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First time making a mod-need help

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 11:59 am
by firestar246
Hello, so I want to try to make a mod, but I could use some help. Are there any up to date tutorials out there I can use? Also, I have a question; I tried following the tutorial by Klonan in the Modding Help Forums (can't send link because this is my first post) . I went to %appdata%/factorio, but I don't have a folder called data. All I have is "temp" "scenarios" "mods" "saves" and "config" for folders. Does anyone know why I don't have the folder "data"? Thanks!

Re: First time making a mod-need help

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:31 pm
by firestar246
Ok, so I just found the folder for "data", no need to help with that.

Re: First time making a mod-need help

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:42 pm
by matjojo
the data folder is in another location, being the steam folder, or at the same spot you have your factorio.exe file, for me this is

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Factorio\data

Re: First time making a mod-need help

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:11 pm
by firestar246
ok, so I made my first mod, based off of the tutorial at viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15415

instead of making a chemical plant, I made an electric furnace.

However, when I pull up factorio, and go to mods, my mod is in red letters. under factorio version, It says "0.12 incompatible with current version of the game"

any idea what's going on?

is it a problem with my info.json file?

Re: First time making a mod-need help

Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:21 pm
by matjojo
Yes, see the info.json in beltbrush in my desc to see the line you need, it reads something like "factorio version"