A little help. [how to make a chest only open once?]

[boon]

While I don't have RPG Maker atm, I would like to know how you can do the following:

Make a crate or a chest so that once opened, you can NEVER open it again, even if you leave the room and come back.

Any help?

 

[Ninjitsu]

Once you open, make a switch change.
Then make a new event page, with an open chest or something, and say something like "Already taken", or "Its empty"

Thats how i do it.

 

[mawk]

Just make sure it's, like, a self switch, or else your database is gonna be cluttered with chest switches in no time.

 

[boon]

Switches always reset when you leave the room though...

 

[mawk]

Not true. The status of all the game's switches are perpetually recorded in your save file. If you turn Self Switch A to ON, then save and quit, Self Switch A will still be on when you get back. The same goes for normal switches and variables.

The only way a switch would reset if you leave the room is that you have some other event to turn that switch OFF, and accidentally trigger it each time you leave. Normally, switches stay the way they are.

It should go like this; I'm skipping the graphic stuff for ease of typing.

@> Show Text: You got a Broom!
@> Change Items: [Broom]+1
@> Self Switch A = ON

And then make a second page. Set it so that page will only be active if Self Switch A is ON. Then you can do whatever with that page.

@> Show Text: It's empty. Crazy.

 

[boon]

Yeah I was talking about the post above yours though :P

There's only 4 self switches (or Local Switches)

 

[Injury]

You'd only need 1 to make a chest. this is how it would work

page 1 (conditions = none)
text:got item
add item
self switch a- on

page 2 (conditions = self switch: a)
text: tis empty

it can't be easier than that, but it is in vx. you get quick events to make teleports, doors, chests, and an inn.