Building the mod

Building and testing the mod

Building

To build your project click on File > Build, this will: - Build all items, technologies, recipes etc. to LUA - Package the project to [FMCS-ROOT]/.mod-preview/dev-mod (All files included!)

This standalone build is mostly useful for inspecting the generated LUA.

Building & Testing

To build and start your project click on File > Build and Run or the big green button in top bar,

this will: - Do all what Building does - Create a mod-list.json in [FMCS-ROOT]/.mod-preview/dev-mod - Start Factorio with mod path set to [FMCS-ROOT]/.mod-preview/dev-mod

This build and run method is mostly useful for testing your mod ingame.

Whats next?

Play around a little and feel free to add custom code to the files described in data.lua and control.lua