State Of Decay 2 How To Use Textbooks

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Textbooks are special consumables allowing you to learn new, level up, or respec your survivors' skills.

About Textbooks

There are three types of Textbooks in the game:

Community Skill Textbooks
Quirk Skill Textbooks
Training Manuals

Each Textbook tin simply exist used one time since they get consumed in the procedure. The Customs Skill Textbooks tin can exist found while looting. The best places to await for them are Libraries and Offices. Wandering Traders can also sell them. Quirk Skill Textbooks are only sold by Rare Skills Traders and Preparation Manuals are only sold by Mysterious Wandering Traders.

Community Skill Textbooks allow you to teach a Community Skill to 1 of your survivors if they don't have a fifth skill still. They can likewise be used to amend the bones community skills and specializations the survivors already have.

Each Community Skill has its own textbook.

Name	Icon	Description
Chemistry Textbook		Teaches one survivor the nuts of Chemistry, or improves that survivor's Chemistry, Munitions, or Pharmacology skill.
Computers Textbook		Teaches 1 survivor the basics of Computers, or improves that survivor's Computers, Electronics, or Programming skill.
Cooking Textbook		Teaches one survivor the basics of Cooking, or improves that survivor'south Cooking, Cuisine, or Nutrition skill.
Adroitness Textbook		Teaches i survivor the basics of Craftsmanship, or improves that survivor's Adroitness, Construction, or Metalwork skill.
Gardening Textbook		Teaches one survivor the basics of Gardening, or improves that survivor's Gardening, Agriculture, or Herbalism skill.
Mechanics Textbook		Teaches one survivor the nuts of Mechanics, or improves that survivor's Mechanics, Automechanics, or Technology skill.
Medicine Textbook		Teaches one survivor the basics of Medicine, or improves that survivor'due south Medicine, Surgery, or Pathology skill.
Utilities Textbook		Teaches one survivor the basics of Utilities, or improves that survivor's Utilities, Electrical, or Plumbing skill.

In that location's too a unique Textbook called Copy of The Knowledge, by Lewis Dartnell. Though information technology has a unique proper noun, it works equally a regular Chemical science Textbook. Fun fact, this book actually exists in the real globe. In the game you can get information technology through the Recover a Archetype Personal Goal.

Quirk Skill Textbooks

Quirk Skill Textbooks allow you to teach a Quirk Skill to one of your survivors if they don't take a fifth skill yet. While the game has dozens of these Skills, only 10 of them can be learned with these textbooks.

The post-obit Quirks Skill Textbooks tin be constitute in the game:

Proper name	Icon	Clarification
Driving Textbook		Teaches ane survivor equally much equally they can learn about Driving.
Line-fishing Textbook		Teaches 1 survivor as much as they can learn about Fishing.
Hygiene Guide		Teaches 1 survivor as much as they can larn about Hygiene.
Lichenology Textbook		Teaches 1 survivor as much as they can learn nigh Lichenology.
Recycling Guide		Teaches one survivor as much as they can learn about Recycling.
Scrum Textbook		Teaches i survivor as much as they can acquire nigh Scrum Certification.
Cloak-and-dagger Shopper'south Guidebook		Teaches one survivor equally much as they can learn nigh Shopping.
Sewing Guide		Teaches one survivor every bit much as they can learn about Sewing.
Slumber Psychology Textbook		Teaches one survivor as much as they tin acquire about Sleep Psychology.
Soundproofing Guide		Teaches 1 survivor equally much every bit they can larn about Soundproofing.

Preparation Manuals

Training Manuals allow you to respecialize your survivors' Core Skills. The survivor must have their core skill specialized to be able to use the manual. When doing so, the transmission allows you to pick any of the four specializations available for that skill. This comes with a punishment though - your survivor will also receive a negative Trait which decreases the skill's experience rate by 66%, requiring you to put three times the endeavour into getting to level vii with the skill than usual.

Each Core Skill has its own grooming manual.

Name	Icon	Description
Combat Training Manual		Teaches a broad base of different paw-to-mitt combat techniques.
Firearms Grooming Manual		Teaches a broad base of different firearms techniques.
Mental Training Manual		Teaches a broad base of different mental conditioning techniques.
Physical Training Manual		Teaches a wide base of dissimilar physical techniques.