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The Book is a crafting material used only to craft Bookcases and Pianos . Books can also be placed as decoration on Work Benches , Tables , or platforms . Books are obtained from the Dungeons ' many shelves, where they can be freed with a Pickaxe .

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The Water Bolt looks like a Book, and is hidden among those on the shelves of the Dungeon. It has a distinct sprite that no ordinary books have, and some special behavior. Once freed from its disguise, it acts like other weapon items, not like a placeable block.
285 books are necessary to craft all of the pianos and bookcases.

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The Recipe Book

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No, i know everything already..

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The1DarkLord

Skeletron prime.

Jun 20, 2015

Do you have trouble remembering recipes while you are trying to collect materials? I do. Solution: The Recipe Book This accessory will record all recipes crafted (no, not each time you craft a torch, just once.) in a list, which can be organized like the regular crafting window, or alphabetically. Not only that, but if equipped while talking to the guide, any recipe you learn from the guide will be recorded in the recipe book. You can access this list by taking the Recipe Book out and placing it on a table or other platform. Then you can read the book by right-clicking on it. The recipe book will be crafted at a workbench with a chair using a book and black ink from a squid. [Edit]Thought of something else: When reading the Recipe Book, it will have a slot similar to the guide's crafting slot. However, this will not show you all recipes for that item. It will only show recipes you have already recorded which contain that item. [Edit]The recipe book would be organized by categories (kinda like the crafting window on mobile) and then organized the same as the normal crafting window (with the option to reorganize alphabetically). It would also have a search function, so you can find what you want even more quickly.

Simple, useful, not OP. Support!

Doesn´t the Guide have pretty much the same function?

Ah, but the guide doesnt come with you. As long as you have a table, you are able to check recipes anywhere.

The1DarkLord said: Ah, but the guide doesnt come with you. As long as you have a table, you are able to check recipes anywhere. Click to expand...

No no. It isnt so you can build stuff in the middle of nowhere. It is so you can remember what you were looking for.

The1DarkLord said: No no. It isnt so you can build stuff in the middle of nowhere. It is so you can remember what you were looking for. Click to expand...

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TMB50 said: The most basic recipes, such as torches, can be very easily memorized. Click to expand...

Yeah, but that requires so many steps. And duh. Nobody needs to know how to make torches. That's silly. Instead of going back to the guide every time, you could use the recipe book. It would save you five or ten minutes in a large world every time you have forgotten which porion ingredient you needed, or how many of a thing you need. I have returned to base many times with one too few of something, and i have to trek back out to the mine halfway across the world just for one more thing.

The1DarkLord said: Yeah, but that requires so many steps. And duh. Nobody needs to know how to make torches. That's silly. Instead of going back to the guide every time, you could use the recipe book. It would save you five or ten minutes in a large world every time you have forgotten which porion ingredient you needed, or how many of a thing you need. I have returned to base many times with one too few of something, and i have to trek back out to the mine halfway across the world just for one more thing. Click to expand...

This isnt for basic recipes. Yes it would include them, but so what? It is for the complex or obscure recipes you have trouble remembering. [DOUBLEPOST=1434826771,1434826472][/DOUBLEPOST]You can whip out a table, put the book out on it, look up what you needed, see if you have enough of [material], and then save the trouble of having to go back to base to check, only to come up a little short on materials. True, it functions much like a portable guide, but it only knows what you have asked the guide previously. It is a way of keeping track of things for players who are bad at memorizing recipes or are simply on their first play-through. I think people on here forget what it was like to play the game for the first time. [DOUBLEPOST=1434827036][/DOUBLEPOST](It also knows the recipes for everything you have had in your inventory while it was equipped.)

The1DarkLord said: This isnt for basic recipes. Yes it would include them, but so what? It is for the complex or obscure recipes you have trouble remembering. [DOUBLEPOST=1434826771,1434826472][/DOUBLEPOST]You can whip out a table, put the book out on it, look up what you needed, see if you have enough of [material], and then save the trouble of having to go back to base to check, only to come up a little short on materials. True, it functions much like a portable guide, but it only knows what you have asked the guide previously. It is a way of keeping track of things for players who are bad at memorizing recipes or are simply on their first play-through. I think people on here forget what it was like to play the game for the first time. Click to expand...

Its so you can remember how many you need. Not so you can only take that many. Are you misunderstanding on purpose?

The1DarkLord said: Its so you can remember how many you need. Not so you can only take that many. Are you misunderstanding on purpose? Click to expand...

Or you need enough to make multiple things. Like.. how many bars were in the gold armor set? I dont remember. Do i need to go look for more gold ore, or will what i have be enough?

It's pretty good idea for someone that has terrible memory but.. I usually go explore aimlessly pick everything that I interest until I can't carry more. Because having too many is better having less than what I need. so, the recipe book isn't going to be necessary for me. (also you can write recipe on IRL book/note/paper etc.)

The1DarkLord said: Or you need enough to make multiple things. Like.. how many bars were in the gold armor set? I dont remember. Do i need to go look for more gold ore, or will what i have be enough? Click to expand...

TMB50 said: Simply check it before looking for gold. And it´s 45 bars, I think. Click to expand...

Dude, new players arent going to know all these things. You guys play all the time. It is REALLY frustrating for new players to try to remember everything all the time. I'm just trying to make ways for the game to be easier for new players. If the game is only playable after looking stuff up on the wiki, or if you take hours and hours to figure things out by trial and error, it will have a hard time picking up new players.

Jun 21, 2015

TMB50 said: No, it´s that, usually, the only reason why would memorizing how many are needed is if you were to try to make a certain amount of an item without leaving leftover materials. At least, that is the only reason I can think of. Click to expand...

Warpshard said: Not only memorized, but tons of players are bound to either have some wood & gel on their person (I always keep a stack of 999 gel on my character at all times), or they'll already have torches. I don't support the idea, because the Guide serves the exact same purpose (you can teleport back home with a Magic Mirror to talk to him, and get back to where you were pretty quickly), and the things that you may want to make while you're exploring (Torches, Healing Potions, Arrows, etc) are easily memorized and are able to be found in pots, so you might not even need to make them. Click to expand...

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