“Cannot find symbol: method damage(int)”

Question

I'm getting the following error:

C:\\Users\\[USER]\\Desktop\\Java\\TextAdventure\\TextAdventure.java:39: cannot find symbol

symbol : method damage(int)

location: class TextAdventure

out.println("you do "+damage(pS)+" damage");

public class TextAdventure{
    public static int pS=0;
    public static void main(String args[]){
        Scanner reader=new Scanner(in);
        while((pS>10) || (pS<1)){
            out.println("\nEnter your strength attribute:   ");
            pS=reader.nextInt();
        }//ask for strength, repeat if not between 1 and 10
        out.println("you do "+damage(pS)+" damage");

The RandomDamage class with the damage(int) method is as follows:

public class RandomDamage {
    public static int damage(int x){
        int dMult=(int)(Math.random()*11);
        return dMult*x;
    }
}

I'm using JCreator LE's "project" thing for the first time, so I'm just assuming that I don't need to deal with creating different packages or anything. I have RandomDamage and TextAdventure under "Package Default"

Answer 1

You have to specify the class.

out.println("you do "+ RandomDamage.damage(pS)+" damage");

If you don't, it will look for a method damage(int) inside your current class, TextAdventure .