New item values don't seem to apply ingame?

[Molay]

Hello,

I dabbled into modding for the first time. I use the Marathon Mod as a blueprint for what I call "HarderEnergy" mod, which only aims to reduce energy values of wood, coal and solid fuel, as well as reduce production from solar panels and capacity of accumulators.

It's a very short mod, and I don't know why it doesn't recognize the new values. Does someone know what I did wrong?

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-- Rebalanced MJ value
-- wood 4MJ -> 2MJ, other wooden objects scaled accordingly
-- coal 8MJ -> 4MJ
-- solid fuel 25MJ -> 16MJ
--
-- Rebalanced solar power
-- Solar panel 60KW -> 10KW
-- Accumulator Storage 5MJ -> 3MJ
-- Accumulator flow 300KW -> 150KW


data:extend(
{
-- Fuels
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "raw-wood",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/raw-wood.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
    fuel_value = "2MJ",
    subgroup = "raw-material",
    order = "a[raw-wood]",
    stack_size = 50
  },  
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "wood",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/wood.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
    fuel_value = "1MJ",
    subgroup = "raw-material",
    order = "a[wood]",
    stack_size = 50
  },
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "wooden-chest",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/wooden-chest.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-quickbar"},
    fuel_value = "2MJ",
    subgroup = "storage",
    order = "a[items]-a[wooden-chest]",
    place_result = "wooden-chest",
    stack_size = 50
  },
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "small-electric-pole",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/small-electric-pole.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-quickbar"},
    subgroup = "energy-pipe-distribution",
    order = "a[energy]-a[small-electric-pole]",
    place_result = "small-electric-pole",
    fuel_value = "2MJ",
    stack_size = 50
  },
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "coal",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/coal.png",
    dark_background_icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/coal-dark-background.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
    fuel_value = "4MJ",
    subgroup = "raw-material",
    order = "b[coal]",
    stack_size = 50
  },
  {
    type = "item",
    name = "solid-fuel",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/solid-fuel.png",
    flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
    fuel_value = "16MJ",
    subgroup = "raw-resource",
    order = "c[solid-fuel]",
    stack_size = 50
  },  
-- Solar
  {
    type = "solar-panel",
    name = "solar-panel",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/solar-panel.png",
    flags = {"placeable-neutral", "player-creation"},
    minable = {hardness = 0.2, mining_time = 0.5, result = "solar-panel"},
    max_health = 100,
    corpse = "big-remnants",
    collision_box = {{-1.4, -1.4}, {1.4, 1.4}},
    selection_box = {{-1.5, -1.5}, {1.5, 1.5}},
    energy_source =
    {
      type = "electric",
      usage_priority = "solar"
    },
    picture =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/solar-panel/solar-panel.png",
      priority = "high",
      width = 104,
      height = 96
    },
    production = "10kW"
  },
  -- Accumulator
  {
    type = "accumulator",
    name = "basic-accumulator",
    icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/basic-accumulator.png",
    flags = {"placeable-neutral", "player-creation"},
    minable = {hardness = 0.2, mining_time = 0.5, result = "basic-accumulator"},
    max_health = 150,
    corpse = "medium-remnants",
    collision_box = {{-0.9, -0.9}, {0.9, 0.9}},
    selection_box = {{-1, -1}, {1, 1}},
    energy_source =
    {
      type = "electric",
      buffer_capacity = "3MJ",
      usage_priority = "terciary",
      input_flow_limit = "150kW",
      output_flow_limit = "150kW"
    },
    picture =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/basic-accumulator/basic-accumulator.png",
      priority = "extra-high",
      width = 124,
      height = 103,
      shift = {0.7, -0.2}
    },
    charge_animation =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/basic-accumulator/basic-accumulator-charge-animation.png",
      width = 138,
      height = 135,
      line_length = 8,
      frame_count = 24,
      shift = {0.482, -0.638},
      animation_speed = 0.5
    },
    charge_cooldown = 30,
    charge_light = {intensity = 0.3, size = 7},
    discharge_animation =
    {
      filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/basic-accumulator/basic-accumulator-discharge-animation.png",
      width = 147,
      height = 128,
      line_length = 8,
      frame_count = 24,
      shift = {0.395, -0.525},
      animation_speed = 0.5
    },
    discharge_cooldown = 60,
    discharge_light = {intensity = 0.7, size = 7},
    vehicle_impact_sound =  { filename = "__base__/sound/car-metal-impact.ogg", volume = 0.65 },
    working_sound =
    {
      sound =
      {
        filename = "__base__/sound/accumulator-working.ogg",
        volume = 1
      },
      idle_sound = {
        filename = "__base__/sound/accumulator-idle.ogg",
        volume = 0.4
      },
      max_sounds_per_type = 5
    },
  },
}
)

Thanks for your help,
Molay

[oLaudix]

Is it totally new mod that wasn't in the savegame before or did you play with it and changed values recently? If the latter you need to remove the mod, load the game and save it without the mod, install the mod and only then the new values are shown. Its like this because mods values are saved inside the save game.

[Molay]

I started up a new game every time to test the mod. So no old-savegame schenanigans :/
I wonder if I formatted it wrong somehow? I really can't spot what's wrong here. But it does seem to properly load the map, as it tells me when hovering over a piece of wood, coal etc that it's from the mod "Harder Energy". So it seems to use my items, but it doesn't seem to apply the new energy values of my items?

[Molay]

I've been looking it for another 3 hours or so, I'm not quite sure what could be wrong. Can someone please have a look over it? It's a really small mod. It's just one file basically that alters 6 items and 2 buildings. I'd love to get it to work, but there just seems nothing wrong with it. Ingame it refers to, say, coal as being from the mod, but it still doesn't use the fuel value from my mod. I don't understand how that could be?

