Finding A Clean Copy Of "recipe.lua" For Factorio

[RLS0812]

I've been making a lot of my own mods for Factorio, and I just realize that I never made a backup copy of the original "recipe.lua" file.
Is there somewhere I can find this file without reinstalling the entire game ?

[Fel]

You can always tell steam to check the game's files, it will revert any modified file to the original.

This game has a pretty solid modding support so you should not be fidling with the base game's content files.

[Kristofff]

test

[Roxxapo]

you can have mine bro

[Vyndicu]

You can delete the recipe.lua then tell Steam to verify the files and it will notice recipe.lua is missing and download just that one file.

Instruction on how to do verify is easy to find but I will tell you anyway. Go to your steam library list of games. Right click on Factorio and go into properties. Go to local files tab. There will be a verify button.

[Fel]

You don't even have to delete the file, it also checks the file checksums to see if it has the right content so just verifying should be enough.

[Vyndicu]

Originally posted by Fel:

You don't even have to delete the file, it also checks the file checksums to see if it has the right content so just verifying should be enough.

Deleting is often a last resort as I had some file that were edited and somehow the verification process failed to properly validate the files. In those rare cases it is better to be "safe" than sorry to delete it completely or at least just re-named to something else.

[Greg Riba]

You don't have to edit anything in the game's folder to mod. Read the tutorial https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Modding_tutorial/Gangsir

[AlexMBrennan]

You don't have to edit anything in the game's folder to mod. Read the tutorial https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Modding_tutorial/Gangsir

No, but it's a lot faster to edit one line in the game's recipe.lua than to package that one line change in a mod.

[ShutEye_DK]

Can't you just DL the standalone version from facttorio.com and extract the file from that?

[GreenBeanN1]

Originally posted by AlexMBrennan:

You don't have to edit anything in the game's folder to mod. Read the tutorial https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Modding_tutorial/Gangsir

No, but it's a lot faster to edit one line in the game's recipe.lua than to package that one line change in a mod.

Well considering the time to make this post (and probably search through too many lines in the original files often) I am not so sure.

-A zip is needed
-a json file (13 lines)
-a data.lua file (a few lines)

json
{
"name": "x",
"version": "1000000000.0.1",
"factorio_version": "1.1",
"title": "forgot",
"author": "this",
"contact": "t",
"homepage": "o",
"description": "o",
"dependencies": [
"base >= 1.1.0"
]
}

data.lua
data.raw["recipe"]["automation-science-pack"].ingredients = {
{"iron-plate", 1000000}
}

thats all.