[Xedra] Inventor: (Re)Add Dimensional Research

[b3brodie]

Summary

Mods "[Xedra] Inventor: (Re)Add Dimensional Research"

Purpose of change

I like the inventor class. Add some new goodies and other related recipes. Also have some more dimensional research ideas later on.

Describe the solution

Adds an NRE recorder crafting recipe to tier 3 energy research. Adds the dimensional research path from tier 3 energy. Research requires nre readings

• Adds teleporter crafting recipe
• Re-ads vancian bill with some changes. Use to consume item and heavily damage a random enemy nearby. Luckily u_consume_item seems to prioritize held items.
• Adds a netherium warp grenade. This item will kill and destroy everything within its radius at the cost of a 50% chance of creating a tear in reality at its center. Potential future change with a new damage type to just delete everything entirely within the radius.
• Adds the Netherium-Reality Smoothing Device. This enormous device closes tears in reality and portals at the expense of causing portal storms, a lot of power, and the process of carrying it to the portal. Unfortunately the portal storm EOC seems a little bugged (#74774) so it doesn't currently cause the portal storms

Code Changes: Allows dropped items to cast spells. These spells are targeted on the dropped item itself. Used in order to allow the netherium grenade to cast a spell as its 'detonation' action. Otherwise the game would just instantly crash.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Add even more things

Testing

Tested that the new items and recipes are acquirable with research Tested that the vanacian bill kills things Tested that the netherium warp grenade REALLY kills things Tested that the Netherium-Reality Smoothing Device closes portals.

• While its supposed to cause portal storms, that is done via the base game EOC_CAUSE_PORTAL_STORM which as of #74774 has an error. Using it just causes several tripoint errors for a while. Presumably whenever that is fixes this will also be fixed

Code: Used the netherium warp grenade as a testing base, since it calls several sub spells that perform different actions. Largely confirmed that item spells work, they are targeted correctly on the dropped item, etc.

Additional context

This gives me ideas for an inventor fast travel tool

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[Maleclypse]

Ok it's too late for me to review this tonight and there is a conflict that I can't resolve in the browser. I'll try and review this tomorrow. :) Thanks for working on this!

[Maleclypse]

OK I've reviewed this and I absolutely love it! Let me know if you need me to rebase this for you to resolve the conflict.

[b3brodie]

OK I've reviewed this and I absolutely love it! Let me know if you need me to rebase this for you to resolve the conflict.

I believe I've resolved the merge conflict. Pull request should be ready to go