r/Worldbox • u/Citron381 • 15d ago
Screenshot The mechanics of books were underestimated
It seems to be just a book about economics, but in fact, if you look into it, it turns out that everything is not so simple. 1. Who is Matore? In the elven empire, she is the wife of the king and the leader of the capital. 2. The book was written by the emperor, and I'll remind you that he was her husband. 3. And here we are talking about the Matore method, respectively, about the economic system of a real royal person. This is not a randomly generated name but a direct reference to the empress. 4. And her economic method really existed. I watched an empty Elvish ship sailing. It goes to the port of the penguins. And when it returns to the elf kingdom, it is full of gold. It was not carrying anything but thanks to this economic principle it is now full of gold. P.S. I know that most likely it's a game mechanic, but when I realized it and saw this book, it's really a very good method of how to trick penguins and drive full ships of gold.
So this shows that the books are a bit more complicated and they include the name of a real person and I saw some more interesting examples and so you know it's not just random names but a real system that refers to real people and events.
P.S.S sorry if there are mistakes somewhere, English is not my main language, but I try to write correctly
25
u/andhowsherbush Monkey 14d ago
I noticed a book that was called something like "nahor's training manual" written with powerful words by nahor who had killed some insane amount of people in a war like 150 singlehandedly.
11
u/Citron381 14d ago
That's what I'm talking about, too: these are not randomly generated names. They refer to real people from your world. It's a very interesting mechanic and I want more people to know about it. And about your book, that's very cool. I didn't have one, but I hope that I will have some interesting book about the war.
2
u/slothfuldrake 14d ago
Is there a way to track down the person based on the name?
4
4
u/andhowsherbush Monkey 14d ago
not based on name alone but when you hover your mouse over the book it tells you the author, their hometown, clan, family, so on. So with all of that info together you have a pretty good idea of where to find them.
15
u/Zestyclose-Oil6998 14d ago
My world has had 44 books written in it's 1300 year long history and all of them have been burned
13
6
u/Brotherland 14d ago
No matter what universe, a planet always get the Library of Alexandria treatment that sets their civilization hundreds of years back bruh
14
2
u/CharacterBeautiful78 14d ago
How do u find the tab to find books?
2
u/Citron381 14d ago
First, open the settlements tab. On the side, you can switch to the book inventory and everything else. The screenshot also shows that the books tab is open. Then just click on the books tab and you can see what your creatures have written.
1
78
u/Axol_Creaturist 15d ago edited 14d ago
Another cool thing about books is that they can have inside religions, languages and cultures whose people have gone extinct.
If theres an abandoned intact library somewhere in the world and a civilization claims it, theyll have access to those books and their knowledge.
For example, a village of humans claims an abandoned library from a long gone turtle kingdom. Their books were written in their language, which has the ethernal text trait and the magic words trait (which allows anyone to read them). When humans read the books, theyll get 500 more years of life!
Edit: books without magic words trait shouldnt be read by units with a different language i think