New craftable prefabbed EEPROMs / floppies?

[Solra Bizna 10]

Release of an alpha version of the ARM mod is near, and I'm now thinking about how to get new prefabbed EEPROMs / floppies into the game. What would be the best approach?

(Edit: Ack! This isn't the Support forum! How did I end up here?)

[Sangar 92]

Moved that for you

 

For a mod, i.e. when not being able to edit OC's recipe file you'll basically want to create a new ItemStack of a floppy and "configure" it (otherwise you could add a loot disk via the save dir and add a recipe to the recipes Lua; not really an option here, just wanted to mention it).

 

The quick and dirty way would be to just fill out the NBT tag accordingly (which I frankly don't know off the top of my head, best thing would be to inspect that of existing items). For EEPROMs that's pretty simple, because their actual data is stored in the tag itself. For floppies that's a bit trickier, because it isn't, and on top of that there's the distinction of loot disks and normal file systems. The more elaborate way would be to get the drivers, create an environment and initialize the items using component calls. Also kinda hacky, though.

 

For EEPROMs I'd just recommend to go with setting the NBT directly for now. For a floppy, you might in fact want to create a new item and add a driver for that (using Slot.Floppy), that'd give you a lot more flexibility.

 

In the long run I guess I could add an API to register loot disks and configured EEPROMs via an IMC call or so? It's just something noone needed so far.