Adding items to the UFO breaks Elerium recovery?

[Cooper]

Ive added some items to a UFO floor like this:

  - type: STR_MEDIUM_SCOUT
[...]
    battlescapeTerrainData:
      name: UFO_110
      mapDataSets:
        - BLANKS
        - U_EXT02
        - U_WALL02
        - U_BITS
        - U_PODS
        - U_DISEC3
        - UFOL83
      mapBlocks:
        - name: UFO_EX1
          width: 10
          length: 10
          items:
            STR_ALIEN_SMOKE_GRENADE:
              - [7, 3, 0]
              - [7, 3, 0]

However this causes Elerium not to be recovered anymore! Is this a bug? Any way to fix this without removing the item?

[Meridian]

yes, seems like a bug

I'll have a look...

[ohartenstein23]

Not a bug, I looked at this a while ago.

If the mapblock has items defined, the code that causes the alien fuel item to be placed on power sources doesn't run so that it doesn't duplicate them in the TFTD ships where the fuel is placed elsewhere.

[Meridian]

yup, found it, a feature, both in OXC and OXCE as oharty says

with a comment and all

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// if one of the mapBlocks has an items array defined, don't deploy fuel algorithmically
_generateFuel = mapblock->getItems()->empty();

since July 2014

[Cooper]

Alright, thanks for the info.

Any cool ideas on how to work around this?

[Meridian]

Add the Elerium manually in your "items" block.

[Cooper]

Right!

I'm so glad one Elerium in battlescape = 50 Elerium in geoscape right now.

[Solarius Scorch]

This is indeed how it works. It is a mild headache sometimes (especially when you use the same mapblocks for aliens and also for something else; it requires making a new terrain and redefine all the blocks), but I trust there was a good reason for this.

[The Martian]

I'm so glad one Elerium in battlescape = 50 Elerium in geoscape right now.

I think you could use recoveryTransformations: to control the amount of Elerium recovered from each specific item you place in the mapblock.

Example:

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items:
  - type: STR_ELERIUM_115_X25
    size: 0.1
    costSell: 5000
    weight: 3
    bigSprite: 56
    floorSprite: 37
    invWidth: 1
    invHeight: 1
    recoveryPoints: 5
    recoveryTransformations:
      STR_ELERIUM_115: [25]

[Cooper]

Thats useful, thanks!