How would i make a crafting system

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#1

Hi,

How would i achieve the making of a crafting system?, What would i check for, what do i put in a table ect, (no dragging of items ui)

Thank you

#2

So if you really simplify the problem all you would be doing is comparing tables together. You’d have a list of recipes and just compare the contents of the two tables.

local Recipes = {
	RandomItem = {
		"Steel";
		"Wood";
		"Stone";
	};
};

--Sorting to enforce order
for k,v in pairs(Recipes) do
	Recipes[k] = table.sort(v);
end

local function GetCraftingItemFromUI()
	--return table.sort(table of items from the ui);
end;

local function FindItemGivenRecipe()
	local CraftingItems = GetCraftingItemFromUI();
	for k,v in pairs(Recipes) do
		local Compare = true;
		for i = 1,#v do
			if v[i] ~= CraftingItems[i] then
				Compare = false;
				break;
			end
			if Compare then
				return k;
			end
		end
	end
end;

Once you start getting a lot more items in your recipe book, it won’t be very efficient to check every single recipe so you’d want to look into a more efficient data structure.