MV/MZ - Recipe List (Crafting System Ext.)

Recipe List Extension

Ever look at my crafting system plugin and think "This is great and all, but how does the player keep track of recipes they've made"? Well this extension is (partly) for you!

Features:

• Recipe list scene shows all known craftable items and all recipes for those items in one easy to navigate menu scene.
• The scene is split by craft category to make the lists less cluttered
• All categories can be browsed, even the hidden, or disabled ones
• If enabled, the player can also craft items directly from this scene
• Visually supports recipes that contain category items as ingredients.

This extension adds in a new recipe list scene, or more specifically, adds a recipe list mode to the existing crafting scene. As mentioned above, the base functionality for this mode is for the player to view all known (unlocked) recipes for all available crafted items. This means that when the player unlocks an item via crafting it successfully for the first time, or by default, or via plugin command, it immediately becomes available on this recipe list screen to view.

If enabled, the developer can also set it so that the recipe list screen doubles as a synthesis menu as well. This is basically a new shell on the crafting system back-end, which turns the original system onto its head a bit. The best usage case for this would be to disable the original crafting system menu command entirely, and only use the recipe list. This changes the system into a synthesis style crafting system, rather than an ingredient based one. 

Alternatively, of course, you can use both systems in tandem, and allow the player to discover recipes via experimentation, and then recreate those recipes more easily from the recipe list scene instead. The possibilities are endless (not really).

The new scene comes with several new messages and buttons which are customized on a crafting category basis, just like the original plugin, as well, which is probably par for the course as the recipe list mode of the crafting scene is very different than the original mode.

One of the other big features of the base Crafting System plugin was the ability to make recipes that contained an 'ingredient category item'. This allowed developers to create one recipe which had several required ingredients, but one of those ingredients can be any of a pool of ingredients that belongs to a specified category. The base plugin's demo project contained one such item, the 'Cooked Meat' item. This recipe required an item labeled as 'meat', and a seasoning. In a normal recipe based crafting plugin, an item like that might take several recipes to make, one for each different kind of meat item the player could have. This would clutter up the UI as well, having to scroll through a dozen different cooked meat recipes to get to the next item wouldn't be great either, right?

Well this extension keeps the ingredient categories function of the recipes from the base plugin. Recipes that contain an ingredient category item will show the required category in the display, and force the player to choose a valid item from the pool when crafting it. There are a number of configurable parameters to control how these category items are displayed in the UI as well.

Feel free to browse through the screenshots I've uploaded as well, there are a couple of widescreen ones too. 

As mentioned, most of the text can be changed based on the current crafting category, and some of it even changes base don the ingredient category. The information on the recipe list window (required level, success rate) will also be hidden if your base crafting plugin is set up to not use levels, or to not have soft failure chances too. 

I have also added a plugin command to call a specific category for the recipe list scene. I can't think of a good situation for which this could be used, outside of disabling the crafting scene entirely and using it to call the recipe list from an outside object, like a common event or a blacksmith anvil event or something.

CallRecipeList category
If you omit a craftcategory name, it will call the main recipelist window as if you got there from the menu command. Specifying a categoryname will lock the player to that category, preventing them from viewing or crafting recipes belonging to other categories entirely. This command works the same as the CallCrafting plugin command from the base crafting plugin.

Terms of Use:
This add-on requires the Crafting System plugin to function. Purchasing it without the base plugin will be non-functional. Do not purchase this extension if you do not have the base crafting system plugin.

You may:

• Use this extension in any project you like, commercial or non-commercial.
• Edit the extension to make changes to functionality, add or remove features, or anything else for personal use only.
• Share changes to this extension via further extension plugins.
• Profit from extensions to this plugin, via commissions, crowdfunding, etc.

You may not:

• Share this extension, the base plugin, or the demo project with anyone.
• Claim full ownership of, any extensions made for this plugin.
• Modify the header, or the filename of the extension.
• Share modifications to this plugin directly. Any modifications to this plugin must be shared as a standalone extension, that requires both this extension, and the base plugin to function