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Jani25051 wrote: I did read https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=34&t=709 but i did not understand all because i´am from germany and read english is a little bit hard for me^^
And i looked into the treefarm mod to see how it works but that helped me only to understand the control.lua and some other things.

zer0t3ch wrote:
Are you using the Factorio version that matches the tutorial you were following? (v0.3/0.4 I think?) Or at least the Factorio version that matches the version of TreeFarm mod you were looking at?

**EDIT
Just looked at the RAR, and your folder structure looks wrong. Look at treefarm mod for reference.

Jani25051 wrote:

zer0t3ch wrote:
Are you using the Factorio version that matches the tutorial you were following? (v0.3/0.4 I think?) Or at least the Factorio version that matches the version of TreeFarm mod you were looking at?

**EDIT
Just looked at the RAR, and your folder structure looks wrong. Look at treefarm mod for reference.

I use Factorio version 0.5.3.
I can´t find a tutorial for modding in 0.5.3 so i used that tutorial with version 0.4...

I changed the Treefarm version to 0.5.3 to play it and it works fine (:

Thanks for your answer i change the folder structure like it is in the treefarm mod.

Edit://
I´ve changed the file structure and changed it in the .lua files too but the item is not in the game..
Is my "MoreItems\graphics\entity\MoreItems-Mod\electric-pulverizor.png" right?
I saw that in the "15Cyndaquil's electric furnace mod"..

ps.I´ve uploaded the new test mod files in my first comment.

require("prototypes.entity.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.item.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.recipe.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.recipe-category.moreitems-mod")

zer0t3ch wrote:

Jani25051 wrote:

zer0t3ch wrote:
Are you using the Factorio version that matches the tutorial you were following? (v0.3/0.4 I think?) Or at least the Factorio version that matches the version of TreeFarm mod you were looking at?

**EDIT
Just looked at the RAR, and your folder structure looks wrong. Look at treefarm mod for reference.

I use Factorio version 0.5.3.
I can´t find a tutorial for modding in 0.5.3 so i used that tutorial with version 0.4...

I changed the Treefarm version to 0.5.3 to play it and it works fine (:

Thanks for your answer i change the folder structure like it is in the treefarm mod.

Edit://
I´ve changed the file structure and changed it in the .lua files too but the item is not in the game..
Is my "MoreItems\graphics\entity\MoreItems-Mod\electric-pulverizor.png" right?
I saw that in the "15Cyndaquil's electric furnace mod"..

ps.I´ve uploaded the new test mod files in my first comment.

I see your problem, and I bet you can fix it in just a few seconds.

You need to have a data.lua in the root of your MoreItems folder that loads in all of the other files, because otherwise the game doesn't know what to load. For your folder structure, putting this into a data.lua should do the trick: (and make everything work, provided your code is good)

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require("prototypes.entity.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.item.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.recipe.moreitems-mod")
require("prototypes.recipe-category.moreitems-mod")

drs9999 wrote:Nice to see a new modder here.
For newbies I highly recommend to look into the data/base folder.
It is the perfect place to see how things can/have to be done and to become familiar with the data structure.

I had just a quick view, but there are several bugs in your files. E.g missing data:extend, wrong entity type, ...

P.S. I am not sure if this is still valid, but I believe that the modfolder name have to be the same than the mod-name in the info.json

drs9999 wrote:As an example the *.lua file in the entity folder should look like this:

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data:extend(
{
	{
		type = "assembling-machine",
		name = "electric-pulverizor",
    	icon = "__Moreitems__/graphics/icons/electric-pulverizor.png",
		flags = {"placeable-neutral","player-creation"},
    	minable = {hardness = 0.2, mining_time = 0.5, result = "electric-pulverizor"},
		max_health = 100,
		collision_box =  {{-1.4, -1.4}, {1.4, 1.4}},
		selection_box = {{-1.5, -1.5}, {1.5, 1.5}},
		animation =
		{
			filename = "__MoreItems__/graphics/entity/MoreItems-Mod/electric-pulverizor.png",
			priority = "medium",
			frame_width = 132,
			frame_height = 116,
			frame_count = 32,
			line_length = 7,
			shift = {0.0, 0.0}
		},
		crafting_categories = {"pulverizing"},
		effectivity = 20,
		energy_source =
		{
			type = "electric",
			input_priority = "secondary"
		},
		energy_usage_per_tick = 0.5,
		ingredient_count = 1
	}

}
)

data:extend(
{
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "electric-pulverizor",
	icon = "__MoreItems__\graphics\icons\electric-pulverizor.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-quickbar"},
    group = "production",
    order = "h-b-a",
    place-result = "electric-pulverizor",
    stack-size = 64,
  }
}
)

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Cannot load lua script C:/Users\Jan\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\MoreItems\data.lua. Error: error loading module 'prototypes.item.item' from file 'C:/Users\Jan\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods\MoreItems\prototypes\item\item.lua':
	...Roaming\Factorio\mods\MoreItems\prototypes\item\item.lua:6: invalid escape sequence near '\g'

data:extend(
{
  {
    type = "recipe",
    name = "electric-pulverizor",
    enabled = "true",
    ingredients = {
	{"stone-furnace",1},
	{"iron-plate",10},
	{ "iron-gear-wheel",10},
	{"electronic-circuit",4},
	},
	result = "electric-pulverizor"
  },
}
)

drs9999 wrote:Actually I think that the following is counterproductive in terms of learning how to mod, but you are lucky that I have to learn for exams, but do not want to

So here is a working example:

MoreItems.zip