Modding Help Reducing the Randomness of Harvest TreasurePools?

I am in the process of updating my Rattan mod, still. I have virtually worked out all possible kinks, aside from some misc "learnblueprintsonpickup" stuff. There is one other thing I have struggled with, though, and that is balancing the drops from the Rattan crop.

You see, as best I can tell, HarvestPools are completely randomized based on the values you have put in. In my case, it looks like this:

Code:

[ 
{ "op": "add", "path": "/rattanHarvest", "value": 
 [
    [0, {
      "pool" : [
        {"weight" : 0.59, "item" : "rattanfiber"},
        {"weight" : 0.39, "item" : "rattannut"},
        {"weight" : 0.02, "item" : "plantfibre"}
      ],
      "poolRounds": [
        [0.55, 25],
        [0.3, 33],
        [0.15, 40]
      ]
    } ]
  ]
}
]

My goal was to emulate my original balance of the Rattan crop from Enraged Koala, but the results are not as I hoped.

Original drop coding snippet:

Code:

      "dropOptions" : [
        0.3,
        [
          {
            "name" : "rattannut",
            "count" : 6
          },
          {
            "name" : "rattanfiber",
            "count" : 19
          },
          {
            "name" : "plantfibre",
            "count" : 2
          }
        ],
        [
          {
            "name" : "rattannut",
            "count" : 9
          },
          {
            "name" : "rattanfiber",
            "count" : 16
          },
          {
            "name" : "plantfibre",
            "count" : 2
          }
        ],
        [
          {
            "name" : "rattannut",
            "count" : 12
          },
          {
            "name" : "rattanfiber",
            "count" : 13
          },
          {
            "name" : "plantfibre",
            "count" : 2
          }
        ]
      ],

As you can see, I had set values for each item, with an increase of "rattannut" as the amount of "rattanfiber" decreased. I do not have time to really fiddle with my mods today (or until Friday, basically), so can I ask for some help balancing out my update to my Rattan mod?

 

So I tried fiddling with the values I originally listed. Found something interesting.

With this coding:

Code:

[ 
{ "op": "add", "path": "/rattanHarvest", "value": 
 [
    [0, {
      "pool" : [
        {"weight" : 1.00, "item" : "rattanfiber" },
        {"weight" : 1.00, "item" : "rattannut"}
      ],
      "poolRounds": [
        [0.34, 300],
        [0.33, 200],
        [0.33, 100]
      ]
    } ]
  ]
}
]

By my understanding of the system, I thought that it would either give me an Error in the log or give me 1 of each object. Neither happened.

The drops ended up totaling up to the total amount of rolls done.

See:



This was a 300 roll. Other rolls I got were 47/53 and 98/102, among many others. This result surprised me.

Does anyone have a better understanding of this system?

 

What is a "Sub pool"?

 

Right. Okay.

Now are there any ways to reduce the absolute randomness of the "pools" system? I want to guarantee a certain number of each item upon harvest, at the very least. I tried using "count" in the following code to no avail:

Code:

[
{ "op": "add", "path": "/rattanHarvest", "value": 
[
    [0, {
      "pool" : [
        {"weight" : 1.00, "item" : "rattanfiber", "count" : 10},
        {"weight" : 1.00, "item" : "rattannut", "count" : 10}
      ],
      "poolRounds": [
        [0.34, 300],
        [0.33, 200],
        [0.33, 100]
      ]
    } ]
  ]
}
]

 

Okay, noted. Wouldn't it be more like this, though:

Code:

[
{ "op": "add", "path": "/rattanHarvest", "value":
[
    [0, {
      "fill" : [
        {"item" : [ "bananahead", 10]}
      ]]
  ]
}
]

Also, how could I add randomness on top of that?

 

Thank you sooo much! I'll be back after I do some testing.[DOUBLEPOST=1423039695][/DOUBLEPOST]Okay, I tried the following configuration:

Code:

[
{ "op": "add", "path": "/rattanHarvest", "value":
  [
    [0, {
     "pool" : [
        {"weight" : 0.66, "item" : [ "rattanfiber", 3]},
        {"weight" : 0.66, "item" : [ "rattannut", 3]},
     ],
     "poolRounds" : [
        [0.3, 1],
        [0.4, 2],
        [0.3, 3]
     ],
     "fill" : [
        {"item" : [ "rattanfiber", 13]},
        {"item" : [ "rattannut", 6]},
        {"item" : [ "plantfibre", 2]}
      ]
    } ]
  ]
}
]

And got the following series of errors in the log, before the game crashed:

[00:44:16.313] Error: Exception caught loading asset: /treasure/harvest.treasurepools, (AssetException) Could not read variant asset /treasure/harvest.treasurepools
StarException::StarException(string, exception)
AssetException::AssetException(string, exception)
_Function_handler<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> (), Assets::loadVariant(String)::{lambda()#1}>:_Any_data)
Assets:rocessAssetData(function<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> ()>)
Assets::loadVariant(String)
Assets::loadAsset(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::doLoad(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::workerMain()
ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
BaseThreadInitThunk
RtlInitializeExceptionChain
RtlInitializeExceptionChain

Caused by: (JsonParsingException) Cannot parse json file: /treasure/harvest.treasurepools
StarException::StarException(string, exception)
Assets::readVariant(String)
_Function_handler<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> (), Assets::loadVariant(String)::{lambda()#1}>:_Any_data)
Assets:rocessAssetData(function<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> ()>)
Assets::loadVariant(String)
Assets::loadAsset(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::doLoad(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::workerMain()
ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
BaseThreadInitThunk
RtlInitializeExceptionChain
RtlInitializeExceptionChain

Caused by: (JsonParsingException) Error parsing json: unexpected character parsing word at 8:4
JsonParsingException::JsonParsingException(string)
Variant inputUtf8Json<char*>(char*, char*, bool)
Assets::readVariant(String)
_Function_handler<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> (), Assets::loadVariant(String)::{lambda()#1}>:_Any_data)
Assets:rocessAssetData(function<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> ()>)
Assets::loadVariant(String)
Assets::loadAsset(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::doLoad(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::workerMain()
ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
BaseThreadInitThunk
RtlInitializeExceptionChain
RtlInitializeExceptionChain

[00:44:16.432] Info: Renderer initialized
[00:44:16.484] Error: Exception raised during Root finishLoad: (AssetException) Error loading asset /treasure/harvest.treasurepools
AssetException::AssetException(string)
Assets::getAsset(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::variant(String)
TreasureDatabase::TreasureDatabase()
Root::load(bool)
Root::finishLoad()
_Function_handler<void (), _Bind<ClientApplication:reSplashInitialization()::{lambda()#1} ()> >:_Any_data)
ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
BaseThreadInitThunk
RtlInitializeExceptionChain
RtlInitializeExceptionChain

[00:44:16.816] Info: Writing Star::Configuration to '.\../giraffe_storage\starbound.config'
[00:44:20.096] Info: Renderer destroyed
[00:44:20.193] Info: Shutting down Star::Root
[00:44:20.531] Error: Fatal Exception Caught: (StarException) An error occurred during loading: (AssetException) Error loading asset /treasure/harvest.treasurepools
ClientApplication:ostSplashInitialization()
ClientApplication::update()
StarApplicationBase::run()
_SDL_main
_console_main

Any idea why? I checked the code at 8:4 and only found a comma...

EDIT: I am so stupid. I missed a comma, so it expected a value instead of a bracket. Testing once more...

EDIT 2: YEP, working fantastically now. Thank you so much @xxswatelitexx !