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hey,

I am looking into creating a new crafting category for my mod, it currently adds 140 recipes and will eventually add more than 300, but looking into the main game code i can't for the life of me figure out how to create a new category. anyone suggestions?

Look under data/base/prototypes/categories/recipe-categories.lua

johanwanderer wrote:Look under data/base/prototypes/categories/recipe-categories.lua

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grep -r category *
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categories/recipe-category.lua:    type = "recipe-category",
-snip-

What do you mean by grep -r category * at the start?

so, is it possible to make my own catagory then?, if so, how?

matjojo wrote:

johanwanderer wrote:Look under data/base/prototypes/categories/recipe-categories.lua

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grep -r category *
...
categories/recipe-category.lua:    type = "recipe-category",
-snip-

What do you mean by grep -r category * at the start?

so, is it possible to make my own catagory then?, if so, how?

it's a linux command line utility to search text files

matjojo wrote:
What do you mean by grep -r category * at the start?

so, is it possible to make my own catagory then?, if so, how?

"grep" was just a command I used to find anything with the word category in it under the base data. It's pretty handy, and it's available for pretty much every platforms, including Windows.

As far as creating your own category, just look at the file I mentioned. It looks like all it does is adding to the data table using the type "recipe-category". Just follow its lead and see what happens.

Other mods have created their own categories, so it's definitely possible.