Category:Books Tab

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. __NOCATEGORYGALLERY__

Books
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Recipe

Tier: .
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Info
The book script is in: Don't Starve\data\scripts\prefabs\books.lua The script states that the Birds of the World and On Tentacles books cost a "huge" amount of sanity, while the rest cost a "large" amount of sanity.

Trivia

 * On Tentacles is the only recipe that requires a Shadow Manipulator to be crafted whilst playing as Wickerbottom.
 * 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.