Mod Title: Discovered and Experienced Progress
Required Features:
Feature 1: Have Items that you can collect, but have no need for currently because of lack of knowledge, have information that tells you something along the lines like : "I am sure I could possibly make something out of this. If I could find more information on this Item I could perhaps make something out of it. I mean the ancient world sure has some info on It lying around."
Feature 2: Have certain recipes and crafting options only be available to you by either mastering crafting multiple things to be able to gain knowledge on how to craft a certain thing or by advancing it faster by reading books of the old world. For instance to be able to create a Bellow you must master leather working with a certain leather material and mastered how to use a smithy or anything else which can be used in combination with a bellow. A Progression bar based on how skilled you are at creating something will unlock certain new craftables.
Feature 3: Have Books that teach you how to create a bellow. But to able to build it you need to have a certain percentage on required crafting experience. For instance to learn it instantly through the book instead of learning it by mastering the required skills, you only need a lowered percentage. Maybe 40% leather working and 50% skill on smithing.
Feature 4: Have certain craftables only be creatable by obtaining books. This might seem like gate keeping and making crafting more annoying, but it makes you have a reason to explore the world.
Feature 5: To make use of the bookshelves being able to now house books, we could use this to write our experience crafting into a book. This might be good for multiplayer. So those that already mastered a craft can share that obtained knowledge through experience to others. These books can either have a lower required percentage rate of the skills needed required to craft what is in the book or higher if you write the book white mastering it using a found book. (This might be a bit much. But i think it could be interesting)
Please share thoughts and ideas. I am really interested to see what your minds churn out when thinking of this.