I'm attempting to try the new writing system in Dwarf fortress, I have now for about 2 years had 2 scribes and about 6 scholars. They have access to about 10 empty scrolls and 10 empty quires. They also have 8 tables and chairs in the library and 2 of the scholars and one of the scribes is dedicated (no other jobs). The dedicated scribe is a proficient (very rusty) writer and the scholars have a variety of proficiency levels in various scholarly topics.
However, thus far they have failed to write a single scroll, produce a single book or even write on a single quire. Any idea what could be wrong?
Best Answer
Scholars ponder, discuss and research, and write new works. Scribes only copy existing works. You'll probably want to focus on scholars more initially, since the scribes can't do any copying until there's something to copy.
This forum post has some good experimental findings on scholars and scribes.
Writer
skill to create new works.Reader
orStudent
skill, rather thanWriter
orWordsmith
, as you might expect.Based on this guy's findings, I would suggest you make sure your scholars are as proficient in the
Writer
skill as possible. Make sure your library is open to visitors and they might write something (which your scribes could then copy).