Attributes don't/can't inherit?

[NightScythe1]

I'm trying to make a few attributes, each of which should inherit their min/max values from a master attribute (for ease of editing, so I can change the main one's min/max instead of all individual sub-attributes) however, attributes don't seem to be able to inherit from another attribute. The format used was the following:

destruction:
  default: 0
  min: 0
  max: 100

shock_resist:
  inherit: destruction

both attributes are created in magic successfully, and can be checked/altered with the /mage attribute command, but the values assigned in 'destruction' only take effect for destruction, and not for the attribute that inherits it, 'shock_resist'

[NathanWolf]

I think in general "inherit" is only meaningful when loading configs- it's basically just copying the "destruction" config and then putting "shock_resist" on top.

After that, there is no linkage between the two.

There are some exceptions to this rule, like classes I think- but I'm pretty sure attributes don't really have any lineage like that.

I can leave this open to see how difficult that would be to add, but I think if I did change that it may be the kind of thing that messes with other people's setups if they are using attribute inheritance but not expecting it to work that way.

[NightScythe1]

Ah sorry I may have worded that incorrectly, when I say i'm trying to get 'shock_resist' to inherit from 'destruction', I only mean the copying initial configuration, AKA I'm trying to have shock_resist have the same default, min, and max values, as defined in destruction, but keeping their actual assigned values independent of each other. The issue I was encountering is that the configuration for shock_resist doesn't reflect the configuration of destruction despite inheriting from it, unless attributes can't inherit configurations like wands/spells can?

[NathanWolf]

Oh, I see- yeah I got confused when you said that changes from /mage attribute only affects one but not the other.

So yes I think the config inheritance should work for attributes- it's built into config loading at a pretty low-level, just like the math expressions it should work anywhere.

I will take a look when I can, I could be wrong- but I think it should work.

In this case you're seeing that shock_resist doesn't have the right min/max/default values, correct?

[NightScythe1]

Yep that's correct, and sorry for the confusing wording! 😅 What I meant about changes with /mage attribute is that shock_resist can go above or below the min/max defined in the config destruction, and it doesn't reflect the default value defined in destruction either.