Is fermentation barrel hardcoded to take wort?

[daxter154]

Hello, I'm trying to add distillation in my mod. The process would be *identical* to how beer is made, just re textured and with a different item (eg. not wort). I've looked through the code a bit, and it looks like the Building_FermentationBarrel function

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AddWort(Thing wort) function takes a Thing object, which goes to reason that any Thing object defined in an xml could be that object, despite the variables being named wort. But I can't find any leads in either the Building_Production.xml Fermentation Barrel Thingdef that would specify what kind of thing it takes.


On top of that, I noticed that there is a specific task for filling the fermentation barrel. I have not looked into that, but I can only imagine there could be a problem of pawns bringing the wrong object as defined in the task to my new building.


TLDR: How do I change the input/output item for fermentation barrel? XML is prefered but I could make a DLL and just mirror the appropriate classes if it turns out that's not possible, and would love some pointers if I need to go in that direction.

[dburgdorf]

The compost barrels in "Fertile Fields" are based on fermentation barrels. The source code is included with the mod distribution, if you want to take a look.

I'm not sure if it's possible to change the input and output of the fermentation barrels with XML only, since I haven't had a reason to try. But certainly you could do so with Harmony patches, if replacing the default barrel is your intent.

[kaptain_kavern]

There is a mod for that :

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=33398.0

[daxter154]

of course there is Thank you!