Sorting and Identifying Enchanted Books by Visual Design

Reading Enchantment Types at a Glance

In vanilla Minecraft, every enchanted book uses an identical sprite, forcing you to hover your cursor over each slot to read the tooltip. With Xali’s Enchanted Books active, you can organize large storage chests directly by sight.

• Spell Type: The main cover art, color palette, and emblem of the book change based on the enchantment stored inside. When looking through a double chest, group books that share the same cover artwork together to quickly separate combat, tool, and armor spells.
• Multi-Enchantment Books: When sorting looted books from dungeons, fishing, or librarian trading, look at the primary cover design first to place the book into its main category before deciding how to use it on an anvil.

Telling Enchantment Power Levels Apart

You do not need to hover over matching books to find out which one is tier I and which one is max level.

1. Compare two books that share the same base spell artwork.

2. Look closely at the visual details on the cover and binding—the pack updates the texture design for each exact level of the enchantment.

3. Reserve a row in your storage chest for the highest-level visual variants so you can grab ready-to-apply books immediately, and place lower-tier designs in a separate row for combining on an anvil later.