How do i make existing item perishable?

[Berwin]

Hi

I'm a complete novice at modding.

I want to make the prefab silk perishable which I was able to do by adding this into silk.lua and adding

inst:AddComponent("perishable")
inst.components.perishable:SetPerishTime(TUNING.PERISH_FAST)
inst.components.perishable:StartPerishing()
inst.components.perishable.onperishreplacement = "spoiled_food"

 

Instead of changing each and every script ie silk.lua can i add this code into modmain.lua.  How do i get the instance to refer to the object silk?

 

[JohnWatson]

local addperish = {
	["silk"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST	,
	["twigs"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_SLOW	,
}
for k,v in pairs(addperish) do
	AddPrefabPostInit(k or "",function(inst)
		if inst.components.perishable==nil then
			inst:AddComponent("perishable")
		end
		inst.components.perishable:SetPerishTime(v)
		inst.components.perishable:StartPerishing()
		inst.components.perishable.onperishreplacement = "spoiled_food"
	end)
end

 

[Berwin]

Thank you so much for doing this John. Hopefully I can borrow your expertise for a little longer. I want to adapt your code to include a large list and I'm sure I'll be able to do that. The perish timer will be the same on all items so I won't need to specify each item. My day length is currently set at 16 minutes so I want to try a timer of 20 days first so 320*60 seconds I believe. Can this code be used on armour, weapons? Is the perishable component different/ runs separately to the armour component? Can the code be adapted to delete items instead of leaving rot?

Edited November 13, 2017 by Berwin

[JohnWatson]

just keep adding onto this table

local addperish = {
	["e"]		=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["laa"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["egdf"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["cgd"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["gds"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["aol"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
	["yiftf"]	=	GLOBAL.TUNING.PERISH_FAST,
}

just change the key names into the prefab names intended

[Berwin]

Any more to add to the rest of my question?