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i had read minetest wiki & rubenwardy's modding book,one line said" To override, you prefix the item string with a colon, :. Declaring an item as :default:dirt will override the default:dirt in the default mod."

i try to change default:chest's recipe,so i create my new mod and init.lua inside. following code for test:



i check by command " /mods " to make sure my mod has been loaded and seems no error msg,but i check recipe by craftguide mod, default:chest still not change.do i miss understand something?(do i have to edit minetest's default mod's crafting.lua and recomplie minetest?...@@a)

you want to use minetest.override instead, so that most of the properties and methods of the chest are maintained.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L1815

Sofar misread the question. There is currently no good way of overriding or deleting a recipe. Prefixing with a colon only works when registering an item, not when registering a craft recipe.

The best way is do copy the old recipe, then set the output to zero, ie

output="default:chest 0"

Then register a new recipe to make the item.

sofar & rubenwardy,tks for ur reply.

i think maybe it's the solution to download minetest's(&minetest_games) source ,edit the game mods, and recompile minetestserver? i'll try.

You only need to edit the minetest_game mods.
Nothing to change in the server source code; and so, you don't have to recompile minetestserver.

Just launch your world after you've done your changes.

And a simple advice: if you change minetest_game, prefer creating your own game (you just have to rename the folder and update game.conf). This will allow you to compare it to new versions of the original minetest_game
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