Creating a new food type

[HatefulGravey]

In another thread I was asking about giving a character the ability to eat things that were not edible. The reason for this is a character that will eat tools. I have the code for his ability to eat them working (well enough, there were some unintended side effects I can go into later if need be), and each tool has different hunger/sanity/health effects. Now to move on to the next issue. 

I want to be able to trigger special effects when tools are eaten. My original plan was to create a new food type and put all the tools in it. The more I think about this though the more I'm certain I haven't seen an example of a mod editing a component, normally just prefabs. So, does anyone know of a way to do this?

The other option is just to make all tools part of another food type the character can eat and compare what was eaten to a list of items that trigger the effects. To do this I need to be able to call the item I just ate to compare to the list. Is there are command that will call the name of the item the character just ate?

Edited March 8, 2016 by HatefulGravey

[Arkathorn]

Try 'inst.components.eater:SetOnEatFn(oneatfn)'. The function takes the player as it's first argument, and the eaten item as it's second. For example:

--In your character's 'fn' function:
inst.components.eater:SetOnEatFn(function(eater, food)
	if food.prefab == "pickaxe" or food.prefab == "goldenpickaxe" then
		print("Player ate a pickaxe!")
	end
	if food.prefab == "shovel" or food.prefab == "goldenshovel" then
		print("Player ate a shovel!")
	end
	if food.prefab == "axe" or food.prefab == "goldenaxe" then
		print("Player ate an axe!")
	end
end)