Auto Butcher

[snow]

I wrote a little script that automatically butchers and eats corpses when you're hungry:

https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5624

Now this code is incredibly short... so I'm wondering... if I fixed it up a bit to deal with spriggans and mummies not eating meat and ghouls and orcs eating rotten meat and tossed it in a LUA file could it possibly be officially added to the game?

The script is as follows:

  Code:

sacrifice_before_explore=true
autopickup_no_burden=false
runrest_stop_message=corpse
confirm_butcher=never
easy_eat_gourmand=true
easy_eat_contaminated=true
auto_eat_chunks=true
prompt_for_swap=false

:function hungry()
:   if you.nauseous() then return you.hunger()<2 end
:   if you.gourmand() or you.race()=="Kobold" or you.race()=="Felid"
:      then return you.hunger()<7
:   end
:   return you.hunger()<4
:end

:function over(a)
:   for _,b in pairs(you.floor_items()) do
:      if b.name()==a.name() then return true end
:   end
:end

:function corpse_dance(a)
:   if not hungry() or not string.find(a.name(),"corpse")
:      or food.rotting(a) or food.dangerous(a) then return end
:   if over(a) then crawl.sendkeys("c") return end
:   return true
:end

:add_autopickup_func(corpse_dance)

I'm thinking that it could be simplified into a single butcher_when_hungry function that can be tossed in a LUA file like the archaic function that found a weapon to butcher with at the start of the game before we all had pocket knives.

[galehar]

Including it in the game means maintaining it. I don't want to take over the burden of maintaining this script, it's not useful enough IMO.

I think it would be good to have a place which holds 3rd party lua scripts and config files. Could be a section on the dev wiki maybe. If someone could set up such a thing, that would be great.

[Bloax]

I found it quite convenient in sparing me from the trouble of mashing 'c' and 'e' all the time through the first 13 floors of the dungeon.

[BlackSheep]

There's already auto_eat_chunks to fix needing to press 'e'. I guess I just don't find pressing 'c' every few minutes that onerous. If I forget to do it on time, I get a helpful yellow reminder from the game.

[Bloax]

That doesn't work well with a troll (unless you like hanging around hungry/satiated), and you still have to move onto the corpse, press c and then e a couple of times.

With this, it's just o - and that's it.

Unless I'm of course way behind all this stuff, which is very possible.

[galehar]

Unless I'm of course way behind all this stuff, which is very possible.

You are. auto_eat works just fine with trolls now.

[Bloax]

Ah, good to know.

[rriegs]

Related to this thread is https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5843, which adds an auto_butcher feature directly into the game code.