Lectern
minecraft:lectern
The Lectern is a block that players craft from wooden slabs and a bookshelf. It can be placed facing different directions, and an axe is the tool used to chop it down, after which it drops itself.
Players place a lectern wherever they want it to face and break it with an axe when it needs to be moved or collected again.
Texture file: block/lectern_front.png · browse every texture in the game
Block data
| Identifier | minecraft:lectern |
|---|---|
| Block states | 16 |
| Default state ID | 24562 |
| Properties | facing, has_book, powered |
| Has item form | Yes |
Block states
Every property this block can take, straight from reports/blocks.json.
| Property | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
facing | north, south, west, east | north |
has_book | true, false | false |
powered | true, false | false |
Drops
From loot_table/blocks/lectern.json.
Obtained from 1 recipe
lectern
Tags
2 tags contain this block.
#minecraft:blocks_motion_no_leaves#minecraft:mineable/axe
Extracted from Minecraft 26.4-snapshot-5 on 22 October 2026. 9Minecraft is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.