[Solved] Naming a custom recipe

[Impatient]

Hi,

I would like to name a recipe in my mod. Currently the engine seems to draw the recipes name from the name of the recipe result.

The recipe in data.lua looks like this:

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data:extend{
  {
    type = "recipe",
    name = "recipe-electronic-circuit-copper-plate",
    normal =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"copper-plate", 1},
        {"copper-cable", 3}
      },
      result = "electronic-circuit",
    },
    expensive =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"copper-plate", 2},
        {"copper-cable", 10}
      },
      result = "electronic-circuit",
    },
    icon = "__Electronic_Circuit_Copper_Plate__/graphics/icons/recipe/electronic-circuit-copper-plate.png",
    icon_size = 32,
  }
}

It is recognized and works fine.

In my mod i have the folder and file structure "_ModName_/locale/en/config.cfg". Like described here https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Modd ... sir#Locale .

If I put the following in config.cfg

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[recipe-name]
recipe-electronic-circuit-copper-plate=Recipe name in section recipe-name

it does not change anything. I looked up the file base.cfg in the base mod. There is a section [recipe-name] that lists all the recipe names which are different from their results name, or which have multiple results.

I tried to make a file base.cfg next to config.cfg . But that has no effect either.

I had a look at other mods and there naming recipes works just fine.

Any knowledge/ideas? Thanks!

[eradicator]

As far as i can tell:

Prototype with .result -> uses item-name
Prototype with .results -> uses recipe-name (possibly also requires main_product= "",)

So you can try using .results instead, which works for single-output recipes just fine. It's just a different format. Or you can just straight ahead to using .localised_name, but that is probably overkill if you don't want to dynamically generate any names.

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results=
    {
      {type="item", name="electronic-circuit", amount=1}
    },
main_product= "",

[Impatient]

Thank you, that worked. Smart solution, to use the multiple results format, but to just define one result.

The engine also asked for a subgroup as the mainproduct is set to "". The predefined subgroups can be found here: https://wiki.factorio.com/Data.raw#item-subgroup

The working recipe looks like this now:

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data:extend{
  {
    type = "recipe",
    name = "recipe-electronic-circuit-copper-plate",
    normal =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"copper-plate", 1},
        {"copper-cable", 3}
      },
      results={{type="item", name="electronic-circuit", amount=1}},
      main_product= "",
    },
    expensive =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"copper-plate", 2},
        {"copper-cable", 10}
      },
      results={{type="item", name="electronic-circuit", amount=1}},
      main_product= "",
    },
    subgroup = "intermediate-product",
    icon = "__Electronic_Circuit_Copper_Plate__/graphics/icons/recipe/electronic-circuit-copper-plate.png",
    icon_size = 32,
  }
}