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'''{{color | W | Yellow }}''' books are prewritten books. Many are lore books that tell some story about or within the world, and some have useful information that can help you. This does not mean they do not have some form of randomness to them, however. | '''{{color | W | Yellow }}''' books are prewritten books. Many are lore books that tell some story about or within the world, and some have useful information that can help you. This does not mean they do not have some form of randomness to them, however. {{f|Corpus Choliys}} will always have randomized cures. Most have their contents in the Books.xml file. The two books that do not have a Books.xml entry are the {{f|crumpled sheet of paper}} and {{f|Heirlooms of Qud}}, which have their own cs file for generation. | ||
'''{{color | g | Green }}''' books are [[ | '''{{color | g | Green }}''' books are [[Book#Cookbooks|cookbooks]] which teach the player the recipes within once read. | ||
'''{{color | Y | White }}''' books are procedurally generated using [[markov chain|Markov chains]]. Each one has a chance of containing one clue of the location of the [[Ruin of House Isner]]. Most white books when read will show a message that says "You read one of the few legible excerpts from {book title}:", followed by a short procedurally generated sentence of text from the book. Occasionally, white books will instead be fully readable with several pages of generated text. | '''{{color | Y | White }}''' books are procedurally generated using [[markov chain|Markov chains]]. Each one has a chance of containing one clue of the location of the [[Ruin of House Isner]]. Most white books when read will show a message that says "You read one of the few legible excerpts from {book title}:", followed by a short procedurally generated sentence of text from the book. Occasionally, white books will instead be fully readable with several pages of generated text. | ||
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Sultan relics can sometimes appear as books with random Markov chain text, and will raise an attribute or teach a skill when first read. | Sultan relics can sometimes appear as books with random Markov chain text, and will raise an attribute or teach a skill when first read. | ||
==Cookbooks== | |||
{{missing info|Describe more of the generation details for cookbooks- how many recipes in a book? Describe difference between GenericCookbook and FocalCookbook blueprints}} | |||
Cookbooks are books that contain randomly generated [[Cooking#recipe|recipes]] that the player can learn upon reading the book. | |||
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[[Category:Mechanics]][[Category:Lore]] | [[Category:Mechanics]][[Category:Lore]] |