Lureplant digestion revisited

[Nullpoint]

Hey folks. Got a few questions on lureplants that weren't covered in other threads or on the Don't Starve wiki.

 

There's threads about lureplant digestion, but nobody seems to go into much detail about how lureplants handle item stacks.

 

I had a lureplant grab a stack of 20 logs and another one of 40 grass, and was able to get them back, but I'm wondering if the plant would have digested each log in the stack one by one or the whole stack all at once? Does anyone have experience here?

 

I took a look at the .lua code for the digester component and it doesn't seem to explain how it handles stacks, but I'm kind of new to .lua. I've quoted it below in case anyone can shed some light on it:

 

 

local Digester = Class(function(self, inst)

self.inst = inst

self.digesttime = 20

self.itemstodigestfn = nil

self.task = self.inst:DoPeriodicTask(self.digesttime, function() self:TryDigest() end) 

self.inst:ListenForEvent("gotnewitem", function() 

if not self.task then 

self.task = self.inst:DoPeriodicTask(self.digesttime, function() self:TryDigest() end) 

end 

end)

end)

 

 

function Digester:TryDigest()

if self.inst.components.inventory then

local helditems = {}

 

for k,v in pairs(self.inst.components.inventory.itemslots) do

if not v:HasTag("irreplaceable") then

if self.itemstodigestfn then

if self.itemstodigestfn(self.inst, v) then

table.insert(helditems, v.prefab)

end

else

table.insert(helditems, v.prefab)

end

end

end

if #helditems > 0 then

local rnd = math.random(#helditems)

self.inst.components.inventory:ConsumeByName(helditems[rnd], 1)

else

if self.task then

self.task:Cancel()

self.task = nil

end

end

end

end

 

return Digester

 

[MilleniumCount]

Coder question eh? @simplex ?

 

Perhaps there is help.

 

 

Woops, where are my manners? And welcome on the forums of course! ^^

[Nullpoint]

Thanks. It's not only for coders, if anyone has input about how fast lureplants digest stacks just from playing that's useful too.

[Deacon_Blue]

Just glancing at it, it looks like it treats one inventory slot as an item. I think it will take out the entire stack at once.

[Nullpoint]

Thanks! What's weird is that I killed a lureplant and some of the items I recovered were dropped not by the lureplant but by an eyeplant, including five units of grass from a stack of 20.

[Bryce]

"self.inst.components.inventory:ConsumeByName(helditems[rnd], 1)" is the part that actually consumes the item. The "1" that it's passing in means that it will only consume one item at a time, even from stackable items. 

[Nullpoint]

Hey, a dev response! Thanks, Bryce. So the idea of using lureplants for gathering items CAN work, potentially, so long as the items in question are too plentiful for it to digest. Guess that means I can set up harvesting if I feel like replanting 96 saplings that will essentially never be reliably harvested and then adding on however many saplings on top of that which WILL be reliably stockpiled as they'd be too much for the lureplant's digestion rate to handle.

 

Makes sense only for games so long there's an eventual benefit, I suppose.