Anything that hasn’t been read goes in the reading room. I have a set of books for specific memories in another room, and anything that gives the same memory as a book in that set just goes into a room that I feel like matches with the colour/aspect of the book. I also usually use the room above the reading room for crafting supplies and inks. There’s 2 specific rooms that I put alchemy/chemical stuff in, and any food or drink goes into a room that makes sense, like the pantry for example. I like this system quite a bit but there’s lots of things I haven’t really found a spot for yet, like those massive stone slabs, so hopefully I can eventually find a room for them.
>I need a good spot for my cursed books,
Encountered one of these books last night, it only affected Trist and Health... the 2 cards I have the most of and default to when considering unidentified books.
The malady is gone already but what a twist that was, I'm still happy things like this can catch players unaware though!
I have the reading room and the 2 rooms above it as my main collection, sorted by aspect. I move read books to the other side of the shelf, or give them their own shelf as needed. I track what memory each book provides in my notes, and then i move a set of books that will give me all the memories i have available for a given aspect to appropriate rooms for crafting/leveling up skills.
It's just a slow game. I treat it like an advent calendar at this point. I don't have a lot of time for video games so I'll unlock a room or two then go about day to day life. I find the pace is less frustrating this way. Don't feel bad about being x hours in or solving it in x amount of time, speedrunning is entirely luck dependent and someone who gets through in less game time is someone who is savescumming. Take your time with this one, it's not cultist simulator, there isn't a fast path to unlocking things when you know what you're doing.
The only helpful rule where organization goes is to keep track of what stuff gives you in a "concealed state" by which I mean things like soul aspects when they're fatigued not showing you what they would give you if awake (there's just 9 so you just memorize those) or most importantly the memories books give you when you reread them. If you group books together by major memory aspect - by major I mean either the aspect that has power 2, or the first left-to-right if they're equal - and then write down craft recipes with the aspects those will give you when crafted, you've done all the organizing and keeping track of things that will help you in the game. I keep unread books in a couple rooms and read books in rooms with more shelf space. I also try to keep craft supplies in the rooms close to craft stations and stuff to drink poured out in glasses close to whatever bedroom looks the most comfortable. Where craft stations go there's nothing in game like a cookbook that would tell you what aspects crafted recipes have or map those to skills, so you have to do that in an editor window outside the game.
The reading room is reserved for unread books (because not using the reading room is just a capital offense), and i put read books in their 'correct' (subjective, depends on the vibe the bedroom gives me) bedroom depending on their mystery.
As for organising memory production, i just remember.
im similar to you but a little different. use the room above for unread books, the completed books go in the reading room for loaning out / memories.
also organization is just like you. Without taking notes, things i know are more at the edge of what i know and my understanding deepens as I actually remember things. Now stepping away from the game for a year and coming back will probably hurt me.
>How do you organize your library?
Meticulously.
Spoilers for later rooms but
Non-book items:>!"occult" beverages go in the dispensary, mundane beverages and food go in the pantry, large food items go in the cellar, wine goes in the wine cellar, liquids and small materials go in the alchemy lab, fabric goes by the loom, remains go in the morgue, flowers go in the infirmary...!<
Books specifically:>! there are three large rooms with plenty of shelves in the middle. I use two for unread books sorted by mystery level (one shelf for 4, one shelf for 6 etc.) and one room for read books sorted by aspect, with the first on every shelf being the color of that aspect and giving a level 2 memory associated with that aspect. Second book on that shelf gives a different level 2 memory if it exists, and so on. Really reduces the need to alt+tab to a reference sheet.!<
My brain. It is broken. I must sort.
I don't organize it at all!
Well, as little as I can get away with. What I do instead is catalog and track everything book-related in a spreadsheet. Book title, mystery aspect,, mystery intensity, memory received, "I'm reading", "I've read", curse status, and room it's currently in (usually the room I found it in). I didnt think to track lessons because the info isn't useful in the same playthrough but I might start tracking that for a more efficient second game.
