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Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2024 4:53 pm**

inventory.insert and inventory.remove should just do nothing when inserting or removing 0 items instead of crashing.

Consider these two lines of code:

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desired_inventory.remove({ name = desired.name, quality = desired.quality, count = taken })
target_inventory.insert({ name = desired.name, quality = desired.quality, count = taken })

They now have to become this instead:

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if taken > 0 then
    desired_inventory.remove({ name = desired.name, quality = desired.quality, count = taken })
    target_inventory.insert({ name = desired.name, quality = desired.quality, count = taken })
end

This wouldn't be so bad if this was the only place where I take or remove items from inventories, but putting it around every take and remove is just ugly, and when I forget, the mod will just crash for the user for no reason.

I would understand crashing with negative amount, but adding/removing 0 items is a completely legitimate operation that just does nothing.

Posted: **Sun Oct 27, 2024 5:08 pm**

It will save you those expensive API calls.

But if you have a list of items to remove that you want to loop over, consider not putting zero-count elements into it. That way you don't need the condition.

And the justification "add this because I always forget to check the condition" just seems very... entitled.

Posted: **Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:11 pm**

Sorry but this will not be happening. It would require re-writing and handling every place we parse item stacks from Lua into the game to optionally check that the stack has a valid count and if not, don't use it.

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