Recipe = Produces random count of product?

[erdrik]

How do I set a recipe to create a random amount of the desired product?

Something like the HarvestYeildRange of plants?

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      <harvestYieldRange>
        <min>2</min>
        <max>4</max>
      </harvestYieldRange>


EDIT:
While Im at it is there a way to modify the product based on ingredients without .dll coding?
Basically I would like the stove to produce a secondary product based on whether there was meat involved.

[erdrik]

Nevermind.

I don't want to use dll modding for this project, but I do know how.
So I looked at thingCount to see what the problem was, and found this:

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public void LoadDataFromXmlCustom (XmlNode xmlRoot)
{
if (xmlRoot.ChildNodes.Count != 1) {
Log.Error ("Misconfigured ThingCount: " + xmlRoot.OuterXml);
return;
}
CrossRefLoader.RegisterObjectWantsCrossRef (this, "thingDef", xmlRoot.Name);
this.count = (int)ParseHelper.FromString (xmlRoot.FirstChild.Value, typeof(int));
}


Can't have more than one childnode.
The first childnode's value must contain the int.

Poo.

[JuliaEllie]

There are a few ways to do this but the easiest way in my opinion and what I did in my early modding experience was to make a "helper thing". Basically only a ThingDef which had a Def a Label and a ThingClass to execute.

You can set this as a product in your RecipeDef and on SpawnSetup it gets destroyed immediately and OnDestroy it executes some code. In your case spawning a random number of Things.

If you need further help on this I can see if I still find my old code or could quickly make up a new example.