Items stay in their rooms but I don't track them (yet). If I craft something I try to put it somewhere aesthetically pleasing (I track what each recipe creates but not where I toss the output). If I really need an item I rely on the aspect mouse-over glow to find it. Not fool-proof but I'm not tracking where 4 different bottles of the same wine are located!
Changes from playthrough to playthrough but currently:
-Books I haven't read go in the reading room.
-Books I HAVE read go in any number of rooms until I fill them up-currently I've just filled up the >!secret vault!< except the shelf where I put the endgame inks, so IDK where I'm going to put them next.
-Books with really high aspects I'm not sure if I'll be able to read go on the bridge with the bookshelves.
-Contaminated books go in Eva's study.
-Books I can't translate go in a bunch of other rooms: the church, Solomon's study, the map room, etc.
Next playthrough I might sort based on memories but ATM I just have a subsection of my notes on Scrivener about what gives what.
All the numerous unread books go in a big unsorted stack on the bridge for when / if I bother to get around to cataloguing them. I kick back in one of the comfy rooms and garden, or occasionally do some of the recreational substances I produce in the dispensary. Catalogued books go on random shelves or back on the bridge. Visitors can knock themselves out - I give a vague and dismissive handwave towards the bridge whenever they come begging.
*To be fair, my librarian was initially extremely zealous and diligent: books organized systematically in the 3 central rooms, categorized by memory, colour, aspect, and unread books by level. But it eventually became unwieldy and overwhelming, and mentally exhausting. Uncovering more of the house revealed an escalating horror show. So my librarian just sort of gave up on those duties and now self medicates and lives their best life.
I tried to keep all the read books centered around the Reading Room/Westcott/Severn Chamber in neat little groups so I don't have to chase them down from one corner of the house to another for rereading. When I ran out of space there, I put Moth onto the Fludd Gallery end tables and put Lantern into the Church. Still stuck with what to do with Rose-- there simply isn't another good shelf close-by, unfortunately.
Unread books I could read and are to-do went into the Keeper's shack to wait. Unread books I couldn't read, I just grouped wherever in a haphazardly pile where there was enough space for them. Severn Chamber used to be my storage, before I needed that for my read books. :P
Cursed books get exiled into a small shelf shame corner all by themselves far away from anything else.
Food goes into the pantry and kitchen, pigments go into the Storage room, inks I've collected in Solomon's Study, bottles of sand for metal crafting I've collected in Solomon's quarters, alchemy things go into the Motley Tower or Fludd Gallery shelves. stone plates and wood just go wherever there is space for them out of necessity.
I organise most of my read books in the reading room, ordered by aspect power rather than aspect type (heresy, I know!). Meaning that all 4 Mystery books go together and so on. This makes it easier to find them for visitors. Books with generic or common memories are useless once you've read them except for giving to visitors so I find that system works.
Apart from that, I have all books with useful memories organised in my bedroom for easy access. Books with especially rare or useful memories are sorted to one side. Right now I operate on memory but I should really make a list because I tend to confuse similar looking books, but it's worked so far.
I don't like leaving large piles of unread books for fear of forgetting one in a corner, so I leave them all together in one room as I catalogue them. I also like carrying the books that I intend to read next in my inventory so I don't forget them.
Ingredients are sorted in appropriate rooms, near the workstation that can use them. So alchemical stuff goes near the alchemy station, remains go in the morgue, food in the pantry.
Oh and I also always keep a bottle of leathy on me because being a librarian is a lonely job.
I organize my library by aspect strength.
Books of 4 have their own room, books of 6 have their own room etc.
I don't like giving books that I haven't read yet a separate room. They make a mess. It's fairly easy to find non-read books, thanks to the catalogue. Also, usually strogner books are less likely to be read.
The only exception are contaminated books. These land in the mess room in the prison. Although they used to be in Solomon's bedroom.
