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[Shukaro]

Have you ever wondered to yourself, "Man, my dwarves are such idiots, I wish I could chisel some intelligence into their heads."? No? Then, er, disregard that last bit. What I present to you, here and now, no strings attached, is a workshop to solve a problem that you probably didn't even know you had! I call it, the Dwarven Higher Learning Mod. Now, what this thingawazzit does, is give your dwarves an opportunity to polish up some skills that they may have trouble practicing elsewhere. You know the situation, Urist McDoctor has your legendary axedwarf on your table, and he's got no idea how to stop him from bleeding out from wounds caused by rogue fluffy wamblers. Or you have precious little metal available on the glacier you so stupidly bravely embarked on, so you can't afford to waste it on dabbling weaponsmiths who've never handled a hammer before in their lives. This mod's workshops allow training through the time-honored traditions of; hitting rocks until your hands bleed, performing repetitive actions that will sap your will to live, practicing your skills on subjects that are worth less than most peasants (and won't sue for malpractice), and studying the works of your fellow dwarves, knowing full-well that you'll never be quite as good as them. Any questions, comments, suggestions (especially these), complaints, offers of money, or threats of lawsuits (I have an awesome lawyerdwarf, just sayin') should be presented in this thread.

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This mod contains five new workshops.

The Training Workshop
This workshop gives your unskilled laborers a chance to hone their skills (overseers not included).

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Built with 1 anvil and 1 building material.

Skill Supported - Reagents Needed
 Mining - Raw Non-Economic Stone, no Tablet Needed
 Engraving - Raw Non-Economic Stone, no Tablet Needed, occasionally produces a tablet
 Weaponsmithing - Metal Bar
 Armorsmithing - Metal Bar
 Leatherworking - Tanned Leather
 Gem Setting - Rough Gem
 Gem Cutting - Rough Gem
 Siege Engineering - Wood Logs
 Siege Operation - Catapult Parts (Preserved), Raw Non-Economic Stone, no Tablet Needed

Tablets are required for all tasks except where noted. Tablets and other reagents have a small chance of being consumed by the task (except where noted). Mining and Siege Operation have a high chance of consuming stone, and Engraving will convert some of the stone used to tablets.

The Library
A quiet place for scholarly pursuits, the honing of all social skills, and booze.

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Built with One Cabinet and One Rock/Wood/Block/Etc.

Skills Supported
 All (Most?) social skills

All tasks in the library require Books, and have a small chance of consuming them.

The Medical Ward
Where dwarves who've failed out of the Mountainhome Medical School for Dwarves go to practice their skills.

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Built with an Empty Barrel and 1 building material.

Skill Supported - Reagents Needed
 Surgery - Any Weapon (Preserved)
 Wound Dressing - Any Cloth (Preserved)
 Suturing - Any Thread (Preserved)
 Bone Setting - Splint (Preserved)
 Crutch Walking - Crutch (Preserved), no Tablet or Body Part Needed
 Diagnostics - No Additional Reagents Needed

All tasks require both a body part and a Tablet as reagents (except where noted). Tasks have a small chance of consuming any reagents, except those marked Preserved.

The Training Dummy
A construct of incredibly intricate design, which dwarves may whack to improve their skills. Beware, it may fight back. Sometimes with water.

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Built with a Mechanism and 1 building material.

Skills Supported
 All combat skills

If a skill would normally require a piece of equipment to train (For example, the Swords or Shields skills) the related task requires a piece of equipment of that type. The Improvised Weaponry skill requires a chair. All tasks require a tablet, and have a small chance of consuming it. All reagents other than Tablets will be preserved.

The Printers Workshop
The place where dwarves get down to the dirty work of producing literature. And paper.

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Built with an Empty Barrel, a Mechanism, and 1 building material.

Skills Required
 Press Paper - Pump Operating
 Process Vellum - Tanning
 Carve Tablet - Stone Detailing
 Print Book - Prose

This workshop is where tablets, paper, and books are created. Tablets are made from a piece of raw non-economic stone. Paper is made from wood logs or leather (which produces two paper). Books are made from two pieces of paper.

Please use profiles to determine which dwarves you want to train.

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So, you've been enticed by these morsels and promises of epic, er, something or other? Yes? Then follow these simple instructions and you'll be running my mod in no time. No? Then carefully create a lever, connect it to an adjacent support, build a wide floor on said support, use the profile screen to restrict the lever's use to you, and add the Pull task to the lever. Then recieve your prize.

