# Dusty tome SHOULD BE available in temerate biome
**URL:** https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559
**Category:** Suggestions
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559 "2018-05-24T10:41:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Baumminer](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Baumminer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/1 "2018-05-24T10:41:46Z")
I play alot in temperate biome with ascendancy or sometimes in desert with rayyas children. Recently I tried to switch things up. I played rayyas children in the temperate biome an tried to go for the monkey shrine.
For the monkey shrine you need 2 dusty tomes. Dusty tomes drop from necromancer Crypts. Necromancer crypts spawn if you have 6000 gold(money not net worth).
Problem: Necromancer Crypts don’t drop dusty tomes in temperate biome, only in the desert.
Thus the monkey shrine is uncraftable for rayyas children, if they are not in the desert.
ps.:I’m very sure it’s not just a very low chance to drop, because as I said before I mainly play in temerate biome. And I have never seeen a dusty tome in all of the playthroughs.
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### Author:  [@BrunoSupremo](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/BrunoSupremo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/2 "2018-05-24T13:25:22Z")
I think those drop based on kingdom, not on biome. You can also get them in Giant Zombie chests.
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### Author:  [@Baumminer](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Baumminer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/3 "2018-05-24T13:39:30Z")
Well I destroyed 6 crypts with rayyas children in temperate biome. and not a single dusty tome. and I destroyed 3 crypts in my most recent world with rayyas children in the desert biome and each time a got a dusty tome.
So it seems to me to be the biome.
It should be the kingdom, but it doesn’t work for me.
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### Author:  [@quoting\_mungo](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/quoting_mungo)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/4 "2018-05-24T13:46:52Z")
Can’t say for temperate biome, as it’s been a looong time since I played RC in one, but I do know I’ve had dusty tomes drop from necromancer crypts playing with RC in in the modded Archipelago biome.
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### Author:  [@Baumminer](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Baumminer)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/5 "2018-05-24T14:27:00Z")
hmm. maybe I need to try again in a fresh new world completely without mods.
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### Author:  [@Sander15](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Sander15)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/6 "2019-11-10T14:26:45Z")
i am playing RC right in the desert i have 12000 gold no mods and still no dusty tome when i destroy a church
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### Author:  [@Findersword](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Findersword)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/7 "2019-11-10T17:21:05Z")
Here is a mod that will let you get the Dusty Tome as random chance loot from a Necromancer enemy, they are found at the crypt buildings. [necroloot.smod](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/uploads/short-url/hrNA8PZUi1xd62Rvkg6iORSgKxQ.smod) (1.3 KB)
Put the mod file into the _ **stonehearth/mods** _ local folder.
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### Author:  [@Sander15](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/Sander15)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/8 "2019-11-11T18:08:47Z")
oke thank you
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### Author:  [@ThisDude](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/u/ThisDude)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/dusty-tome-should-be-available-in-temerate-biome/35559/9 "2019-11-12T12:40:49Z")
They do drop, but they are extremely rare sadly. I have had a Raya’s children town in the temperate biome, with the monkey shrine. Also, that save had no mods, and it was on an earlyer version.