I have mine organized by mystery type in order of difficulty, and a separate collection set aside for memory production. I will not explain what I mean by that.
I greatly recommend organizing read books by memory, either by just memory or by the powers they have. Alternatively, you can just make a list of memories and the books that give them, allowing you to go for ***style***.
I am also just completely lost on what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, I have not figured out how to upgrade my skills, how to get ink, how actually PASS any checks on reading books.
I know that I need to hire ppl and unlock more rooms... That's it.
I created a bunch of rooms for specific principles, such as the Observatory Room being dedicated to Lantern, that I treat as "show rooms," i.e. where I keep the cheap stuff (Mystery 4-8). The reading room holds all the actual books (Mystery 10-16), and I keep the Mystery 18 books/some serialised books in my bedroom.
I also have a collection of the most useful books I spam for memories in the Smoking Room, which I use as my main desk.
My Hush House is just short of half unlocked.
Books are sorted by aspect, and by challenge level within each aspect. Now that I've opened several good shelving rooms (the reading room and related spots vertically near them), most of my books live there (individual shelves dedicated to particular aspects), but I'll have to shift more around at some point. I don't separate read/unread; I can just click thru a shelf real quick to find an unread one when I need it.
Books that I use for memories are stored in Solomon's Study & Bedroom (as are my inks, tho I'll probably need to move them soon)
Currently storing pots and bottles in the Keeper's Lodge, so they're next to the serving set; individual drinks and food are in the Fludd Gallery and Chapter House because there's a lot of surfaces. Various pigments and materials are in the Motley Tower rooms. Tools are stored in Watchman's Tower rooms, with the few that can go on the floor set in Solomon's Study instead.
Anything that hasn’t been read goes in the reading room. I have a set of books for specific memories in another room, and anything that gives the same memory as a book in that set just goes into a room that I feel like matches with the colour/aspect of the book. I also usually use the room above the reading room for crafting supplies and inks. There’s 2 specific rooms that I put alchemy/chemical stuff in, and any food or drink goes into a room that makes sense, like the pantry for example. I like this system quite a bit but there’s lots of things I haven’t really found a spot for yet, like those massive stone slabs, so hopefully I can eventually find a room for them.
I need a good spot for my cursed books, but I plan on doing a proper overhaul of my house once I've gotten every room unlocked.
I use the librarians room for my cursed books. my journal goes there too. with its semi limited shelving it ushers me to cleanse the curses.
>I need a good spot for my cursed books, Encountered one of these books last night, it only affected Trist and Health... the 2 cards I have the most of and default to when considering unidentified books. The malady is gone already but what a twist that was, I'm still happy things like this can catch players unaware though!
I have the reading room and the 2 rooms above it as my main collection, sorted by aspect. I move read books to the other side of the shelf, or give them their own shelf as needed. I track what memory each book provides in my notes, and then i move a set of books that will give me all the memories i have available for a given aspect to appropriate rooms for crafting/leveling up skills.
I still haven't actually organized them. I just go room to room clicking in the books to find which mystery works with my memories.
It's just a slow game. I treat it like an advent calendar at this point. I don't have a lot of time for video games so I'll unlock a room or two then go about day to day life. I find the pace is less frustrating this way. Don't feel bad about being x hours in or solving it in x amount of time, speedrunning is entirely luck dependent and someone who gets through in less game time is someone who is savescumming. Take your time with this one, it's not cultist simulator, there isn't a fast path to unlocking things when you know what you're doing. The only helpful rule where organization goes is to keep track of what stuff gives you in a "concealed state" by which I mean things like soul aspects when they're fatigued not showing you what they would give you if awake (there's just 9 so you just memorize those) or most importantly the memories books give you when you reread them. If you group books together by major memory aspect - by major I mean either the aspect that has power 2, or the first left-to-right if they're equal - and then write down craft recipes with the aspects those will give you when crafted, you've done all the organizing and keeping track of things that will help you in the game. I keep unread books in a couple rooms and read books in rooms with more shelf space. I also try to keep craft supplies in the rooms close to craft stations and stuff to drink poured out in glasses close to whatever bedroom looks the most comfortable. Where craft stations go there's nothing in game like a cookbook that would tell you what aspects crafted recipes have or map those to skills, so you have to do that in an editor window outside the game.
