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Newbie Joined: 21 Jun 2012 Posts: 8

Wonder if anybody can give me pointers as how to solve this problem:

The situation is there is a box with different crafting items and i'd like to make a single alias/script to quickly craft an item. Here are the parameters:
-It takes 3 of the same item to craft, note that some items in the box have less than 3, and some items aren't even craftable
-The alias should choose the most 'expensive' items to first craft.

Here's a craftable item list from most expensive to least expensive:
adamantium, gold, iron, glowing rocks

How would I go about doing this? Thanks =) I'm a very newbie scripter looking to improve (my first exposure to coding was through Zmud triggers lol! and made me interested ever since). Any pointers would be helpful!

The capture is as follows---------------

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A grey box has:
glowing rocks [45]
a lump of iron [3]
a piece of gold [9]
a scrap of metal [4]
a piece of bronze ore [12]
some adamantium [2]
a lump of clay [5]
a piece of steel

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Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

A few questions:

Is it always a grey box? Or do you want to specify a target container each time?
What is/are the commands to craft?
Are you only concerned with adamantium, gold, iron, and glowing rocks? What about the bronze and steel in the box?
How do you want this crafting process to be initiated? Perhaps you want an alias like "docraft grey box" which looks into the grey box and starts crafting?
Do you want this script to just craft one thing, or to continue crafting until it can't make anything else?
Do the names of the ingredients ever change? Like, does "some adamantium" ever become "a lot of adamantium" or "glowing rocks" become "a glowing rock"?
While crafting, is there any mud output that you have to worry about? In particular, are there any potential error messages, like "You are missing a tool."?

If you could give us the complete mud output of a crafting session, it would be useful. When you cut and paste the text into the forum, precede it with [code] and end it with [/code]. That will format it exactly the way it comes from the mud, which is important for writing triggers.

Newbie Joined: 21 Jun 2012 Posts: 8

Hey thanks for the quick reply!

Here are the answers to your questions, hope it helps:

Yes it will always be a grey box.

The command to craft is 'melt ore (materialname here)' and then the second step is 'make bar (materialname here). The second step takes two ores. So it's a two step crafting thing, in total needing 3 of the same ore. So the first step takes one unit to melt it, and the second step takes two more of the same unit to turn it into a bar.

Yes only concerned with adamantium, gold and iron. There are others, however i didn't list it fearing it may be too complicated. Just wanted pointers on how to make a 'hierarchy' of 'importance' so that it would always craft a certain one first.

The crafting would be initiated by an alias hopefully. And only craft one item at a time.

The name of the ingredients do not change when quantity changes. However if there are mutliple ores it will look like 'some iron ore [5]' if the quantity is only one, it will look like 'some iron ore'.

Yes there's an error output you have to worry about: 'Cannot make bar from (ore)' This happens if you try to make a bar without melting it first.

Newbie Joined: 21 Jun 2012 Posts: 8

Can anybody give me pointers or clues as to what functions to use to go about accomplishing this? XD Thanks