Writing this comment because it might help some clueless people. It took me more time to find out than I'm willing to admit. To get the writing table you need to research writing first (it can be done at the most basic research bench with no prerequisite). In the research tab, under the 'vanilla expanded' tab, you may need to scroll down vertically to find the writing research.

The book descriptions are strange as they generate like normal books, saying that they are very old when they were just written.

Can this create high quality recreation books? Or is just for skill books?

@TheFlyingGamer It uses the vanilla behaviors used in Odyssey. They will do it as recreation and its random based on what joy types are available to them. If you want to force them to spend all day reading you select a pawn and right click the book and select read.

In the third picture I saw multi-colored books with logos of different skills. But they are not in the game, is it possible to return these retextures so that it would be convenient to navigate on the bookshelf for pumping skills?

Small proposal for 1.6: Make the writing tables benefit from being in library rather than workshop, since it'd be more thematically and aesthetically fitting

Just thought this was funny:
"Q: Does this mod work with RimWorld 1.1?
A: Yes! We are backwards compatible!"

Meanwhile the mod is only backwards compatible to 1.4

@Sarg Bjornson how does their schedule need to be configured exactly in order to get them to read? I've had them do it during their rec time and work time and neither has been helpful. Do you need to have them set to do the task in question for them to read it?

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Their work schedule

I'm having some trouble getting my colonists to actually read the books. Whenever I prioritize reading the book the colonist goes and sits down, then gets up within a second and leaves to do something else. Am I missing something?

@Leo Major

You need to research Writing.

cant build the writing table

WTF one of you actually listened to me, I'm so unused to that!

(thanks)

If none of you report it, it will never get fixed

@Jet
I also had the same thing happen. It would switch back and forth between Lab and Library at random. I turned this mod off and it did seem to fix the issue for me.

I can confirm there is an issue with this mod breaking the new Laboratory requirements. This mod causes bookshelves to make a room a Library, which causes you to get a research penalty in the new expansion. I tested this by removing this mod and the issue was resolved.

i just made a lab by placing my research building down but noticed as soon as i placed a bookcase storage down it changed the room role into a library, negating the laboratory research buff and applying a malus. Is this a change on your end given 1.6's patch change? The bookshelves are from reels mod, but i think the room role might be from VFE books mod

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?