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

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.

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

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.

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?

Books are now a base game feature.

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?!?

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.

I'd imagine it's like any other crafting quality roll, sometimes you get unlucky

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.

It doesn't quite make sense that reading newspapers would produce joy.

Can I write random books of my own or are my colonists good for nothing and can only write books on their expertise?

No, you don't even need a PC!

Hello! do you need the base game to use this?

Would love to see support for languages of the rim so books are in different languages, and there are language level books

Is this integrated with the basegame books? For example, can I now write books (basegame object type ones)?

@Synthetic HAHAHA

I would like to see ideological or sacred books

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.

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.

does it make sense to use this in 1.5 since books are now part of the game?

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.

@power724win Should be in "Production".

i can not find writing workbench where is it?

scratch that... just if you change a research project

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

@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.

@Haddam_Sussein
What quality of boocks have you set in production?

Anyone else having a problem where pawns just destroy an unfinished book to haul the cloth somewhere else?

heya, so just curious, but this mod is heavily based off of it's predecessor right? if i recall...

It's the same system vanilla uses

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?

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.

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.

Considering it doesn't fail for the rest of us... Yes, that is happening because of other mods or other issue on your end

Are you likely to add fiction at some point?
I've been hoping quietly that you'll add fiction so my main writer isn't just writing skill books all the time and can write like she used to in Sims 3 (mostly Fantasy and Sci Fi, though Sci Fi is probably moot in Rimworld). Would also love to be able to make children's books.

Could you add that research specialists get +1 on the quality of books they write, just like the production specialists gets +1 on everything he produces?

We don't do multiplayer, sorry, you'd have to ask whoever made that mod

After the update, my friend and I can't load our multiplayer save.What could be the reason? both have updated the mod. But it says that we have different data

Good day, can you tell me if it is possible to give colonists priority in reading books?
Otherwise I have to lock the children in the library.

so great mod, love it, except for one thing... why cloth? why not make a table that you research that turns wood into paper... no one writes a book out of cloth.

There is a spelling mistake in the research tooltip for printing: "Build a **typwriter** "

You should make books out of braille or audio books i just tried to increase my skills with one of my pawns and completely forgot the soul facts shes blind😭

vanilla books are lame, too bad you removed the book feature retroactively
your textures were easy to tell apart, now everything is brown, at least I can set up a reading regime but man, 5500 work for a book worth of 160 silver is a bad tradeoff when it used to be in the 1000s for a masterwork, you really need to rebalance writing

I have a small issue with pawn behavior.
They constantly go read books to the same room
Problem is, it's a bedroom, so they end up barging in while pawns there sleep.
At first I thought that it's room quality issue, but no, dining room is much better (but slightly further)
So any ideas on what's going on?

Allow books to take leather as material so I can use human leather

Make fiction books give you superpowers RAAH

is there custom text?

Got a similar problem. The newspaper stored in a bookshelf cannot be read and those stored newspapers do not even count as an existing item in the typewriter bill. (I'm using LWM's deep storage, if that would ever be a matter)

Okay, it expired and could be cleaned after I manually remove it from the bookshelf. But the error code was still there.