Modding:Content Tutorial Further Recipes

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Introduction

Objective

Page in progress! Recipes in Vintage Story are very versatile, and the grid recipe system has a number of features that have not yet been talked about. In this tutorial, you will find out how to create more complex recipes, including those with variants, different itemstack quantities, returned itemstacks, and some other smaller features.

Assets

Before starting, it is recommended you download the workspace and assets for this tutorial. The completed files can also be found here.

This tutorial starts with the following assets:

• Mod Setup & Folder Structure
• Simple 'Sleek Door' recipe

Prerequisites

This tutorial will assume you understand the following topics:

• Setting up a content mod and using an IDE.

It is recommended to have completed the following tutorial:

• 4. Simple Recipes - This tutorial begins with a basic recipe.

It is recommended, but not necessary, to understand the following concept:

• Variants

Navigating Assets

This tutorial is simply to create new recipes - The only file is recipes/grid/sleekdoor.json. This is a simple recipe, which inputs an oak solid door and outputs an oak sleek door.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you now have an advanced recipe for every type of sleek door, all within one file! After this tutorial, you should have more of an understanding of how variants can be used within grid recipes, and how grid recipes have a lot more functionality.

Next Steps...

If you want to test your knowledge, consider doing the tasks under the Going Further section below.

Grid recipes are only one type of recipe in Vintage Story. Move on to the next tutorial, Further Recipes, for information on barrel, clayforming, cooking, knapping, and smithing recipes!

Going Further

Want to make some additional changes to this mod? Try and achieve the following things!

Content Modding
Basics	Content Mods • Developing a Content Mod
Tutorials	Basic Basic Tutorials • 1. Content Essentials • 2. Simple Item • 3. Simple Block • 4. Simple Recipes Intermediate Intermediate Tutorials • 5. Item Variants • 6. Block Variants • 7. Complex Grid Recipes • 8. Further Recipes • 9. Simple World Generation Advanced Advanced Tutorials Other Debugging Content
Concepts	Modding Concepts • Variants • Domains • Patching • Remapping • World Properties
Uncategorized	Basics Basic Examples • Asset System • Textures • Items • Recipes • Blocks • Entities • Model Creator • Animation • VTML & Icons • Packaging & Release • Modinfo Advanced Advanced JSON Item • Compatibility with other mods Worldgen WorldGen Concepts • Terrain • Ores • Trees • Json Random Generator

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