Modding Help Help with patches

i'm trying to make a patch for climbingrope.activeitem so that when you pick up climbingrope you unlock the recipes for 2 modded items, but i haven't been able to get a patch to work. please help.

my sad attempt at a patch so far:

Code:

[
 {
 "op":"add","path":"/climbingrope/-","value":"learnBlueprintsOnPickup" : [ "rappelrope", "strongrope" ]
 }
 ]

 

Here is a patch maker - https://chbrown.github.io/rfc6902/
But I can make something better that takes advantage of SB's expanded patching ability.

Code:

[
  [
    { "op": "test", "path": "/learnBlueprintsOnPickup", "inverse": true },
    { "op": "add", "path": "/learnBlueprintsOnPickup", "value": [] }
  ],
  [
    { "op": "add", "path": "/learnBlueprintsOnPickup/-", "value": "rappelrope" },
    { "op": "add", "path": "/learnBlueprintsOnPickup/-", "value":"strongrope" }
  ]
]

The difference between that patch and what the automatic patch makers would produce - that splits the patch into 2 batches. The first batch may or may not apply, but the second one would unconditionally.
What that does - it creates learnBlueprintsOnPickup if it doesn't already exists. Another mod may or may not have already made it so that's more versitile.
Then it adds your items into learnBlueprintsOnPickup.

Now as a matter of good practice, I'd avoid the names
"rappelrope" and "strongrope"
in favor of something like
"TD_rappelrope", "TD_strongrope"
because those names are far less likely to exist in other mods and therefore less likely to have compatibility issues. I append everything with either my handle, or an acronym of the mod name.

 

thank you. i took your advice and renamed it by adding "mr_" in front of all of the ropes ids