Modding Basics p1 - Editing Vanilla Files v1.4

OH! Wtf ... I'm using Notepad since more than 4 years for coding (json/ruby/batch/yaml/ etc) and never recognized it has explorer search ...

it's slower for me than grep is but everything else is almost the same ... i wish notepad++ would work on linux without emulators :/

 

well I already use vim or vi on my unix machine but its not leightweight ... notepad works out of the box with no configuration ... but vim .... let's not talk about it .... last time i had to setup my machine and reconfigured vim, it took me more than 3 days ....

 

Very Nice Tutorial, but I'm having an issue, can you help me ??? When I start starbound it happens:

And sorry for my bad english

 

Here is my problem :

Caused by: (JsonParsingException) Cannot parse json file: /items/generic/crafting/coalore.item
StarException::StarException(string, exception)
Assets::readVariant(String)
_Function_handler<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> (), Assets::loadVariant(String)::{lambda()#1}>:_Any_data)
Assets:rocessAssetData(function<shared_ptr<Assets::AssetData> ()>)
Assets::loadVariant(String)
Assets::loadAsset(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::doLoad(Assets::AssetId)
Assets::workerMain()
ThreadImpl::runThread(void*)
BaseThreadInitThunk
RtlInitializeExceptionChain
RtlInitializeExceptionChain

I curretly cant solve this problem alone

 

As the errors state, you broke the coalore.item file. (AKA: "coal") What did you do to break this? No one can tell you without more information.

 

I made a patch file for the coal, I didnt modified the coalore.item
Here is the code of the patch
{
"itemName" : "coalore",
"rarity" : "Common",
"inventoryIcon" : "coalore.png",
"description" : "luelueluedauhdashudsauhasdhas",
"shortdescription" : "Super Coal",
"learnBlueprintsOnPickup" : [ "gunpowder" ]
}

 

well actually this is not a patch .... seems like you mixed up dirty editing & patching.

a patchfile always starts with a "[" and ends with a "]", also you are completely missing the patch operations ... add / replace / etc
There is a pretty good Tutorial >here<

Please read the tutorial first and then (if it is still not working) ask for Help ...

 

OHH, thanks !!! It worked !!!
Sorry for my mistake, I think it happened becausa my english is bad and I didnt understand the tutorial very well... But now I understand!
I will read the tutorial!
Serious, you helped me a lot , thank you again!

 

Modinfo file can be named anything, as I just confirmed by making successfully making a modpack of a mod with a modinfo file named "Improved Bodies Modpack.modinfo". Please rectify this error in the OP. I knew this limitation was patched out of the modpack system ages ago.

 

What do you mean?

 

Awesome tutorial.

I was wondering if I could get some help here: I'm doing a 'dirty edit' (for self only), I've got the file largequadruped.monstertype saved in the proper folder structure ( /giraffe_storage/mods/CaptureBigMonsters/monsters/ground/largequadruped/) and I've added "/monsters/ground/captiveState.lua", to baseParamters, but I'm still not able to capture Large Quadruped monsters with the capture balls.

I'm not even sure if captiveState.lua script is what makes monsters capture-able, I'm kind of guessing here.

 

Good find, I'll check it out and see if I can figure out what they did

 

I'm so close... now the large monsters do start to go into captured state animation when you throw a pod at them.. but then it CTD's with no error message.