🔒 For some reason my it doesn't accept my variable for math, it just returns 0

[ancient lintel]

I'm very confused right now because by all means it SHOULD be doing math, I even put in the number the variable was equivalent to last time and everything else did its job as expected, yet at the same it seems to always return 0 whenever I put in a variable that clearly doesn't equal the same amount as the number I'm subtracting it from. Why is this, what's going on?

[storm wraith]

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[violet chasm]

!paste can you send your whole code? I'd suspect your player class has some state stuff that's messed up

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[ancient lintel]

I'm relatively new so I'm still not entirely sure how to use that, I apologize 😅

here, it should be small enough

py
def calculateDefense(self, recipe):   #Calculte item defense
        defBonus = 0
        
        if (recipe.state == RecipeFood.STATE_SOLID and self.size == self.SIZE_SMALL):
            defBonus = defBonus + 50
            print("solid")
            print(defBonus)
            if (self.type == self.TYPE_WOOD):
                defBonus = defBonus - 5
                print("wood penalty")
                print(defBonus)
        if (recipe.state == RecipeFood.STATE_LIQUID and self.size == self.SIZE_LARGE):
            defBonus = defBonus + 50
            print("liquid")
            print(defBonus)
            if (self.type == self.TYPE_WOOD):
                defBonus = defBonus - 5
                print("wood penalty")
                print(defBonus)
        if (recipe.temp == RecipeFood.TEMP_HOT and self.type == self.TYPE_CLOTH):
            defBonus = defBonus + 50
            print("hot")
            print(defBonus)
        if (recipe.temp == RecipeFood.TEMP_COLD and self.type == self.TYPE_METAL):
            defBonus = defBonus + 50
            print("cold")
            print(defBonus)
        if (self.type == self.TYPE_WOOD):
            defBonus = defBonus + 30
            print("wood")
            print(defBonus)

        print("Final bonus is: ",defBonus)
        return defBonus

ah

[violet chasm]

``` vs '''

!code there's a screenshot of it on this

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[ancient lintel]

That's the code containing the calculation for the values I showed in the terminal on my screenshot

So uh... yeah anyway, as it shows, it's calculating numbers but it's returning 0 every time. I realize now that that's a bad example so I'll run it again and give you a better example

It's... working as intended now, I'm not sure what was happening before but thank you guys for checking anyway.

[cedar skiff]

Hello, please show all the code, with every variable, function, and class defined. Please do not post a screenshot

!paste

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[cedar skiff]

It's currently impossible for us to know what the first variable in your code is, since player1Defense and its calculateDefense attribute are unknown.

```py
code goes here on a new line
```
the py must be on the same line as the backticks.

[torn bay]

@ancient lintel explain your question, and for player 1 damage calculation 100 - 100 = 0

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