Farming event system

[LaDestitute]

Can someone show me how to make a farming event system or make a demo for me?
I need it to be simple though, and the intended build is:
+You need two items, Watering Can and Shovel. Shovel is needed to bury the seed for the crop, and the watering can is used to water it.
+Eventually, if not ignored and watered every now and then, the crop will grow, where the player can get items from the crop/tree, which if possible, will disappear and eventually regenerate.
+Crops/Trees have the ability to "die." if ignored or after some extend of time, even after being taken care of very good.

 

[action]

I can try, I've got the harvesting down, but this is a bit more complicated than you think.
It may take while

 

[Ellie]

Essentially you need to learn how to use timers in common events. 20-40 frames is about a second, so if you have a common event running doing all your background processes (all in the one event mind, to save resources) you can do systems like this.

Something like:

Common event:
- wait 999 frames
- change variable [0001: Timer] + 1000
- wait 999 frames
- etc

Then in your conditional branches of your farming events you have different pages, with conditions for "timer is 10000, timer is 20000" and have each one reset the timer (change the variable to 0).

 

[LaDestitute]

Problem is wouldn't everything reset if you leave the map?

 

[action]

Not if you store it as a variable...
err, hmm...
this is getting complicated.

COmmon events would work for some of this, but you may be better off find a script for this. Eventing a whole farming system, with all features, is very complicated. You'd need a variable or two for each plant you grow, and if you can plant them whenever, wherever you want, it's not really going to work.

..Now that I think about it, there's a script for saving the states of events on a map. I'll see how that works, and get back to you when I can.

-abreaction

 

[action]

Sorry, can't do this any more
This is getting way past my level, and I have lots of other projects going as well...
Sorry!

-abreactio

 

[LaDestitute]

Don't worry, I figured out a simple self-event contained method that works for me. :3