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[Nate McCloud]

I'm trying to create reactions that either require multiple containers of reagents (e.g. 7 buckets of water at my Obsidian Forge for 1 boulder of obsidian) or give multiple containers of product (e.g. 1 ore boulder at my Pulverizer for 2 bags of ore sand). How would I go about this?

Two methods come to mind, but I'm not sure which is correct.

Method 1:

Code: [Select]

[REAGENT:water:3000:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container:7:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]

Method 2

Code: [Select]

[REAGENT:water 1:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 1:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 1]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 2:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 2:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 2]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 3:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 31:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 3]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 4:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 4:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 4]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 5:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 5:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 5]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 6:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 6:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 6]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 7:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 7:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 7]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]

EDIT: ...I'm just now realizing that this won't work no matter how I do it, because dwarves won't fill buckets with water to do the reaction, anyway, and there's no vanilla way to store water in buckets...

[bloop_bleep]

...I'm just now realizing that this won't work no matter how I do it, because dwarves won't fill buckets with water to do the reaction, anyway, and there's no vanilla way to store water in buckets...

That's quitter talk, friend. Create a creature that has an interaction that only works in water, which induces a syndrome in another creature, which transforms the latter into another creature that lays water buckets as eggs. (Or if that's not possible, make it lay ice, for which you can create a reaction to transform it into water and put in a bucket.) Perhaps give the former creature a high temperature so that it actually consumes water (by turning it into steam.)

[Nate McCloud]

That's uh...an extremely roundabout way of going about it...

[TomiTapio]

I like having a plants-to-hospital-waterbuckets reaction. For pondless & caveless embarks.

[REACTION:PRESS_PLANTS_WATER] --by Malecus
   [NAME:press water from plants]
   [BUILDING:SCREW_PRESS:CUSTOM_ALT_P]
   [REAGENT:A:7:PLANT:NONE:NONE:NONE][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
   [REAGENT:B:1:BUCKET:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][DOES_NOT_ABSORB][PRESERVE_REAGENT][DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
   [PRODUCT:80:1:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER:NONE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:B]
   [SKILL:PRESSING]

[Nate McCloud]

...Huh. That's actually not a bad idea...it would work, and it wouldn't be cheaty like just producing water from nothing. I like it.