How do you get Paper in Minecraft?

Craft 3 sugar cane in a row into 3 paper - your first sugar cane farm is really a paper factory Loot stronghold library chests and shipwreck chests, which often hold stacks of it Sell crops and buy it back: cartographer villagers buy paper as their first trade, and cartographers hand paper to Hero of the Village players in Java

What is Paper used for?

Craft books (3 paper + 1 leather), the gateway to bookshelves and enchanting Craft empty maps and zoom them out - plus the cartography table and name tags Craft firework rockets (paper + gunpowder) for elytra flight Craft banner patterns like Bordure Indented and Field Masoned, and trade paper to librarians for emeralds

Paper

Material Stack: 64 Since Alpha v1.0.11

Quick answer: Craft 3 sugar cane in a row into 3 paper - your first sugar cane farm is really a paper factory.

How to get it

Craft 3 sugar cane in a row into 3 paper - your first sugar cane farm is really a paper factory
Loot stronghold library chests and shipwreck chests, which often hold stacks of it
Sell crops and buy it back: cartographer villagers buy paper as their first trade, and cartographers hand paper to Hero of the Village players in Java

Uses

Craft books (3 paper + 1 leather), the gateway to bookshelves and enchanting
Craft empty maps and zoom them out - plus the cartography table and name tags
Craft firework rockets (paper + gunpowder) for elytra flight
Craft banner patterns like Bordure Indented and Field Masoned, and trade paper to librarians for emeralds

Renewability

Renewable: sugar cane farms make paper infinite.

Java vs Bedrock

Identical in Java and Bedrock.

Related: Sugar Sugar Cane

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