Mods / BetterHandbook
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- Author:
- Garward
- Side:
- Client
- Created:
- May 14th at 4:53 AM
- Last modified:
- Jul 5th at 5:21 AM
- Downloads:
- 6156
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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.22.3):
BetterHandbook-1.0.8.zip 1-click install
making information faster and more accessible to an area near you.
Overview
BetterHandbook overhauls the in game handbook to make it faster and easier to navigate. Browse items by mod, look up item relationships, auto fill crafting recipes, and keep your most used pages bookmarked. It's all built to stay out of your way while you play.
Features
Caching and lazy loading make the handbook open and close noticeably faster.
Adds a per-mod category to the handbook so you can browse items by which mod adds them.
Press U to look up what an item is used in. The hotkey is configurable.
A "Uses" button appears on item pages so you can quickly see what recipes an item contributes to.
Click to place one recipe into the crafting grid. Shift-click to fill as many crafts as your inventory allows, even with items already placed.
Bookmark any page from the handbook title bar. Lock it to reopen that same page on next launch instead of the search bar.
Quick Reference ▼
Navigation
Uopens the item relationship lookup (configurable in keybinds)- Repeat visits to the handbook are faster thanks to background caching
Crafting
- Click Auto Fill to place one recipe into your crafting grid
- Shift + Click Auto Fill to prepare as many crafts as possible, including items already in the grid
Bookmarks
- Click the bookmark icon on the handbook title to save the current page
- Click the lock icon to reopen that page next time instead of the search bar
| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.0.8 | betterhandbook | 1043 | Jul 5th at 5:20 AM | BetterHandbook-1.0.8.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Fixed Auto Fill failing to place all ingredients for some players while keeping the latest handbook performance improvements. | |||||||
| 1.0.7 | betterhandbook | 1682 | Jun 10th at 5:48 PM | BetterHandbook-1.0.7.zip | 1-click install | ||
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fixed conflict scan causing massive lag in crafting by caching it | |||||||
| 1.0.6 | betterhandbook | 827 | Jun 1st at 5:04 AM | BetterHandbook-1.0.6.zip | 1-click install | ||
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-made basically everything configurable | |||||||
| 1.0.5 | betterhandbook | 198 | May 31st at 9:07 AM | BetterHandbook-1.0.5.zip | 1-click install | ||
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-added colored overlay on missing items. | |||||||
| 1.0.4 | betterhandbook | 1528 | May 16th at 2:40 AM | BetterHandbook-1.0.4.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Fixed bookmarks tab not refreshing correctly when other mods add handbook tabs. | |||||||
| 1.0.3 | betterhandbook | 196 | May 15th at 7:32 PM | BetterHandbook-1.0.3.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Tags only ingredients now fail immediately if the vanilla game matcher rejects them in autocrafter | |||||||
| 1.0.2 | betterhandbook | 98 | May 15th at 5:05 PM | BetterHandbook-1.0.2.zip | 1-click install | ||
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added bookmarking pages and locking a page to reopen if you close the handbook | |||||||
| 1.0.1 | betterhandbook | 66 | May 15th at 4:19 PM | BetterHandbook-1.0.1.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Added scroll wheelable slideshow for variant recipes and restored vanilla textbox focus. reduced vanilla noisy warnings caused by caching | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | betterhandbook | 518 | May 14th at 4:54 AM | BetterHandbook.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Initial release | |||||||
This is crashing with CAN Jewelry mod
QRD for the mod that adds the red oven structure in the 3rd modpage image?
Having a weird issue where it's not letting craft a Hay (Grass) unless I autofill the item from the handbook. Attempting to do it manually will only flash the hay in the output for a brief visible flash before becoming unselectable.
Thanks a bunch!
Game v1.22.3, crashes when attempting to look at the handbook recipe for an oil lamp, stating "System.Exception: Can't create itemstack without item!"
