How to make an empty bottle?

[Prometheus]

OK, for example if you have played a few of the Zelda games then you might know what I want to do. I want to make an empty bottle-like item that will let me store water, small items, potions, etc. So far I have not found an easy way to do this. Can someone help?

[Kularian]

Okay, before I get caught up in typing a rather long explanatory post, one question needs to be addressed first, which makes this situation kind of simple, or kind of annoying

Are you planning to have just one bottle?  Or several?  There may be an easier way to do it with Scripting, but I'm an Eventer, so I can do it with events fairly easily, it'll just be a little prepatory-intensive if there's more than one bottle.

Let me know, and I'll help how I can.  Thanks!

[ShellShocked]

Well, make an item called 'Empty Bottle', problem solved.

Now onto the next bit. Your best bet is just to use Conditional Branches.

Example;

@>Conditional Branch: [Empty Bottle] in inventory
  @>(What you want to happen when you've got an empty bottle, e.g. fill it up)
:  Else
  @>(What you want to happen when you've NOT got an empty bottle, e.g. nothing?)

That could be an event for a single-use empty bottle...Unless, not sure this'll work, but you could set up a common event so that when you use the potion, it removes the potion (obviously) and gives you an empty bottle back.

Example;

Set the common event on the potion item (under Database) to 001: Empty Bottle, then make the common event add an empty bottle to the player's inventory.

Hope that helped...If it's wrong, it's because I'm rusty.

Good luck.