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Mutie's Diary

Description
Functionality

Adds a craftable diary item. Each day, your experiences will be remembered and can be written down in the journal. This means you can only write down experiences from days that have fully passed (triggers at midnight).

You write down all XP earned for the day (before multipliers) and all recipes you know in each entry. If you die and make a new character, you can read the diary to regain all the XP (and apply your current multipliers). This means you'll have to re-read skill books as you re-read your diary. You'll regain a whole day's worth of XP at once and it will work like individual pages in a skill book.

If your traits differ from the person who wrote the entry, you'll have a penalty applied for each trait's difference. By default, some traits (strength/fitness and weight related) are ignored.

It is also possible to study a diary (even others' diaries can be studied!). When studying, you'll look for entries that have XP in skills that are equal to or higher than your current skill level. When you find an entry, you'll read it carefully and gain an XP boost for as much XP as was in that entry. Only the best entry read applies.

Studying is adjustable with sandbox settings. Traits ignored are also adjustable.


Known bugs

Do not use this mod if your game is not set to English. There currently seems to be a bug that blocks you from reading your journal entries if they were written in, e.g. Spanish.

Compatibility

Should be compatible with any mod that modifies reading speed or lets you walk / sit while reading.

Not compatible with Skill Recovery Journal.

Translation

Currently, the mod only has translation for English, and not everything is properly localised for that, and instead shows IDs ("IGUI_Study" instead of "Study")

Upcoming

  • Tooltip on diary to show stored recipes
  • Support for Mod Options to edit tooltip detail shown

Promotion

Also check out my other mods:
Mutie's Bait Tooltips
Mutie's Context Menu Icons
Mutie's Evolved Recipe Tooltips
Mutie's Loot Scrounging

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Credits

Large parts of this mod are inspired by Chuckleberry Finn's excellent Skill Recovery Journal
While no code has been directly re-used, it has been used extensively as a reference material.

In accordance with Chuckleberry's license for Skill Recovery Journal, the source code for this project is available on GitHub[github.com]




This work is MIT Licensed[opensource.org]

Workshop ID: 2913487911
Mod ID: MutiesDiary
34 Comments
Mutie  [author] 24 Mar @ 1:04am 
@marshmallow justice, you are understanding exactly correctly. There is a running window by default (I think it is 7 days) where you can still write down your experiences. Also note that these 'days' are only days where you were actually online with your character, in case you were online.

Basically, think of each day as A, B, and C (for a 3 day window) and then once day D comes around, it overwrites day A, so you can now write down B, C, and D, but your experience earned on day A is lost forever.

This is also why the mod only works with new experience gained after installing the mod.
marshmallow justice 23 Mar @ 4:38am 
am i understanding it correctly in that unlike SRJ, it works by recording your xp daily and not 'everything at once'?

So if you are dedicated and remember to do it every day you'll build up a stockpile of xp, but if you forget then of course will get less. Versus Skill Rec. Journal which is kind of like a one-time-record=all xp stored approach?
Mutie  [author] 9 Mar @ 8:23am 
@Lastty, Yes, the work is MIT licensed, so you are free to modify and upload your own version.
Lastty 8 Mar @ 3:11pm 
i can do it?
Mutie  [author] 4 Mar @ 10:58pm 
@Lastty, not by default. You'd need a separate mod for that, or to modify this mod yourself.
Lastty 4 Mar @ 1:11pm 
Can disable craft recipe¿?
Mutie  [author] 18 Jan @ 12:30pm 
@Ambassador Of Hell, I'm afraid you'll get a bug when you try to read the entries if you are playing in Polish - I don't think I ever fixed that.

You can use Chuckleberry's Skill Recovery Journal for a very similar mod that also lets you save your XP and load it by reading the journal later.
Ambassador Of Hell 18 Jan @ 12:28pm 
I always play with the same character who can read and I don't play on build 42 because it won't be stable but I have Polish in the game
Mutie  [author] 18 Jan @ 12:20pm 
@Ambassador Of Hell, it should work just fine, but it has a few conditions:
1) Your character must have the same name after dying
2) You must write in the book and read from the book while the game is set to English
3) You are playing on the current stable build 41 release and not the unstable build 42 release
4) You must not be illiterate

With that said, I haven't played with and maintained this mod properly for a spell, so there could be plenty of bugs (apart from just the name and translation error).
Ambassador Of Hell 18 Jan @ 11:08am 
its work or not