Scholar: A book-crafting and Introspection Mod

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Author: Anrhaa

Last revision: 2 Aug, 2025 at 06:28 UTC (2)

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Description:

This mod introduces simple book-crafting as a core and several new research about all major factions, with the goal of getting some useful crafting perks, new weapons and useful craftable belt items. All of them with available lore books to unlock each stage.

New Craft Stations:

1. Slurry Machine: Turn hemp and water into Hemp pulp.
2. Paper Press: Turn 1 hemp pulp into 5 paper sheet.
3. Paper Press (Automatic): Automatize the process.
4. Parchment Machine: Turn 1 animal skin into 2 parchments.
5. Parchment Machine (Automatic): Automatize the process.
6. Bookbinding Workbench: Turn 1 carbon into 2 inks; 10 paper sheets and 1/2 leather into 1 empty book; and bind all the new teaching books.
7. Writer Workbench: A place where you can write (craft) your Notes, Conclusions and Essays. Material you later will use at the bookbinding stations.
8. Book Forgery Station (Book): Turn 1 Research Conclusion and 1 Empty Book into a Book.
9. Book Forgery Station (Ancient Science Book): Turn 1 Research Essay and 1 Empty Book into an Ancient Science Book.
10. Book Forgery Station (Engineering Research): Turn 1 Research Essay and 1 Empty Book into an Engineering Research.
11. Book Salvaging Station (Book): Turn damaged books back to regular Books.
12. Book Salvaging Station (Ancient Science Book): Turn Half-Eaten Ancient Science Book back to Ancient Science Books.
13. Parchment to Paper: Turn 1 parchment to 2 paper, with the power of science!
14. Storage: Hemp pulp.
15. Storage: Paper.
16. Storage: Ink.
17. Storage: Parchment.
18. Storage: Damaged book.
19. Storage: Notes, Conclusions and Essays.

Note: To unlock the Writer Workbench you need either ‘Holy Flame Teachings – Lesson 1’ or ‘Academic Research 1: Research Book’

Use available lore books as material to research several new technologies related to The Holy Nation:

• Holy Flame Teachings – Lesson 1: Enable ‘Writer Workbench’ and ‘Storage: Notes, Conclusions and Essays’. Unlock several new items and your first book.
• Holy Flame Teachings – Lesson 2: Unlock your second book and improve research speed at all Research Bench by 5%.
• Holy Flame Teachings – Lesson 3: Unlock your third book and a new weapon: Paladin’s Heavy Cross.
• Holy Flame Teachings – Final: Unlock your final book and a new book belt item that greatly improves your combat capabilities (+10 attack bonus, +10 defense bonus, +10% athletics, +20% attack speed, +20% dexterity).

Research several new technologies related to Kral and sheks using available lore books.

• Kral’s Teachings – Lesson 1: Unlock several new items and your first book.
• Kral’s Teachings – Lesson 2: Unlock your second book and improve leather and heavy armor crafting speed by 5%.
• Kral’s Teachings – Lesson 3: Unlock your third book and a new improved weapon: Goliath Graver.
• Kral’s Teachings – Final: Unlock your final book and a new book belt item that greatly improves your capabilities to inflict damage at cost of your defense (+20 attack bonus, -20 defense bonus, +10% athletics, +20% attack speed, +20% damage output, -20% dodge).

• UC Teachings – Lesson 1: Unlock several new items and your first book.
• UC Teachings – Lesson 2: Unlock your second book and improve weapon crafting speed by 5%.
• UC Teachings – Lesson 3: Unlock your third book and a new improved weapon: Oodachi.
• UC Teachings – Final: Unlock your final book and a new book belt item that greatly improves your defense capabilities at cost of your attack (-20 attack bonus, +20 defense bonus, +10% athletics, +20% attack speed, +20% dexterity, -20% dodge).

• Academic Research 1: Research Book . Cost 30 Books. Enable crafting Research Notes, Research Conclusions, Research Essays AND your own research Books!
• Academic Research 2: Ancient Science Book . Cost 15 Ancient Science Books. Enable crafting Ancient Science Books.
• Academic Research 3: Engineering Research . Cost 10 Engineering Research. Enable crafting Engineering Research.

How do I get Carbon?

They’re now available at Stone Camp shops, Hive Shops, General Trade Shops and Material Shops. If you want to mine carbon yourself, you should get an extra mod that let you mine it, like GenMod, UWE or Genesis.

Book Salvaging Station (Ancient Science Book) is useless since there are like 2 Half-Eaten Ancient Science Book at the entire game

Half-Eaten Ancient Science Book is more common now. They can be found at:

+ ‘library ruins loot’ vendor list: It has twice spawn rate that leather.
+ ‘Hi tech junk’ vendor list: It has the same spawn rate as crossbow parts.

I added Half-Eaten Ancient Science Book to vendor lists where it couldn’t decrease more valuable stuff to spawn.

Can I craft AI cores with this mod?

Nope. There are other mods that let you do so. They should be compatible with this mod.

– ikahurula, author of ‘Oodachi’, ‘Paladin’s Heavy Cross’ and ‘Goliath Graver’ weapon mods.
– Dreatern for the high-quality icons from KenshICONS+ EXTRA ICONS