Actions aren't really attributes in Caves of Zircon, they're a code smell which means something may be missing

[BobG1983]

Caves of Zircon has an attribute called Actions which is a command container, which is basically a special case of

if(hasAttribute) dispatchCommandOnOtherEntity

Its a useful construct, but it feels like its a code smell and something is missing.

Actions could be hoisted up to be equivalent to facets, behaviors etc. but then you could only trigger them all. So having different triggers (bump vs shoot vs eat for example) wouldn’t work. Is there some missing concept?

Or is this the least worst idea?

[BobG1983]

My gut is that this may change once we have single command facets and global systems solved

[adam-arold]

I agree. I think I'll draw a diagram with all these things, and write some examples just to give ourselves some ammunition for thinking about this.

[adam-arold]

You were right, the Facet composition is a good solution to create a command dispatcher and we can just send specific Commands to an Entity when we want to try its actions so this:

result = entity.tryActionsOn(context, block.occupier.get())

we can do

result = entity.executeCommand(TryAction(context, block.occupier.get())