[16]Two recipes for same item?

[Balthazar]

Trying to add a second recipe for electronic circuits that uses plastic instead of iron, but can't get it to work. I'm a modding n00b so its entirely possible i just messed up something simple, like directory structure, although the mod is available in the mod list and does not produce errors when loaded.

info.json:

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{
	"name": "plastronics",
	"version": "1.0",
	"title": "Plastronics",
	"author": "Raisinbat",	
	"factorio_version": "0.16",
	"description": "Adds a second recipe for making electronics with plastic instead of iron."
}

data.lua is empty, this could easily be the problem but from what i read its just for dependencies

in same folder is prototypes/recipes.lua:

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data:extend(
{
    {
    type = "recipe",
    name = "plastic-electronic-circuit",
    normal =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"plastic-bar", 1},
        {"copper-cable", 3}
      },
      result = "electronic-circuit",
    },
    expensive =
    {
      ingredients =
      {
        {"plastic-bar", 2},
        {"copper-cable", 10}
      },
      result = "electronic-circuit",
    }
  }
 }

Thats everything i have so maybe something simple is just missing, or maybe its impossible to do, idk.

[Deadlock989]

data.lua is empty, this could easily be the problem but from what i read its just for dependencies

No, data.lua, data-updates.lua and data-final-fixes.lua are automatically run by Factorio. Anything you put in a subfolder isn't automatically run. If you have any other Lua files you want executed in the data phase, they need to be called by one of those. Use require("prototypes.recipes") in data.lua to call your recipe prototype code.

[Balthazar]

data.lua is empty, this could easily be the problem but from what i read its just for dependencies

No, data.lua, data-updates.lua and data-final-fixes.lua are automatically run by Factorio. Anything you put in a subfolder isn't automatically run. If you have any other Lua files you want executed in the data phase, they need to be called by one of those. Use require("prototypes.recipes") in data.lua to call your recipe prototype code.

It's working now, thanks a ton man!

[Balthazar]

Didnt want to start a new topic but just realized the recipe is not compatible with productivity modules, how do i enable that?

[Deadlock989]

The productivity modules have a property called limitation which is a list of recipes that it is allowed to work with.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Module#limitation

For example, here's prod module 2 from data.raw:

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["productivity-module-2"] = {
      category = "productivity",
      effect = {
        consumption = {
          bonus = 0.6
        },
        pollution = {
          bonus = 0.070000000000000009
        },
        productivity = {
          bonus = 0.06
        },
        speed = {
          bonus = -0.15
        }
      },
      icon = "__base__/graphics/icons/productivity-module-2.png",
      icon_size = 32,
      limitation = {
        "sulfuric-acid",
        "basic-oil-processing",
        "advanced-oil-processing",
        "coal-liquefaction",
        "heavy-oil-cracking",
        "light-oil-cracking",
        "solid-fuel-from-light-oil",
        "solid-fuel-from-heavy-oil",
        "solid-fuel-from-petroleum-gas",
        "lubricant",
        "iron-plate",
        "copper-plate",
        "steel-plate",
        "stone-brick",
        "sulfur",
        "plastic-bar",
        "empty-barrel",
        "uranium-processing",
        "copper-cable",
        "iron-stick",
        "iron-gear-wheel",
        "electronic-circuit",
        "advanced-circuit",
        "processing-unit",
        "engine-unit",
        "electric-engine-unit",
        "uranium-fuel-cell",
        "explosives",
        "battery",
        "flying-robot-frame",
        "low-density-structure",
        "rocket-fuel",
        "rocket-control-unit",
        "rocket-part",
        "automation-science-pack",
        "logistic-science-pack",
        "chemical-science-pack",
        "military-science-pack",
        "production-science-pack",
        "utility-science-pack",
        "kovarex-enrichment-process"
      },
      limitation_message_key = "production-module-usable-only-on-intermediates",
      localised_description = {
        "item-description.productivity-module"
      },
      name = "productivity-module-2",
      order = "c[productivity]-b[productivity-module-2]",
      stack_size = 50,
      subgroup = "module",
      tier = 2,
      type = "module"
    },

You have to append your recipe name to the list in all three modules, and any other modules that may randomly exist from any other mod that you have no way of knowing about. In vanilla, though, only productivity modules use limitation.

[Balthazar]

Thanks deadlock, is there by any chance a smarter way of doing this than editing data.raw?

[slippycheeze]

Thanks deadlock, is there by any chance a smarter way of doing this than editing data.raw?

There is no way to do this other than *modifying* the prototypes during the data phase, no. That is how Factorio works.

[Deadlock989]

Thanks deadlock, is there by any chance a smarter way of doing this than editing data.raw?

No. Making changes to data.raw is literally what the entire data phase of modding is.

Limitations are read-only at runtime so you can't change them in the control phase.

[DaveMcW]

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for _, module in pairs(data.raw.module) do
  if module.category == "productivity" then
    table.insert(module.limitation, "plastic-electronic-circuit")
  end
end

This should be done in data-updates.lua to be sure you catch all modded productivity modules.

[Balthazar]

Thanks a lot, its working now