How to make bows/crossbows fire poisoned bolts/arrows

[Halciet]

Since a good deal of people have trouble figuring out how to make bows fire poisoned arrows, I figured I'd add this to the FAQ. This will show you how to make a new group of bolts/arrows with a fixed poison level and make it so if the user has one in their pack and fire a bow or crossbow, that ammunition will be used.


1. Open Scripts\Items\Resources\Arrows\Arrow.cs; use the find and replace to find all instances of "Arrow" and replace them with with "PoisonedArrow"

In the constructor, add

Name = "poisoned arrow";

So that it looks like this:

public PoisonedArrow( int amount ) : base( 0xF3F )
{
        Name = "poisoned arrow";
        Stackable = true;
	Weight = 0.1;
	Amount = amount;
}

If you would like, you can also add a new Hue to help differentiate between normal arrows.

Save the file as "PoisonedArrow.cs"



2. Open Scripts\Items\Resources\Arrows\Bolt.cs; use the find and replace to find all instances of "Bolt" and replace them with "PoisonedBolt"

In the constructor, add

 Name = "poisoned bolt";

So that it looks like this:

public PoisonedBolt( int amount ) : base( 0x1BFB )
{
        Name = "poisoned bolt";
	Stackable = true;
	Weight = 0.1;
	Amount = amount;
}

If you would like, you can also add a new Hue to help differentiate between normal bolts.

Save the file as "PoisonedBolt.cs"



3. Open Scripts\Items\Weapons\Ranged\BaseRanged.cs

In the constructor, add "Poison = Poison.Lesser;" so that it looks like:

public BaseRanged( int itemID ) : base( itemID )
{
     Poison = Poison.Lesser;
}

This will make all bows automatically poisoned, but they won't fire off the poison or display the property since the charges will be set to 0. You can change the poison level to whatever you want here, but for balance sake I just left it at Lesser.

In OnFired, add this code after "Container pack = attacker.Backpack;"

if( attacker.Player && pack != null && (( AmmoType == typeof(Arrow) && pack.ConsumeTotal( typeof( PoisonedArrow ), 1 ) ) || ( AmmoType == typeof(Bolt) && pack.ConsumeTotal( typeof( PoisonedBolt), 1 ) ) ) )
{
	PoisonCharges = 1;
				
	attacker.MovingEffect( defender, EffectID, 18, 1, false, false );
				
	return true;
}

In OnHit, add this code after "base.OnHit( attacker, defender );"

if ( Poison != null && PoisonCharges > 0 )
{
	--PoisonCharges;

	if ( Utility.RandomDouble() >= 0.75 ) // 25% chance to poison
		defender.ApplyPoison( attacker, Poison );
}

There. That makes all your archery weapons capable of shooting lesser poison arrows if you have one in your pack. For a higher chance of poisoning, use a SMALLER decimal in the random double equation; I set it to 25% chance (0.75) as I felt the usually 50% would be too unbalancing for ranged attackers. If you have both poisoned arrows and non-poisoned arrows in your pack, it will use up the poisoned ones first. You could add a context menu entry that lets you choose whether or not you want to fire poisoned or non-poisoned, but that's a bit more in-depth. Similarly, you'll probably want to make it so players can craft poison arrows, but as far as making them fireable, this is all you need to do.

-Hal