plugin/RunicNPC.cs

@@ -4121,8 +4121,16 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
         {
             /// <summary>D284: set on the first load that wrote them, and never cleared.</summary>
             [JsonProperty("examplesWritten")] public bool ExamplesWritten;
+
+            /// <summary>D329: the example kits written that Kits has not loaded yet. The reload is owed until it has.</summary>
+            [JsonProperty("kitsReloadOwed")] public List<string> KitsReloadOwed = new List<string>();
+
+            /// <summary>D329: the loads that have asked for that reload. At most three, so a kit Kits never takes cannot loop.</summary>
+            [JsonProperty("kitsReloadTries")] public int KitsReloadTries;
         }
 
+        private const int KitsReloadTriesMax = 3;
+
         /// <summary>Placements wait while Kits reloads with the example kits (D283 reloads RunicNPC with it).</summary>
         private bool _holdForKits;
 
@@ -4206,8 +4214,8 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
         /// <summary>
         ///     D284: on the first load only, the four example kits go into Kits' own data file (Kits has no
         ///     API that creates one, D280) and the four profiles into ours, each only where its name is free.
-        ///     The flag is set before anything is written, so this runs once whatever happens. Kits is then
-        ///     reloaded, which reloads RunicNPC too (D283); placements wait for it.
+        ///     The flag is set before anything is written, so this runs once whatever happens. The kits it wrote
+        ///     are then owed a Kits reload (D329), which SettleKitsReload asks for; it reloads RunicNPC too (D283).
         /// </summary>
         private void WriteExamplesOnce()
         {
@@ -4286,11 +4294,43 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             if (addedKits.Count == 0)
                 return;
 
-            // Kits reads its file only when it loads (stage 6 spike, finding 5). The reload takes RunicNPC down and
-            // back with it (D283); if this framework does not, OnPluginLoaded("Kits") picks the profiles up.
+            // Kits reads its file only when it loads (stage 6 spike, finding 5), so a reload is owed; SettleKitsReload asks for it.
+            state.KitsReloadOwed = addedKits;
+            state.KitsReloadTries = 0;
+            Interface.Oxide.DataFileSystem.WriteObject(DataState, state);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        ///     D329: asks Kits to reload while the example kits written are still owed, and clears the debt once Kits
+        ///     knows them all. The reload runs on a timer, which dies with RunicNPC: in the 9d session a second load of
+        ///     RunicNPC within that second lost it, and the examples stayed refused until Kits was reloaded by hand.
+        ///     Owing it in the state file lets any later load (or Kits coming back) finish the job.
+        /// </summary>
+        private void SettleKitsReload()
+        {
+            StateFile state = ReadData<StateFile>(DataState);
+            if (state.KitsReloadOwed == null || state.KitsReloadOwed.Count == 0)
+                return;
+
+            string command = Framework() == "carbon" ? "c.reload" : "oxide.reload";
+            if (state.KitsReloadOwed.All(KitExists) || state.KitsReloadTries >= KitsReloadTriesMax)
+            {
+                if (state.KitsReloadTries >= KitsReloadTriesMax && !state.KitsReloadOwed.All(KitExists))
+                    PrintWarning($"Kits has still not loaded the example kits ({string.Join(", ", state.KitsReloadOwed.ToArray())}) after " +
+                                 $"{KitsReloadTriesMax} reloads. Run `{command} Kits` once.");
+                state.KitsReloadOwed = new List<string>();
+                state.KitsReloadTries = 0;
+                Interface.Oxide.DataFileSystem.WriteObject(DataState, state);
+                return;
+            }
+
+            state.KitsReloadTries++;
+            Interface.Oxide.DataFileSystem.WriteObject(DataState, state);
+
+            // The reload takes RunicNPC down and back with it (D283); if this framework does not, OnPluginLoaded("Kits")
+            // picks the profiles up. Placements wait for it.
             _holdForKits = true;
             timer.Once(60f, () => _holdForKits = false);
-            string command = Framework() == "carbon" ? "c.reload" : "oxide.reload";
             timer.Once(1f, () => ConsoleSystem.Run(ConsoleSystem.Option.Server, command, "Kits"));
         }
 
@@ -4475,6 +4515,7 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             ResolveFields();
             LoadData();
             WriteExamplesOnce();
+            SettleKitsReload();
             RevalidateProfiles();
             RebuildPlacements();
             TrackWorld();
@@ -4526,6 +4567,7 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
             if (plugin == null || plugin.Name != "Kits" || !_ready)
                 return;
             _holdForKits = false;
+            SettleKitsReload();
             RevalidateProfiles();
             TickPlacements();
         }

tools/RunicNpcTest.cs

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
     ///     a made-up user id (11400000001 and up), so <c>IsNpc</c> is false. They take no damage.
     ///     </para>
     /// </summary>
-    [Info("RunicNpcTest", "Runic Gateway", "0.7.2")]
+    [Info("RunicNpcTest", "Runic Gateway", "0.7.3")]
     [Description("RunicNPC stage 2 to 7 tests, the stage 6 spike and stage 9's cost check. A developer tool: never ship it.")]
     internal class RunicNpcTest : RustPlugin
     {
@@ -2422,6 +2422,9 @@ namespace Oxide.Plugins
                 "each needs kits.runicnpc, which nobody is granted");
             JObject state = Interface.Oxide.DataFileSystem.ReadObject<JObject>("RunicNPC/state");
             Check("s6.examples.once", state?["examplesWritten"]?.Type == JTokenType.Boolean && (bool)state["examplesWritten"], "state.json: " + state?.ToString(Formatting.None));
+            // D329: once Kits knows the examples, no reload is owed (a state from before D329 has no list at all).
+            JArray owed = state?["kitsReloadOwed"] as JArray;
+            Check("s6.examples.reloadSettled", owed == null || owed.Count == 0, "kitsReloadOwed: " + (owed?.ToString(Formatting.None) ?? "absent"));
             JObject items = kitFile?["_kits"]?["rnpc_juggernaut"] as JObject;
             int itemCount = items == null ? 0 : ((JArray)items["MainItems"]).Count + ((JArray)items["WearItems"]).Count + ((JArray)items["BeltItems"]).Count;
             Check("s6.examples.items", itemCount == 6, $"rnpc_juggernaut carries {itemCount} of its 6 items (a short name this Rust lacks would be left out)");