Hi I’m in the process of making a mod. I know some basic C++, and I think I can make it work by editing the stonehearth.smod file. But is there a way to have a separate file from stonehearth.smod that I can drop next to it and that it will still work. So I don’t have to redo all my work every time …

I don’t know exactly how to explain this, but here goes: The base engine is written in C++, but almost all gameplay is written in Lua. Mods are no different. For simple items, you may not need code. You do still need data. Data is stored in JSON, so go read the super-short documentation for it if…

[image] coasterspaul: [ @RepeatPan , could you tell me why again?] [image] Is it possible to override a Service? Modding Overriding lua files is officially frowned upon (while I can’t cite any public source, let me tell you that I’ve had a pretty clear response from R…

Thanks for the help guys! I think ill manage from here. I googled mixintos and found this development blog post that also helped. ill link it should other see this post and want it too. http://stonehearth.net/2014/01/14/desktop-tuesday-a-peek-inside-the-modding-api/

Also this one! http://stonehearth.net/2014/03/18/desktop-tuesday-farming-and-other-mysteries/

[image] Relyss: Desktop Tuesday: Farming and Other Mysteries now : http://www.stonehearth.net/desktop-tuesday-farming-and-other-mysteries/

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RepeatPan May 4, 2015, 7:13am 3

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