[SOLVED] Overwriting vanilla entries via JSON Mods

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Hey there. This is just a question from someone who has been absent from modding CDDA for a long time. I recently got back into it, I forgot a bunch of stuff, can’t find many of my old resources, and a quick search reveals some related topics to my question, but nothing that outright answers it.

If I want to make a mod file that overrides a vanilla entry… say, for example, I want to change the vanilla recipe for Ketchup to include vinegar…

How do I do that without changing the core recipe json file itself? Duplicating it just leads to a name collision error when I try to start up a game/load up a save. How do you overwrite a recipe like that without errors or having a duplicate recipe?

I’m NOT asking how to create a mod itself, I know the necessary steps, I just don’t remember if overwriting vanilla entries was as easy as that.

Edit: Found it, at least for recipes. For anyone who has the same question, for recipes at least you can simply add the “override”: true flag to the recipe. I don’t yet know if this works for item entries as well, the documentation on the Git repo specifically talked about recipes.

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That’s strange, since it already requires vinegar…

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Was an example. It didn’t use to include vinegar back when I was last modding the game, which bothered me since, you know, real ketchup includes vinegar and vinegar is, in fact, an item in the game, so I thought it should. I could’ve used any number of examples, I just used the first one that came to mind back when I modded those recipes.