There's a bunch of typos "engin" "engines", you're copying the entity twice instead if the item and the entity, the last one "steament" doesn't use the table.copy function at all. and a bunch of parameters that don't apply to the respective item/recipe/entity. Please go read the code from another ...

Yeah, the second one. That should get you close enough to start seeing results in the game!

its not work bro i try it this code : --recipe.lua

local steamrecipe = table.deepcopy(data.raw.recipe["steam-engine"])
steamrecipe.name = "steam-engine-2"
steamrecipe.enabled = true

steamrecipe ...

1. You still need all the code you already had, which was correct. steamrecipe should stay the same, and you add a new section for e.g. steamentity

2. What I wrote was correct. Items are stored in data.raw.item, but entities are stored in many different categories, like data.raw.armor and data ...

1. You still need all the code you already had, which was correct. steamrecipe should stay the same, and you add a new section for e.g. steamentity

2. What I wrote was correct. Items are stored in data.raw.item, but entities are stored in many different categories, like data.raw.armor and data ...

The entity for the steam engine is stored in `data.raw.generator["steam-engine"]` and the prototype parameters for the generator entity can be found in the documentation at https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/prototypes/GeneratorPrototype.html

Do another copy.deepcopy of the entity entry, rename ...

robot256 wrote: Thu May 16, 2024 9:48 pm Items are only the things held in inventory. Right now your new item places the same old engine entity. You need to make a new Entity and change the placement links for it to be different when you place it.

how i can do it ?

hi guys i am noob with moding and i want just simple mod for upgrade steam engine

my custom item work but output power not change and its vanilla

my item.lua:

--item.lua

local steam_engine = table.deepcopy(data.raw.item["steam-engine"])


steam_engine.name = "steam engine 2"

steam_engine ...