# Missing Tile Checker -- A tool for tileset makers
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874
**Category:** The Lab
**Created:** [November 9, 2013, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874 "2013-11-09T05:08:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Mattamue](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mattamue)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2013, 4:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/21 "2013-11-26T04:18:35Z")
This just saved me 3 hours of work. It found an entry I had left the " off of by spitting out a bool error and, more importantly, a line where the error happened.
Thank you for creating this tool.
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### Author:  [@jcannon98188](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jcannon98188)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/22 "2013-11-26T21:47:19Z")
No problem at all! Glad you enjoy it and it has been helpful. Does anyone have any added functionality they would like to have implemented? Even if it means expanding the scope of this project I would be more then happy to take a look at doing it.
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### Author:  [@KittyTristy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KittyTristy)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2013, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/23 "2013-12-26T08:18:17Z")
[quote=“jcannon98188, post:17, topic:3874”]I will look into converting this to use mono instead of .net4 I can’t make any promises though. At very least I can write a CL version in python of something
If you download [mono](http://www.mono-project.com) you should be able to run the program using scripts located [HERE](https://app.box.com/s/xdfna6nemcsvjdgmybjt)
This SHOULD work. If not, let me know. I don’t have a computer running linux and I don’t have ubuntu downloaded to run a VM off of. If it doesn’t I will dl ubuntu, setup a vm and see about getting this supported more.[/quote]
Hey, not sure what the progress is on this little utility, but despite all my efforts I cannot get it to run under Linux. A python version would be fantastic. Do you think you could put it (the python version) up as a project on github as well? It’d be nice to poke at the code and perhaps help extend its functionality. Thanks much!
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### Author:  [@jcannon98188](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jcannon98188)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2014, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/24 "2014-01-03T21:33:54Z")
Yeah, I will rewrite this in python when I get home. Most likely it will be command line only, as I don’t know any gui python stuff, but I can try.
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### Author:  [@stk2008](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/stk2008)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/25 "2014-01-28T23:32:33Z")
umm i did what it says browse to correct files and folder I press scan and it crases
error can not find instruments.json
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### Author:  [@ChunkOfMeat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ChunkOfMeat)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/26 "2014-02-11T08:03:00Z")
Just put the file instruments.json in \data\json\items. It would be empty and contain [].
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### Author:  [@jcannon98188](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jcannon98188)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/27 "2014-04-13T21:02:22Z")
Hello Everyone!
I just wanted to check in and apologize for never getting the python version online. I have had some computer issues and unfortunately have not had a chance to invest any time into this tool or playing Cata at all. I will attempt to recreate this program when I get the chance, but until then I have uploaded the source code for this to GitHub.
[https://github.com/jcannon98188/CataclysmTileReader](https://github.com/jcannon98188/CataclysmTileReader)
This project is released under the “Unlicense” meaning you are free to do anything you want with it with or without credit etc. etc.
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### Author:  [@Gladius](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Gladius)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/28 "2014-05-28T19:07:59Z")
I installed Mono in Linux (Ubuntu) and the program will crash every time. I used the debug tools to figure out what is wrong and I found the issue, but I can’t do anything about it, because I’m no programmer.
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file “/home/---------/Cataclysm-DDA/data/json\items\ammo.json”.
No wonder it does not work. Any Idea how to fix this?
EDIT: Nervermind I got this to work after some fiddling with the code. Should’ve done this first.
OK: Having no clue about Github I somehow managed to upload the modified version. Just download the file CataclysmTileReader.tar.gz from here: [https://github.com/Gladius1/CataclysmTileReader.git](https://github.com/Gladius1/CataclysmTileReader.git)
Install mono-complete with Synaptics and just run the program. It should work now.
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### Author:  [@stk2008](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/stk2008)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/29 "2014-12-09T13:54:34Z")
this tool just does not work any more on win7 exp tile builds I click check and it crashes
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### Author:  [@sparr](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/sparr)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/30 "2015-03-25T21:56:20Z")
As an alternative, here’s a patch for the game that will log missing tiles to your debug.log file: [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/11709](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/11709)
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2015, 6:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/31 "2015-09-07T06:22:57Z")
Ah, I am sorely disappointed that this doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@skYman](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/skYman)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/missing-tile-checker-a-tool-for-tileset-makers/3874/32 "2016-01-22T11:39:25Z")
Does the patch posted a page back not work anymore? All I am getting are missing color messages in my log and no info about what tiles are missing. Using RetroDays btw.
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