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Download HERE

Simply extract the .zip file directly into your Dwarf Fortress folder.
If you have mods that change the entity_default already installed, then do not extract entity_default.
Instead, add these lines to the Mountain entry (Typically the first one) in entity_default in your raw/objects folder after you have extracted the other files. (If you aren't playing as dwarves, then add it to the appropriate entry)

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   --- Begin Higher Learning ---
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:TRAINING_WORKSHOP]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:LIBRARY]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:TRAINING_DUMMY]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:MEDICAL_WARD]
   [PERMITTED_BUILDING:PRINTING_PRESS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:CARVE_TABLET]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PRINT_BOOK]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PRESS_PAPER]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:PROCESS_VELLUM]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_MINING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_STONE_DETAILING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_WEAPONSMITHING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_ARMORSMITHING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_LEATHERWORKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_GEM_SETTING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_GEM_CUTTING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SIEGE_ENGINEERING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SIEGE_OPERATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_BEEKEEPING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SURGERY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_WOUND_DRESSING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SUTURING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_BONE_SETTING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_CRUTCH_WALKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_DIAGNOSING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_ARCHITECTURE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_MILITARY_TACTICS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_APPRAISAL]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_ORGANIZATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_RECORD_KEEPING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_JUDGING_INTENT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_NEGOTIATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_INTIMIDATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_LYING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_CONVERSATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_COMEDY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_FLATTERY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_CONSOLE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_PACIFY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_TRACKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_KNOWLEDGE_ACQUISITION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_CONCENTRATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SITUATIONAL_AWARENESS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_PROSE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_READING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SPEAKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_COORDINATION]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_LEADERSHIP]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_TEACHING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SNEAK]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SWIMMING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_MELEE_COMBAT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_RANGED_COMBAT]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_WRESTLING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_BITE]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_STRIKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_KICKING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_DODGING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_AXES]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SWORDS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_IMPROVISED_WEAPONRY]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_DAGGERS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_MACES]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_HAMMERS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SPEARS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_CROSSBOWS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_SHIELDS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_ARMOR]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_PIKES]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_WHIPS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_BOWS]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_BLOWGUNNING]
   [PERMITTED_REACTION:TRAIN_THROWING]
   --- End Higher Learning ---

   --- Begin Higher Learning ---
   [POSITION:LIBRARIAN]
      [NAME:librarian:librarians]
      [SITE]
      [NUMBER:1]
      [RESPONSIBILITY:MEET_WORKERS]
      [APPOINTED_BY:EXPEDITION_LEADER]
      [APPOINTED_BY:MAYOR]
      [PRECEDENCE:180]
      [DO_NOT_CULL]
      [COLOR:5:0:0]
      [DUTY_BOUND]
      [REQUIRED_BEDROOM:1]
      [REQUIRED_OFFICE:1]
   --- End Higher Learning ---

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Remember, adding new buildings or reactions to an existing world will not work. You must generate a new world after adding these files to raw/objects and/or adding lines to entity_default.

Many thanks to everybody with their helpful suggestions and feedback. Special thanks go to Shaostul, without his amazing guide this mod would not be possible. To Zared for his amazing workshop drawing tool. And of course special thanks to Toady, without his amazing game, our lives would be bleak, desolate, and quite dull.

Changelog

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v2.2
 Update to 34.X
 Various changes to pretty much everything
v2.1.1
 Added ability to train architecture and military tactics to library.
 Moved mod to DFFD.
v2.1
 Added paper item, used to make books. Made from wood.
 Added printers workshop, books, paper, and tablets are made there.
 Library uses books now, other workshops use tablets.
 Increased chance of failure for tablet-using reactions.
 Chalk tablets now simply tablets.
v2.0.1
 2 meat/remains is now required for preparing cadavers.
 Added the Siege Engineering and Gem Cutting skills to the Training Workshop.
 Made "prepare cadaver from vermin remains" an automatic reaction.
 Added "Book" item and reaction. Currently has no use, but will be expanded later on.
v2.0
 Added Medical Ward, Training Dummy, and Training Workshop Buildings. Dwarven Library changed to Library.
 Added Social Skills Reactions to Library
 Added Combat Skills to Training Dummy
 Added Leatherworking to Training Workshop
 Added the ability to create Cadavers from meat or vermin remains to Medical Ward. Cadavers are now used in medical training.
 Added the ability to create Chalk Tablets from stone to Training Workshop. Chalk Tablets are now used in most reactions in these workshops
 Added the aesthetic noble Librarian
v1.0
 Initial release

FAQ

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The workshops don't show up for me! This mod sucks!
 Double-check that you installed the mod correctly, especially the entity_default file. If it isn't installed right, it won't work.

The stuff from my other installed mods isn't working!
 Again, check to see if you installed it right. If you overwrote your old entity_default file with this mod's, existing mods will stop working.

I built the workshops, but no tasks show up in them!
 Each of the workshops require a special reagent to perform tasks with. The training workshop, training dummy, and medical ward need tablets, while the library needs books. In addition to tablets, the medical ward also requires cadavers. Some tasks have additional reagents that are necessary.

How do I work this thing!?
 If you want any available dwarf with the skill enabled to perform a task in the Training Workshop, Medical Ward, or Printer's Workshop, simply make sure you have the reagents, then queue up the task(s) on the screen, possibly on repeat. If a task in the Library or Training Dummy is queued, the nearest available dwarf will pick up any needed reagents any perform the task(s) until all the queued task(s) are complete or they're interrupted, or, if the task is on repeat, until they get interrupted by thirst/hunger/goblins/etc. At that point, the next available dwarf will work on the task(s), and so on. If you would like specific dwarfs to work in any of the workshops, make use of the Profile menu for each individual workshop.

