Recipes on Lil' Bitty Things

Making Doors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Making Doors#

Here are the steps for making a door:

Make a new Sprite that looks like a door and call it door.
Make a new Thing called door and give it the door Sprite.
On your door Thing, turn on Looks Like a Block.
Add a new Action Sequence to your door Thing.
Add a Teleport Action.
Use the Place Player button on the Teleport Action to set where the Player should go when entering the door.
Place your door Thing where you want your door to show up.
Hit Play and test it out!

NOTE: Keep track of your doors!
If you make more than one door Thing, it can be easy to lose track of which door is which. Make sure to name them so they make sense. For example, if you have a door going inside a house, and then another door in the house that takes you back outside, name the doors “door to inside” and “door to outside”.

Treasure Chest

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Making a Treasure Chest#

Here are the steps for making a treasure chest:

Make a new Sprite that looks like a chest and call it chest.
Make a new Thing called chest and give it the chest Sprite.
Add a new Action Sequence to your chest Thing.
Add a Do Actions in a Row Action.
For the first sub-Action, add a Group of Actions Action.
In the Group of Actions, add an Increase Item Count Action that adds 5 coins.
In the Group of Actions, after the Increase Item Count, add a Say Something Action that says something like, “You found 5 coins!"
After the Group of Actions, add a Do Nothing Action.
Hit Play and test it out!

NOTE: Why does this work?
When you have Do Actions in a Row, each time you interact with something, it does the next Action until it runs out of Actions. When it gets to the end of the list, it just keeps doing the last Action each time you interact with it. Because the first Action is the Action Group, it will do that the first time you interact with the chest Thing. But the second time, and every time after that, it will do the next Action, which is the Do Nothing Action. This allows you to have a one-time-use Thing.

Locked Chest

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Making a Locked Chest#

Here are the steps for making a locked chest:

Make a new Sprite that looks like a chest and call it chest.
Make a new Sprite that looks like a coin and call it coin.
Make a new Sprite that looks like a key and call it key.
Make a new Item called coin and give it the coin Sprite.
Make a new Item called key and give it the key Sprite.
Make a new Thing called locked chest and give it the chest Sprite.
Add a new Action Sequence to your locked chest Thing.
Add a Make a Decision Action.
For the If Action, set the condition to if key >= 1.
For the If Action, add a Do Actions in a Row Action.
For the first sub-Action, add a Group of Actions Action.
In the Group of Actions, add an Increase Item Count Action that adds 5 coins.
In the Group of Actions, after the Increase Item Count, add a Say Something Action that says something like, “You unlocked the chest and found 5 coins!"
After the Group of Actions, add a Do Nothing Action.
For the Else Action, add a Say Something Action that says something like, “The chest is locked!”.
Put a key Item in your game and a locked chest in your game.
Hit Play and test it out!

NOTE: Why does this work?
When you walk up to the chest, it first checks to see if you have at least 1 key. If you do, it goes on to the next thing, which is the Group of Actions. The first time you walk up to the chest with a key, the first Action in the Group of Actions will happen, which is to give you 5 coins. The second, and every other time, you walk up to the chest with a key, it will do nothing. However, if you walk up to the chest with no key, it will tell you the chest is locked.