Modding Help Why are there multiple basicmonstertreasures?

I'm talking about basicmonstertreasure1-6 in assets/treasure. They all get used, too. Why?

 

I'm asking because I 'm trying to make a brain extractor-like item, but I'm getting default drops. I'm not modifying, brain.treasurepool I'm making my own.

This leads me to believe that the game is interpreting the damage kind to be default, not the damage kind I created.

The first thing I do when I hit a problem is see if somebody else has already done it, and the Bow if Epirus mod did something like it, so I used a similar approach.

As such, the log is clean.

Here's one of my treasure pools:

Code:

{
  "resourceextractor" : [
    [1, {
        "pool" : [
          [0.07, [ "bone", 2 ] ],
          [0.07, [ "bone", 3 ] ],
          [0.07, [ "bone", 4 ] ],
          [0.07, [ "bone", 5 ] ],
          [0.07, [ "brain" ] ],
          [0.14, [ "fleshstrand", 2 ] ],
          [0.28, [ "fleshstrand" ] ],
          [0.07, [ "bonematerial" ] ],
          [0.16, [ "organ1" ] ]
        ],
        "poolRounds" : [
          [0.10, 5],
          [0.15, 4],
          [0.20, 3],
          [0.50, 2],
          [0.05, 1]
        ],
        "levelVariance" : [0, 0],
        "allowDuplication" : false
      } ]
  ]
}

Here's one of the .monstertype merges:

Code:

{
    "__merge": [],
    "dropPools": [
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure2",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure3",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure4",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure5",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "basicMonsterTreasure6",
            "bow": "hunting",
            "brain": "brain",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"           
        },
        {
            "default": "resourceextractor",
            "braingreen": "resourceextractor"
        },       
        {
            "default": "brainextractormkii",
            "brainpurple": "brainextractormkii"
        }
    ]
}

My projectile is showing up properly ingame.


I was considering an alternate approach in which my projectile simply spawns the items in when the projectile from the weapon kills an enemy. Would this approach be viable?

 

I appear to have that set correctly. I have the projectile set to my custom one, and the damageKind set to the value I'm using in those files.

 

I have done that. Sorry, I was trying to multitask and got vague.

Projectile's damageKind is "braingreen"

the according treasurepool is "resourceextractor"

entry in the .monstertype reads

"braingreen" : "resourceextractor"

And again, the log is showing no exceptions. Any ideas?

Perhaps I'll upload my mod, something's up.

 

Is there a way to determine if that's the case?

 

Well here comes the part where I look like an idiot. The mobs I have been testing this on were unique or something, for whatever reason they aren't included in any of the monstertype files I have merged onto. So I was actually doi ng it corrently all along, the problem lies in my monsters folder.

<-- Daimoth

 

Ironically I chose that planet to test my mod on because the mobs on it were interesting. These things are what's been causing the problem



But it's whatever. This is now a much easier problem to troubleshoot than before.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help. Why aren't you a mod here yet?

 

I don't blame you there. It would be hard to keep a cool all the time.

 

Hm. Alright I've run into what I'm almost positive is a bug. As I said before, I don't merge with or otherwise modify any of the base files related to the vanilla brain extractor, but it is somehow occasionally producing a brain unique to my mod.

I'm getting my drops from some mobs, but not others. What's more, some mobs within the same monstertype are dropping my items consistently, and others are not at all.

I'm officially stumped. What the hell's going on here?

 

Is there anything I can do about it? I've addressed every .monstertype file that isn't a unique monster or boss.

 

It might have something to do with some values being baked in when the planet's monsters are rolled up? Have you checked a completely fresh planet?

 

I feel your frustration. I'm getting the exact same problem with my mod.