JohnWood Thank you so much!! Yesss the "canvas" resolution is fixed at 760 × 512, I might add a config in the future tho! I set max pages to 16 and the res in that way due to concerns about performance but so far but from what i've seen and experienced the mod is very stable! Also to answer the multiplayer question, yes! Each crafted journal gets an unique individual ID, so data is not tied to any specific player, its all on the server. You can share em, write in them and hide them and the contents will stay exactly the same for any player that will come across it ^^ 

this is the coolest mod I've seen in a bit, I'm fascinated by it and a 100% guaranteed addition to our next world!
I have two silly ol' questions, first is the Resolution fixed? I'm afraid a single page would be too small to draw let's say a map of the world haha
and for my other question is seeing how you've gotten it to work in multiplayer, does this mean that you can share the sketchbook around with its contents staying the same?

excited to see this mod in action! will definitely keep an eye out for future updates and your other mods, this is so cool :D

I've used ConfigLib and I know I've been able to (usually accidentally) detach the config window from the game window. I believe it uses ImGUI or something like that? Perhaps something to look into...

gndrneutralnoun Thank you!! Hm you spark an interesting question. I'm not 100% sure but you can try running the game in windowed mode and then moving the journal window to your other screen ^^

I'd really love to try this even though my modpack is already groaning under the weight of all my mods... Do you think it would be possible to have an option to view the drawing window on a different monitor? My tablet is one with a screen and I prefer to hold it in portrait position; I could just move the screen over, but I think it would feel extremely neat to have my tablet as my "journal" in my hands while I look at the game on my main monitor. Either way, I'm EXTREMELY impressed you made this work!

Jellyfishmon Thank you!! Yup all the features you mentioned I actually plan on adding, also the third feature you mentioned is already here hehhe players can interact and exchange thier sketchbook anytime thier want 

Haru_Haru You are the most welcome! ^^

Cartio Yup! This system is very versitile and i want to expand it into a fiew other mods, one of those mods will be called "Artist's caravan" hehhe

Loving the mod so far its such a great idea!

- But I have some suggestions to make it easier to have multiple sketchbooks.
The ability to name the books would help keep track of them, I like to keep one for my maps, one for notes, and another as a story but i have to open all of them to find out which is which sometimes
- Different colors, one for each dye would be a nice feature not to mention making identifying the books easier.
- Not sure if it already does this but let other players pick up the books and see the sketches, in my single player I seem to be able to place them down and back up with all my drawings still there.

thank you and I cant wait to see how this mod developes!

No WAY! I've always wanted sketchbook mod!!! Thank you for this!!!

When you get the torn pages feature working have you considered making a spin off mod about painting?

An easel, a canvas, and painting with dyes for more colours like reds and blues. I think it'd work super well with this mechanic you made!

Whatever the case, this mod is fantastic and it's a must have! I can't stop doodling now, I get to live the starving artist fantasy :)

cant wait untill we get the colab with the billposting mod :0

/j

GhostGrindr THANKU!!! And thank you for the chill shivers hahahha

This is SO wonderful!! Also @keytee HAHAHAAA That's so great <3

disp_ Thank you!! take a peek here https://discord.com/channels/302152934249070593/1318354043705229342 as I drop the updates for the map mod there! Hopefully soon you'll be able to draw your own map in game! hehe, the mod is going to have 80 stamps at first and i plan on adding the ability to add your own stamps as well!

JeanPierre I'm excited for this map mod you're working on, If I understand right that's exactly the idea I had! Right now I'm on a playthrough without map, however I'm using external app to draw a map as I explore, trying to make it look like those medieval style simple maps. If I could draw on an endless canvas in game, with icons for mountains/forests/hills etc., that would be amazing! Either way nice sketchbook mod :)

Politehnik Thank you! I'm glad you like it ^^ yeah those things bother me as well, i'll fix em propably in the next update

Hi, it's a great mod thank you! It's much more immersive to make notes in the game instead of jumping into discord window every 10 minutes lol. I encountered a couple of small inconveniences tho: mostly I'm using a text instrument but it turns off after every raw so I need to click it each time I want to add a new line of text. Also when a window for the text input appears it's not focused so if I forget to click it I'll start doing things in the game instead of typing lol.

It'd be helpful if:

1) The text instrument stay selected after 1 use (maybe add it to the config if there're people prefering it the current way?)

2) Move the focus to the text input window when it opens so we can start typing right after clicking on the page.

