Item ID

Did ID's change?

I had a change in my config.ecf

{ Item Id: 2071 Name: Chainsaw
}
Everything still works fine to changes I make to the above

But I notice now there is no longer an Item Id: 2071 exccept in the config_example

There is in the itemsconfig
{ +Item Id: 23, Name: Chainsaw
}

Yet if I change my config file to
{ +Item Id: 23, Name: Chainsaw
}
The game does not function. What am I missing here?

 

You can't use the item id #'s from the ItemsConfig.ecf in the Config.ecf.
ItemsConfig.ecf is only items (and not also blocks and everything else in Config.ecf) so the item id #'s are completely different.

You have to use the item id #'s from the Config_Example.ecf in your Config.ecf file. You can't use item id numbers from any other file.

Everything should still work as it did before (and is still working just fine for me).
Without going through your Config.ecf file line to line it is impossible to say where you have an error.
You must have an error somewhere, like incorrect version number, or a syntax issue you caused.

 

Config.ecf should really only contain your changed entries and not the entire example file.

 

Thanks, yeah config.ecf only has my few changes in it. Been a while since I messed around with this and because of the 2 different ID's I could not remember if it had always been the case. I had gotten the ID's from the config_example but this time as it has been a long time I checked the itemsconfig and noticed the difference and just wanted to be sure is all.

 

I pop my files into a github repo. Makes remembering what you did and when much easier.

The devs finally fixed it fully, so that "scenarios" can be packaged in their own folder tree, which makes hacking much safer.