Interaction between Power Projectile and Consume/ConsumeHit

[Severdez]

When using an rpgitem, that fires projectiles that have effects like creating a lightning and you "switch" to another item (or bare hand), or the item is consumed, the projectiles have no effect on contact.

So let's say:
/rpgitem test power projectile snowball 0 10 10
/rpgitem test power lightning 1
/rpgitem test power consume

No lightning bolts will be summoned because the rpgitem is consumed while the snowballs are still in the air.

Version: rpgitem-reloaded-1.11-v.262

[Librazy]

It is by design to require the RPGItem still be held when the projectiles hit something to trigger the power. That prevents some buggy behavior which may become a bigger problem. It doesn't play nice with consume, but you can achieve this by using durability. Let the cost of lightning equals the item's durability and the item will consume itself when lightning triggers. And if you switch to another item before the projectile hits, the power won't be triggered and the item remains.

[Severdez]

First of all, thanks for answer and the workaround.

The problem with that is however, that if i have more than one of this RPGitem stacked in one slot that all of them get used at once. Is there a workaround for that?

[Nicklander]

Please fix this issue ! As Severdez said, your "durability method" isn't an alternative since ALL of the items will get used if you have multiple of them stacked together.

The consume power works fine if you have AT LEAST 2 items stacked together, but if there's only 1 item then the lightning strike won't be triggered because the item gets removed before the lightning strike gets triggered by the snowballs.

There is the consumehit power, but this is not a working alternative either for the example above because even if you don't hit an enemy the lightning strike will be called. Thus this could be easily exploited by players by simple aiming a little bit on the side of the target and so the item will never get consumed...

The consume power should be delayed and only be triggered when all other powers have been executed. If you can't achieve this, you could add a delay parameter for the power consume command as a workaround (of course it shouldn't be possible anymore to use the item when the delay starts...). In conclusion the consume power is buggy in combination with projectiles.

[Formula350]

Question 1: @Severdez and @Nicklander on a Bow that has power consume and power lightning, when you fire an arrow does the arrow do lightning damage on contact, and/or does the bow get consumed? Does it get consumed before, or after the arrow hits?

Question 2: @Librazy Would it be possible to make it so that when an RPGItem with power consume AND power projectile is used, there's an event that is created which gets executed by a trigger?

My thought being that when those 2 conditions are met (an item has both consume and projectile) and only for those items so it doesn't induce unnecessary processor usage, that on use creates an Event which takes note of the projectile's UUID, and has a Trigger of that UUID ceasing to exist, at which point fires off the internal command to remove the item from their inventory.

And/Or perhaps another idea would be to utilize the Durability differently where an item with Durability 1 is treated as non-functioning, which would then still allow for the item not to be remove, therefore allowing the Projectile to execute the item's power. I'm not 100% sure but I feel like something similar to that is already in place, at least in terms of the item not being destroyed and remaining at Durability 1, but I might be thinking of something else... 😟

Fingers crossed that maybe something can come from that...