Make turrets want hoppers?

[Lonely Rogue]

My pc is not with me right now, and I'm new to modding *cough cough never done it* and I need to know if I can make a turret require a hopper. I have a *tiny* mod in the works to get myself started and the wiki tutorials are confusing and say they are only updated to alpha 9. Thnx for reading!

[Jaxxa]

Yes, that should be completely possible.

I actually had my mod doing exactly that a while ago (around Alpha 7/8), but stopped updating that part of it after ammo usage was added into the base mortars. Although that is not exactly the same thing. I have been thinking about bring it up-to-date for the latest version.

In the meantime you can have a look at the older code if you want.
From memory it used the logic from nutrient paste despensors as a base for the ammo usage and if it was out of Ammo stopped the cooldown to fire.

[Liegeman]

My experience with hoppers tells me that the vanilla ones are incredibly limited in their implementation. They seem quite generic, but they are actually intended specifically for Nutri-paste dispensers.

Not too hard to clone the code and adjust them for turrets, but it is beyond the scope of a simple XML mod.

[Jaxxa]

You do realise that you will have to do with with C# coding and creating a .dll right? As far as I know you cant do what you want with just editing the xml.

I found the code that I was using to do this on Github that you can have a look at, it is for an old version so probably does not work right now, but I am planning to update it, maybe this weekend. Ask questions if you cant figure it out.

https://github.com/jaxxa/RimWorld-Enhanced-Defence/tree/master/ED-Core/Source/Enhanced_Defence/TurretAmmo