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I'm a new modder and whilst trying to load my finished creation (Gigantic power pole) I ran into this: Error while loading technology prototype "Alien-Power-transmission" (technology): conversion of data to type "unsigned short" failed Modifications: Alien Power Transmission.
Does anyone know what this is, or something similar? And yes, I tried looking for it, both on Google and the forum, both turned bubcus.

Moved to Modding help.

Unsigned short is a number variable type that has a range from 0 to 65535.
You are either using a number outside that range (such as a negative or >65535 number) or something that is not a number at all (table, string) in a place where Factorio expects a number.

Can you post the code of the technology prototype for your power pole?

thanks for the information, looking at the file I realized what the problem was. I set one of the research values as a decimal. (Im tryig that fix now.)

well that worked but now I need to look up this source path error, have a feeling it has to do with texturing.

Definitely looks like texture. Is it ok if I simply copy the game textures?

You can simply use base game graphics like "__base__/graphics/icons/basic-grenade.png", no need to copy them into your own mod.

Copied directly from one of my files(game files actually as i used the substation as a template.):

"filename = "__base__/graphics/entity/small-electric-pole/electric-pole-radius-visualization.png","

And this is giving the error? Sure there isn't a different path specification somewhere that doesn't follow this format?

I'll poke around, but all of the things I made were vanilla templates...

I cant find ANYTHING, would you mind helping?

icon = "" in technology.lua is missing a file name.

It worked, you're a lifesaver! I don't suppose you have any ideas on balancing the recipe? I'm very bad at that kind of planning.

Never mind, Just load and found it uses the wire reach and service size values of a substation, I crated a very expensive copy of a substation!!?