Hidden Recipes available through blueprints

[lablet1]

I am trying to disable a certain item from being crafted. To do this I am using:

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data.raw["recipe"]["item-name-here"].hidden = true

There are a couple of problems with this approach that I would like to fix.

1. if an old world is loaded up the assemblers that are already placed will still have the recipe in them. This recipe can then be copy pasted into new
assemblers, or into blueprints.

2. Even in a newly created world, the recipe can still be accessed using a blueprint containing an assembler using the recipe.

Is there a better simple approach to this or a fix to these problems?

[eradicator]

To disable a recipe that was already unlocked previously you have to iterate through all forces and disable the recipe at runtime. Probably in on_init and/or on_config.

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--pseudocode
for _,f in pairs(game.forces) do 
  f.recipies['whatever'].enabled = false
  end

The hidden flag only prevents the recipes from being shown in the crafting menu, not from being used, nor from being unlocked by technologies at a later point.

An easier approach might be to simply set the crafting time to something ridiculously high so the recipes becomes *effectively* uncraftable.

[Honktown]

A way to remove it from the world is to find_entities_filtered on all surfaces that have an entity prototype with the same crafting category, and void out that recipe (you can probably clear a recipe - not sure). Same could be done on blueprint related stuff. Would be more likely to work using on_built_entity in the context of blueprints, and have a table for which crafting machines one needs to check for the invalid recipe.

[lablet1]

So I discovered I could just set the recipe equal to nil after removing them from all technologies and other recipes

[Honktown]

So I discovered I could just set the recipe equal to nil after removing them from all technologies and other recipes

Did it end up being removed and cleared from machines at the "migrated content" or whatever screen on load?

[eradicator]

So I discovered I could just set the recipe equal to nil after removing them from all technologies and other recipes

Sure, as long as you don't care about compatibility with other mods which might try to modifiy it.
In the OP it seemed like you wanted to just disable it without removing it completely.

[Optera]

Like Eradicator said, and it can't be stressed enough:
Never remove base prototypes!

Other mods will crash when referencing them.

[lablet1]

Like Eradicator said, and it can't be stressed enough:
Never remove base prototypes!

Other mods will crash when referencing them.

My mod is not intended to be compatible with any mods that modify the logistics system