Adding permanent points to Char Stats via Cubemain.txt

[strafano]

Hello,
I read here viewtopic.php?f=4&t=27474
that it should be possible to add points to a saved char stat via cubing. However, it is not clear how this can be accomplished.
I have created a new stat in itemstatcost.txt as explained by SVR (viewtopic.php?t=19942&highlight=Saving+User)and I have compiled the OP columns in cubemain.txt. But now, how to assign points to the new character stat instead that to an cube output item?

[Cypress]

It's unfortunately not possible, cubemain only modifies items, not players. It seems DeClineD simply assumed that "make the recipe add 1 to the stat" was a robust and simple step along the process but never actually tested it out since he knew the other two seemingly trickier steps worked (I find that almost all problems in D2 modding are something along these lines: come up with some clean logic for a fun modded system, everything seems to check out, then when you try it you can get 99% of the way to the answer only one simple step doesn't actually work ruining everything).

If you don't mind hardcoded and 1.10f, then look into "D2Mod Cubemain Op Codes Plugin v2.11", this adds new properties which can set or increase stat values of the player (I've never used it myself, but I'm 99% sure it works since I know Battle for Elements does exactly this and has cubeops.dll as one of its plugins).

I might or might not be able to suggest a softcoded alternative depending on what exactly you are trying to do.

[strafano]

I might or might not be able to suggest a softcoded alternative depending on what exactly you are trying to do.

Thank you very much Cypress for your help.
My aim is to make a certain cube recipe not working anymore after the first use.

[Cypress]

In that case, there isn't a good softcoded fix. The best I can think of would be something like having an item required for the recipe only able to be dropped once per character, or have a monster that can only be encountered once who gives some temporary stat to the player that is needed to finish the recipe. If you are worried about a consumable produced by the cube being used multiple times, then you can prevent that by using calcs to set the bonus value to 0 on subsequent uses. And if you are afraid of the player producing too many of an equippable item, you can use passive skills which sets the player's stats to 0 if the passive skill's base level is higher than 2, i.e. (lvl-stat('item_allskills'.accr)>1)?(-10000):(0)