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Vanilla Books Expanded
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R41N Jul 29 @ 1:49pm 
@TheFlyingGamer It uses the vanilla behaviors used in Odyssey. They will do it as recreation and its random based on what joy types are available to them. If you want to force them to spend all day reading you select a pawn and right click the book and select read.
Cardinal Jul 28 @ 4:21pm 
In the third picture I saw multi-colored books with logos of different skills. But they are not in the game, is it possible to return these retextures so that it would be convenient to navigate on the bookshelf for pumping skills?
Heroman3003 Jul 25 @ 5:55pm 
Small proposal for 1.6: Make the writing tables benefit from being in library rather than workshop, since it'd be more thematically and aesthetically fitting
Blue Jul 19 @ 10:20pm 
Just thought this was funny:
"Q: Does this mod work with RimWorld 1.1?
A: Yes! We are backwards compatible!"

Meanwhile the mod is only backwards compatible to 1.4
TheFlyingGamer Jul 17 @ 8:33am 
@Sarg Bjornson how does their schedule need to be configured exactly in order to get them to read? I've had them do it during their rec time and work time and neither has been helpful. Do you need to have them set to do the task in question for them to read it?
Oskar Potocki  [author] Jul 17 @ 3:14am 
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Sarg Bjornson Jul 16 @ 10:25pm 
Their work schedule
TheFlyingGamer Jul 16 @ 8:57pm 
I'm having some trouble getting my colonists to actually read the books. Whenever I prioritize reading the book the colonist goes and sits down, then gets up within a second and leaves to do something else. Am I missing something?
Hykal Jul 15 @ 3:36pm 
@Leo Major

You need to research Writing.
Leo Major Jul 13 @ 9:44am 
cant build the writing table
Sarg Bjornson Jul 13 @ 7:52am 
WTF one of you actually listened to me, I'm so unused to that!

(thanks)
Sarg Bjornson Jul 13 @ 7:49am 
If none of you report it, it will never get fixed
VulpineVandal Jul 13 @ 7:46am 
@Jet
I also had the same thing happen. It would switch back and forth between Lab and Library at random. I turned this mod off and it did seem to fix the issue for me.
wheeliedan Jul 13 @ 7:29am 
I can confirm there is an issue with this mod breaking the new Laboratory requirements. This mod causes bookshelves to make a room a Library, which causes you to get a research penalty in the new expansion. I tested this by removing this mod and the issue was resolved.
Jet Jul 12 @ 7:27pm 
i just made a lab by placing my research building down but noticed as soon as i placed a bookcase storage down it changed the room role into a library, negating the laboratory research buff and applying a malus. Is this a change on your end given 1.6's patch change? The bookshelves are from reels mod, but i think the room role might be from VFE books mod
Voltaire Jul 6 @ 6:53am 
To the person who asked if there's a way to stop travelers from using this work bench, when I set up books to be written I plan them out with specific authors. This mitigated that issue quite well
Aeternuslee Jul 4 @ 3:26pm 
Quick question. Is the only thing is mod adds over base game as of 1.6 the ability for colonists to write skill books and newspapers in colony?
I am not missing some extra feature I am forgetting about?
SO many mods I forget what half do or what over laps. Working on striping my play set down for 1.6.
Realm Imp Jun 25 @ 1:59am 
why are newspapers that are rewards that are dropped by pods cant be clicked? they are literally one with the ground, fused together there is no way to interact with it
Rokol Jun 21 @ 12:51pm 
Is there a way to deny guests/travelers/etc from using my writing table? They keep starting books and using up all my cloth, deleting the started book only returns 75% of the material so i eventually run out of cloth for anything else.
Ersatz Jun 11 @ 2:44am 
is there any way/plan to allow creation of ideology books?
also does this mod disable the ability to generate the books randomly like in vanilla?
Oskar Potocki  [author] Jun 8 @ 1:11am 
Books are now a base game feature.
True_Gritt Jun 7 @ 5:17pm 
Pawns don't seem to put books back into storage after reading them. A couple times a quadrum I have to go through pawn inventory and force them to unload the books they're hauling around. Intentional behavior of the mod?!?
Simbach Vazo Jun 5 @ 11:49am 
My legendary newspaper reward immediately became trash after hosting a foreign dignitary for 16 days.

