The Basics of Moescape/Yodayo Lorebooking ala duck Volume 1
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Hello! This is Kameduck, and I welcome anyone reading this to my first article. In this Article, I shall take the chance to teach people who use Tavern frequently, without any knowledge of how Lorebooks operates, with my experience and experiments with what I've done so far.
In this specific volume, I shall describe the Lorebook in the most simplified manner as I possibly can, to make sense of it and to show how powerful it can be to make your Tavern experience wonderful at the same time.
OVERVIEW:
Lorebook is essentially the role-playing manual or guidebook for the AI's LLM (The Nephras, Deepseeks, Claudes, etc.) to do pretty much anything within its capabilities (How to make lorebooks will be in the next volume soon!) and within the understanding and functions of what you, THE USER, wanted AI to do. It is a very versatile tool to use and can do many things with it, from just lore to a complex mechanic to make things very fun!
TO START: Once you have decided to make a lorebook, and want to do it now. You can go either to your chat settings if you are talking to a chatbot, or press the (+) button, then press the "Lorebooks" option to start making lorebooks:
Once you reach there and while making your own lorebook, you should learn these things to understand how it works to prevent your lorebook from being too much of a mess:
There are currently two mechanics before starting to make your own lorebook entries (By the time this volume was published) called Scan Depth and Recursive Depth.
SCAN DEPTH- Is where the AI scans within the past messages and history of the keywords (the words used to trigger entries), and how far it will scan.
Example: Setting the scan depth to 3 will make the AI scan the maximum of THREE past messages for the keywords.
RECURSIVE DEPTH- This is how deep the AI can scan the description of the lorebook entry, to know if this specific lorebook has other different keywords inside, thereby linking the multiple lorebook entries.
Example: You make two NPC lorebook entries titled Adam and Eve with their exact names AS their trigger word. You put Eve's entry as "Adam's Wife," and vice versa. Hereby, using either of them will trigger the AI to say that "This is Adam's Wife or Eve's Husband," Without the AI playing 20 Questions with you or AI having dementia, (Mistaking Adam's wife's name as "STEVE" than "EVE").
Once you get the idea, you can make your lorebook entries (Again, will be the next part soon!)
WORD OF ADVICE:
- Always keep Scan Depth to 2.
- Setting a higher scan depth MAY sound like a good idea, but in hindsight, it's a no-go. It just makes your Lorebook somewhat of an annoyance to use.
- Lorebooks are LLM DEPENDENT.
- If you are using a low-tier model such as the free Nephras, do not expect that they KNOW the description in full in the long term or UNDERSTAND what you have put in your entries.
- High-intellectual models like Claude, Grok, etc can at least understand the description or functions of the entries a lot more.
This is all for this volume. Please wait for the next volume to be finished. The next part is how to make lorebook entries (A basic know-how) and how I, in the basis of my months-long experiments, can make it somewhat better.
Thank you for supporting Kameduck, and I love you all.
