Water Features

[Harroghty]

If you would like to add a water feature from which PCs can drink then you should feel free to use i403 to do so. This is an invisible, hidden object called "the water" (so PCs will see "You drink water from the water.").

I welcome any suggestions to improve these. Right now they are only employed along the Starwater River in Cormyr's King's Forest (wilds58.are).

Correction, if you cannot see the water then you see: You drink water from something. Should these be visible or would that be distracting?

[Xryon]

Might be worth it to just do an intercept prog with a custom echo and mpmadd the thirst value. Bypasses the worry over 'something's.

[Harroghty]

This addresses that aspect, but it becomes more hairy with vessels. You can check to see if the PC has a DRINKCON equipped, but to work filling a vessel from the supply end is a little hit or miss. Still tinkering.

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>intercept_prog drink
if stringprefix($1) == river
or stringprefix($1) == water
  mpmadd $n thirst 10
  mpechoat $n {70}You drink water from {60}the river{70}.
  mpechoaround $n {70}@N drinks water from {60}the river{70}.
else
  mpunintercept
endif
~

[Xryon]

Do builders have access to sector modifications on our codebase? This is probably something best applied to all (fresh) water tiles... There's a lot of watery rooms scattered about.

I'm responding via phone, and can't easily access the lessons, but would something like this work? (Excuse formatting for same reason)

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~intercept_prog fill
if objtype($O) == [drink_con_value]
  mpintercept
  [echoes for filling]
  mpset objval[fill_value] $O on $n [full value]
else
  [echo that you can't fill that]

[Harroghty]

You can identify that they have a suitable container, but you cannot then target that specific container. You can only mposet $o and be specific if the code is on the object, and then you have objects potentially filling from non-potable sources (not every water_no_swim room is potable).