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[Malecus]

So I'm working on my own set of mods and everything is going great.  The Workshop workshop means I've got stylish buildings, and all the reactions are firing off wonderfully.  Except one.  This one.

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[REACTION:PREPARE_METAL_SHEETS]
   [NAME:Prepare Metal Sheets]
   [BUILDING:SHEETWORKS:NONE]
   [REAGENT:A:1:BAR:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:INSTRUMENT:ITEM_SHEETS:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE]
   [SKILL:METALCRAFT]

I'm no legendary modcrafter, but I believe I've got everything in the right place.  But every time I perform the reaction, I'm creating 150 of the product, not 1 as is intended.  I've tried this under a few conditions, and it's always overproduced in this exact amount.  I've rewritten the reaction a few times over from scratch, just in case I did something stupid like misspelled or typed in an extra number, but I keep getting the same result.

What am I doing wrong?

[Patchouli]

Try adding [PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150] to the product. I'm not absolutely sure, but I'm betting it has something to do with the fact that a bar of metal has 150 units to it. I'm guessing that the game will default the product dimension to 1. Since you're making 1 "set" of sheets with each sheet only taking 1 unit, from a bar that has 150 units, it probably spits out 150.

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[REACTION:PREPARE_METAL_SHEETS]
   [NAME:Prepare Metal Sheets]
   [BUILDING:SHEETWORKS:NONE]
   [REAGENT:A:1:BAR:NONE:NONE:NONE]
   [PRODUCT:100:1:INSTRUMENT:ITEM_SHEETS:GET_MATERIAL_FROM_REAGENT:A:NONE][PRODUCT_DIMENSION:150]
   [SKILL:METALCRAFT]

[Malecus]

Ah-ha!  You were close (the extra tag didn't work), but you were right with the 1 bar = 150 bar units part.  Seems I was asking for 1/150th of a bar, and the game quickly ran the reaction 150 times.  I had to ask for 150 units for it to work ([REAGENT:A:150:BAR...)

Seems a bit odd though, those 150 stacks I kept creating were resulting in a 300 times increase in mass over the original bar.

[Patchouli]

Ah-ha!  You were close (the extra tag didn't work), but you were right with the 1 bar = 150 bar units part.  Seems I was asking for 1/150th of a bar, and the game quickly ran the reaction 150 times.  I had to ask for 150 units for it to work ([REAGENT:A:150:BAR...)

Seems a bit odd though, those 150 stacks I kept creating were resulting in a 300 times increase in mass over the original bar.

Ah, I see now.

Because 1 bar = 150 units, you need to use 150 units to spit out a single product from a single bar. Before, it was signifying the 1/150 as equaling a single product.

I'm guessing PRODUCT_REAGENT would be if you're making a bar or cloth or something.

Ah, I should have looked at the reaction_smelter file before saying anything, it makes it very clear how bar reactions work.

[Shaostoul]

Just so you know, the reason it was required like that is cause typically the vanilla reactions have the "product_dimension" dealio. So you have to call on the "stack" for it to work. If you were to remove all of the product_dimension things, you shouldn't run into that problem. It's the same for cloth.

[jaked122]

Just so you know, the reason it was required like that is cause typically the vanilla reactions have the "product_dimension" dealio. So you have to call on the "stack" for it to work. If you were to remove all of the product_dimension things, you shouldn't run into that problem. It's the same for cloth.

why would you mod the rest of DF to make up for a simple mistake?

[Shaostoul]

Was just stating, it's all a matter of opinion.