[SCRIPT] Spawning Item Randomly

[Organic Shelter]

Create a few ScriptAreas where your item is to spawn, giving them a name with an appended number. In your example, you state 5, we'll go with SpawnArea_1, SpawnArea_2, etc, up to SpawnArea_5. Place your key somewhere in the map, anywhere will do, so long as it is placed. I'll call it Chest_Key in this example.

To spawn it, we'll generate a Random Integer in code using RandInt(), which we will place in OnStart(). Then we can simply place the entity at the relevant ScriptArea, using the below code.

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PlaceEntityAtEntity(string &in asName, string &in asTargetEntity, string &in asTargetBodyName, bool abUseRotation);

asName - Name of the entity to place.
asTargetEntity - Name of the other entity to place the first entity at.
asTargetBodyName - Name of the body of the entity to place the first entity at. If empty the first body is used (might be buggy, recommended to name a body anyway).
abUseRotation - Whether the entity should be rotated like the target entity.

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void OnStart()
{
     SetLocalVarInt("RandArea", RandInt(1, 5));
     PlaceEntityAtEntity("Chest_Key", "SpawnArea_"+GetLocalVarInt("RandArea"), "", true);
     AddDebugMessage("Key spawned inside chest "+GetLocalVarInt("RandArea"), false);
} 


The final value on the PlaceEntityAtEntity, true, means you can rotate the ScriptArea a little horizontally and it will rotate the key relative to that direction.

I've tried it and the Amnesia crash. Should the ScriptArea small or big?