0013510: Scribes don't gain experience from copying books

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0013510	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Skills and Professions	public	2026-05-13 20:50	2026-05-13 20:50

Reporter	HueStL	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Platform	steam	OS	windows	OS Version	10
Product Version	53.13

Summary	0013510: Scribes don't gain experience from copying books
Description	In libraries, when a scribe copies a book, there's no skill gain, and probably no chance of an attribute gain. Since Reading and Wordsmith(aka writing) are suggested skills for scribes in the library interface, I was expecting at least those two to get some gain. I also checked Record_Keeping, and the engineering category the copied book was about (fluid_engineer). And writer (aka prose, I expected it would only gain experience if the copied book was a novel, short story, etc) because if feels like writer and wordsmith are mislabled. None of them gained any experience. For attributes, I checked the five that are used in either reading or wordsmith, none of them gained experience. The scribe didn't gain the book as one of their known written contents, and they did not gain knowledge of the subject (siphons).
Steps To Reproduce	Get some books, and blank scrolls put them in a library. Choose a scribe that doesn't have knowledge of those books, and monitor their skills, attributes, and knowledge.
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2026-05-13 20:50	HueStL	New Issue