Currently, the only way to train the reading skill is to take any book and smack a training dummy with it. This is funny, but it's also stupid from an immersion standpoint so I put this little number together to offer an alternative.
First of all, you can now craft scrolls of parchment in batches of 5. You need any kind of hunting knife (such as stone knife; not consumed), a drying rack in front of you, a bucket at least half-full of water, and a small log. The crafting difficulty is 1 for this.
To make a guide to literacy, you need five scrolls of parchment, a feather (not consumed), and a table in front of you. The craftdiff for each level of guide is always 1 level higher than the skill it trains you up to, and the associated skill is reading. Technically this means it is possible for those with 11 or more intelligence to craft the guide for the level above their current skill, but I'm okay with that.
Why It's Good For The Game
The benefits mostly speak for themselves; those with reading skill can at minimum teach the illiterate to read, which may or may not be illegalized or encouraged by the king in any given round, and maybe people can pay a beggar or an orphan to deliver messages to other people.
As an aside, the same item framework I made for the literary guides makes it trivial to add guides for OTHER skills later on, too.
About The Pull Request
Currently, the only way to train the reading skill is to take any book and smack a training dummy with it. This is funny, but it's also stupid from an immersion standpoint so I put this little number together to offer an alternative.
First of all, you can now craft scrolls of parchment in batches of 5. You need any kind of hunting knife (such as stone knife; not consumed), a drying rack in front of you, a bucket at least half-full of water, and a small log. The crafting difficulty is 1 for this.
To make a guide to literacy, you need five scrolls of parchment, a feather (not consumed), and a table in front of you. The craftdiff for each level of guide is always 1 level higher than the skill it trains you up to, and the associated skill is reading. Technically this means it is possible for those with 11 or more intelligence to craft the guide for the level above their current skill, but I'm okay with that.
Why It's Good For The Game
The benefits mostly speak for themselves; those with reading skill can at minimum teach the illiterate to read, which may or may not be illegalized or encouraged by the king in any given round, and maybe people can pay a beggar or an orphan to deliver messages to other people.
As an aside, the same item framework I made for the literary guides makes it trivial to add guides for OTHER skills later on, too.