How do I hide or blacklist certain recipes or Items from the game?

[LastTugBoat243]

I want to make a mod that adds a new recipe for an already existing item in the game. But I want to hide the current one first. How would I go about doing that?

Edited November 15, 2022 by LastTugBoat243
didn't make sense before (see edit history)

[a_jp]

「recipes.xml」 but it seems to be a file related to recipes。

 

example：AOO

\7 Days To Die\Mods\00-AOO_Core_Vehicles\Config\recipes.xml

[doughphunghus]

Yeah, look at that file and find the recipes you don't want. Then on your mod, use XPATH to remove/delete that recipe (remove/delete the entire recipe). I believe you can delete recipes and not affect anything. 

Edited November 15, 2022 by doughphunghus (see edit history)

[Gamida]

15 hours ago, LastTugBoat243 said:

I want to make a mod that adds a new recipe for an already existing item in the game. But I want to hide the current one first. How would I go about doing that?

 

If you are just changing the ingredients couldn't you just change the ones in the recipe. For example for shotgun shells...

 

<recipe name="ammoShotgunShell" count="1" craft_area="workbench" tags="workbenchCrafting">
    <ingredient name="resourceBuckshot" count="1"/>
    <ingredient name="resourceGunPowder" count="4"/>
    <ingredient name="resourcePaper" count="1"/>
</recipe>

<recipe name="ammoShotgunShell" count="1" craft_area="workbench" tags="workbenchCrafting">
    <ingredient name="resourceAnimalFat" count="3"/>
    <ingredient name="resourceScrapPolymers" count="2"/>
    <ingredient name="resourceFeather" count="1"/>
</recipe>

 

 

I am not sure how to do the xpath thing to change it without actually changing in in the recipes.xml file but am sure someone could help you.

[BFT2020]

1 hour ago, Gamida said:

I am not sure how to do the xpath thing to change it without actually changing in in the recipes.xml file but am sure someone could help you.

 

What I have done in the past (using your example of the shotgun shell):

 

<append xpath="//recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourcePaper']">
    <ingredient name="resourceAnimalFat" count="3"/>
    <ingredient name="resourceScrapPolymers" count="2"/>
    <ingredient name="resourceFeather" count="1"/>
</append>

<remove xpath="//recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourcePaper']"/>
<remove xpath="//recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourceBuckshot']"/>
<remove xpath="//recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourceGunPowder']"/>

 

I would add the items to the existing recipe (adding after resourcePaper) and then remove the old items I want to remove.

Edited November 15, 2022 by BFT2020
Removed added spacing in code (see edit history)

[LastTugBoat243]

Thanks for the help! I was able to get something working and I'm very happy.😊

[paulj_3]

Another way is to merely use "set" to change the values - as part of a Mod, and using only three lines in a recipes.xml:

<set xpath="/recipes/recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourceBuckshot']/@name">resourceScrapPolymers</set>
<set xpath="/recipes/recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourceGunPowder']/@name">resourceFeather</set>
<set xpath="/recipes/recipe[@name='ammoShotgunShell']/ingredient[@name='resourcePaper']/@name">resourceAnimalFat</set>

Looking at the the "Saves\(World)\ConfigsDump\recipes.xml" file - it will show the actual code as it has worked during the last load:

<recipe name="ammoShotgunShell" count="1" craft_area="AmmoWeaponWorkBench" tags="workbenchCrafting"><!--Attribute "craft_area" replaced by: "Red22"-->
    <ingredient name="resourceScrapPolymers" count="1"><!--Attribute "name" replaced by: "Red22"--></ingredient>
    <ingredient name="resourceFeather" count="4"><!--Attribute "name" replaced by: "Red22"--></ingredient>
    <ingredient name="resourceAnimalFat" count="1"><!--Attribute "name" replaced by: "Red22"--></ingredient>
</recipe>

(Red22 is just the name of my own mod).
I'm not sure quite what you mean, or are trying to achieve by "hiding" the (games?) original code, as any removing of the (modname)\Config\recipe.xml, from the game will simply cause the game to load its own default recipes.xml - which doesn't - or shouldn't - get modified by your mod.  
 

Edited November 27, 2022 by paulj_3
clarity. (see edit history)