At the end of this if statement, just before you hits its end: if love.keyboard.isDown("z") and cooldown < 0 then So in the program you posted, that would be here: if smallshackCounter == 3 then smallshack4State = "drawn" lumber = lumber - 50 smallshackCounter = smallshackCounte...

function love.update( dt )   cooldown = cooldown - dt   if love.keyboard.isDown("z") and cooldown < 0 then     -- all your code goes here     cooldown = 5 -- this will install a 5 second wait because cooldown will now be larger than 0 for 5 seconds   end end After trying to use Plu's way,...

Alright, thanks.

Basically, the game I am making is one in which you must rebuild a town after a natural disaster. When you press the "z" key and you have at least 50 lumber, a house is drawn. However, whenever I press the "z" key multiple houses are drawn at the same time because you can make mu...

Alright, thanks. I see where I went wrong there.

In my simple game, you must rebuild your houses after a natural disaster. But it seems that I have run into a dilemma. When the "z" key is pressed, I want a house drawn, given there is 50 lumber in the stockpile. During the debugging, when I press the "z" key, no house appears, n...