You have definitely help me out in my understanding.
I am not sure how to link to post in the forum but the post was “Mods from Tuhalu” the link https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94635928/tuhalu.smod, downloads a zip file. I did not know all I had to do was change the extension.
I will look for the post that talk about manually adding things but now I think I may have been confusing a process of adding images made in Qubicle and such into the folders that are used in smods. (my head is now exploding)
In regards to a tutorial: I was looking for something that covered how to make an smod. , it seems like I was thinking it was more complex that what it really is.
I had seen you post other tutorials is why I had asked.
http://discourse.stonehearth.net/t/tutorial-adding-mining-resources/10658?u=8bitcrab