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That's uh...an extremely roundabout way of going about it...

I'm trying to create reactions that either require multiple containers of reagents (e.g. 7 buckets of water at my Obsidian Forge for 1 boulder of obsidian) or give multiple containers of product (e.g. 1 ore boulder at my Pulverizer for 2 bags of ore sand). How would I go about this?

Two methods come to mind, but I'm not sure which is correct.

Method 1:
[REAGENT:water:3000:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container:7:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]

Method 2
[REAGENT:water 1:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 1:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 1]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 2:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 2:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 2]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 3:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 31:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 3]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 4:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 4:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 4]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 5:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 5:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 5]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 6:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 6:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 6]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]
[REAGENT:water 7:150:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER]
[REAGENT:water container 7:1:NONE:NONE:NONE:NONE]
[CONTAINS:water 7]
[PRESERVE_REAGENT]
[DOES_NOT_DETERMINE_PRODUCT_AMOUNT]

EDIT: ...I'm just now realizing that this won't work no matter how I do it, because dwarves won't fill buckets with water to do the reaction, anyway, and there's no vanilla way to store water in buckets...

Topic.

Is it possible in any way to enchant weapons so that, for instance, they become indestructible?

Also, is it possible to attach special attacks to certain kinds of weapons and/or materials so that the equipper can use it? For example, I wanted to create either a special kind of sword, or a special metal that can be made into a sword, that gives the equipper the ability to fire cutter beams at targets.

EDIT: I think I may have answered part of my second question...

A couple of friends of mine were discussing custom reactions with Alchemy, and one of them suggested creating potions. How would you go about making potions with different effects in the game? One idea that was inspired was a potion to regrow missing limbs.

Well, that sucks. But at least that somewhat cuts down on the copy-pasting I'd have to do each version. But, what you're saying is that different types of modifications can't be put into a single file? Like, you can't put [OBJECT:INORGANIC] mods and [OBJECT:ITEM] mods into the same file?

Okay, so, possibly dumb question...

Do I have to put all my modifications into the appropriate files (for instance, reactions to pulverize ore into multiple bags of metal dust and to smelt the dust into bars into reaction_smelter, and the ability for dwarves to use those two reactions into entity_default) each time I download a new version, or is there a way for me to put all that stuff into a separate file(s) and transfer them between versions so I don't have to copy-paste each individual change?