[Custom Feature Question] Custom Move Scripting Help

[TheShinySylveon]

Since i'm not to used to complex scripting with pokemon essentials i want to ask you (the community) to help me out
i want to add a move called alchemy where the users held item can either heal, damage, or not effect the user for 4-6 Turns and the held item will be consumed for the rest of the battle but return back to the holder afterwards


A few examples:
Items that have no effect
Any Pokeball, Assault Vest, Any Gem, Incense just to name a few
What i mean is any held item that doesn't have much of a health related effect in battle will have no effect

Items that will heal
Leftovers, Any Berry, Any Potion Item, Big Root just to name a few
Any held item that has recovery or healing related effect in battle will heal the user

Items that will NOT heal
Black Sludge, Flame Orb, Sticky Barb, Toxic Orb, just to name a few
any items that deals negative damage related effects in battle will damage the user

Other Details
Black Sludge and Toxic Orb will heal poison types and will have no effect on steel types
Flame Orb will heal fire types

Please and possible thank you

 

[silverlime]

You'll first need a new battler effect that monitors the number of turns passed since Alchemy was used.

Take a look at Knock Off for removing an item (I believe the item will automatically return to the Pokemon after a trainer battle, but you'd have to change code elsewhere if you wanted it to retain the item after a wild battle):

  def pbEffectAfterHit(attacker,opponent,turneffects)
    if !attacker.fainted? && !opponent.fainted? && opponent.item!=0 &&
       opponent.damagestate.calcdamage>0 && !opponent.damagestate.substitute
      if !attacker.hasMoldBreaker && opponent.hasWorkingAbility(:STICKYHOLD)
        abilityname=PBAbilities.getName(opponent.ability)
        @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} made {3} ineffective!",opponent.pbThis,abilityname,@name))
      elsif [email protected](opponent,opponent.item)
        itemname=PBItems.getName(opponent.item)
        opponent.item=0
        opponent.effects[PBEffects::ChoiceBand]=-1
        opponent.effects[PBEffects::Unburden]=true
        @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("{1} dropped its {2}!",opponent.pbThis,itemname))
      end
    end
  end

Take a look at Leftovers for items that restore HP at the end of each turn (not too hard to modify to have other effects happen):

    if hpcure && self.hasWorkingItem(:LEFTOVERS) && self.hp!=self.totalhp &&
       @effects[PBEffects::HealBlock]==0
      PBDebug.log("[Item triggered] #{pbThis}'s Leftovers")
      @battle.pbCommonAnimation("UseItem",self,nil)
      pbRecoverHP((self.totalhp/16).floor,true)
      @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("{1} restored a little HP using its {2}!",pbThis,itemname))
    end