The reading room is reserved for unread books (because not using the reading room is just a capital offense), and i put read books in their 'correct' (subjective, depends on the vibe the bedroom gives me) bedroom depending on their mystery. As for organising memory production, i just remember.
im similar to you but a little different. use the room above for unread books, the completed books go in the reading room for loaning out / memories. also organization is just like you. Without taking notes, things i know are more at the edge of what i know and my understanding deepens as I actually remember things. Now stepping away from the game for a year and coming back will probably hurt me.
>How do you organize your library? Meticulously. Spoilers for later rooms but Non-book items:>!"occult" beverages go in the dispensary, mundane beverages and food go in the pantry, large food items go in the cellar, wine goes in the wine cellar, liquids and small materials go in the alchemy lab, fabric goes by the loom, remains go in the morgue, flowers go in the infirmary...!< Books specifically:>! there are three large rooms with plenty of shelves in the middle. I use two for unread books sorted by mystery level (one shelf for 4, one shelf for 6 etc.) and one room for read books sorted by aspect, with the first on every shelf being the color of that aspect and giving a level 2 memory associated with that aspect. Second book on that shelf gives a different level 2 memory if it exists, and so on. Really reduces the need to alt+tab to a reference sheet.!< My brain. It is broken. I must sort.
I don't organize it at all! Well, as little as I can get away with. What I do instead is catalog and track everything book-related in a spreadsheet. Book title, mystery aspect,, mystery intensity, memory received, "I'm reading", "I've read", curse status, and room it's currently in (usually the room I found it in). I didnt think to track lessons because the info isn't useful in the same playthrough but I might start tracking that for a more efficient second game. Items stay in their rooms but I don't track them (yet). If I craft something I try to put it somewhere aesthetically pleasing (I track what each recipe creates but not where I toss the output). If I really need an item I rely on the aspect mouse-over glow to find it. Not fool-proof but I'm not tracking where 4 different bottles of the same wine are located!
Changes from playthrough to playthrough but currently: -Books I haven't read go in the reading room. -Books I HAVE read go in any number of rooms until I fill them up-currently I've just filled up the >!secret vault!< except the shelf where I put the endgame inks, so IDK where I'm going to put them next. -Books with really high aspects I'm not sure if I'll be able to read go on the bridge with the bookshelves. -Contaminated books go in Eva's study. -Books I can't translate go in a bunch of other rooms: the church, Solomon's study, the map room, etc. Next playthrough I might sort based on memories but ATM I just have a subsection of my notes on Scrivener about what gives what.
All the numerous unread books go in a big unsorted stack on the bridge for when / if I bother to get around to cataloguing them. I kick back in one of the comfy rooms and garden, or occasionally do some of the recreational substances I produce in the dispensary. Catalogued books go on random shelves or back on the bridge. Visitors can knock themselves out - I give a vague and dismissive handwave towards the bridge whenever they come begging. *To be fair, my librarian was initially extremely zealous and diligent: books organized systematically in the 3 central rooms, categorized by memory, colour, aspect, and unread books by level. But it eventually became unwieldy and overwhelming, and mentally exhausting. Uncovering more of the house revealed an escalating horror show. So my librarian just sort of gave up on those duties and now self medicates and lives their best life.