10/10, worth the mild bemusement. And the Psylink Neuroformer I got with it.
Voltaire May 30 @ 9:53am 
I'd imagine it's like any other crafting quality roll, sometimes you get unlucky
Savage Servant May 24 @ 4:51am 
Is this normal that lvl 20 Intellectual pawn made only a good book about Intellectual?
He had lvl 20 at the start of the process and all the way through it too, maintaining 70%+ happiness too if that matters.
FierceStatue12 May 23 @ 9:46am 
It doesn't quite make sense that reading newspapers would produce joy.
Onyx May 18 @ 9:02am 
Can I write random books of my own or are my colonists good for nothing and can only write books on their expertise?
Sarg Bjornson May 11 @ 11:14pm 
No, you don't even need a PC!
bigames May 11 @ 6:28pm 
Hello! do you need the base game to use this?
Aalummi May 4 @ 1:23pm 
Would love to see support for languages of the rim so books are in different languages, and there are language level books
James009 Apr 14 @ 2:26pm 
Is this integrated with the basegame books? For example, can I now write books (basegame object type ones)?
Realm Imp Apr 12 @ 4:07am 
@Synthetic HAHAHA
mr. Lucius Apr 10 @ 7:16am 
I would like to see ideological or sacred books
Synthetic Mar 29 @ 3:06am 
I had Legendary Newspapper as a quest reward. It's not just looks useless, it disappeared after landing in drop pod, needs to be fixed.
Amaranth Mar 27 @ 12:44pm 
Same issue as AerosAtar, I have my skill book bills set to 'Do Until 1'. But once the pawns store the books on the vanilla bookshelves the bill can no longer detect the book. The bill is set to 'look everywhere' and to count carried books.
INk Mar 27 @ 5:24am 
does it make sense to use this in 1.5 since books are now part of the game?
AerosAtar Mar 26 @ 9:16pm 
Not quite sure how to raise this, as I can't use the form due to there being no log (since it isn't an issue that generates errors), but "Do Until X" bills on the writers table don't seem to recognise books stored in (vanilla) bookcases - only stockpile zones and shelves.
Kamikaze Mar 20 @ 10:00am 
@power724win Should be in "Production".
power724win Mar 18 @ 11:54pm 
i can not find writing workbench where is it?
Haddam_Sussein Mar 4 @ 7:47pm 
scratch that... just if you change a research project
Haddam_Sussein Mar 4 @ 7:46pm 
just noticed something else and i think this is the problem, if i change a research project while there is a pawn working on the book, its immediately destroyed
Haddam_Sussein Mar 4 @ 7:40pm 
@Kamikaze
what do you mean by quality? Im trying to make them write a book for each skill but they write a bit, sometimes half and when they go off to do something else the unfinished book is destroyed. I do have a restriction where they can only store books from good to legendary.
Kamikaze Mar 3 @ 11:44pm 
@Haddam_Sussein
What quality of boocks have you set in production?
Haddam_Sussein Mar 3 @ 3:14pm 
Anyone else having a problem where pawns just destroy an unfinished book to haul the cloth somewhere else?
✞ Star∞ Feb 27 @ 8:50am 
heya, so just curious, but this mod is heavily based off of it's predecessor right? if i recall...
Sarg Bjornson Feb 24 @ 10:48pm 
It's the same system vanilla uses
I_is_Zed Feb 24 @ 3:04pm 
I've been noticing that my pawns don't make books at the quality I expect relative to their skill - my 20 Int pawn making only a good quality Int book - Is there some randomness to the quality, or is this a bug?
Zalfir Jan 31 @ 6:54pm 
Librarian Ideo Role - improves reading effectiveness, reacts immediately to "Dirty Library" by cleaning it.
Prodigious Writer trait - improved writing speed and quality (obviously), but also derives recreation from writing.
Zalfir Jan 31 @ 6:48pm 
A small bookshelf that works like the existing one except:
- doesn't mark the room as Library Room
- can only store schematics and/or newspapers
- can store 20 of them

Useful for storing schematics in a lab without it becoming a library
Useful for storing newspapers in a dining room or rec room without it becoming a library

Another small bookshelf that attaches to the wall and only stores 3 items and doesn't mark it as a library could be useful for a pawn's bedroom, as well.
Sarg Bjornson Jan 21 @ 11:36am 
Considering it doesn't fail for the rest of us... Yes, that is happening because of other mods or other issue on your end