BolicheX Thanks!! Funny you mentioned that, I'm currently working on a map mod thats based on the sketchbook, but with stamps build in so its basically going to be a medival/fantasy in game map builder hehehe your idea is very nice and unique, please try modding! Its incredible and its honestly crazy how many cool this you can do here, even without code. Good luck!!

Wow amazing mod!!! I would love to make a map mod in wich you can draw lines on a map just by looking at blocks in world, so that you could trace the contours of lakes in-game for example and it would show on your map with a block coord to pixel correlation , then you could draw other details. The getting to high points would actually be useful to have more blocks to see an map! This mod makes me think its actually posible so thank you so much! Never modded in my life bat wow this is inspiring hahaha

MihauRit you can drop it here https://discord.com/channels/302152934249070593/1473431626582196254 also sure I'll add more diagnostic options in the next update

JeanPierre

I can't get access to the server-debug. Where can I send you mine? The file is too big to post here. Also, someone asked me if you could add more logging so we could provide more client logs. Idk what that means.

MihauRit send me the server-debug and client-debug files maybe something will be there, hard to tell i haven't encounter something like this before

JeanPierre
How could I learn more about these issues? I installed the game freshly the other day, too.

MihauRit oof, there is this "Captured 229 issues during startup" i assume thats the issue at hand, if you would give me more info about those 229 issues maybe we could troubleshoot this further, if not maybe a full cleanup for vs files + new installation could work but its just a speculation. I'm sorry you're experiencing this ;<

JeanPierre
Yes, it was a typo.
1. Didn't help.
2. Tried, didn't work.
3.

MihauRit 1.12.5 is a typo? you meant to say 1.21.5 right? Very strange, it seems like the mod is working in the background but something interferes with it on your end. Couple of suggestions that you may try:

1. try disabling overlays, such as discord overlay, nvidia experience etc.
2. try running this mod on singleplayer and see if it acts the same way, probably will but worth trying
3. Send me your AppData/Roaming/VintagestoryData/Logs/client-main.txt if you may maybe this could tell us more (drop is here in the comments as "add spoiler", the little crossed eye icon)

JeanPierre

1. 1.12.5
2. 1.0.3
3. Win 11
4. I tried restarting the game and deleting the mod
5 and 6. It doesn't matter who crafts it; it just doesn't work for me, but it does to others. They can even see my attempts at drawing, while I just see a white space.

TheSinisterRat You are the most welcome! Feel the most welcome to drop a screenshot or two of your sketches from the journey!. That sounds like a nice fella hehe i think i know him. Appriciate you!

SparrowOfRealms Currently, you can change that in the journal.json in the atributes there is "maxPages" currently set at 16 , but its "do it at your own risk" type thing right now. I will incrise the number of pages once i'll be sure that the mod runs well :>

MihauRit Hey, would you mind telling me: 1. What game version are you on, 2. What mod version does the server have currently installed. 3. Are you running win, mac or linux? 4. Have you tried restarting the game completly/reinstalling the mod? 5. Did you craft the journal yourself or did someone give it to you? 6. Also can others draw in this sketchbook? 

I'm playing on a server, and while for everyone else it seems to work fine, for me the drawing canvas is just completely white. I can click around, but nothing I do changes anything.

Is there a way to get more pages per book?

JeanPierre You are an absolute gem, thank you immensely. I will most assuredly give this a whirl, and I can tell you before even having retrieved the mods I'm missing that I am going to adore it - especially since there is a very, very excellent mod author who has made some very cool nomadic-themed mods. A walking stick, journal to sketch in, all sorts of really cool stuff: I think you'd like them!

Jests aside, you are a scholar, much appreciated!

Feathered Thank you! I already pushed couple server side improvements ^^ I added page cache to cut load requests, some changes with how data compression is handles. Also now its possible to export the pages into separate json files so the drawings, and journals wont be lost with server wipes etc. Thanks for following the advice tho, its generally just a suggestion but i really want people to have good experience ;D

This looks amazing!! I'll take your advice of waiting a bit before adding it to my server, but I will be watching with great interest! 

amaranthinos Thank you!!! Also I play on 1.21.5 but just in case I tested the tentbag mod on the 1.21.6 for you and it works perfectly! I highly recommend trying it out ^^ Its fairly balanced, picking up the tent consumes a chunk of your hunger bar so its a fair deal. Thanks for the recommendation! Verticality is a verryy nice mod I've been using it in my last playthrough. Currently Im having so much fun with Salty's movement series, its great.

