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Hello

I'm trying to add some useful things to do with some craft items that have no recipes, so trying to define my own separate mod to do so.

I have created a myrecipes/ dir in which I have this depends.txt



and this init.lua:



On trying to load the game with the associated dependencies, I get



I've gone over this a few times now and cannot spot the mistake I am making.... I tried speciying output = ":mobs:meat_raw" but that still errors. I tried also using default:wood, which errors.

I have done some crafting recipes elsewhere which work and I see no obvious differences - so why is it not working here?

For the shapeless type you don't need to specify each row of the crafting grid. It also crashes Minetest instantly here.

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cslime = "mobs_slimes:green_slimeball"
zflesh = "mobs_zombie:rotten_flesh"

minetest.register_craft({
        output = "mobs:meat_raw",
        type = "shapeless",
        recipe = {
                {cslime,cslime,cslime},
                {zflesh,zflesh,zflesh},
        }
})


Any particular reason you're using {cslime,cslime,cslime}, rather than {"mobs_slimes:green_slimeball","mobs_slimes:green_slimeball","mobs_slimes:green_slimeball"}, ?

Krock wrote:For the shapeless type you don't need to specify each row of the crafting grid.

That was the problem exactly. Though that's a very misleading error message! Never would have figured that one out. Thanks Krock

KCoombes wrote:Any particular reason you're using {cslime,cslime,cslime}, rather than {"mobs_slimes:green_slimeball","mobs_slimes:green_slimeball","mobs_slimes:green_slimeball"}, ?

DRY principle? Conciseness? Clarity? Ocular parsing facilitation?

Why would you not?

You're creating local variables for strings that are accessed only once during load-time, though I believe this is trivial.

Edit: On second look, they're actually global variables.

Ps. What's the DRY principle?

everamzah wrote:You're creating local variables for strings that are accessed only once during load-time, though I believe this is trivial.

Edit: On second look, they're actually global variables.

Ps. What's the DRY principle?

"Don't Repeat Yourself"

I do this too when strings are long and used several times in the same recipe.

everamzah wrote:Edit: On second look, they're actually global variables.

I keep forgetting that they're global by default. Thanks