Adjusting On Murder Loot table.

[JadeKnightblazer]

Looking for a way to adjust a custom item, when murdered, dropping a custom loot table. Seems the game auto injects recipe materials (50%) then allows you to add extra loot when adjusting inst.components.lootdropper:SetLoot({})

Any ideas?

My recipe for said item:

        local visceralharvesterr1dormatrecipe = AddRecipe(
            "visceralharvesterr1dormat",
            {Ingredient("nightsword", 1),Ingredient("deerclops_eyeball", 1),Ingredient("reviver", 1),Ingredient("boneshard", 12)},
            RECIPETABS.MAGIC,
            TECH.MAGIC_THREE,
            nil,nil, nil, 1, nil,
            "images/inventoryimages/visceralharvesterr1dormat.xml",
            "visceralharvesterr1dormat.tex"
        )

 

What I want to drop when item is murdered: {"deerclops_eyeball", "boneshard"}

 

what on murder gives me: {"deerclops_eyeball" x 2, "boneshard" x 7, "reviver" x 1 }

 

I don't see any functions to remove items from the loot pool

 

[JadeKnightblazer]

At this point... would it be better to make an "On Use" function, destroy the item and reward the player with loots?

[zaptrap]

I think you might be able to replace the lootdropper.GetRecipeLoot function with function() return {} end (a function that returns an empty table), I haven't tested this yet so hopefully this helps

[Ziro2k]

@JadeKnightblazer

So what's happening is that when LootDropper:GenerateLoot() is called, it automatically checks the AllRecipes table for the prefab and gets loot based off of the recipe ingredients:

    local recipe = AllRecipes[self.inst.prefab]
    if recipe then
        local recipeloot = self:GetRecipeLoot(recipe)
        for k,v in ipairs(recipeloot) do
            table.insert(loots, v)
        end
    end

Avoiding this is actually rather simple. LootDropper looks up the recipe based on the item's prefab, but the name of the crafting recipe doesn't actually have to be the prefab name. When you declare your recipes, you can give it a custom name and then set the product to your prefab. That way, the recipe key isn't the prefab itself and thus LootDropper won't return a valid recipe with the above code. So something like this:

local visceralharvesterr1dormatrecipe = AddRecipe(
  "visceralharvesterr1dormat_builder", --custom recipe name
  {Ingredient("nightsword", 1),Ingredient("deerclops_eyeball", 1),Ingredient("reviver", 1),Ingredient("boneshard", 12)},
  RECIPETABS.MAGIC,
  TECH.MAGIC_THREE,
  nil,nil, nil, 1, nil,
  "images/inventoryimages/visceralharvesterr1dormat.xml",
  "visceralharvesterr1dormat.tex", 
  nil, 
  "visceralharvesterr1dormat" --product prefab name
)

Also as a side note, you should really try to use AddRecipe2 now after the crafting UI update because AddRecipe has been deprecated. It's actually a lot easier to read because you don't have to worry about all of those ridiculous nils (all of those options are passed in a config table where the keys are the option names):

local visceralharvesterr1dormatrecipe = AddRecipe2("visceralharvesterr1dormat_builder", 
{Ingredient("nightsword", 1), Ingredient("deerclops_eyeball", 1), Ingredient("reviver", 1), Ingredient("boneshard", 12)}, 
TECH.MAGIC_THREE,
{   
    atlas = "images/inventoryimages/visceralharvesterr1dormat.xml",
    image = "visceralharvesterr1dormat.tex"
    product = "visceralharvesterr1dormat"
}, 
{"MAGIC"})	

 

[JadeKnightblazer]

TY very much for this info. 100% switching to AddRecipe2.

I kinda glad up on /murder and instead made it so dragging the Razor  over kills off the item.

 

/Salute

[JadeKnightblazer]

Oddly enough when trying Add recipe2 I get time seg errors.    However thank you for posting some interesting information.

 

Got it to work after a bit of editing.

	local visceralharvesterr1dormatrecipe = AddRecipe2("visceralharvesterr1dormat", 
{Ingredient("nightsword", 1),Ingredient("deerclops_eyeball", 1),Ingredient("reviver", 1),Ingredient("boneshard", 12)},
TECH.MAGIC_THREE,
{numtogive = 1, atlas = "images/inventoryimages/visceralharvesterr1dormat.xml", image = "visceralharvesterr1dormat.tex" }, {"MAGIC"})

 

Even tho I didn't add the _Builder, I do understand it.

Edited May 22, 2022 by JadeKnightblazer