This is really freaking cool, omg.  This makes me want to take my tablet out too 😂 I'm definitely adding it at the top of my wishlist.

I saw your recent comment about nomad mods - is tentbag stable??  I've been eyeballing it but I'm worried about if it'll work on 21.6.  (I also dont have over 110 mods that may have compatibility issues?? 😬😗🎶😂)

Another great add to your nomad list would be Verticality.  I cant play without it.  It hasn't been updated for a while but it runs smoothly enough otherwise.  21.5, it kept having issues with not letting me climb my normal height or charge jump in the middle of game sessions but restarting the save would always fix it.  I haven't noticed any issues with 21.6 so far but I only recently started a new save with it.  Still trying to figure out how to get to the config screen 🤔 (21.5, it seemed to use config lib or something similar vs going into the json.  21.6, it doesnt show under the list in config.  I might be missing a support/extra config mod tho? 🤷‍♂️)

TheSinisterRat Peeerfect!

If you play a standard experience on a server etc. this is something completely different so you wont feel like you do the same things. Its a setup for 1.21+ version.

Mods

• Core: I consider these the foundations on which you can build your own nomadic experience
  • TentBag-Reworked - you can build your own little shelter, pick it up and take it with you core core mod
  • carry on mod - helps with storage a lot
  • heat retention - insulation for your tent great for winter/colder regions
  • better ruins - more to explore
  • BetterTraders - as the name suggests
  • Salty & Proto's Temporal Symphony - incredible immersive indicator for upcoming storm
• Optional: those are my prefered mods that i like to have with me
  • Pipeleaf - pure pure vibes gotta have it
  • Bed spawn - less headache 
  • Combat Overhaul - nicer combat
  • Firearms - musket for tent defence
  • Almos all mods from SaltyWater - his manual series is great, movement mods are peak and ofc forest and cave symphony
  • CAN Antique Atlas or Immersive Maps - more immersive map systems
  • Purposeful Storage - not needed but still offers some nice immersive storage options

• My mods: since those are build for nomadic lifestyle hehe
  • Wanderer's Sketchbook - sketching, journaling, documenting
  • Infantry Dolabra - multitool, storable on elk
  • Adventurer's Walking Stick - for additional exploration vibes, hunger buffs and more!

World creation

• Days per month - id suggest 12-15
• Land cover setting - since you will be mostly traveling on land i suggest 85-95% going below that will make the travel a bit more challenging (personaly i like to have some lakes etc)
• Besides these two, other settings are up to your preferences 

General playstyle

• I start with a tamed elk, saddle and a bridle. Your goal should be to build a tent, tent requires a bit of resources to make so you gotta figure out how to survive and acquire those, foraging, trading etc. Your first days you gotta hide in caves for the night. You basically try to progress as you would do normally but you shouln't stay in one place for longer than a week or two (thats what i do!). You will quickly get a hang of it. Once you get a tent and some space to live you can plan things out, if youre low on food, you should hunt/gather and possibly prep some things up. if your food situation is good maybe take care of the storage etc. My current goal is to reach the north and see the northern lights and document all the journey there. You can set up your own goals for example to reach the desert, to be a traveling merchant selling goods you find in ruins. Whatever suits you!

Tips

• To make your food last longer, dig a hole 1x2 into the ground and place your vessel there. Slap a trapdoor on top and your food will last much longer! Quick and easy "on the go" cellar 
• Take your time with it, I missed lots of things by rushing things up but i slowly learn to just "explore"
• Ruins are a great place to find usable chests/vessels. You will need those!

Reaction appriciate you gamer! I'll try adding the keybind for the undo for sure ;D also yeah i started with the 16pages just to be sure that the game and servers can handle it well, going forward once i'll do more test and i'll get more feedback i will add ways to increase the max number of pages hehe

Verlia Highly unlikely that it will work in 1.22 the framework is based on the net 8.0 But i for sure be updating this one to work with the newer versions once the stable realese comes live ^^

jazzboat Hell yeah! Its good to take breaks, it makes you appriciate things even more once you come back. Thank you tho ^^ YESS i haven't tried adding different fonts yet but thats on my "to do/ to try" list!

JeanPierre Favourite mods and tips for a nomadic playthough, you say? Would love to hear them! My computer's pleas for mercy fall on deaf ears.

