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i had an idea to make a heat based engine that consumes heat and outputs electric i had small success when i used a heat interface. Do i have to create a new item with a sub directory? see file need help with this what am i missing

No, otherwise the game would complain before starting

The new mod set having an issue with a nil value
on line 33 in the definitions any advice

Felioun wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 6:20 pm The new mod set having an issue with a nil value
on line 33 in the definitions any advice

The new mod is having even more issues! You can fix the crash at line 33 by using instead of But then you will get the following error: During the data stage, you have access to 'mods', 'settings', and 'data'. Anything related to 'game' and 'script' is available in the control stage only. Also, while you could use a table named 'global' during the data stage, it isn't the same thing as the 'global' table from the control stage (in control stage, anything saved in a mod's 'global' table will belong to the game state, which means it will be included in saved games).

So the solution would be to remove event handlers and everything else that belongs to the control stage from data.lua.

thanks i have revamped the mod since but i am still having an issue that i am unsure how to resolve the entity heat engine has a heat buffer and we have a hidden energy interface the control call for a nth tick function at 60 but then i get an error where the heat buffer is not found i will again post a copy of the mod but will continue working on it i can now get the item to spawn in game on the map editor but when trying to save and play for testing purposes the game crashes and line 40 i belive on the control say there is no heat buffer