Durability

[lashiam]

Is it possible to give wands, durability? So that they break after a certain amount of uses, but they can also be repaired.

[NathanWolf]

You can add a "uses" property to a wand and it will break after being used a certain number of times. Uses will show in lore, it doesn't use the durability bar or vanilla durability in any way.

I don't know that I have a specific example of repairing, but I imagine you could use ModifyProperties in a spell to make them repairable in some way.

Let me know if you want more info on that!

[lashiam]

i do!! :D it sounds like it'd be really cool to create a durability system so that its actually useful to repair your wand, like a sword wand.

[NathanWolf]

I've got a few examples in the builtin configs. Take the bombs from the potter pack for instance:

bombs:
    mode: cast
    quiet: 2
    active_spell: bombtastic
    icon: magma_cream
    indestructible: clay_ball
    effect_color: 'FF0000'
    uses: 16
    spells:
        - bombtastic

This is meant to represent a bag of 16 bombs that you toss out one at a time.

The thing I have not ever done (that I can remember) is make some way to repair them. The wand has no memory of its original # of uses, so this might be kind of a challenge to set up. I think the basic idea would be a spell that sets the uses to some number, or maybe adds more uses up to some maximum.

You could put this spell in a menu, like the survival enchantment table menu, something like that.

The spell itself I think would use the ModifyProperties action to change the uses ... and I think that would work but clearly I haven't tried it myself so I can't say for sure.

I think it would be nice to have a better system that uses item durability, but that hasn't been implemented for a couple of reasons:

1. Item durability used to be used to show different models, way back before custom model data existed
2. The more important point, I think we still can't control max durability for items. I should check if there's now a component for this, but I want to say it's still hard-coded based on item type. So you'd be restricted to using tools, and those would be restricted somewhat to using whatever the durability of that tool is.

[lashiam]

that would be really cool, hopefully i can figure it out to try and make a durability system where players can fix their items