From 904b05b0d31c707a7ecee8ca55c43a491d26439d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Ouellette <oue.paul18@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:48:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow calling ItemStack with no arguments (#8783)

---
 src/script/lua_api/l_item.cpp | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/script/lua_api/l_item.cpp b/src/script/lua_api/l_item.cpp
index f9708b560..a76e5527a 100644
--- a/src/script/lua_api/l_item.cpp
+++ b/src/script/lua_api/l_item.cpp
@@ -414,7 +414,9 @@ ItemStack& LuaItemStack::getItem()
 int LuaItemStack::create_object(lua_State *L)
 {
 	NO_MAP_LOCK_REQUIRED;
-	ItemStack item = read_item(L, 1, getGameDef(L)->idef());
+	ItemStack item;
+	if (!lua_isnone(L, 1))
+		item = read_item(L, 1, getGameDef(L)->idef());
 	LuaItemStack *o = new LuaItemStack(item);
 	*(void **)(lua_newuserdata(L, sizeof(void *))) = o;
 	luaL_getmetatable(L, className);