[Molay]

So I narrowed it down to 3 items. Can someone please look at it and tell me what's wrong with it? It's really short. Please.

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data:extend({
{
	type = "item",
	name = "raw-wood",
	icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/raw-wood.png",
	flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
	fuel_value = "2MJ",
	subgroup = "raw-material",
	order = "a[raw-wood]",
	stack_size = 50
},  
{
	type = "item",
	name = "coal",
	icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/coal.png",
	dark_background_icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/coal-dark-background.png",
	flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
	fuel_value = "4MJ",
	subgroup = "raw-material",
	order = "b[coal]",
	stack_size = 50
},
{
	type = "item",
	name = "solid-fuel",
	icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/solid-fuel.png",
	flags = {"goes-to-main-inventory"},
	fuel_value = "16MJ",
	subgroup = "raw-resource",
	order = "c[solid-fuel]",
	stack_size = 50
},
}) 

Ingame the fuel values are all default. I don't believe to be setting them wrong, since the Marathon mod does it the exact same way, and it works for marathon?

[oLaudix]

If you want to change an existing item you go like:

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data.raw.item["raw-wood"].fuel_value = "2MJ"

What you did is you added new item to the game but its same name as the one already existing. I'm confused why didnt it throw and error in the first place.

[Molay]

I'm really confused. Thank you for your help, but this does not seem to work either. If I do not include my "created clones of items" your command causes an error when loading up the game. If I do include it, then your command seems to pass (maybe because it can't find the item otherwise?). Either way, the command does not seem to set the fuel value accordingly.

If you were to make this mod, where would you put that line of code? In data.lua right? You would not have made any prototypes? I just can't get it to work, I tried lots of things... I must be really stupid for not being able to edit one property of a single item O.o

[johanwanderer]

It may be:

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data.raw["item"]["raw-wood"].fuel_value = "2MJ";

Here is a (possibly outdated) list of raw data item: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... e=Data.raw

[Molay]

Thank you, but I had also tried this already. That's the way the marathon mod had it. It doesn't seem to work I'll just give up. Thanks though for your help everyone.

[oLaudix]

I'm really confused. Thank you for your help, but this does not seem to work either. If I do not include my "created clones of items" your command causes an error when loading up the game. If I do include it, then your command seems to pass (maybe because it can't find the item otherwise?). Either way, the command does not seem to set the fuel value accordingly.

If you were to make this mod, where would you put that line of code? In data.lua right? You would not have made any prototypes? I just can't get it to work, I tried lots of things... I must be really stupid for not being able to edit one property of a single item O.o

It works for me. Make sure you put it in data.lua not control.lua

http://i.imgur.com/ZVA0LCI.png

[Molay]

Here's the message I get:

errormsg.png (155.49 KiB) Viewed 5491 times

I'll attach you the folder. I do it just as you told me. But it doesn't work for some reason.
I'm not even doing anything fancy. Just the one line to set wood cost. Not even that passes for me...

[oLaudix]

You are missing dependancies in info.json. It doesnt read from base mod hence item is nil. Change "dependencies": [] to "dependencies": ["base >= 0.12.0"]

EDIT1: Now that i think of it thats the reason why you didnt get error for making another raw-wood prototype etc.

[Molay]

Ohhh yes! That makes sense. Thank you very much, it's working for all the fuels now! You're a life-saver^^

For the solar panel production I tried:
data.raw.item["solar-panel"].production = "10kW";
but this one doesn't seem to work. Anyways I think I can figure this one out now^^ Thank you so much!

edit:
doesn't work either with
data.raw.solar-panel["solar-panel"].production = "10kW";
(found both entries for solar panel on the wiki, under item and solar-panel).
Mhh... interesting one this one.

edit2:
data.raw.entities["solar-panel"].production = "10kW";
doesn't work either.

[Molay]

Okay, well I can't seem to find any other ways to change the solar panel settings. If anyone has done this before, how did you do it?

Edit:
Found a way to do it. Create lua file called entities.lua in prototypes folder,
add code:

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data:extend({
{
	type = "solar-panel",
	name = "solar-panel",
	icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/solar-panel.png",
	flags = {"placeable-neutral", "player-creation"},
	minable = {hardness = 0.2, mining_time = 0.5, result = "solar-panel"},
	max_health = 100,
	corpse = "big-remnants",
	collision_box = {{-1.4, -1.4}, {1.4, 1.4}},
	selection_box = {{-1.5, -1.5}, {1.5, 1.5}},
	energy_source =
	{
	  type = "electric",
	  usage_priority = "solar"
	},
	picture =
	{
	  filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/solar-panel/solar-panel.png",
	  priority = "high",
	  width = 104,
	  height = 96
	},
	production = "10kW"
}
})

and then add:
require("prototypes.entities")
to data.lua

My guess is, since I now import all the base items, I do properly replace them with same-named items from my mod. While before I created my mod items but the vanilla values would somehow overwrite the values? I'm not sure. But it works now!

[yeganer]

the syntax is:

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data.raw["solar-panel"]["solar-panel"].production = "10kW"

You want to change the entity, not the item. The item is the thing in your inventory. It does basically nothing.
The entity is the thing that's placed in the world and there you have to change the production

In general you want to use data.raw to modify the base entities instead of creating new ones because you'll never know what happens if there are dublicates.

and another note, you should do this stuff in data-updates.lua since this garantees that all prototypes were added to the data table.

[Molay]

Ahh yes thank you. This is a much cleaner solution. I also didn't know about data-updates.lua. Thanks a lot!
Guess my first mod is done with massive help from other people^^ Great community!

[yeganer]

You're welcome.
There is also data-final-fixes.lua which is run last. But i haven't seen it used yet.