Modding Help Crew Member Editing

Hello everyone.

I was trying to create a legendary crew member for a mod I'm working on, but when I tried using base files for testing, I couldn't achieve what I was trying to.

Using base mechanic (npcs/crew/crewmembermechanic.npctype), I tried creating as follows:

Code:

{
  "type" : "crewmembermechanic",
  "baseType" : "crewmember",

  "scriptConfig" : {
    "behaviorConfig" : {
      "emptyHands" : false
    },

    "crew" : {
      "role" : {
        "type" : "mechanic",
        "name" : "Mechanic",
        "field" : "Technical",
        "uniformColorIndex" : 8,

        "benefits" : [
          {
            "type" : "ShipUpgradeBenefit",
            "property" : "fuelEfficiency",
            "value" : 100.0
          }
        ]
      }
    },

    "dialog" : {
      "crewmember" : {
        "roleDescription" : {
          "default" : {
            "default" : [
              "I'll keep clearing out the carborator while I'm here. Fuel efficiency is up 100%!"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },

  "items" : {
    "default" : [
      [0, [
          {
            "chest" : [ { "name" : "protectoratechest" } ],
            "legs" : [ { "name" : "protectoratepants" } ],
            "primary" : [ "npcwrench" ]
          }
        ] ]
    ]
  }
}

I know that value is a percentual value ranging from 0.0 to 1.0, but I tried compiling it as 1.0 for 100% fuel efficiency and nothing happened. Tried 100.0, but failed too.

What am I doing wrong? How could I fix that?

And I'm not testing with any other mod that might mess load order.

Thanks in advance. ;3

 

So, a patch file is meant to make changes to an existing file, and, therefore, takes a different form from the original file. There is a nice tutorial about patch files here. The file you made might work if you renamed it to "crewmembermechanic.npctype" (dropping the .patch); this way it would overwrite the original file.

However, if you want to use a patch file to test your changes, then this is what it should look like:

Code:

[
  { "op": "replace",
    "path": "/scriptConfig/crew/role/benefits/0/value",
    "value": 100.0
  }
]