How do I remove something and everything that refers to it without having to do it all manually?

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Or: How do I wildcard repetitive data.raw rules?

I am working on a mod in which all Intermediate items and crafting recipes will have no use, because every recipe that would use them will use items added by my mod instead, which I am splitting across their own crafting tabs. I have already found a thread on how to add new tabs, and its method works.

I want to hide the Intermediates tab in the crafting interface to prevent confusion and clutter. Ideally, I also want these items and recipes to not appear in the Factoriopedia for the same reason.

Thanks to How Do I Delete a Recipe or Item From Vanilla?, I know that I can do:

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data.raw["item-group"]["intermediate-products"] = nil

This does work. However, the game throws an error, blaming my mod for removing this category. The source of this error is apparently fluid-recipes.

Thanks to Darkfrei I know I must remove the referents throwing this error. That makes sense. I do:

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data.raw["item-subgroup"]["fluid-recipes"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["raw-resource"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["raw-material"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["barrel"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["fill-barrel"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["empty-barrel"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["intermediate-products"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["intermediate-recipe"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["uranium-processing"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["science-pack"] = nil
data.raw["item-subgroup"]["internal-process"] = nil

This works. However, a new error. Now the problem is wood. I can see where this is going, and having re-read Darkfrei's answer I realise I should have expected this.

I have to set every intermediate item, and every intermediate recipe, to nil.

I can, but surely I'm missing something. Surely there's a simple way to do

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data.raw["item-group"]["intermediate-products"][*] = nil

I did try that, but this throws the error "unexpected symbol near *".

If there is clear, detailed documentation on how to use data.raw, I'd appreciate a link. Modders seem to know instinctively how to use it, and I cannot figure out how they know this stuff! For instance, I've found that it cannot be used to replace an image, even though it looks as though it could.

[Osmo]

simply set the hidden, as well as hidden_in_factoriopedia properties to true instead of deleting the prototypes
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/pro ... tml#hidden

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simply set the hidden, as well as hidden_in_factoriopedia properties to true instead of deleting the prototypes
https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/pro ... tml#hidden

Thank you for reply.

I must be doing something wrong. I tried:

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data.raw["item-group"]["intermediate-products"].hidden = true
data.raw["item-group"]["intermediate-products"].hidden_in_factoriopedia = true

This does nothing. The Intermediates tab remains visible.

What is the proper way of doing this please?