Just as the title says. I am looking for a way to check if the player knows a certain level of an ingredient. I have been through every Script Object and cannot find a way.

Just for the sake of curiosity, I tried casting an Ingredient as a FormList and checking GetSize(), theory being the game must have some hidden internal way of tracking how many of the four possible effects on each ingredient the player currently knows.

Unfortunately Papyrus won't compile it, saying ingredients can't be cast as FormLists.

It seems like such a simple thing to do!

I am confused how the Ingredients script object has commands for IsHostile, LearnEffect, LearnNextEffect, and LearnAllEffects, but NOTHING to check if the player HAS or knows the effect at a certain index. Almost inconceivable such a thing could have been overlooked.

SKSE hasn't even included it yet!

Just tried this for the heck of it:

Scriptname phiTestIngScript extends ActiveMagicEffectIngredient Property MountainFlower01Blue autoEvent OnEffectStart(Actor akTarget, Actor akCaster)if (MountainFlower01Blue.LearnNextEffect() == 0)  Debug.Notification("Known effects: 0")elseif (MountainFlower01Blue.LearnNextEffect() == 1)  Debug.Notification("Known effects: 1")elseif (MountainFlower01Blue.LearnNextEffect() == 2)  Debug.Notification("Known effects: 2")elseif (MountainFlower01Blue.LearnNextEffect() == 3)  Debug.Notification("Known effects: 3")else  Debug.Notification("All effects known.")endifEndEvent

Unsurprisingly, it adds the effect it is returning, making the function useless for simply checking whether an effect is known.

Edit: Useless frustration post. Had to be done. Removed.