I submitted a bug report through the official bug report form about writers tables not being buildable, no other mods enabled, fresh save. If that's not functioning correctly there's almost no reason to subscribe to the mod in the first place

I've always been a fan of this mod in particular, but it took the vanilla books being introduced to really show me how preferable your old system was in comparison. My book descriptions have also gone from satisfying flavor text to... alleged author deaths and general loopiness.

As always, keep up the good work.
If possible, please, please reintroduce the old system sometime.

@brightsideguy I'm not sure what you're referring to in vanilla, but it would be cool to see interop with something like Life Lessons.

It's cool that you can see that the book your colonist wrote has his name in the description, but then the description is like
"According to several sources, a freak car crash killed ___ soon after this book's publication. The Unzek print-house shut down shortly after publication due to Candor raids. The pages are in a terrible condition [despite literally just being written]."

Id like to see a way to write novels added. Maybe it can be form of recreation. Whenever a pawn is bored he can go to a personal writing table and chip away at writing a novel, comic, or any other type of non-skill book.

YURI NATOR its located under the vanilla expanded tab at the bottom if you cant find it try typing into the search bar under research "writing"

Are there plans to add schematic-writing to this mod?

I'm imagining them being unlocked based on backstory (aka the electrical engineer writing down notes on how to do electricity).

Question, can you make the titles of books custom? Like if a colonist makes a book, you yourself can rename the book and edit the description, is that a thing in the mod?

You can spawn a writing table through the dev commands. Had this mod for multiple games never seen a writing table, doesnt appear in research or any production menu. Possibly a mod conflict but Idk. Thought maybe it was something I had to get from a trader but never saw a single one on any trader.

Finally just looked through dev commands to see if I could find it and it was under "spawn thing" -> "VBE-writing table" or something like that. Saw a lot of other people having this same problem so figure id share my work around lol amazing mod once you get a table.

possibility to add a reading table akin to research table where people prioritizes reading schematics or skill books? Recreation based reading in vanilla is really counterproductive when it comes to skill training or reading schematics to learn tech.

Why are there no ways to write novels?

Our book reading system no longer exists, the books are vanilla now. This mod only adds a way to write books.

With the addition of books in vanilla, was the skill levels changed? I swore that legendary books could teach up to level 20.

Does Inspiration increase the quality of the book? I feel like that might be a bit weird, considering how long the crating would take.

CE comparable?

since the mod adds a library room role does it work in the same way it does for hospital/dining room with a temporary mood buff per use?

it would be amazing if I could create schematics with the mod. I'm trying a no research books only run, and it's really hard to find all those books on traders 😅

Is there plans to make it so pawns can write novels and schematics

In the mod description:
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!

I'd love to hear how it interacts with 1.5 books too.

I cannot research the writers desk, it is no showing.

So, how's this interact with 1.5 books now?

Also getting reports of this error when building bookcases:

Tried to register the same load ID twice: null, pathRelToParent=/sourcePrecept, parent=BookcaseSmall858292
UnityEngine.StackTraceUtility:ExtractStackTrace ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.Log.Error_Patch2 (string)
Verse.LoadIDsWantedBank:RegisterLoadIDReadFromXml (string,System.Type,string,Verse.IExposable)
Verse.LoadIDsWantedBank:RegisterLoadIDReadFromXml (string,System.Type,string)
Verse.Scribe_References:Look<RimWorld.Precept_ThingStyle> (RimWorld.Precept_ThingStyle&,string,bool)
RimWorld.CompStyleable:PostExposeData ()
(wrapper dynamic-method) MonoMod.Utils.DynamicMethodDefinition:Verse.ThingWithComps.ExposeData_Patch2 (Verse.ThingWithComps)
Verse.Building:ExposeData ()

1.5, I have a bookcase but cannot find the writer/s bench. It is not showing up in the Production tab

Hello! Coming from 1.4 with my savegame, are my books still ther in 1.5? I have quite a lot and i am worried that i will lose them. If so, is there a way fix them? Regards.

I'm doing a tribal start with a custom race that's incapable of research. Can't find a writing table in Production or Furniture build tabs, it's not in Complex Furniture, and after visiting about 30 towns and villages I haven't seen anyone selling one. It would be nice if there's some way to get it without the second tech tree tab.

Newspapers dont seem to "expire" when kept on a bookcase.

Anyone else ever get: "Tried to register the same load ID twice: null, pathRelToParent=/sourcePrecept, parent=Bookcase"? Happens any time I build a bookcase

is it possible to add color to the skill books?

any plans to add a fiction book craft? feel like living out on the rim would inspire some pretty good stories

Is it just me or can modded books not be put on bookshelves?

No because the old ones were for specific skill while the DLC ones can have up to 3 different skills in them.

can you add the old book textures back, i liked these better than the vanilla ones

Q: Where are the fiction books? Can we get an X book type?
A: Reading said books could give an opinion buff toward the author.
(just an idea)

WPlinkoPinko
You could RP that the pawn is plagiarizing/translating/transcribing/recovering an older book, as opposed to being a completely original author.

Understandable, thanks for your time regardless!

Not without major rewrites to how the book descriptions are created.

Howdy! This is a very small nitpick, but textbooks that pawns write May mention them being "used and possibly old textbooks", even if they are brand new. I do realize that is due to the mod using the new book system added by 1.5, but would it be possible to make new books written by pawns not have that "old" flavor text? Thanks for the mod, and all of your time!

damn it! no matter what i do, i can't find the writing table or the reserch for it!DX

Let the pawns write novels, fanfics, smuts and whatnot, but can there be an option for the player to literally set the title of the book and the genre?
It's ok if they only give a boost in happiness, but it would be so cool if that can be added into the mod :)

@glenhowland2012 did ya solve it? :D

@pebblebotha - "256 tones of pale" - temporarily increase libido, and romance attempt sucsess, provided that both pawns of different sex, or common sexual deviations (gays) readed it recently.

With 1.5 introducing Novels, will it be possible for pawns to write them at some point with this mod, and not just Textbooks?

@Goldfang I had the same bug as well. I tried to create a medical book with my pawn and they create a normal melee book, I then tried again with another medical book and this time it created a excellent construction book which was created by a pawn with 4 construction, 14 melee, 15 medical, and 10 intellectual.

Sounds like a bug.

is it normal that i've queued up a shooting book and the fella's written me a melee book?

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”.

Riminson Crusoe - (passive) when taken on a caravan, they forage better, regardless of plant skill.
The Book Thief - (passive) as long as it's in the colony, colonists have a 20% chance to steal a random book from traders' inventory.
Frankenstein - (read) small chance for a new inspiration type called "It's alive!" which triples interaction speed with any biotech machinery.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - (read) large chance to summon shamblers, small chance of creativity inspiration.
Wattpad fanfiction - (read) increased romance and lovin' chance, 0.01% chance for a reader to turn into a vampire.

These are just for fun, not serious suggestions. Unless...

I don't know if anyone else has had this issue but the research options for writing and printing don't show up. You can search for them and start the project that way or use a mod like research whatever to start it automatically. You just can't select them manually like normal.

Newspapers in the bookcase won't become outdated, and their descriptions are broken too.
Haul them out will become outdated immediately.
I suspect the bookcase breaks the newspaper despawn code.
(they are "outdated" but can't despawn)

Thanks for this mod, this is something i miss in the base game.