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Tome of Shifting Sands

I do use a lot of mods, could be.

It's visible when I test it. It could be a conflict with a different mod. Is anyone else having the same issue?

Desert Warrior seems to be bugged, model is invisible.

since people are making suggestions, i'd absolutely love egyptian style tomes. this one already adds worms, i'd love to see some scarab and scorpion units. maybe sphinx constructs. im super annoyed that Dragon Lords lack a sphinx head option.

I think there should be a "dirty tactics" enchantment, where you deal a little extra poison damage to targets that are slowed or blinded (not stacking).

I can't help but feel that if you're going to be making a tome to turn your faction into desert dwellers then there should be some way that your warriors can blind your enemies by kicking sand in their face. Without requiring a godir to cast a spell for it that is. I think that a unit enhancement or a change to the "desert warrior" is the way to do that. Also does the "desert warrior's" ability to bleed/poison stack with unit enhancements that provide bleeding/poisoning? As for the missing SPI, I think an oasis farm or greenhouse is a good idea. But I am more partial to an idea I'm having based on Dune where I heard that spice is created by the giant worms. Inspired by that I would suggest a mine replacement where worms are raised to harvest them for wealth. It would give more gold per adjacent desert and provide a worm in combat like the golem mine does with golems. Regardless these are just ideas I had so it's really up to the modder what they are willing to do.

I suppose one could try to stretch the Tranquility Pool as a kind of oasis, but it doesn't really seem appropriate or thematic to Sands to me - none of the rest of the tome speaks to Alchemy, Transmutation, or trade (Golden Realm). My initial perception is that this tome leans towards being relatively balanced for a mod tome, while a free magic material is a bit strong. Oasis Farm would be a relatively vanilla style province improvement. My proposal for the glasshouse city structure might be pushing the boundaries a bit, depending on how much income per sandy province is set. That said, it would give a bit more flavor to terraformer factions selecting sand as their favored terrain.

What if... you get a free magic material when getting the tome?

I would suggest an 'Oasis Farm' province improvement with +food for adjacent sand provinces as a default starting building, then research for an economic 'Glasshouse' city structure for a glassblower's guild. Maybe it scales +1 gold / +1 production off the number of sand provinces in the city's domain? Glass would be used in both construction and trade - this would play to both the sand and industrial themes of Materium while being thematically appropriate to the tome.

An alternative special province improvement could be a Caravanserai, which is basically a rest inn for travelers on a trade route. I'm not as sure how that would translate into what it would do in terms of game mechanics, though. I think the Oasis Farm is a better idea.

This looks good! definitely gonna fit this into my tome collection. Thank you.