Handbook gets all black when i change gui scale. Reload fixes the issue but i think a propper fix still would be nice
Would you be able to add a:
'cycle between conflicting recipes button' similar to I.H.R.H.
or is it impossible to use them together even with compatibility .
plz.
Get a very odd issue when using 1.0.7. If I try to autofill, it will only enter the first item and nothing else. When I restart the game, the items will all be there. Dropping back to 1.0.6, it goes back to normal.
I have the same problem - I'll try using 1.0.6 and see if the behavior persists.
Forgot to come back - 1.0.7 autofill doesn't work. 1.0.6 it does. No obvious errors in logs.
Hello,
Just wanting to ask if the new updates for this mod also work in an existing 1.22.2 world. Just been updating a few mods on my server that have had some updates.
should be fine
Hi, getting crash when opening "blocks and items" tab
It seems that it caused by Sonya's Meat mod, not BetterHandbook
Hello! I really love this mod, would it be possible to include a history tab?
for some reason when i use this mod with my modlist it makes logging into a server lock up for a few seconds
did notice this mod has the stack size reported twice on items now, kinda weird
I'm going to assume that this mod won't play well with HoR-PerformanceOptimizer installed? Does the same thing, uses a cache so there's less lagging when opening the handbook, but also changes how the crafting grid works. I have Optitime as well, but It disables harmony patches for compatibility reasons.
Is there by chance any way to dissable your caching? I like the GUI look you have, and I'd rather have it than running HoR and using the plain Jane one in vanilla.
Is this mod incompatible with Improved Recipe Helper (https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/47215)? I mainly ask because of that mod's ability to cycle through recipe conflicts, as that was a feature I was looking into.
I use both, and everything seems to work fine :)
Thanks so much for responding, that's good to hear. :D
Please make this mod grab items from containers. at the moment it only works if everything is in player inventory. Pretty important that it uses the items in my huge assortment of chests so i don't have to search thru it all
I use Chest Organizer (to open all nerby containers in a (searchable) merged view), in combination with Improved Recipe Helper, which works wonerfully.
Although it does mean I have 2 buttons for auto-fill.
Using the [+] button to move items to the crafting grid does not work with items in special bags like the mining bag.
Would be cool if this mod also included the option to write notes in a dedicated tab, like in this mod https://mods.vintagestory.at/pomnotes
I've been using a txt file to keep track of edible, poisonous and hallucinogenic shrooms, among other To Do lists. Thought it would be both more convenient and immersive being able to do so directly in game.
Hello man, great mod, this help me so much. but i have some problems, the handbook itself becomes all black(https://prnt.sc/Wxy9l_sOFUaa) sometimes and i dont know what to do.
Such a great mod thank you.
Would a recipe selector be able to be implemented in this? I am having an issue with the Shadehouse doors and The gear racks atm.
I like the mod, but I found an issue when using other mods that add tabs to the handbook, when I play with "Ithania Canned Goods" for example I don't see my bookmarked pages when clicking the "bookmarks" tab. I can only see them when closing and re-opening the handbook with the tab already open. Not sure if you can do much about this but I wanted to report it.
should be fixed now didn't really consider other mods adding category tabs
Oh damn this is amazing! The recipe scrolling is fantastic! Great mod!
I went to autofill the firewood recipe to test it and it put dry grass over logs in the crafting grid
should be fixed thanks for the report
Love this! My only issue so far is it's very inconsistent on whether or not the text box is auto-selected when I open it. It seems like it works the first time during a session, then doesn't after that, so I keep hitting H and trying to type and just opening a million other dialogs.
fixed
Could you add the ability to scroll over recipe item variants? It takes ages to see all the item variants when they just change on their own.
great suggestion its in now
Just wondering, does it do something similar to the creative tab and if so does that fix the tab cutoff issue when in creative with lots of content mods?
currently does nothing to creative inventory. The mod section in the handbook does perform way better with large amounts of mods though as the near infinite nature of the handbook scroll bar lets all mods show cleanly.
Holy peak