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Features

Alpha Books brings:

- 21 new types of books that are all single-use, and give a bonus to the reader. From useful hediffs, to abilities, to unlocking new map locations, there is variety enough to spice up any playthrough. They all have custom graphics, descriptions and mechanics.
- All books work like normal books regarding bookshelves, acting as quest rewards, etc, but colonists will NOT auto-read them.
- A new quest to raid ancient ruined libraries to acquire the new books.
- A new furniture building, the plinth, to display your favourite books and give x10 Beauty.
- Anomaly, Royalty, Ideology and VE Cooking add new books, for a total of 26.

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Issues

If you have a bug, report it properly on the Bug Reports discussion. ANY bug report without a proper log will be ignored or outright deleted

I'M NOT KIDDING, I'LL DELETE ALL YOUR MESSAGES AND PEE ON YOUR PILLOW. PLEASE STOP ASKING ME TO DO THIS ON PURPOSE, WEIRDOS

Future plans

More things

FAQ

Q: Can I add it mid-playthrough to an existing save? Can I remove the mod?
A: You can add it whenever. You can't remove mods from a save and expect it not no be messed up.

Q: Does this need Biotech DLC, Alpha Animals / Biomes / etc
A: No

Q: Does this work with Combat Extended?
A: Compatibility with CE is handled on their end

Q: Will colonists auto-read these?
A: No, as they are all single use. Think of them as readable potions. Actually, don't, that sounds really stupid...

Q: Reeee this is bloat! I like my things that add things to add less things to the thing!!!
A: The thing wants things added to the thing. Sorry, out of my control.

Changelog

v1.0: Release (08/01/25)
Full changelog on GitHub

Credits

Rimworld is owned by Tynan Sylvester.

(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)[creativecommons.org]


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23 Sep @ 1:34am
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Fishy the Medic 24 Sep @ 10:32pm 
I like collecting books in the game. Do you get to keep the book after it's used or does it just vanish?
Schadenfreude 23 Sep @ 1:22am 
@Shiruba
Recreation
Egamerx 20 Sep @ 7:41pm 
are all books took so long to read ? or is it depend on the quality
Barsik_The_CaT 18 Sep @ 8:33am 
Hello. There's a minor nitpick regarding this mod and Odyssey - stainless steel doors are not airtight. Any chance you could change that?
Sarg Bjornson  [author] 17 Sep @ 2:52am 
They take up space in ruined libraries
Shiruba 17 Sep @ 2:44am 
So, what are ruined books for? I really don't get it.
Seth'cor 7 Sep @ 12:27am 
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
Ahlmann 30 Aug @ 9:59am 
Stainless steel isn't airtight, found out the hard way :p
Merculin 29 Aug @ 2:28pm 
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
Anker 24 Aug @ 8:23pm 
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.