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Duxatious

16 Aug, 2024 @ 8:43am

Wasted Time Coding Something Already Present Because It Was So Obscure

I was trying to code in a scripted effect to add a random valid planetary deposit that could be food, energy, mineral, strategic, or rare...
The devs already added it in! What's worse is that it only appears in the game's code once, and it's commented out! It doesn't even appear on the wiki, nor does it have any search results on the web.

effect add_deposit_category_effect = "category" does everything I wanted it to do.

The deposit categories are:
deposit_cat_food
deposit_cat_energy
deposit_cat_minerals
deposit_cat_blockers
deposit_cat_blockers_natural
deposit_cat_rare
deposit_cat_rare_resource
deposit_cat_rare_blocker

To any inexperienced modder, I hope you see this before you try to code your own version.

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FirePrince has Stellaris

23 Aug, 2024 @ 1:08am

Are you sure with the blocker? The effect docu says:

add_deposit_category_effect - Adds random non-blocker resource deposit to the scoped planet of a certain category

Duxatious

23 Aug, 2024 @ 11:25am

Originally posted by FirePrince:
Are you sure with the blocker? The effect docu says:
add_deposit_category_effect - Adds random non-blocker resource deposit to the scoped planet of a certain category

The effect can add blockers, but the blockers have to be valid for the planet or it fails.
deposit_cat_blockers works on tombworlds.
deposit_cat_blockers_natural works on most planets.
deposit_cat_rare_blocker works on gaia worlds.
There are also many deposits and blockers with a drop_weight of 0 so they'll never be picked.

P.s. What effect docu?

Last edited by Duxatious; 23 Aug, 2024 @ 11:29am

FirePrince has Stellaris

23 Aug, 2024 @ 12:17pm

Hm* indeed not very highlighted but the very base for modding: The game creates doc file (effects.log - triggers.log ...) in the

logs\script_documentation\

folder. https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Effects#Dump_Export

Last edited by FirePrince; 23 Aug, 2024 @ 12:17pm

Duxatious

23 Aug, 2024 @ 12:26pm

Originally posted by FirePrince:
Hm* indeed not very highlighted but the very base for modding: The game creates doc file (effects.log - triggers.log ...) in the
logs\script_documentation\
folder. https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Effects#Dump_Export

Wish I'd known that sooner, thanks for the tip. I had been relying on what was present in the game's code and on the wiki.