Thanks hun <3

Rain maker you always make awesome mods, thanks!

No, just the vanilla ones increased.

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@Stefut
Correct.

Only for B42 , no b41?

I LOVE YOUR MODS BRO THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

thank you so muchh !!!

you are a life saver.

I'll try that, thanks!

Yeah Aiming, Reloading and Long Blade books are much, much rarer in PZ when compared to all other skill books.
Your best bet to find Aiming and Reloading books are gunstores, police stations and military surplus stores. I always get my full set looting from those.
Also thanks. :)

In 2 different saves, I can't seem to find any aiming or reloading books in bookstores. Is this intentional? Fairly new to PZ so sorry if this has been answered before. Great mods btw! I sub to a ton of your stuff :)

Thank you!

Nah. Only base game booksies and magsies.

Does this also work with modded books/recipe mags?

Thanks for this, i just got back into Zomboid to do a blacksmithing playthrough. I literally spent the last 3 in-game months out of a 4 month long playthrough going from place to place searching for Metalworking 3, and never found it.

Yeah, verifying files also redownloads all your mods so there ya go. Glad it worked. :)

Thanks!
I tried to verify integrity before i read your post. that seem to have fixed it.
Wish PZ wasnt such a frankensteins monster..

Unsub -> resub -> wait for the download to completely finish.
Make sure the mod shows up in your workshop/content/108600 folder.

Other than that, I can't help with it. Could be the unstable being unstable.

And yes, i have chosen the 42 version of the mods.

this and some other of your mods dont show up in the mods menu... only GUNS one i can see.

Finally got around to adding the Maintenance books to all the tables.

中文翻译 这个MOD能让等级书籍和杂志刷新的概率增加

thanks !!

Hello Aurvidt!
Unfortunately due to how PZ handles loot, this mod would only affect areas that you have NOT visited yet. Meaning that any area that you can see in your world map will stay unaffected.
Adding this mod to your save should be 100% safe though, because it only does some very simple lua table inserts.

If you want to be extra safe though, just make a backup of your save first. :)

Hi Rainmaker, thank you for this mod. How will it work with existing saves? Would previously searched containers have updated contents? Would un-searched containers within explored regions of the map be affected? For instance, I've searched through the bookstore in Brandenburg, but not the post office. How will each be impacted?

Thx for your mod. It made clearing the ekron college (a 4 story building) for more than a week worthwhile and really satisfying compared to the underwhelming default setting.

Thank you so muuuch! magazines are so rare in builder, it's unbarable. I've looked for the generator magazine over 300 houses and mail boxes and didn't find it still

Yeah, having literature encompass absolutely everything was a bad move.
Should be a separate sandbox option for literature, skill books, and recipe magazines.

I was waiting for this for so long, I get that it is more realistic to have a bunch of random literature but I just want to play a video game. They really should've given us a sandbox option for this.

I fail to understand why the devs think the current amount of skill books we can fine was a good idea. If anything the new Paperback Magazines and the different named comics are just extra clutter the make the game harder for no reason. If they made it to where comics and books had their own sections then fine but, right now it just stupid

@Wiegraf Folles
I really oughta learn how to do sandbox options but I have no idea where to even begin lol.

But I'm thinking I'll drop the rates added by this mod by 50% and we should still end up with plenty of skill book spawns.

Is it possible to make it settings related? Or is it pretty much something you have to hard code? I love the idea of this mod, but I agree, currently it's too strong to keep active.

@梦才_MornTsuy
I'm going to nerf this mod just a tad at some point because currently the increase in skill books is approximately a metric f*** ton.

I would like to know the exact gain of this mod, have you tested it? What would be the approximate increase in skill books compared to the original?

Great mod, now the only way to get skill books is to go to the library in Louisville, but I got lazy and turned on debug mode to get all the skill books!

Thank God for this! 60% paperbacks 30% comic books, 9% magazines, & 1... ONE cooking book in a school library? Seriously? These new Devs should consider talking to someone born before 2000. And I thought the scarce cigarette problem was bad, you can tell their knowledge of the 80s is severely lacking.

true, thx for fast response!

Should be, this mod only has insert lua scripts to existing loot tables.
If you wanna be extra safe though, you could always backup your save first.

is it okay to midsave change?

@Karas_gaming

to put it into perspective, even on "abundant" loot settings for "literature" there were still only skill books in 2 out of all the bookshelves in the rosewood school. also the problem with using sandbox settings to fix this is that there's no sandbox setting for *just* skillbooks. increasing literature spawns increases ALL book spawns. i don't want to drown in books, i just want more skillbooks. so this mod is preferable.

Oh ok, NOW i understand. Thank you for the explanation.

Karas_Gaming
Yeah you're wrong :D
In B42 the bookstore/school/university loot tables draw from absolutely massive pools the new customized books and magazines. And I mean just the new books and magazines, not skill books.

This mod inserts all skill books into those generic "book" pools, so that the game won't end up creating an entire freaking library with 3/4 of it filled by nothing but those unhappiness/stress books.

I'm sorry if i'll sound rude (i don't mean to undermine any effort you've put into making this mod) but to me this just looks like the "common" loot abundance option from sandbox. Or are more book closets filled with skill/recipe books as well?

Awesome mod again Rain! Thank you!

Thank you so much I've been waitin for someone to make a mod for this

thank you. the bookstores have been a huge disappointment

@Moonsy
Yeah that one does things differently. Really cool stuff.
I'll probably nerf this one a bit at some point but for now it can stay as it is. That was an insane amount of mindless clickywork I had to go through. :D

Feels a bit overpowered without being able to change it settings, there's a mod called Skill Books Loot Multipliers doing it already if you want to check it, seems like you could help each other maybe