Resource Extractor
The resource extractor spawns in iron ore and coal onto the conveyor with a cooldown time. Each item produced will have a random “quality” from 0 to 1. This is just an example of custom data the items can have.
The setup above is a single segment starting with a BP_ResourceExtractorNodeAction.
The extractor has no logic within it, and all the logic is handled by the BP_ResourceExtractorNodeAction which has the Insert behavior on and therefore implements the Insert Item function:
The logic is as follows:
- If it is on cooldown, return an empty item.
- Set the
Is On Cooldownvariable to true and set a timer to reset it to false - Return a conveyor item with a random quality from 0 to 1 and a random entry from the
Resourcesarray