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Vanilla Books Expanded
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Haktaru Nov 1 @ 5:05pm 
@abra063, Writing and Printing under Vanilla Expanded research tab
Abra063 Nov 1 @ 8:39am 
Can someone tell me what new research tasks this mod unlocks? I've installed many other mods, and the new research tasks from this one are no longer showing up
Alex Oct 30 @ 2:20pm 
"Do Until X" does not detect crafted books
Wrath Oct 8 @ 10:24am 
Hello, I have a problem, it's not really a bug involving a log so I can't priovide but ;
I have started a new playthrough, and now, all the books are only called by their quality "normal"
There is no title, no buff, no description, they are basically all empty and dead items. I have not added or removed any mods relative to book usage so im kinda lost. It was all working fine before. Any idea what it could be and how to fix it ? Books are really awesome in rimworld and so is your mod! I can't play without it

Thanks in advance
Anex Sep 25 @ 1:49am 
the books created at the typewriter table when stored in bookshelf does not show up in the tables counts , e.g make till x shows 0
But storing in a storage zone reports ok
Nacho Sep 13 @ 11:22am 
@ThePurpleBlanket that´s a huge idea
ThePurpleBlanket Sep 4 @ 12:01pm 
what if you could make presentations and hold seminars or could make idealogy books and hold bible study-esque social gatherings
Merculin Aug 29 @ 2:29pm 
i dreamed about a monastic faction writing all these books
Cyn Aug 24 @ 8:26am 
Writing this comment because it might help some clueless people. It took me more time to find out than I'm willing to admit. To get the writing table you need to research writing first (it can be done at the most basic research bench with no prerequisite). In the research tab, under the 'vanilla expanded' tab, you may need to scroll down vertically to find the writing research.
The360MlgNoscoper Aug 8 @ 2:38pm 
The book descriptions are strange as they generate like normal books, saying that they are very old when they were just written.
Guedez Aug 7 @ 7:06am 
Can this create high quality recreation books? Or is just for skill books?
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
Maltese Morgan 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 
I am posting this message across all of our mods because many people seem to have forgotten about it:

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- Please do not report bugs in the comments anymore. Leave the comments for questions and feedback. Report bugs properly or not at all.
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.
girk 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.
ersatzCossack 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)?
girk Apr 12 @ 4:07am 
@Synthetic HAHAHA
mr. Lucius Apr 10 @ 7:16am 
I would like to see ideological or sacred books
900_RPM [RAPES_PER_MINUTE] 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?