I never asked for this, but now that I know it exists I need it and cannot live without it.

only notes is being able to bind the undo button to a hotkey would absolutely slap and maybe a config to change the max number of pages as 16 is too small imo

banger mod, absolute W, keep up the good work gamer

I feel that! I need to replace my wacom but it's still workin' well enough for me to doodle. That aside, this is freakin' awesome btw! I'm gunna try it out later. Do you think it'll work on the new pre 22. VS version? 

takin a lil break from VS at the moment but you can be damn sure im slamming this in the modlist as soon as I give in

truly amazing work! o7

(if you somehow wanna be even more amazing maybe see if its possible to have other fonts for the sketchbook writing either by file changing or an in sketchbook menu <3 think this mod might honestly replace the map item mods i've been using )

DarthSack yeyye no problem

InfectedMagic try the 1.0.1 version if you don't mind maybe i broke something in the newest one

would I be able to ask permission to dlspy into the gui, and get a look at the code behind it?

JeanPierre The most recent, I believe, I just installed it

Annabruh Thank you! ^^ Of course! I want to update all of my mods to work in 1.22+ I'll release those once the stable version goes live

This mod looks awesome! Are there plans for implementation in 1.22.x?

InfectedMagic Hey, which version of the mod you were using?

hey Im getting disconnected from my server "Too large packet of 1556535 bytes received"

I was typing text, and suddenly I couldn't save or draw.

Verlia hehehe I want to make it even more snappier and more responsive, with the latest update i added some changed to make the lines even smoother! My poor wacom has been has been in constat use for the past couple of days 

Now when you say it's supports drawing tablets.. heavy artist breathing holding wacom

xD

VanduJunior Feel welcome to share your creations! I'd gladly put up a section on the modpage dedicated to all the cool things that people will do! No pressure of course, thank you for trying it out ^^

Im gonna be sketching all the cool things I see as a mercenary

this is gonna be so peak

TheSinisterRat Thank you so much for your kind words! ^^ Im very glad that i can humbly contribute to your ram usage!!! I get many ideas during my playthrough, some I'm aware that are maybe only situational or very edge cases. But with some for example like dolabra or the sketchbook i feel like the human brain works the similar way, meaning if i thought of that others before me had to be thinking about it as well in the similar situations. If you ever decide to go full nomadic playthrough I will gladly share some of my favourite mods and tips that make the experience a blast! Thank you for sticking around!

DarthSack Beautiful beautiful cairo, i had no idea thats possible, SaltyWater was actually like "its should be possible with cairo" so i started this project about a month ago with so many failed attempts, the canvas is a raw draw surface where pixel data gets written into a byte buffer and blitted all at once rather than pixel by pixel, bresenham's line algorithm for the strokes and manual pixel manipulation for the brush types. I'm still missing a system that will get rid of the data for the sketchbooks that were lost or deleted, right now the data will just sit there unused hehe

I would love to know how you did the gui

I was thinking something similar for making the hexbook 

but this is far better then I thought was possible

Really, really loving your growing collection of mods and the fact that they are arising from your nomadic ways, hence facilitating MY future nomadic ways!

Really, you are doing phenomenal and excellent work and it is lovely to see your interactions with the community you are growing. Things are very positive in your comment sections thus far!

Thank you for another excellent contribution to my poor, screaming modlist!

RumpleRatskin Very very interesting idea! I'll test something like that! Thank you mr rodent!! ^^

phol Never! <3 TYSM

JeanPierre

I am thankful for your welcome reception to my message and i actually have likely a simpler proposal, a screenshot paster option for sketchbook pages for those who wish to simply capture moments inside it if they lack drawing ability or time to spend drawing.

:D

RumpleRatskin My favourite rodent! ^^ I’m very cautious about modifying existing things in-game, such as the journal. Although the idea of a journal/handbook combination seems very neat, I don’t feel confident enough to risk people’s save files with such a change, hehe. I'm a scared and paranoid fish 90% of the time but with time my friend, with enough time everything is possible ;D

STOP MAKING BANGER MODS! 😭 I WANT THEM ALL IN VANILLA 😭

Great idea, couldn't you have the sketchbook related to the journal and add in some illustrations or images (i.e. lore entry relating to locusts has a partly-detailed locust schematic)

could also add a built-in voice system where you can choose a selection of basic voices (i.e. microsoft sam) to read out notes/journal entries?

:D

As always from your local rodent, RumpleRatskin

Nephelangelo no no for sure! Its a great discussion and i will give it a proper read to get a grasp on all the ideas ^^ I'll drop by!

