How to add an Interactive Treasure Chest in RPG Maker XP

So, what’s an ‘Interactive Treasure Chest’ and how is it different than a regular one?

Well, regular chests just open up when a player loots them and that’s usually all. By contrast, my Interactive Treasure Chests do a little bit more. While the player is interacting with it and the code is being executed, this chest is fully open. After the player is done getting the loot or whatever, the chest remains open a little bit to indicate at a glance from the player that the chest has already been looted. Also, if a player attempts to open the chest again it opens wide and tells the player that it is empty.

So, I guess you could say that my Interactive Treasure Chest just provides the player with more useful feedback using both visual cues and a status message.

Instructions:

1. In a new Edit Event window, double-click the empty graphic box and select a closed chest graphic facing the direction you want. (These are on the top row of the built-in chest graphics.)
2. Uncheck Move Animation.
3. In the Event Commands, add a [Set Move Route…] event from page 2. Change the drop-down box to “This Event”, click [Turn Up], and [OK].
4. Add a [Play SE…] event from page 2. Choose “055-Right01” from the list and click [OK].
5. Add a [Show Text…] event from page 1. Type a message to the player indicating what was found. (e.g. “You found some Bread!” Click [OK].
6. From page 1, add a [Change Items…], [Change Gold…], [Change Weapons…], or [Change Armor…]) event. Choose what you want to give to the player. Set the Operation to Increase and the Operand to Constant. If you are adding gold, set the amount in the Constant box.
7. Add a [Control Self Switch…] event from page 1. Click [OK] to create an event that sets Self Switch A to ON.

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1. Now press the [New Event Page] button at the top of the Edit Event window.
2. Double-click the empty graphic box and select an open chest graphic facing the direction you want. (These are on the third row of the built-in chest graphics.)
3. Check Self Switch so that A is ON.
4. Uncheck Move Animation.
5. In the Event Commands, add a [Set Move Route…] event from page 2. Change the drop-down box to “This Event”, click [Turn Up], and [OK].
6. Add a [Show Text…] event from page 1. Type a message to the player indicating the chest is empty. (e.g. “The chest is empty.” Click [OK].
7. In the Event Commands, add a [Set Move Route…] event from page 2. Change the drop-down box to “This Event”, click [Turn Right], and [OK].

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