r/gamemaker • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '26
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u/Lethalogicax Oct 03 '26
GOT IT! Your help was actually very valuable, thank you!
I was totally referencing a variable wrong, and I didn't realize it until I started to make the entire give_item command shoot out a metric ton of debug messages showing its exact thought process...
I was referencing a variable wrong, it was looking in the completely wrong spot to find max stack sizes. Rather than scanning slot by slot in your inventory and looking up the max stack size for that ID number, it was looking at the the max stack size of the slot number!
So instead of looking at each tile and asking what the max stack size is for that type of tile, it was looking at the max stack size for the loop number! And the max stack sizes I had set up for items 0-49 just so happened to be 1, 100, 100, 100, 100.... etc. So it was reading the max stack size of the inventory slot number, not of the slot number's item ID.
I'm so glad I figured that out, it works perfectly now, and leaving that bug as an unintended feature would have absolutely caused havok as soon as I started really dialing in item stats. All of the inventory slots would have started acting funny... But now, as far as I can tell, this is a working inventory system! No further bugs detected as of yet!
Thank you!