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Posted: **Wed Jul 23, 2025 12:02 pm**

Hello, today I wanted to use a sound that comes with Factorio, but it is not available for use in mods. So I am trying to load it myself and then call it.
It is not working for me.

Help

The following is the code I am using.

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    ---> data-final-fixes.lua <---
    data.raw["utility-sounds"]["default"]["gui_tool_click"] = {
        filename = "__core__/sound/gui-tool-button.ogg",
        aggregation = { max_count = 3, remove = true }
    }
    
    ---> control.lua <---
    Player.play_sound({ path = "utility/gui_tool_click" })

I'm using what I found in the documentation and some code from Factorio itself, but I must admit that I don't know what I'm doing.

Posted: **Thu Jul 24, 2025 10:47 am**

The UtilitySounds prototype only holds some predefined sounds. For custom sounds, you beed to define a Sound Protoype https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/pro ... otype.html

Posted: **Thu Jul 24, 2025 9:06 pm**

My solution

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---> data-final-fixes.lua <---
data:extend({{
    type = "sound",
    name = "gui_tool_button",
    filename = "__core__/sound/gui-tool-button.ogg"
}})

---> control.lua <---
Player.play_sound({ path = "gui_tool_button" })

Thanks for the message.
The truth is that I solved it on my own, but I forgot to upload it.

Anyway, thank you very much.

Osmo wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 10:47 am

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My solution