No skill books in Windenburg Library.

ClassicalSim

Is it just me, or does no one have skill books in the library in Windenburg? I've always used the library in Willow Creek until today. I clicked on every bookshelf in the Windenburg library and none of them had any skill books.

rosemow

Hello .
There are no skill books in Windeburg library. A workaround is to go to Willow Creek library, and enter build mode. Make a room and place the bookcase which has the skills books into the room. Save the room to the gallery. Then go to Windenburg library, enter bulld mode and place the room into the library. Then you will have the skill books in the library.

rosemow

Hello .
There are no skill books in Windeburg library. A workaround is to go to Willow Creek library, and enter build mode. Make a room and place the bookcase which has the skills books into the room. Save the room to the gallery. Then go to Windenburg library, enter bulld mode and place the room into the library. Then you will have the skill books in the library.

ClassicalSim

Thank you Rosemow, I'll do that.

rosemow

You're welcome

ClassicalSim

I tried saving a room from the Willow Creek Library with a bookcase that contained the skill books. I checked to make sure that it did have the skill books before I saved it. Unfortunately, when I placed that room in the Windenburg Library, all the skill books were gone.

So, I enabled "testingcheats" and "bb.showhiddenobjects" and then went into buy mode and put "debug" in the search box. I located all the skill books, placed them in the library, closed the buy mode, and then dragged all the books into one of the bookcases, and it worked. My Sim was able too use the books and gained a skill.

Good news is, once I stocked that one bookcase, all of the other bookcases automatically became stocked with the skill books as well. Bad news is, when you click on "read" and the list of books comes up they seem to be in the order in which I dragged them to the bookcase instead of alphabetically or with the lower skill books coming first. It's a bit of jumbled up mess, but at least I now have a fully functioning library in Windenburg. When I have nothing better to do, I may go back and redo it so the books are in order.

rosemow

Hello.
I am sorry that the skill books didn't remain when you placed the room with the bookcase into the library. The skill books usually remain when placing the room with the bookcase into the lot.
I am glad that you were able to work out a workaround fix. Thankyou for posting about it

rosemow

luthienrising has uploaded a bookcase room to the gallery if you or any other simmer may like to use it in your game. I will post the link to it in case it helps
https://www.thesims.com/en_GB/gallery/4CCDFF4CBD3711E582B1CFF3D7923E14

ClassicalSim

Thanks, I'll check it out. It would be a lot less work to use that than to fix all of my saved games.

rosemow

You're welcome

ClassicalSim

I tried Luthienrising's Library Bookshelf and it worked. When I placed her's all of the bookcases in the library became stocked with the skill books as well. Comparing her's to mine, the only difference I could see was she had categorized her's as "Career & Misc" and I had categorized mine as "Study". So I tried uploading another room from the Willow Creek Library, this time using the category "Career & Misc" and mine now works. I may try recreating my first attempt tomorrow and see if categorizing it as a "Study" is what caused the problem. When I find a mystery, I have to solve it.

Thank you Rosemow for all your help, it's greatly appreciated! It saved me a lot of time and headache trying to figure this out!

rosemow

You're welcome I am glad that it is working now. It is helpful to know that it may have been the type of room that caused the issue.

luthienrising

Oh cool! That's a complete fluke that mine worked because of that particular detail - I don't even recall choosing the room type.

rosemow

Thankyou very much for uploading the room with the bookcase in it Luthien It was very thoughtful and helpful of you.

Gagea

You can also get the library bookcase with these cheats:
testingcheats true
objects,gsi_create_obj 0x0000f52e

Be careful, your sim hast to be in the library, the bookcase will spawn on any available free space.

ClassicalSim

Thanks @Moderator_Gagea, that's a handy cheat to have. I'll make a note of it.