I made a update to this mod. https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3375604242

I really hope Tynan would consider adding this as part of the game. I am so tired of having my pawns be idle when they could spend 6 hours a day reading these books I've spent acquiring.

This mod would be a perfect way to make colonists read instead of going idle. Please update soon. Also, it would be cool having reading as a work type

RIP

Tried it in 1.5, breaks right click and finally tracked it back to this mod. Wait for the update to use.

this is exactly what I have been looking for. Would be so happy if its updated.

Has anyone asked if Mlie can take up this mod?

:o

Thanks for letting us know

1.5 changes book logic way more than I expected, update may be delayed.

Ok thank you for replying. Hope you can get it fixed. I wouldn’t play Vanilla Books Expanded without this addon. :)

@goannawoman I actually failed to upload it in game, it's tag is somehow changed but content not. There might be something is going wrong. Avoid using it for now.

This mod is tagged 1.5, but when I subscribe my game tells me it's only 1.4 and gives me lots of error reports...

Hey, just a quick info. Since the 1.5 version (incl. anomaly update) I can't let Pawns execute commands with right-click on objects (e.g. take weapon, or carry things) if this mod is activated. Unfortunately I can't give an error message.

作者你好，有的小人没有相关允许的工作技能，但是仍然可以读相关技能的书，这样没有什么实际意义，希望可以更新一下

Thank you :)

@jmj fixed

Seems that ReadBookRecipe_Growing have workSkill set to "Growing" instead of "Plants" - it gives no skill level slider for that recipe and an error in the startup log:
"Could not resolve cross-reference: No RimWorld.SkillDef named Growing found to give to Verse.RecipeDef ReadBookRecipe_Growing"

Retestet. Works fine now. Thanks

@jmj thanks for report, fixed now

If there are two books available - only the closest one are checked to see if it's sufficent.

You could reproduce it by creating a bill to read a shooting book with a pawn with some skill in that. Then create an awful shooting book close to the reading spot, and a legendary one further away.

Right clicking on the reading spot with the pawn gives "Cannot read Reading spot: Can't read: This skillbook is not sufficient."

See example https://imgur.com/a/0NpLZIh

Destroying the awful book makes it possible to prioritize reading.

@Anomaly Ah my mistake, thanks for report, should be fixed in next update.

It looks like the "Read social book" skill's allowed skill slider is set incorrectly. It looks at medical skill instead of social skill.

@Cedaro 怪了，我刚才进游戏还是跳红字，开了个新档没这个问题，然后再进老档这个问题就好了

@玉米先生N 请给出复现步骤，并尝试自行排查一下是否是mod冲突

作者好，我的小人不会自己读书了，只能强制工作
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/4e242029a1ad05a13c0216bab0bb9e0d

@sebjouin With a mod like "Work Tab" you can set the reading task priority individually, because it allows you to access all tasks, not just the work types. You should also be able to schedule a specific time when reading is high priority. I haven't tried that yet, though. ("Work Tab" should be compatible with "Many Jobs", I think. This is a guess based on experience with my own personalized mod that regroups and reorders priorities, which works fine with "Work Tab".)

It works great for training the kids but because we can not set a frequency (like once a day), I tend to not use it with productive adults.

If Read was not bunched in basic but an independant work type we could set a priority super low so the pawn just read when there is nothing else to do (much like what i do for my fishermen).

I will try to ask to the author of many jobs to add compatibility to separate read from basic but if you could do it right from your mod it'd be great ;)

@BananaBread reading bill is based on vanilla bill system. I can try implementing the second idea, while the first one will not. I'm quite busy recently, so you may need to wait for a while :)

(i sound a bit demanding, that's not how i intended, i found my own workaround, just figured i'd share my idea with you, cuz this reading spot is a fix i didn't know i needed, fantastic work!)

I was looking to modify the bill someway, 2 main ideas.

