Librarian
Librarian is one of seven classes available to choose from in the CivLabs plugin.
A librarian's main role is to enchant player gear, and to create and fill out maps.
Unlocked Abilities
Blessing Items
A librarian can bless an item, giving it a random enchantment. The enchants are not limited, and any valid enchant has a chance to be applied to an item. Treasure enchants, such as curses and mending, are included in the enchant pool.
The blessing has a chance to fail, as well as a chance to delete items from the players inventory, and will consume experience levels equal to the librarian's level multiplied by 3. There is a limit to how many enchants can be blessed upon a single item, this limit is 4 enchants (not fully tested).
Equipment Blueprint
A librarian can create blueprints for certain pieces of equipment, using the recipe below. All ingredients, including the blueprint tool, are consumed in the crafting process.
An Apprentice(1)-level or higher blacksmith can use a blueprint to learn the recipe for the corresponding piece of equipment, until they die.
Full List of Unlocks
Apprentice (1)
- Crafting Bookshelf and Chiseled Bookshelf
- Crafting Book and Quill
- Crafting Lectern
Journeyman (2)
- Crafting Map
- Crafting and using Cartograpy Table
- Crafting Copied Books
- Speed II
Expert (3)
Master (4)
- Speed III
- Crafting and using Enchanting Table
Grandmaster (5)
- Not losing some levels when using Enchantment Table
- Crafting Netherite Smithing Template
Unknown (?)
- Crafting Banners (possibly healers)
Explanation of any shorthand, if necessary.
Gaining Experience
[Can split into multiple tables to group common sources of XP together, for example: crafting vs smelting vs mining vs another action. In which case adjust Source of XP title to match.]
Crafted Item | XP Amount | Level Required |
Book | 3 | Novice (0) |
Bookshelf | 10 | Apprentice (1) |
Book and Quill | 30 | Apprentice (1) |
Lectern | 6 | Apprentice (1) |
Map | Journeyman (2) | |
Cartography Table | Journeyman (2) | |
Source of XP | XP Amount | Level Required |
Placed Bookshelf | 3 | Novice (0) |
Class Interactions
Due to the reliance on other classes, librarians will more often than note rely on other classes in order to progress.
A librarian's access to experience points is limited, due to class experience dillution. The most common way for a librarian to get experience is to wait in stables while a farmer breeds the animals around them.
Librarians cannot create maps without compasses, the craft of which is reserved to blacksmiths. They also cannot unenchant items themselves, as grindstones are the blacksmith's workstation.
Enchanting tables, one of the core unlocks of librarians, requires both diamonds and obsidians, as per its vanilla craft. This makes the presence of miners, accompanied by guardsmen for safety, a requirement for librarians to unlock consistent enchants.
Guide
To grind Librarian levels effectively, it is recommended to have access to a sugarcane farm, a cow farm, and a tree farm. The most reliable way for a librarian to level up is to craft bookshelves, placing and breaking them before recrafting them. (note: this only works if you are/have an apprentice librarian. The first apprentice has to craft about 70 books to level up)
Notes:
The Librarian is a class that is more focused around late game. Because of this there is some gap in our knowledge of how they work.
Confirmed: Using the enchantment table is a feature of this class. Yet it is unknown at what level they can use the enchantment table. But it can be speculated that they could at Expert or Master level.
Debunked: It is speculated that a Librarian could use a grindstone or make compasses. This is because of the librarian's unique relationship with enchants and mapping. However, those abilities are reserved to Blacksmiths.