SiiMeR For sure! Its even a part of the roadmap hehe

Could you make the drawing require ink&quill in the offhand?

JeanPierre

Just to clarify, we aren't building a player drawn map mod, as we don't have the modding skills to do so. But we've been discussing what one would look like for a while and this mod beautifully illustrates a lot of what we've been describing. So please check out our convo, you could be the one to help make the Player Drawn Map a reality!

EKB133 Perfect <3 happy to hear that!

RodinPandarex Thats the goal! :D besides the sketchbook the system i hammered down, the canvas can do so much more, different backgrounds, brushes, tools, modes it also support grid system for pixel art. Would be a shame to keep it locked. As soon as i polish things up i'll share it ^^ 

JeanPierre

New update fixes the issue I had for me!

Thank you very much!

This is truly a fantastic mod, between this, the dolabra and the walking stick mods, all of them just feel so professional and polished while maintaining the unique feel of the vanilla game. It's both impressive and awesome, thank you for making such good mods!

Wow ! Cool mod idea ! Definitly in my favs, need to test it.
Hope one day we will have open-source code to help on it :D 

BlockBerryJam My pleasure! ^^

EKB133 Thanks for letting me know!, just uploaded an update. Would you mind trying it out and letting me know if that solved the issue?

Love this idea.

Unfortunately, on a multiplayer server, whenever I try to save/close the sketchbook, it removes me from the server back to the main menu with the error:
"Too large packet of 1556535 bytes received"

if there was a drawing there, it doesn't save it.

And it only happens when I draw one single pixel even

if I close the sketchbook without touching the drawing page itself it closes it properly.

Godamn this is such a great idea.

Thank you!

onyxibara LEEEEENNEEEEYYYH BOOOAYHHHH

Calbain I believe that John is a genious minimalist/conteporary artist. Remember to pick a nice place to do it, nothing breaks the journaling flow like a rock thrown by a vicious creature

Vargur Im surprised how many ppl do mapless runs! I wasn't aware of this sort of need before. I'm very curious how people are going to use thier sketchbooks/journals ^^

juisemonk I'm a firm believer that everyone can, its one of the fiew things that we all did as childred in some sort of capacity. ^^ Thank you for trying it out! I hope it will serve you well :D

RubberSucky Appreciate you! ^^

LEEEEEEEEENNYYYYYYYY!!!!!🤠🍻

I'm definitively more of a John than an Arthur but I'm still gonna update my journal

Huge for mapless runs being able to make visual notes as you explore, great work!

Wow, I absolutely can not draw, but it will be still a lot of fun just write things up! Keep track of translocator pairs, journaling adventures. So so cool)

oh man this is so cool what the hell?

LadyWYT Yup! It works with drawing tablets right now! It gets a bit finicky with the smallest brush size but overall it does! I want to refine that feature a bit more so the drawing will be smoother over time, have fun with it!!!

Wait, does it actually work with drawing tablets currently, or is that just a roadmap feature? I see that the pressure sensitivity is on the roadmap, but it's not the pressure sensitivity that I care about as much as it is just having the basic tablet function. It's a lot easier to draw with a stylus than it is a mouse. 😂

Tablet or not, I'll have to give this one a try at some point. It'd be great for those times in the game where I don't really feel like working on anything particular.

EnderMelody Happy to provide!

Nephelangelo Thank you! DAMN thats so cool! I'll be dropping by! ^^

now this is something ive been looking for for a while

This looks FANTASTIC.

Here's a link to the Discord thread brainstorming ideas for a player drawn map system Thalius and I had been talking about. Your mod is now considered a Proof Of Concept for the idea. :D 

https://discord.com/channels/302152934249070593/1318354043705229342

yurifan Thank you!! First two artworks in the gallery were made by the incredible vintage story concept artist DuarArts! ^^

Oh my gosh this is such a cute idea ! I like the art and design of the images too

Thalius Noted! This system can be transformed into many other mods, an artist's station with more colors more brushes etc. or a cartographer station possibly. I'll look it up and test things up ^^ keep an eye here

JeanPierre Please, make it so!

I've long awaited a mod or feature that would allow for in-game drawing for the purpose of map making, along with survey tools of some kind. Very much looking forward to testing this out, and seeing where it goes from here. 

Thalius yupp, a cartographer class and we will be set

And here it is. Prelude to player drawn maps.

Maaagic Thank you!! ^^ hope you'll have a blast with it

Oh jezus. Its so good. Thanks bro. I didnt know i need it until i found it.