Dev spawn a durathread techniques book. Make a pawn read it. If a message pops up on the upper corner, your mod is updated

hmmm. after the update, the situation is as follows:
-pawns will keep reading when set to recreation OR everything (tested on 81% recreation)
-when set to worktime but having no job to do, pawns are still dropping the book / quitting the reading-job (tested on 59% recreation)

i've also un- & resubbed to the mod and gone back to the main menu, but didn't quit the game back to desktop in the meantime.

wow you were fast! o0 :D

*enjoys Alla's Secrets of Archotech Alchemy*

v2.03:

- Decoupled the book reading system from base game's, so books from this mod don't need the reader to be set from recreation. Forcing a colonist to read a book will now work regardless of their work assignments.
- Stainless steel is now vacuum proof
- When reading a folder of durathread techniques, a treatise of stainless steel or a midas tome, a message will pop up on screen informing the player of the effects
- Toned down the duration of the Midas tome's effects (except legendary, because it is, wait for it... well, you know)

yo that'd be great^^
tho, shouldn't Chill The Fork Out alrdy do so, at least...?

I'm going to try to change that, as it is dumb

thanks for the quick response! ;)

ok recreation time fixed it lol

they're set to "everything"

as i said, it worked for 5 ingame years, up until this beautiful wednesday morning

Are they set to recreation?

5 years into the colony my pawns suddenly refuse to read.
even if my main researcher has nothing else to do and is just wandering around in boredom, if i send her to read a book for waterwheels or deepdrills or work clothing, she'll pick up the book and sit down with it just to drop it.
same with midas tomes and romans.

my modlist hasn't changed and there's nothing happening in the log.

I like collecting books in the game. Do you get to keep the book after it's used or does it just vanish?

@Shiruba
Recreation

are all books took so long to read ? or is it depend on the quality

Hello. There's a minor nitpick regarding this mod and Odyssey - stainless steel doors are not airtight. Any chance you could change that?

They take up space in ruined libraries

So, what are ruined books for? I really don't get it.

wish there was a way to set up a schedual to make them read these, rather than always having to gight them to finish a book XD

Stainless steel isn't airtight, found out the hard way :p

how about making a monasstic faction, writing all these books and being the reason for abandoned libraries? Idk how hard that is but maybe, if you play with biotech and have a kid reaching the age of 9, u get the quest of sending your kid to them for 3 years and when it comes back its perfectly educated
i rly love this idea but idk how to make mods myself :I

Looks like Civil Settlers do, at least. If you want any value out of these, you're gonna have to go caravanning- traveling trade caravans aren't interested; only settlements are.

Does *anyone* buy ruined books, or does the higher price on excellent and legendary ones exist purely to bait players into inflating their wealth? I don't think I've ever seen a trader interested in them.

That's to be expected

When i make a copy of stainless steel object (bed for example) i couldn't build it, because i don't have stainless steel in warehouse

Wanted to come on here to mention how the midas touch book is overpowered, but then got raided by like 30 imperial deserters.. fair play!

No, it isn't craftable

Where do you craft stainless steel i can't seem to find it on any crafting station? As the book mentioned you can also make it

v2.02:

- Fixed stainless steel and durathread changing the health of items and builtings and making them unfixable

So, can ONLY special books spawn in libraries? (No vanilla/dlc standard books).

idk if its a bug but forcing someone to read for example the durathread book, the reading takes so much time that the pawn usually gets up to fulfill his needs like eating, thirst from dbh etc, making it close to impossible to actually make the pawn finish the book. i pulled it off before after like 10 times but now i cant seem to make it at all xdd

having the same issue with stainless steel being damaged at crreation and unable to be repaired

@Mercenary Have you figured out the mod conflict? I'm seeing the same thing without the star wars mods. Repairing works after reloading a save though.

@mercenary funnily enough there was a reddit thread not long ago that showed Rimworld Mods were interacting weirdly with Kotor

fwiw to you, had an idea for a book: "Ancient Lovin Manual" or something that functions similarly to durathread and stainless books, provides a permanent hediff that makes lovin more enjoyable for the partner (added moodlet). the implication being the reader has learned a technique etc from a karma sutra esque book

There's a problem with stainless steel items/buildings - when created, they start with 91% health.

Damn figures. I wonder if it is because of the SWTOR/KOTOR mods I downloaded as been having issues since then. Will have to try it in the next few days and see. Thanks for getting back to me

Just you, yeah

I don't know if I have a mod conflict somewhere but my pawns can't seem to repair anything made out of stainless steel. Can't even click for the option. Is this normal or just me?

Can't even look into it till the 15th

Seconding swag's observation: doors and autodoors made out of stainless steel are not airtight at all. I've resorted to using RIMMsqol to give the material an airtight tag for the time being.

I found a fix for the "not finishing the book glitch." Switch the colonist schedule to recreation only. He'll read through the whole thing. I think it has to do with the pawn stopping to do work instead of prioritizing the book.

For anyone who is running into the issue of books being put down after a bit rather than triggering. I don't what what causes it, but it seems to be a "needs" issue, where the pawn starts doing something else. I forced all needs to be satisfied, and the book triggered just fine.

stainless steel doors arent airtight but the regular steel doors are

for the random skill xp book, could you add a message saying what skill was leveled, also it took me a little under an entire season to realize that the ruined library i was at was an amung us.

@Doc they might be bored of reading as a recreation type. And if you have any other mods that alter recreation it can cause them to just not read the book even though its not a passive read. (Things like do rec when not busy and such). Had this happen in my last 1.5 playthrough and I got a new pawn to read the book.
Its also possible its something else, just offering a potential explanation.

Is there a prerequisite to the Chicken Book doing something or do I have a conflict I need to track down in my modlist? At the moment, attempts to read it by colonists lead to them immediately putting it back down.

Is there anyway we can land our ships at the library? I rather not make a caravan and have all my pawns get miserable.

This is a great mod, it fits especially well into the concept of the new dls. It's a pity that you can't land your ship at the library.

WOW.

This one is made by u as well! Jajajja. Btw, have you given a thought about the upgrade of Smart Speed I put together, wanna implement it? :o

Btw, I am very much aware I can change the values conveniently in the mod menu, but the default seems way too high (low). Too many abandoned libraries I feel like.

As always, thank you, love you.

v2.01:

- Added two new books:
- Tynan's Book will provide experience points in a random skill, regardless of passion in it. Amount of experience varies between 5000 and 100000 depending on quality.
- The Lusty Saurid Maid will provide boosts to negative and positive thought durations as well as MTB lovin' factor.