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I am trying to make a mod which utilizes the lane splitter found in the unsorted item group when in editor mode. I would love to use this during normal gameplay but when I use deepcopy to make the item and entity, nothing shows up in the menu unless I enable the editor mode. Is there a setting or flag somewhere that I need to change to ensure items that I copy show up without the editor mode being enabled?

Try setting item.hidden = false.

DaveMcW wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 9:16 am Try setting item.hidden = false.

I tried that, also made a custom subgroup in the logistics group to move the item to and set its new order.
The custom subgroup works, but only in editor mode.

This worked for me.

DaveMcW wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 12:33 am This worked for me.

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local entity = table.deepcopy(data.raw['lane-splitter']['lane-splitter'])
entity.name = "my-splitter"
entity.hidden = false
data:extend{entity}

local item = table.deepcopy(data.raw['item']['lane-splitter'])
item.name = "my-splitter"
item.subgroup = "belt"
item.place_result = "my-splitter"
item.hidden = false
data:extend{item}

local recipe = table.deepcopy(data.raw['recipe']['splitter'])
recipe.name = "my-splitter"
recipe.results = {{type="item", name="my-splitter", amount=1}}
recipe.enabled = true
data:extend{recipe}

Thank you, apparently I had my recipe.enabled set to false and forgot to unlock it with a technology. Fixed now.