Lockpicks

[Belgeranrg]

So I have an idea. I'm sure it's been done but I got the idea when, in another post, someone told me to have a block downgrade into itself in order to make an infinite source. That aside it got me thinking... What if I made a lockpick tool that would "upgrade" a locked container into an unlocked one. So what I tried was:

<item name="toolLockPick">
<property name="CustomIcon" value="toolLockpick"/>
<property name="Meshfile" value="Items/Misc/sackPrefab"/>
<property name="Material" value="MresourceCoal"/>
<property name="EconomicValue" value="0"/>
<property name="SellableToTrader" value="false"/>
<property name="HoldType" value="21"/>
<property name="Degradation" value="250" param1="true"/>
<property name="Stacknumber" value="25"/> <!-- STK resource -->
<property class="Action1">
	<property name="Class" value="Repair"/>
	<property name="Delay" value="0.5"/>
	<property name="Repair_amount" value="350"/>
	<property name="Allowed_upgrade_items" value="toolLockpick"/>
</property>
</item>

and then I added lines to a couple of items like this:

<property class="UpgradeBlock">
	<property name="ToBlock" value="cntDeskSafeInsecure"/>
	<property name="Item" value="toolLockpick"/>
	<property name="ItemCount" value="1"/>
	<property name="UpgradeHitCount" value="10"/>
</property>

Then I made a crappy icon and tried it in game. What I'm running into now is that it constantly says it needs repair when attempting to open something... did I miss something or did I approach this the wrong way altogether?

Edit:I figured out what I was doing wrong. Well, sort of. Instead of treating the lockpick as a consumable I instead treated it like a tool and reworked the entire thing... Still have some bugs to work out but otherwise I think it might just work. Now to figure out how to do meshes, textures, and other visual things from my Mac.

 

[Belgeranrg]

Alright, now I've got it working but no matter what I do I can't seem to get the resulting "insecure" container to maintain it's loot... Any ideas?

 

[bdubyah]

Usually it's downgrading from secure to insecure, not upgrading. Not entirely sure that's your problem, but maybe try changing that?

 

[Belgeranrg]

Well, I wanted to make sure that beating the hell out of a safe still worked. So I figured if I could get the tool to 'Upgrade' the safe to the same thing it 'Downgrades' to it could still work. I did in fact get it to work by using a copy of the wrench for the most part. Problem is 2 fold: 1. I can't figure out how to make it not break with every use, and when I say it breaks I mean disappears. But I still want it to lose durability too. 2. When I open a safe with it, the resulting safe is empty despite no changes to the insecure loot list or block... Any ideas?

 

[bdubyah]

The reason you lose the lockpick is because <property name="Item" value="toolLockpick"/> under the Upgrade section means it uses that as the material to upgrade the safe. So it consumes it.

The safe being empty I think is just because you spawned it in. Pretty sure you can throw down a regular secure one from the CM menu, break it open and it will be empty too.

 

[Belgeranrg]

So if I remove that line it shouldn't consumer it?

 

[bdubyah]

Can't say 100%, but it should not consume it then. Not entirely sure it will work correctly though.

Only one way to find out.