[Dummedu]

Cool mod bro, there was such threads time ago, and there was a hard discuss about the skills. (It was possible to learn all the skills and people was like "wtf, how can dorrf become an uber-fighter reading literature?")

[rgon842]

Cool mod bro, there was such threads time ago, and there was a hard discuss about the skills. (It was possible to learn all the skills and people was like "wtf, how can dorrf become an uber-fighter reading literature?")

Because the pen is mightier than the sword. 

Nice job, Shukaro! This workshop will be helpful to my little schizophrenics; learning to smelt steel through reading a pamphlet show clearly demonstrate the comprehension capacities of the bearded ones.

[BoomClap]

what's the point.. and I just feel like this is just a cheap rip-off of deon's genesis mod.

I mean, studying mining in library? WTF?

studying medical skills and social skills in library makes sense.

Not some ... mining.

[Passive Fist]

Cool idea, I'll try it out.

And mining doesn't seem like the thing you'd care about wasting on an unskilled dwarf. More important, expensive-to-train skills on the other hand... Like Siege Engineering, Gemcutting if you have no sand, you get the picture.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

what's the point.. and I just feel like this is just a cheap rip-off of deon's genesis mod.

Seriously?  The thing that impresses you about Genesis is that he has some training workshops?  Not the Dwarf castes or the other races or the dozen extra mods folded in?  It's the anatomical theatre and the training dummy and the library that has 0 overlap with this one?

Some people maybe want to just have a library, not a Snakemen invasion in the middle of Obsidian Dwarf induced stockpile fire.  (Not me though, I'm really liking the flaming dorfs).

And honestly, I can see wanting to vary what you have.  Maybe have training dummy and anatomical theatre and both libraries.

I'm with you on the mining thing though.  Siege engineering would not be amiss.

Also, what about adding more skills, but making the library bigger.

But the name Library isn't exactly trademarked by Deon.  Still maybe several different libraries could be named: Reference Library, Trade Library, Public Library, Technical Library, Stacks, etc.

[The Architect]

Marking this very interesting thread so I don't forget about it.

I think making a single large workshop would defeat the purpose of a large library. You'd want to make dozens of small workshops or "sections" and arrange them into a large dwarven library, so many dwarves could read at once. Hopefully in an atmosphere of huge, imposing carved columns and engraved walkways.

Don't you love it when posting or reading gives you a new great idea for your fortresses!?

[Acanthus117]

Marking this very interesting thread so I don't forget about it.

I also agree with him on the smaller workshop part.

Imagine if they're like study tables, and they use 'books' in the reaction to train or something...

[HammerHand]

Also marking this thread.

[Patchouli]

Marking this very interesting thread so I don't forget about it.

I also agree with him on the smaller workshop part.

Imagine if they're like study tables, and they use 'books' in the reaction to train or something...

That's what I did for my game. I just put a low percent chance of getting the book back, so you have to keep printing books to get "easy" skills.

[Shukaro]

What I want with this workshop is to make it so skills that are difficult to train elsewhere can be trained here, at a cost. About the smaller workshops, I think I'll split it into two or possibly three workshops for different skills. Thanks for all the input guys! And the books are sounding pretty good, I might do something like "tablets" or something.

[Moontayle]

Create a reaction and tack it onto the soap makers workshop that allows for the creation of wax tablets. Since wax is highly malleable it would work well as a writing tablet that can be used over and over again. Just set the return rate at 90% for the studying reaction which allows you to simulate when the wax tablet is no longer usable. And wax is just a tallow product so it would fit. Just a suggestion.

[Shukaro]

That actually sounds pretty realistic, although it suffers from the problem of being crippled in forts without animals, I'll check it out.

[jaked122]

what's the point.. and I just feel like this is just a cheap rip-off of deon's genesis mod.

I mean, studying mining in library? WTF?

studying medical skills and social skills in library makes sense.

Not some ... mining.

proper swinging technique

[Ratbert_CP]

If you could tie it to the dwarfs Student skill, perhaps toss in a "Librarian" with Teaching skill...  Set limits on how high you could train, based on these factors (and perhaps the availability of lab materials), then this would be a very cool mod.  Not that it isn't as it stands!

I do like the idea of individual workshops for each skill (or skill cluster), that you could then arrange into your own library/community college/university.  Hmmm...  How to require an appointed dwarf to enable the reactions?  If possible, how to tie that dwarfs skill to the quality of reactions?

Library = pamphlets only, low skill increases.  Librarian noble required.
Community college = books, low-grade teachers and poor lab materials, moderate skill gains.  Librarian noble required.
University = books, high-grade teachers and fine lab materials, significant skill gains.  Provost/chancellor noble required.

Again, depends on if/how the quality of the reagents and custom positions can be worked into the equation.