Can place-able items be used as crafting resources?

[sir_ghost]

Can place-able items be used as crafting resources?
For instance, could I make a recipe that uses a chair as a resource?

For example:

Triple-chair
Recipe:
3 x Cathedral-Arch Chair
1 x Wood resource
1 x Thread resource

[GhostF]

Yeah you can do that. But you will need to add a new material to be sure that the crafter uses that chair.

So if you want it to say ‘cathedral-arch chair’ as part of the recipe in the crafters menu, then you will need to open the arch_backed_chair_ghost.json file and add cathedral-arch to the material tag (chair is already listed in the tags):

  "stonehearth:material" : {
     "tags" : "wood furniture chair crafted cathedral-arch"
  },

After that, you will need to add it to the recipe of the item you are making:

  {
     "material" : "cathedral-arch chair",
	 "count" : 3
  }

Hope I explained it clear enough!

[sir_ghost]

@GhostF

Hope I explained it clear enough!

You certainly did. Thank you.

[Wombat85]

@sdee and I had a back and forth about this but I cant find it. Its better to create a unique tag for the proxy so only unplaced items get used, otherwise wired things happen.

[sir_ghost]

@Wombat85

Its better to create a unique tag for the proxy

Do you mean I should do this instead of a tag for the ghost file? Or both?

[Wombat85]

So lets sort this out:

@GhostF

“stonehearth:material” : {
“tags” : “wood furniture chair crafted cathedral-arch”
},

No, dont do this, just dont. Tags tell several things, they say what stockpile to put the item in, they are also a unique call for that item in materials. Found the post:

A note for the Devs

So here it is, I am not a sycophant in any way, in fact I got accused of being to hard on the devs but I wanted to say something but first I wanted to provide some context. I am a senior in Mechanical engineering at the age of 30 (shhhhh), and have some experiance in C, but mainly I spend a lot of time writing .m files and scripts in matlab. I have never seen .json .luac or even tried my hand at java in my life. So what I wanted to say is how awesome you guys are at making coding in this game …

[GhostF]

Due to the new file structure, that way no longer works (atleast not for me). As far as I know, the iconic version of the item is the one in the stockpile, but adding material tags to that file doesn’t work.

That the crafter takes already placed items isn’t necessarily a problem when you make sure it has unplaced ones closer by. I agree, not ideal but it is a solution until we find a better way.

Although perhaps @sdee has a suggestion to make it work?

[Wombat85]

Except crafting materials arnt chosen on distance, its random so having unplaced ones close by does nothing, they still may go and take a bed that has been placed and has someone sleeping in it (if you used a bed).

[GhostF]

Ah didn’t know that. While I was testing it seemed to use the one that was closest by.

But then I agree that it isn’t a viable way to do this.