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So I basically copied the code for assembling machine 1 for entity, changed the name, the amount of ingredient slots, and amount of module slots, and it gives me "no order string defined". What does that mean? I've never made new entities before in my mods.

Also, how do I increase the amount of stuff an assembling machine can make? Kinda like uranium, I wanted it to make one of two items, 40% first item and 60%. But it either doesn't make anything or only the first item. When I changed that it needed centrifuge instead of assembling machines, then it worked fine. But I was thinking of having something have up to 4 or 5 different items it could make, so even the centrifuge wouldn't work. That's why I was trying to basically duplicate the assembling machine, but allow more items, but I can't figure out what to change and then that error popped up when I tried starting the game.

Can you post the mod you have so far? I'll see if I can improve the error message and tell you what's going on.

Thanks for responding! I decided to try one more time on another mod I just started making and it worked. Not sure why it didn't work on the first one. Maybe I missed a line of code when I copied it? I don't know.... thanks anyway.

Rseding91 wrote:Can you post the mod you have so far? I'll see if I can improve the error message and tell you what's going on.

Sounds to me like he copied an assembler without having an item to place it. I'm not sure if the error message states explicitly that entities without an item to place them need an order string while the ones with an item don't.

@OP: Also what you really want is recipes, not assemblers. Assemblers are only count limited for input items (.ingredient_count) not output items.