xpath patching help?

[Nyx (She/Her)]

Trying to patch Tinctoria to produce more dye and be beautiful
I cannot seem to get it to work, erroring every time I try anything

Could someone point me in the right direction here?
here's what I have:

<Patch>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
    <xpath>Defs/ThingDefs_Plants[defname="Plant_Tinctoria"]/statBases/Beauty</xpath>
    <value>
		16
	</value>
  </Operation>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
    <xpath>Defs/ThingDefs_Plants[defname="Plant_Tinctoria"]/plant/harvestYield</xpath>
    <value>
		20
	</value>
  </Operation>
</Patch>

[Jaggid Edje]

Maybe check out this mod's patch files to see what they are doing differently. It does the same thing you are trying to achieve to a bunch of different plants.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2011794898

That's what I do when I'm having issues when trying to make my own small patch file. I find a mod that does something very similar, and copy it. :-D

[Nyx (She/Her)]

well I did that just now and it *still* fails?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Patch>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
    <xpath>Defs/ThingDefs[defname="Plant_Tinctoria"]/statBases/Beauty/text()</xpath>
		<value>16</value>
  </Operation>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
    <xpath>/Defs/ThingDef[defName="Plant_Tinctoria"]/statBases/BeautyOutdoors/text()</xpath>
		<value>16</value>
  </Operation>
  <Operation Class="PatchOperationReplace">
    <xpath>Defs/ThingDefs[defname="Plant_Tinctoria"]/plant/harvestYield/text()</xpath>
		<value>20</value>
  </Operation>
</Patch>

[Jaggid Edje]

Doesn't the error message give you some indication of what the failure point is?

[Nyx (She/Her)]

nope! I've seen it do that too so that's why I came here to ask. It just says "Failed" and then goes straight into the unity stack trace garbage

Patch operation Verse.PatchOperationReplace(Defs/ThingDefs[defname="Plant_Tinctoria"]/statBases/Beauty/text()) failed

[DZiral]

Try with this code in value section (not plain number, but with field name)
<value>
<Beauty>16</Beauty>
</value>

[Nyx (She/Her)]

Originally posted by DZiral:

Try with this code in value section (not plain number, but with field name)
<value>
<Beauty>16</Beauty>
</value>

Did not change anything of note, sadly

[DZiral]

Stupid question: are you put patch in "Patches" folder of you mod?

[Nyx (She/Her)]

Yep

RimWorld\Mods\ModName\v1.5\Patches

[DZiral]

change "ThingDefs_Plants" or "ThingDefs" to "ThingDef"
Edit. If you use patch from Beautiful Outdoors this will be enough (I hope), for you original patch use <value> with field name not just number

[Nyx (She/Her)]

Already tried that, same result-

[DZiral]

Another typo defname -> defName (all fields case sensitive)

[Nyx (She/Her)]

Originally posted by DZiral:

Another typo defname -> defName (all fields case sensitive)

Turns out this was the cause of all my problems. Fixed it and suddenly it tells me what was wrong! Thank you.