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Continuing on Cataclysm-DDA

I have decided to work more with JSON of the game and resolve more conflicts and introduce more complexity to the game. This time, the issue was on creating protein powder. It is created from meat of some kind, and currently uses just fire to produce it. That doesn't seem right, now does it? Fire might be good for creating a steak, but how would the meat suddenly crumble into powder from that form? To resolve the issue, the issue creator called for adding mortal and pestle as additional necessity to create protein powder.

Alright, so where are these powder

git grep was my bread-and-butter of this particular activity. First, I wanted to know the object name of the protein powder. To that end, I searched for powder and landed on quite a number of results. Turns out, the name is simply protein_powder.

Okay, so how about the mortar and pestle

Again, git grep was very helpful. I also wanted to know how it was used as a part of the recipe, too. By searching through mortar, I found a bunch of matches over at the medication recipes that also shows how it was included into the JSON. It was mortar_and_pestle.

Final touch

Now that I know the names of all of the objects, it is time to apply the changes. A quick copy-paste later, I had protein_powder requiring mortar_and_pestle to be created. The world makes sense again. Except... what? hflesh_powder also only uses fire, too?

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