I’m not sure if this would fit in here, however I can say that after extensive bacon-related testing, I’ve come to the conclusion that you can’t mix in new crops, as far as I know.
I’ve added two new crops to Nihonjin, so it’s possible. Send me a private message with a link to your smod and I’ll check it out tonight after work for you if you’d like.
I do think it is possible to mixinto crops, but before it can be used by anyone but the most patient and hardcore of modders… it’s going to need a verification tool, I think. Maybe @RepeatPan’s path checker?
I do have some plans for Jofferson 2 (make it more like an IDE, have tooltips/links in JSONs to preview/stuff resources, maybe mix the model previewer into that too, edit/look at files in smods…), but I’m currently in dire need of an internship somewhere for college - so I’m afraid I can’t provide anything better than Jofferson right now.