server, the mod will work as expected<\/p>\n
The resource pack is automatically installed with the mod if installed on the client-side. If not, you just won’t see the colors though others who have the pack will.<\/p>\n
## Additional features
\n– For dyable book and quill’s there are crafting table recipes in place, so you don’t need a smithing table to create a dyed book.
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