Paper is useful for exploration and crafting projects, so it helps to keep a supply at your base. Its raw material is sugar cane. Before turning the cane you collect into paper, set some aside to establish a planting area that you can harvest again later.
The basic paper recipe
Place three pieces of sugar cane in one row of a crafting table to produce three sheets of paper. The recipe book can help you check the arrangement when using touch controls. To increase your supply, grow sugar cane beside water and let the plants develop between harvests. Leave a walkway so you can collect materials without repeatedly disturbing the planting area.
Give your paper supply a purpose
- Keep some sugar cane for replanting before crafting a large batch.
- Use the recipe book to check the maps and books you can make.
- Store finished paper separately from ingredients reserved for other recipes.
- Label an exploration chest for maps, food, and equipment you take on journeys.
A small planting area is easier to maintain than a farm when you are starting out. Once you know how much paper you use, expand in manageable sections. Keeping access to the water and a storage chest makes each harvest easier to collect, sort, and use.
Read more: The official Minecraft article about paper.