From memory from working on older cores, the item.layer method returned the items layer (iirc). Now I'm seeing that it only returns the items layer if it is equipped, otherwise it returns 0. I'm using tile_layer instead now, just thought this was weird.

I suppose it's a handy way to know if the item is equipped or not. I'm guessing this it the purpose of it, if so then the description ought to be changed from

equipment layer

to something like

equipment layer if equipped

save a bit of confusion on my part

core-changes.txt that was a bug

Ah ok. So it's only meant to return the layer when equipped then? Thanks I did have a look at the change log but didn't see that one haha.

Another way to check if equipped is to check if item.container is a CharRef