Books

"INFORMATION OVERLOAD"

- WX-78

The Books Tab is a special tab that is only available to Wickerbottom. It allows the player to craft Books, which can be used to activate several events at the cost of sanity. Each book has multiple uses.

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 * Birds of the World.png

Birds of the World
Covers 1000 Species: Habits, habitats, and calls.
 * Call 20 to 30 birds.
 * 3 uses.
 * Costs 50 sanity per use.
 * DebugSpawn: "book_birds"

Recipe

Tier: Always Available
 * Applied Horticulture.png
 * Applied Horticulture.png

Applied Horticulture
On the care and feeding of plants.
 * Grow crops, plants, and trees instantly in the summer. Does not work on unfertilized crops or plants.
 * 5 uses and 30 range.
 * Costs 33 sanity per use.
 * DebugSpawn: "book_gardening"
 * Will not cause plants to grow in winter. Will not cause crops to grow when they should not in winter (ex: if used on day one of winter, no plants grow, but crops do as it is "warm enough")

Recipe

Tier: Always Available
 * Sleepytime Stories.png
 * Sleepytime Stories.png

Sleepytime Stories
Soothing tales to send you off to dreamland.
 * Cause animals to sleep.
 * 5 uses and 30 range.
 * Costs 33 sanity per use.
 * DebugSpawn: "book_sleep"

Recipe

Tier:
 * On Tentacles.png
 * On Tentacles.png

On Tentacles
Let's learn about our subterranean friends!
 * Create 3 tentacles.
 * 5 uses and 3 to 8 range.
 * Costs 50 sanity per use.
 * DebugSpawn: "book_tentacles"

Recipe

Tier:
 * The End is Nigh.png
 * The End is Nigh.png

The End is Nigh
''The world will end in fire and tribulation! Ia! Ia!''
 * Create 16 lightnings.
 * 5 uses and 3 to 15 range.
 * Costs 33 sanity per use.
 * DebugSpawn: "book_brimstone"

Recipe

Tier:
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Trivia

 * "On Tentacles" is the only recipe that requires an Alchemy Engine to be crafted whilst playing as Wickerbottom, likewise "The End is Nigh" is the only one that needs a Shadow Manipulator.
 * The phrase Ia! Ia! in the "The End is Nigh" description refers to the phrase "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!", a chant from the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.
 * The sanity reduction from reading suggests that these books contain knowledge that humans were not meant to know, similar to the Necronomicon and Pnakotic Manuscripts from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
 * Since Tentacle Spots are renewable by going into Caves and defeating the Tentapillars, using the book On Tentacles is the only way to bring the Tentacles out of their inevitable extinction in-game, allowing for one to always be able to use Tentacles as a defense or item supplier since many players like using Tentacles for that purpose.