pygame do something every second not working

Question

I have a sprite that i can move with my mouse and it is supposed to shoot a material every second ive used an example from another question for help where they used this.

time_counter=clock.tick()
if time_counter>1000:
    material_group.add(Producer.create_material('self'))
    time_counter=0

ive put it in the while loop that runs the game as if i put it into its own while loop then the game itself doesn't run. when i put it into the game loop it doesn't output anything but if i reduce the ticks to 10 it only runs the command when i'm moving the sprite but this doesn't happen for longer than 22

    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type==pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit()

        if event.type == pygame.MOUSEBUTTONDOWN:
            material_group.add(Producer.create_material('self'))

    if game_active:

        screen.blit(bg_surface,(0,0))

        material_group.draw(screen)
        producer_group.draw(screen) 
        producer_group.update()
        material_group.update()

        time_counter=clock.tick()
        if time_counter>10:
            material_group.add(Producer.create_material('self'))
            print('hi')
            time_counter=0
    pygame.display.update()
    clock.tick(120)

these are my sprite classes

class Producer(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.image=pygame.image.load('producer.png').convert_alpha()
        self.image=pygame.transform.rotate(self.image,90)
        self.rect=self.image.get_rect(center=(200,200))

    def update(self):
        self.rect.center= pygame.mouse.get_pos()

    def create_material(self):
        return Material(pygame.mouse.get_pos()[0],pygame.mouse.get_pos()[1])
        #return Material(self.x,self.y)

class Material(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self,x,y):
        super().__init__()
        self.image=pygame.Surface((30,30))
        self.image.fill((255,0,0 ))
        self.rect=self.image.get_rect(center=(x,y))

    def update(self):
        self.rect.x+=5

        if self.rect.x>=800+200:
            self.kill()

if any more info is needed please tell thanks.

pygame do something every second not working

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