[FYI] Factoring ingredient quality level into crafted item.

[Deceptive Pastry]

Have been working on reintroducing weapon parts to create weapons. The one issue is it being seemingly impossible through XML to get multiple resources from scrapping an item. However I figured out a way to essentially average all recipe ingredients' item qualities to influence the crafted item's quality.

 

Basically if you are using quality based (tiered) ingredients in a recipe, you can add the following to the item's effect_group. Using base_set will override your intelligence-based crafting quality.

 

<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="1,6" tier="1,6"/>

 

But when creating an item from a recipe, it goes down the list of ingredients sequentially to determine the output item's tier. Using base_set on all items overwrites the previous base_set each time, meaning the last item in the recipe list is what determines the final output item's quality.

 

Instead what you do is use base_set on the first item in the list to override the intelligence crafting stat, then base_add on the following items. Set the value to 1,6 divided by the amount of items in the recipe list* (note on this below). Say I have 4 items:

 

[color="#FFA500"]Note: These are just examples. I pulled these and the partsMaster code over from A16 and updated a couple properties if you want to do this on your own.[/color]

<item name="partsPistol_grip">
<property name="Extends" value="partsMaster"/>
<property name="CustomIcon" value="modGunForegripSchematic"/>
<effect_group>
	<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_set" value="0.25,1.5" tier="1,6"/>
</effect_group>
</item>
<item name="partsPistol_receiver">
<property name="Extends" value="partsMaster"/>
<property name="CustomIcon" value="modGunTriggerGroupBurstSchematic"/>
<effect_group>
	<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_add" value="0.25,1.5" tier="1,6"/>
</effect_group>
</item>
<item name="partsPistol_parts">
<property name="Extends" value="partsMaster"/>
<property name="CustomIcon" value="modGunRodAndSpringSchematic"/>
<effect_group>
	<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_add" value="0.25,1.5" tier="1,6"/>
</effect_group>
</item>
<item name="partsPistol_barrel">
<property name="Extends" value="partsMaster"/>
<property name="CustomIcon" value="modGunBarrelExtenderSchematic"/>
<effect_group>
	<passive_effect name="CraftingTier" operation="base_add" value="0.25,1.5" tier="1,6"/>
</effect_group>
</item>

 

And the recipe:

 

[color="#FFA500"](Recipe has them placed in the same order, base_set first)[/color]
<recipe name="gunPistol" count="1" craft_area="workbench" tags="learnable">
<ingredient name="partsPistol_grip" count="1" />
<ingredient name="partsPistol_receiver" count="1" />
<ingredient name="partsPistol_parts" count="1" />
<ingredient name="partsPistol_barrel" count="1" />
</recipe>

 

Then say I craft a pistol using a tier 2 grip, tier 4 receiver, tier 4 parts, and tier 5 barrel.

 

0.5 + 1 + 1 + 1.25 = 3.75, rounded down. This would output a tier 3 pistol. If any one of the items were just one tier higher, you would end up with a tier 4 pistol.

 

* Now, you may want to set the values on each item a bit higher than a total sum of 1,6. Due to rounding down, you would need all 4 items to be tier 6 in order to output a tier 6 pistol. If you set them all to 0.27,1.62, you could get away with having three tier 6 items + one tier 5 item (total = 6.21 ). 0.275,1.65 and you could get a tier 6 pistol out of two tier 6 + two tier 5 (total = 6.05). You'd have to do a bit of math and decide what you would prefer.