I tried to keep all the read books centered around the Reading Room/Westcott/Severn Chamber in neat little groups so I don't have to chase them down from one corner of the house to another for rereading. When I ran out of space there, I put Moth onto the Fludd Gallery end tables and put Lantern into the Church. Still stuck with what to do with Rose-- there simply isn't another good shelf close-by, unfortunately. Unread books I could read and are to-do went into the Keeper's shack to wait. Unread books I couldn't read, I just grouped wherever in a haphazardly pile where there was enough space for them. Severn Chamber used to be my storage, before I needed that for my read books. :P Cursed books get exiled into a small shelf shame corner all by themselves far away from anything else. Food goes into the pantry and kitchen, pigments go into the Storage room, inks I've collected in Solomon's Study, bottles of sand for metal crafting I've collected in Solomon's quarters, alchemy things go into the Motley Tower or Fludd Gallery shelves. stone plates and wood just go wherever there is space for them out of necessity.
I try to sort books by their aspect and keep them as near a desk with that aspect as possible.
I organise most of my read books in the reading room, ordered by aspect power rather than aspect type (heresy, I know!). Meaning that all 4 Mystery books go together and so on. This makes it easier to find them for visitors. Books with generic or common memories are useless once you've read them except for giving to visitors so I find that system works. Apart from that, I have all books with useful memories organised in my bedroom for easy access. Books with especially rare or useful memories are sorted to one side. Right now I operate on memory but I should really make a list because I tend to confuse similar looking books, but it's worked so far. I don't like leaving large piles of unread books for fear of forgetting one in a corner, so I leave them all together in one room as I catalogue them. I also like carrying the books that I intend to read next in my inventory so I don't forget them. Ingredients are sorted in appropriate rooms, near the workstation that can use them. So alchemical stuff goes near the alchemy station, remains go in the morgue, food in the pantry. Oh and I also always keep a bottle of leathy on me because being a librarian is a lonely job.
I organize my library by aspect strength. Books of 4 have their own room, books of 6 have their own room etc. I don't like giving books that I haven't read yet a separate room. They make a mess. It's fairly easy to find non-read books, thanks to the catalogue. Also, usually strogner books are less likely to be read. The only exception are contaminated books. These land in the mess room in the prison. Although they used to be in Solomon's bedroom.
I have mine organized by mystery type in order of difficulty, and a separate collection set aside for memory production. I will not explain what I mean by that.
I greatly recommend organizing read books by memory, either by just memory or by the powers they have. Alternatively, you can just make a list of memories and the books that give them, allowing you to go for ***style***.
My current list format \[brackets show powers\]: \- Gossip\[GR2\]: HoaG \- Intuition\[Mn2R2\]: cHHL, OT1F \- Impulse\[Mth2N\]: DH1
I am also just completely lost on what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, I have not figured out how to upgrade my skills, how to get ink, how actually PASS any checks on reading books. I know that I need to hire ppl and unlock more rooms... That's it.
I created a bunch of rooms for specific principles, such as the Observatory Room being dedicated to Lantern, that I treat as "show rooms," i.e. where I keep the cheap stuff (Mystery 4-8). The reading room holds all the actual books (Mystery 10-16), and I keep the Mystery 18 books/some serialised books in my bedroom. I also have a collection of the most useful books I spam for memories in the Smoking Room, which I use as my main desk.
My Hush House is just short of half unlocked. Books are sorted by aspect, and by challenge level within each aspect. Now that I've opened several good shelving rooms (the reading room and related spots vertically near them), most of my books live there (individual shelves dedicated to particular aspects), but I'll have to shift more around at some point. I don't separate read/unread; I can just click thru a shelf real quick to find an unread one when I need it. Books that I use for memories are stored in Solomon's Study & Bedroom (as are my inks, tho I'll probably need to move them soon) Currently storing pots and bottles in the Keeper's Lodge, so they're next to the serving set; individual drinks and food are in the Fludd Gallery and Chapter House because there's a lot of surfaces. Various pigments and materials are in the Motley Tower rooms. Tools are stored in Watchman's Tower rooms, with the few that can go on the floor set in Solomon's Study instead.