How to add maximum sockets to the item?

[georg-destroy]

In armor.txt for armor I changed "gemsockets" to 6,
in Cubemain.txt - added this line:

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1 perfect diamond + 1 any socketable item-> add 1 socket	1	100	2	
"any"	"gpw,qty=1"	"useitem,sock=1"

Ewerything goes OK, first time the cube adds 1 socket to the item, second time - it just wasting a stone, but does not add any more sockets to my item. What's wrong?
How to add sockets to the item, until it reach the maximum amount of sockets?

[Volf]

Unfortunately sockets do not stack. Not sure if there is a soft coded way to achieve this but might work if you have 6 similar recipes each adding a dummy stat to the item and first recipe requires 0 dummy stat, next recipe 1 etc.

[georg-destroy]

dummy stat

Which file do i need to modify to add these new stats?

[georg-destroy]

Allright, I used another, simple way:

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1 perfect diamond + 1 any socketable item-> add 1 socket	1		100				2
	"any,nos"	"gpw,qty=1"		"useitem,sock=8"

I changed the the code a bit, so now it should make a maximum amount of sockets in the item.
But when I tryed different item types, I found, that it works strange:

- for normal items it works perfect, and gives 6 sockets.
- for magic (blue color) items - only 3 sockets.
- for rare, set or unique (yellow, green or brown) items - ONLY 1 socket.
Why? What to do to make a maximum sockets in ANY item type?

[georg-destroy]

so nobody knows the answer?

[HarvestWombs]

Please do not double post, instead edit your previous post if you need to add any more information.

You should try adding the sockets through the properties columns instead of the output and see if that helps.

[georg-destroy]

Do you mean this?

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1 perfect diamond + 1 any socketable item-> add sockets to the item	1	0	2	"any,nos"	"gpw,qty=1"
"useitem"	25	50	sock	6	8

[HarvestWombs]

Looks correct, but did you try?

[georg-destroy]

Yes, I have tryed it. This also adds only ONE socket to the rare, unique or magic item
Probably, somewhere is a some kind of a limit for socket amount in unique items.
Probably, it depends of LoD version (i'm using 1.09D).
Anyway, I can't figure out, what's wrong

[HarvestWombs]

You need to check your max sockets in itemtypes and on the item itself. In my mod I currently have some cube recipes similar to this, but If I try the add 4 socket recipe on an armor that has only 2 max sockets.... I only get 2.

[Trevor]

If you want to add one socket to an item (IE 0 sockets --> 1 socket, or 2 sockets --> 3 sockets), you need

a) one misc item and multiple recipes with conditionals in cubemain or
b) multiple misc items with one recipe per item.

I went the (b) route. I have misc items with different graphics for single sockets, double sockets, all the way up to hexsockets. If I want an item with 2 sockets, I take the weapon and the double socket and cube it. Obviously they set the number of sockets on an item.

Also, you need to watch the gemsockets stated in weapons/armor.txt and maxsockets stated in itemtypes.

[georg-destroy]

I believe, it does not make a sense, what to put as an ingredient into the Horadric Cube.
The problem is that i can not add the maximum available amount of sockets into the RARE or UNIQUE item. and it does not matter how to do this - at once or step by step (increasing socket amount after each use)

[Trevor]

I can add 6 sockets to any socketable item that takes up 6 or 8 inventory boxes. It doesnt matter if its rare, white, or unique. You have something wrong in one of your files. Start with itemtypes, then the weapons.txt file. If those are correct, check your recipe in cubemain. You might a duplicate receipe somewhere that you forgot to remove or disable.

[HarvestWombs]

the sock=# in the output column
The max sockets from this are as you listed (magic=3, set/rare/unique=1). This can be stepped around by using one of the mod fields to set the number of sockets (but you can only set the sockets in one of these 2 areas not both). When using the mod field to set the number of sockets, the limit will be from the gemsockets data in armor.txt/weapons.txt and the MaxSock## fields of itemtype.txt (using the ilvl of the item).

[georg-destroy]

Great, at last, it works!!!
I should write socket number into "mod 1 param" instead of "mod 1 min" and "mod 1 max" columns!!

[georg-destroy]

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any UNIQUE socketable item + perfect diamond -> add MAX sockets to UNIQUE	1	100	2	"any,unq,nos"	gpw					"useitem,sock=6"	sock	6