It took me a while to find this, but an intresting related read
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazi ... 1/mode/2up

The title says it all, when I started a new peaceful game and played about 5 min, the biters attacked for no reason. They also attacked the nearby trees and ignored my base.

thanks for telling me the problem. I guess I'll just make a dummy item and stock the inventory in control.lua

I wanted to create a simple mod that adds recipes for all the ores, enables the player to smelt items, and sets the crafting speed higher, so you can mess with the game. It loads and works fine, except every time I attempt to open my inventory with it active, the game freezes. Is this because I have...

actually, how do you switch the character to a new one? when I try, it crashes

well that's sad...
but at least I can change the players character to a better one

what are all of the technology effects
I was going to make a player upgrade mod, so you could research a technology that gives you +1% max health and health regen, then found that the effects seem to be hardcoded and I don't know if its even possible
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