Liber Terra

▾  📖 Read a library spanning fourteen traditions.

Long works are divided into volumes that fit the Vintage Story book interface. Heimskringla alone is 25 volumes, so collecting a whole work can be a project of its own.

Tradition	Works	Volumes
Old English	11	86
Early Middle English	4	31
Old French	8	45
Middle High German	3	31
Old Norse	12	77
Welsh	2	11
Ancient Irish	1	11
Iberian	1	10
Medieval Latin	22	119
Medieval Arabic	1	2
Medieval Italian	2	12
Classical Latin	9	60
Classical Greek	7	63
Ancient Sanskrit	1	5
Total	84	563

The full online catalog lists every title, volume count, give code, and Gutenberg source.

▾  🗺 Find books in the world.

• Vanilla book clutter: floor book piles, stacks, and rows convert into persistent piles of actual readable books when their chunks load, including in existing worlds.
• Book-bearing clutter shelves: intact, ruined, mixed-content, and lore shelves keep their frames while every modeled standard-size book becomes a removable readable book in its exact authored pose.
• Bony soil: about a 1% independent chance per pan, without reducing existing drops.
• Vanilla ruin lore: one-third of affected lore rolls become a Liber Terra book; vanilla lore retains two-thirds of its former rate.
• Better Ruins: about 3.09% of its new-lore rolls when that mod is installed.

Every random-loot source can select any volume in any aged or rotten cover. Converted clutter and shelves are filled with distinct readable books instead of yielding the decorative props they replaced. The creative Liber Terra tab exposes the same real lore books for builders and testing.

▾  📚 Build book piles in eight layouts.

Sneak and right-click any book onto the ground to begin a pile of up to 17 mixed volumes. Right-click empty-handed to take from the top; Ctrl places or takes several. A held stack can be laid down book by book without a trip through the inventory.

Press F while looking at a pile to choose Messy, Neat, Tumbled, Shelved, Leaning, Uneven, Bridged, or Scattered. Five layouts reproduce the character of book clutter already found in vanilla ruins.

▾  🤗 Carry and throw books.

Carry a visible armful of books instead of hiding the collection in an inventory slot. Tap use to read a lore book; hold use for about a second and release to throw it. A thrown book always drops on impact, so an irreplaceable volume is not destroyed.

See this polar bear, It took the whole Odyssey to kill it, all 10 volumes! A movie can't do that, Take that Christopher Nolan!

▾  🧩 Optional book-mod compatibility.

• Better Ruins: library books join its ruin-chest lore pool.
• Bookbinders: its books pile, carry, and throw in their own covers; the collection joins its Library creative tab.
• Book Trader: stocks twelve library books. Its current release targets Vintage Story 1.19.x, so the compatibility patch remains inert on 1.22 until that mod catches up.

None of these mods is required. Compatibility activates only when the matching mod is installed.

▾  ⌨ Commands.

• /liberterra list — list every generated volume.
• /liberterra give <code> — give one complete volume.
• /liberterra giveall <baseCode> — give every volume of a work.