MOD-TUTORIAL 1: How to make your own tool (OUTDATED)

Meh, I use Paint.net and I'm fine with it. I don't really care about features except transparency and little boxes for pixels. I can go from there.

 

As far as pixel art goes, you can make anything with anything, it will just be more time consuming or painful, or both.

 

I've been trying to for 3 hours now and I can't for the life of me get my new tool to be in the starting recipes.. I know the tool works because I managed to make it a quest reward and that worked, but to have the recipe at the start doesn't work. I can't think of what im doing wrong, I edit the player.config right below the tier 1, with the
{"item" : "mynewtool"}, just like that.. and nothing, :d

 

If it's the last in the list, remove the comma ","
Hopefully that will work.

 

is this what your "mynewtool.recipe" looks like ?

Code:

{
  "input" : [
    { "item" : "money", "count" : 10 }
  ],
  "output" : { "item" : "mynewtool", "count" : 1 },
  "groups" : [ "craftingtable", "weapons", "all" ]
}

 

yes I finally got it to work but I had to use a different recipe base, I used the campfire recipe which is exactly the same except it has "plain" in the groups. I assume "craftingtable" means it can only be made from the crafting table, but I was checking the crafting table every time I made a new character and it wasn't on there. idk.

 

ghoul could you possibly show me which files i use for the gravgun that beginner tool

 

nvm i got most of it

 

you'll need the following files from: "\Starbound\assets\items\tools\"

beamaxe.beamaxe
gravgunlarge.png
gravgunicon.png

and a ".recipe"

or other 2 png's

 

cant find the .recipe

 

i think we need to make one due to the fact that you find it

 

yes you just have to make "beamaxe" as output...

 

ok i got it working all files you need the
beamaxe.beamxe
stonepickaxe.recipe (for the .recipe)
you need the gravgunicon.png
you need the gravgunlarge.png
you need the pickaxe_hit.wav (for sound)
and you need 4 more images from ( assets\humanoid\any)
you need 4tileglow.png
ball.png
tileglow.png
and gravgun1.png
you need thoes file for the matte rmanipulator gun

 

and it crashed lol gotta see what i did wrong

 

i think there are a few files i missed any find them?
i think it is the animations but i could be wrong

 

yes you should take the frames files with it...

 

what are the frame files like where can i get them

 

nevermind i thought there were some but there are none..
it has to be something different...

 

yup

 

So you can create your own folder in assets and label it whatever and it will implement?