Drop probability from entities while harvesting

[Iceburg71]

Is it possible to use probability when harvesting an animal to get or not get an item from it?  or is there a way to specify a range say from 0 to 5 to get an item from harvesting an animal? or a combination of both? been struggling with this and I am either being an idiot because I have not worked on modding in a while, or it can't be done, or I just don't know how to do it.

Thanks for any help.

 

[BFT2020]

Not sure what you tried so far, but have you added a new line to the animal and added probability to it?

For example,

<entity_class name="animalStag" extends="animalTemplateTimid">

.........
    <drop event="Harvest" name="foodRawMeat" tag="butcherHarvest" count="30"/> <!-- animalStag -->

    <drop event="Harvest" name="foodRawMeat" tag="butcherHarvest" prob="0.5" count="5"/>






Not sure if this would work, never tried it myself

 

[Iceburg71]

hmmm..   Haven't tried it like that yet.  I will have to give something like that a go.  I really want to do something like this as well for some animals to try and get a little more variety in what you get from some of them...  this would give you anywhere from 0 to 10 meat.  this is just an example...

[COLOR=#e8bd89]<drop[/COLOR][COLOR=#ebe7e3] [/COLOR][COLOR=#df897a]event[/COLOR][COLOR=#d9b180]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#7ea9c4]"Harvest"[/COLOR][COLOR=#ebe7e3] [/COLOR][COLOR=#df897a]name[/COLOR][COLOR=#d9b180]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#7ea9c4]"foodRawMeat"[/COLOR][COLOR=#ebe7e3] [/COLOR][COLOR=#df897a]tag[/COLOR][COLOR=#d9b180]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#7ea9c4]"butcherHarvest"[/COLOR][COLOR=#ebe7e3] [/COLOR][COLOR=#df897a]count[/COLOR][COLOR=#d9b180]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#7ea9c4]"0","10"[/COLOR]

 

[meganoth]

hmmm..   Haven't tried it like that yet.  I will have to give something like that a go.  I really want to do something like this as well for some animals to try and get a little more variety in what you get from some of them...  this would give you anywhere from 0 to 10 meat.  this is just an example...

<drop event="Harvest" name="foodRawMeat" tag="butcherHarvest" count="0","10"

and it would probably fail. You have to write

count="0,10" />




i.e. only one string and a closing bracket at the end.

You could look at the existing code in vanilla xmls for examples. For example to get the syntax right now I just searched all the textfiles in Data/Config for the string "count" and among all those I immediately found one with a range.

Also you can check for errors by looking into the directory ConfigsDump in the savegame after trying out a change. There you will see the resulting xmls. If your change is not there or an error is displayed you know the game did not accept your change.