Modding Basics p1 - Editing Vanilla Files v1.4

This is how my brain processes programming. At least i tried...

 

So i just went to youtube for a demo of modding and i was able to rename pixels to ISK.

 

Nice guide but my game just refuses to see modded files... I have no idea why.

I've checked everything 100 times, everything is apparently correct, if anyone can say what I'm missing that'd be great...



Game still shows the normal Coal name...


EDIT: Figured it out, the mods have to go to the proper storage folder...

I.E.: Starbound\giraffe_storage\mods

 

Cool! I did not know about these. I was wondering what would replace 'dependencies'.
Though I don't really understand what the difference is, myself. Why do we need both "required" and "includes"?

 

But won't every mod just crash the game if it can't find the right files/items/etc? I can't see a single instance where I could actually make use of this.

 

That's interesting. To be honest I didn't even know you could provide "support for" something without crashing the game. Seems to me the game crashes at the slightest touch.
I will have to check on that. Thanks.

 

SET UP
Now that you understand the basics and have the tools you required let's first start by unpacking the assets. Which was covered earlier.
Now that your assets are unpacked we need to setup our mods folder. Go to

Code:

starbound/mods

Create a new folder call it example
Now open up your text editor and write

Code:

{
"name" : "nameofmod"
"requires" : [],
"includes" : []
}

Go to file --> save as. Save it in starbound/mods/example
With the file name example.modinfo, do I need to have includes and required in there?



using this code (I copied it from here) gives me an error when I try to run starbound, says there was a "}" expected at 3:1

 

so with the patch method how would I make it so my character already knows a recipe?

 

Thank you a great lot for this tutorial - one question to understand a basic concept. Say I want supercoal for everyone on a server. Will this mod suffice to be loaded on the server, or will everyone need to have it installed locally?
I assume the latter and wonder in which case the server needs to have a mod installed.

 

hay might wanna add a tool for searching the assests?

I lately ran into the problem of finding all files that contain specific values ("slotCount" in my case) but my Windows did only search the filnames and not the actual content of the file because the are named like *.head *.object *.whatever and not *.txt ... google told me to edit registry keys and indexing settings & stuff but that's not the easy way (in the end it still didn't work for me) ... I kept searching and came across a lot of third party freeware tools that also needed to index all the assets and stuff and still didn't work well ...

NVM ... I didn't gave up and finally found sourceforge -> grepWin.

Lightweight search tool, that:
* does not need indexing
* supportes Regex
* can even Find&Replace
* has lots of additional filters

my problem was solved in seconds ... i found all containers that can store 48 or more items within 1 search just with a little regex:

works well with notepad++ .. just rightclick the file and choose "Edit with Notepad++", because the Search Result field supports all that normal rightclick stuff like the explorer.

on linux grep is terminal only but "Searchmonkey" is the similar alternitive.

so if anyone is also confused where to find specific assets ... try this

EDIT:

and for the ones who need regex: RegExr - Learn, Build & Test RegEx