Where is the in-game encyclopedia?

[Syzal]

Since I use Fluffy's research tree mod along with a whole host of mods, it's very difficult to know what items exist and what they do. Most mods barely have any documentation on the items, with the only way of knowing what they do is when you click them on the bills tab. Sometimes the mod authors may not even include a stats breakdown/uses of the items at all, so it's all browsing old reddit and steam threads.

I've tried searching for something like this but the only result that showed up was a mod called helptab, except it's still on update 17 and the workshop link on the researchpal page is dead. Is there any solution to this? The only viable way I can think of for testing new mods is to go into god mode and try everything first...

[martindirt]

If you don't want to learn on your own, try:

⚫In-game wiki⚫

Or

⚪WikiRim⚪

Idk none of those mods.

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by Syzal:

Since I use Fluffy's research tree mod along with a whole host of mods, it's very difficult to know what items exist and what they do. Most mods barely have any documentation on the items, with the only way of knowing what they do is when you click them on the bills tab. Sometimes the mod authors may not even include a stats breakdown/uses of the items at all, so it's all browsing old reddit and steam threads. ...

Every item in the game is going to have an "i" (Info) symbol on the upper right-hand side of the icon that you can click on. It should take you to a description page for that item. But... yeah, you have to already have the item on your map for you to click on it so you can click on the little "i." :)

Modders should include full descriptions in-game where appropriate. (Description pane, stats, mouse-hover, build icon, etc.) I don't use mods when I don't know what they actually do or what function their added items/builds fulfill so I haven't had any glaring issues, there.

Vanilla RW does fine without an in-game encyclopedia and the online wiki is very useful even if it's not always updated. It doesn't really need an in-game encyclopedia, though that would be nice to have.

[Samnosam]

I'm frustrated about this too, and the closest thing I've found in game is using the search bar on the research tree. It actually works well - but it's a bit deceiving. Like for example if you type in a vague word into the research tree like "stand", it will take you straight to the electricity tab (which will be OUTLINED in blue, not to be confused with the full highlighting of blue that happens when you have something fully researched) and "standing lamp" will be highlighted, where you can click the information button.

AND (if you have the vanilla furniture expanded - medical mod like I do) the hospital tab will be OUTLINED in blue and if you click on it you'll see that "intravenous drip stand" will be highlighted too. But you have to scroll to the hospital tree (which is out of sight from the electricity tree) in order to see the highlighting and find the corresponding item.

It's deceiving because when you type a word into the research tree search bar it will only "jump" you to the first instance of that word. You can't, for example, hop from one instance to another using arrow keys (like how it works if you use the finder function CTRL+F on a web browser). But every item that has the word in it will be highlighted under the corresponding tree - indicated by that somewhat vague blue outline.

So as long as you know the title of what you're looking for, you can find it that way. Hope that helps. Cheers.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2198532017