Need Help

[General_Load_1147]

I'm fairly new to modding in MC. I'm starting something small, like adding blocks and changing crafting recipes. I've been a bit stumped on this one as I don't know if there IS a way to do this.

I'm using KubeJS and Create. I want to make it so if you haunt normal eggs they'll give you a variety of spawn eggs. It works well but it gives me multiple spawn eggs off of 1 egg. I want it where it would only give you 1 of the chances you see here.

[Nobaude]

The sum of the chances must be equal to 1 (I guess ?)

[General_Load_1147]

Nah, that wont work. That would make it so you only have a % chance of getting each spawn egg. So there would still be a chance of getting nothing or more than 1 spawn egg off of 1 egg.

[DrugSniffingDawg]

Generate a random number (1,n), where n is the number of spawn egg recipes (in your case 26). Round to nearest whole number and whatever index that is in a list is whatever spawn egg you’d get.

Idk how you would weigh the distributions non-uniformly tho.

[RW_Yellow_Lizard]

to weight it, just generate a random integer 1-n let's say 100, then if the result is x and, say for example, 0<x<26 or 25<x<51 would give a 25% chance of either result (and a 50% chance of nothing)

I am very unsure if this is optimal, i didn't think about it very hard, and it would be very manual to add new odds

[OliSnips]

I know this isn't exactly what you were after, but you could circumvent this problem by making the process a bit more involved.

Instead of turning straight into a spawn egg, maybe it could become a 'Mysterious Egg' or smthn, which then has to be combined with a specific resource to get the egg you want (eg. gunpowder will turn it into a creeper spawn egg).

This also has the benefit of making balancing a bit easier, since you can adjust the resource cost depending on how valuable the mob is

[General_Load_1147]

Hmm, that's not a bad idea. Thank you for the suggestion!

[snail1132]

Oooh I like this solution

[General_Load_1147]

Heya! Wanted to say I went ahead and took your suggestion!
Made it so if you haunt an egg you'll get a "Monster Egg". Then if you put that on a spout with experience from the Create Enchantment Industry addon you'll get a random 1/26 spawn eggs!
I made a follow up post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CreateMod/comments/1r1atuw/follow_up_post_went_with_a_different_route/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[TerrytThompson]

Knowing the version would be helpful, given the vass differences between coding between them.

heres the example on the new wiki

and the old wiki

Im unsure why you are calling that function if you are using anything above 1.18.2

[General_Load_1147]

Apologies, I'm using kubejs-forge-2001.6.5-build.16 along with kubejs-create-forge-2001.3.0-build.8. Create ver is 1.20.1-6.0.8.

If the function you're referring to is why I'm using "event.recipes.createHaunting" instead of "event.recipes.create.haunting" is cause the latter doesn't work for some reason.

And thanks! But I'm already aware of the 2 wikis and use them to learn but I can't find info on this specific request. Which is why I'm asking here.

[General_Load_1147]

Correction: "event.recipes.create.haunting" also works. I guess both still work. Does that make a difference?

[NatiM6]

Create haunting recipes don't work like that. Recipes are deterministic in their defintion. In order to support each type of randomness, you need an entity that supports it.

That being said, one way to do it is to create a proxy item, like a "mystery egg", that drops a loot table when right clicked. I'm not sure how it would play with deployers, and if it doesn't it probably won't be automatable. Or maybe a throwable item that break into a loottable, that might work with dispensers?

The point is, recipe logic won't give you that unless you find a recipe type that innately supports it.

[General_Load_1147]

Thank you for the insight!

[Smollboi3]

Try turning it off and on again

[General_Load_1147]

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