Backpack Inventory

[Paulonius]

I have a series of crafting scripts that have a history of making the wrong item on occasion, derailing the script.  I think this is a product of trying to optimize speed.  This also caused issues clearing items out of the backpack since the items that were getting made were pretty random.  For several months I have been trying to come up with a solution that will allow me to maintain speed and efficiency, but detect the random items to tell me when to reset the process.  A secondary concern is getting the random stuff out of the backpack.  

I finally came up with a solution today that involves taking an inventory of IDs of the items in the backpack at the start of the script and capturing them in a variable.  I am using it as a check against items I make to confirm correct make, and to keep from throwing things away.  It's pretty simple, but I figured I would share since it took me so long to figure it out.

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Finditem * C_ , #BackpackID
Set %BackpackItemString BackpackContents:
For #Findindex 1 #FindCnt
    {
    Set %BackpackItemString %BackpackItemString , #FindID
    Set %BackpackItemString %BackpackItemString , _
    }
The second line inserts an underscore between IDs to avoid the extremely unlikely occurrence of an ID getting duplicated with parts of other IDs.

[Endless Night]

nice.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

nice job

[12TimesOver]

Cool idea, so simple yet so effective

You could also just do this to simplify three line further:

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Finditem * C_ , #BackpackID
Set %BackpackItemString BackpackContents:
For #Findindex 1 #FindCnt
    Set %BackpackItemString %BackpackItemString , #FindID , _
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[Paulonius]

Thanks 12X,  I was not sure how many additional phases your could append to it, so I did it with an extra line.

[Dixie Wrecked]

I did this exact same thing in my BOD filling script in order to clean the backpack out after each book is filled.  I haven't released that version yet, as it only trashes the extra items right now and I want to make it unravel or smelt some of them first.  This was the only option I could think of as well, although I also had to set a variable of item types that might be new and not want to be trashed (tongs, tinker tools, sewing kits, etc), as I add the IDs of these items to the initial inventory string so that I don't remove them from the backpack when I know they will be needed later.