# Is there an alternative to "extend" for item and recipe groups?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-an-alternative-to-extend-for-item-and-recipe-groups/28883 "2023-07-05T12:21:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-an-alternative-to-extend-for-item-and-recipe-groups/28883/5 "2023-07-05T18:46:26Z")

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Last time I checked, it doesn’t work, and I’m not the only one to have noticed this.

> [@Does "copy-from" and "extend" work on item groups?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/does-copy-from-and-extend-work-on-item-groups/19574/3):
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> I found a different solution later to what I wanted to do without copy-from and extend, but since you asked I tried it with copy-from/extend and copy-from/extend do not appear to work on item groups.

As for recipe groups, I tried using it as it as a way of adding to crafting recipes at basecamps as recently as this morning, but it doesn’t do anything in-game, even as it otherwise runs without giving any error messages.

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