Writing Materials

[Kettu Toivo]

So I have a Library and its has bookshelves/chests/tables/thrones and even a few decorative items, as well as a handful of scholars and scribes, yet they wont bring writing material there. I have sheets/parchment/scroll rollers/book bindings but they just... wont store them. Help?

[harlequin_corps]

Writing materials only included Scrolls/Quires.. All those materials you named are the crafting ingrediants for a scroll/quire.

Just do a few Make Scrolls 1/1 and they will start popping them out.

[harlequin_corps]

And, since I still have no clue what the difference is between a Quire and a Codice. And at what point a quire is or is not a codice for Library purposes. The following Caveat...
Don't make quires/codices. Evidently you make a quire with parchment/paper/animal thread. then the quire, which is evidently an unbound book, goes into the library where the scholar writes into it. And then when it's done writing into it, then you make it into a codice by binding it in leather.
And now, the rest of the story. They make the quire, it goes into the library. Since you have no clue when or where it's actually written into and you can't choose which quire to make into a codice, AND you have to set up a task to make a codice, it's not automatically done, you may bind a written quire and you may bind a blank one. And evidently blank ones can no longer be written into? Press X to doubt the wiki.. Even I think that whole process outlined in the wiki is hogwash.
So, to make writing materials just.. once a month do...
Press Plant into Slurry 1/1
Press Slurry into Paper 1/1
Make Rock Scroll Rollers 1/1
Make Scroll 1/1

It's even easier that way than making soap. Thanks for reading.

[Fel]

Scrolls and paper are writing materials.
Paper turns into quire once written and you can turn them into codices.

There is no real point in making a codex except raising its value but it's nice that originals keep their title as codices (sadly copies seem to lose their title on the item that way).

[Esca]

To clarify a bit, quires are made with "Make quire" at a craft workshop, which turns 1 paper into 1 quire. Scholars/scribes need either a scroll or quire to write. Quires are simpler than scrolls (no roller), but as mentioned, they have some cosmetic/value bugs that scrolls don't.

[Testikles]

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTyIMuS_2s&ab_channel=Blind

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by Fel:

Scrolls and paper are writing materials.
Paper turns into quire once written and you can turn them into codices.

There is no real point in making a codex except raising its value but it's nice that originals keep their title as codices (sadly copies seem to lose their title on the item that way).

No, I am pretty sure you have to make the quire first, then it gets written, then you bind it in leather. What I don't understand is how to ensure that it's only written quires that get bound and not unwritten quires. It really kind of feels like it's whatever quire happens to be closest to the workshop, just like decorating/encrusting.
And since I don't understand it, I don't do it. Scrolls are the same thing as far as I am concerned and those I can understand the process. I do the things to make a scroll, it goes into the library, it gets turned into books. There's no skip steps between and I can track incomplete job orders, like, I have too much paper, oh.. need to make scroll rollers. Like that. I have NO clue whatsoever how to track the codex process.

[Kettu Toivo]

thanks guys, this helps a bunch

[Fel]

I made a bunch of paper (and apparently quires) once and just have an automated thing for codex.
If there is at least one written quire, make a codex and if there are less than 2 book covers, make 2 more (since I have plenty of nickel I am using this for most non-weapon stuff I make).