How to remove, edit in-game items through mod?

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Hello friends!
Sorry in advance for the weird English and newbie questions. I’ve been enjoying cataclysm before it hit 0.A and i really wanted to help the community by making some mods.

So what i’m trying to do is add some more contents for crossbow users. So i want to remove the current ‘crossbow’, ‘wood,metal,steel crossbow bolt’ and add different kinds of crossbow and bolts, with recipes to create them. But i’m not sure how i can remove in-game items through mod.

second question! since i want to delete the item ‘crossbow’ and ‘steel crossbow bolt’, the ‘crossbow trap’ has to be edited. If i edit that traps.json file in data directory, do i have to go through compiling to make my mods work? I’ve never done compiling or coding jobs in my life, so some explanation would be very nice!

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Check out the mods (in mods directory). In your case you want to make a mod that has an item blacklist (like one in “no joke items”) and adds new items and new recipes.

I don’t think traps can be edited at the moment, but I may be wrong.