[Question] Modifying the Cave encounters

[Star_System]

Hello!

I've been slowly developing my first game and i'm running into an obstacle. I'm designing a route with a grass path and a beach path, the idea being that on the grass path you'd get tall grass encounters and on the beach path cave-style encounters. The problem is now that setting up Cave encounters for the map means they trigger everywhere that isn't a tall grass tile.
I believe I've found the part in the Essentials Script Editor that dictates how encounters are generated, in Overworld_WildEncounters.

# Returns whether the player's current location allows wild encounters to
# trigger upon taking a step.
def encounter_possible_here?
return true if $PokemonGlobal.surfing
terrain_tag = $game_map.terrain_tag($game_player.x, $game_player.y)
return false if terrain_tag.ice
return true if has_cave_encounters? # i.e. this map is a cave
return true if has_land_encounters? && terrain_tag.land_wild_encounters
return false
end

Now I'd like to know if it's possible to modify that bit of code so Cave encounters only trigger on rock/sand tiles.

 

[Soda26]

+1 not because I have a solution but because I would also like a good answer for this.

You can always go oldschool and just copy paste a bunch of events on the sand that trigger a random wild battle when the player steps on them.

 

[Dastardly Desperado]

I think a better solution to this would be to go to the tileset, copy-paste an existing ground tile, set up that tile to be a separate value for encounter category (database > script editor > [[ hardcoded data ]] > TerrainTag). I'm not sure if this would work, but it might be worth trying.

A far easier solution would be to do as above. Set up an event that triggers by player touch. Start the event command line with rolling a variable for a number. If the outcome is A~B, nothing happens. If the outcome is C~D, initiate a wild battle with one of the possible encounters. If the outcome is E~F, initiate a wild battle with a second possible encounter. Repeat for however many different species you want to be encounterable on the beach as a fake cave encounter.