Factorio Forums

Hi there

I Just registered on that Froum so i can't quietly PM one of the bigger Modders, unfortunatly i get forced to open a whole topic to get my problem solved. In the last few hours I made my own first kind a mod for long range rocket towers and all works just fine entitys recepies and all that stuff but there is one thing that bugs me a lot. I can NOT figure out how i add a description to my items and or technologys. For example DyTech uses some .cfg files where he adds all those informations but I didn't get it where he calls them. I'm realy confused right now maybe it's as simple as to breathe, but please give me a hint.

Hello and welcome to the forums.

All the locale files in the locale directory are loaded automatically no need to specify these: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... iew#Locale

The key has to be in the correct category, for example, when you are missing item-description.science-pack-1, it has to be specified in the [item-description] cateogory
Example (contents of data/base/locale/en/item-descriptions.cfg): Same with entity-name, entity-description etc.

hey nice to have fresh modders joining As for the descriptions they are auto loaded by Factorio, as long as they exist inside of a "locale" folder inside the mod's folder (or the campaigns). Inside the locale folder are the abbreviated country names (i'm sure there is a proper name for the country's abbreviation but I can't think of it) and inside of there you can have the cfg files, actually you could have a single cfg if I remember correctly, it's the "[entity-description]" tags that define what you are defining, but easier to modify if they are separated

In other words you do not need to "call them"

edit: aw Kovarex responded before me probably because palemoon froze for a few moments.

Damn i'm stupid i should have tried that bevore i post that here

Thanks a lot for the help

Animar wrote:Damn i'm stupid i should have tried that bevore i post that here

Thanks a lot for the help

don't be hard on yourself, you'd be surprised at what even the bigger modders forget besides, that's what the community is for (well, that and making the devs lots of money so that they can improve the game and make sequels for all eternity as our slaves...did I say that part out loud, shh don't let them know the secret!)

edit: ...maybe I'm a little too tired right now if I actually just posted that, but I'm not going to bother removing it, someone else might find it as funny as I did at the time.

FreeER wrote:

Animar wrote:Damn i'm stupid i should have tried that bevore i post that here

Thanks a lot for the help

don't be hard on yourself, you'd be surprised at what even the bigger modders forget besides, that's what the community is for (well, that and making the devs lots of money so that they can improve the game and make sequels for all eternity as our slaves...did I say that part out loud, shh don't let them know the secret!)

edit: ...maybe I'm a little too tired right now if I actually just posted that, but I'm not going to bother removing it, someone else might find it as funny as I did at the time.

nope i save it for all the future generations

Only the
won't work, but why ?

well assuming "longrange-defence" is the exact name you gave when creating the technology prototype, I do not see why it would fail, maybe triple check spelling and capitalization?

thats the whole poit. I copied the name out of my technology lua file, to be sure the name is 100% the same as i use there. But in game it shows only the name correct and no description.