-X times a day (for X colonist)
and/or
-adding a max level for the skill of the book (e.g. have the reading shooting book only apply to pawns that have 0-12 shooting) the same way crafting bills you can make it so only a specific skill bracket is allowed to do the bill.

you along with the printing press mod has made literacy incredibly powerful. i have a colonist that is really good at shooting make a book about it and with this mod and the printing press mod i made copies of it and had all my other colonists read those books. they all now have at least a 14 shooting skill, thank you for your service.

That fixed it, thank you! I moved the reading task back to the Basic category. Now my new visitors perform their usual tasks to help out the colony, and no one is binge-reading a thing.

@klvlt I've add a patch to prevent guest from doing reading job. Since I'm not sure if the guest from Hospitality and guest in vanilla are the same, please recheck and tell me if the problem is solved.

I encountered some strange behaviour: I use hospitality in my game, and reading spots (with active bills) are almost exclusively occupied by guests reading stuff all the time and not doing anything else. They seem to perform the reading job to help out the colony, like they do research or haul stuff. As soon as the Hospitality settings are changed to forbid guests from performing colony work, the endless reading stops. Is there a way you can exclude the reading job from the ones that can/should be performed by guests? (I guess this is only an issue if the reading task is part of the Basic or Research category. I don't think Writing can be performed by guests.)

@玉米先生N 感谢报告，已修复

作者好，我新建的阅读点可以正常使用，但是读档就用不了，提示 无法读书阅读点：必须放置于桌上
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/15bc0b7ef98bdbb933c4f6dbf026d1dc

@Big Barza well.. that is. The read book work will no longer stay in its original place if you change the work type, leading to exception. Thank's for report, I'll state in description.

@Cedaro
I experienced a similar issue when it updated to allow selecting the work type.
Log file: relevant spam is more than halfway trough.
https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/c21040d59674f888602be925ed62568c
I was using the mod before the update and assigned the read book work to my colonists (with work tab)
After removing it, loading the save once, and readding it, it works, although the work type only showed up after i moved work tab below this mod.

@Seele'd
Log or modlist? Or I cannot help you whatever.

I hate to be a pain in the ass, but with the latest update my pawns were unable to do anything but wander around. Removing just this mod from the list fixed the problem, so that must be the cause.

@klvlt so weird. Anyway glad to hear you're solved.
I've added a right-click prompt on reading spot so you can check if it's working properly, hope it can help.

@Cedaro I switched the mod order back and couldn't reproduce the behaviour myself. No idea what else could have caused it, and the old log is gone. (For reference: The problem was that no pawn ever performed the reading job, and it couldn't be forced because it didn't show up in the menu after right-clicking the reading spot. The spot was set up with a bill and had a book close by.)
The issue with positioning the spot was caused by the chair/stool problem pointed out by Kaissar. It hadn't occured to me to try a different kind of seat. I'm glad to say, it works with chairs.
Again, thank you for this mod! It's great to be able to get something more out of books.

@klvlt cannot reproduce, seems like other mod conflict. Could you send me your log and mod list?

@Kaissar It does work. The problem is that stools look the same in both front and rear, you might rotate to a wrong direction, turn it over and try again.

Any chance on changing the requirement for seats? Currently only dining chairs work properly as the spot does not accept stools when rotated

I love this idea, thank you for this mod! I *think* this has to be placed below Vanilla Books Expanded Expanded (Continued) (https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2894816192) to work properly. I had problems with the reading job in the beginning, which seem to be resolved now that I changed the mod order. Could you check this and, if correct, add it to the mod order restrictions?
Also: Could you set a default for the XML settings, so that the task shows up somewhere when the mod is first used? At the moment one is forced into an immediate restart just to add the task to the work tab. And: The reading spot only recognizes seats south of a table for me. I can't place it in any other direction even though a seat is present. Any idea what could cause this?

superb mod, thank you

感谢作者

@墨色笔香 添加了 XML Extensions 补丁