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RimWorld

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Mod, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
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10 Aug, 2020 @ 4:17am
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10/08/2020: Release



Since Books are now a thing in the base game, it wasn't easy to decide what to do with this mod. Fortunately, books can't be written by the player in the base game, so it was a simple decision: This mod will now allow you to construct writing bench and typewriter bench, and will then allow your colonists to write different types of books, same way it worked before.

You can also write newspapers for a quick and simple recreation bonus for your colonists.

I hope you will appreciate this mod as much as I enjoyed making it!



Vanilla Books Expanded content can be seen below:








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Q: Does this mod work with RimWorld 1.1?
A: Yes! We are backwards compatible!

Q: Does this mod work with any other mods adding new joy types?
A: Yes, we are completely separate!

Q: Are there bookshelves? Or are you planning to add bookshelves?
A: No and no. Vanilla shelves are just as good and I don’t see a need to add a simple reskin to it just to look like a bookshelf.

Q: Is this mod compatible with RimWriter or other book mods?
A: Yes, however you will have overlap - most likely two different book writing tables, each writing different/same books.

Q: Where are the fiction books? Can we get an X book type?
A: Fiction books and other books will come in the future. As much as I appreciate suggestions, please don’t suggest a book type unless you can also suggest a way to make it unique other than “It gives more joy”.

Q: How long does it take to write a book?
A: It all depends on your intellectual skill, but generally it’s a kind of job that takes a tremendous amount of time - we are talking quadrums here.

Q: How do I get blueprints or maps?
A: They can only be obtained from traders.

Q: How does a blueprint work?
A: You force your pawn to read it. It will take a massive amount of time, but in the end will result in a given technology being researched.

Q: Is this mod save game compatible?
A: Yes, you can add it whenever you like. Removing it however can cause errors, so back up your save!

Q: How long does a newspaper last?
A: Exactly 24 hours from the time it’s made. It is however fast to craft and provides pawns with joy when read.

Q: CE compatible?
A: Yes. I hope. I say yes but in reality I don’t know. Probably is tho, but I never even played with CE. What is CE?



Graphics, xml and descriptions are created by me, Oskar Potocki.

C# code work created by Taranchuk.

Rimworld is owned by Tynan Sylvester.

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Popular Discussions View All (29)
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5 Feb @ 3:09pm
Suggestions
CTH2004
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10 Apr @ 7:14am
Ideas about possible new books
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15 Feb, 2024 @ 5:25pm
Pawns reading books on the toilet? Gripe here
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Voltaire 6 Jul @ 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 4 Jul @ 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 25 Jun @ 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 21 Jun @ 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 11 Jun @ 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] 8 Jun @ 1:11am 
Books are now a base game feature.
True_Gritt 7 Jun @ 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 5 Jun @ 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 30 May @ 9:53am 
I'd imagine it's like any other crafting quality roll, sometimes you get unlucky
Savage Servant 24 May @ 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.