Problem: safes don't carry modded items as loot

[SteelCrow]

The long story of this vexing problem:

I want to reduce the cooldowns of Stim 1 and 2 to 8 and 6 turns respectively, to make them less of trash compared to Stim 3.  I did so, and playtested a few missions with Rush and Olivia.  Things were looking as they should: Rush's starting Stim 1 had an 8-turn cooldown and marked with my mod icon, as was everything else from itemdefs.  Nanofabs, guard loot, starting items, all marked with my icon.  Then I pick a Stim 1 out of a safe.  It has a 9-turn cooldown.  It does not have my mod icon.  But it sells for the amount it should at the nanofab (200 CR).

Now this weirdness isn't much of a problem.  Loot from safes is rare, anyways.  The real issue I have is that any items looted from safes that my agents are still carrying disappear at the end of the mission.  Poof, gone.  Like they never existed.  It's true that I was going to sell them to Monst3r anyway, but I don't appreciate a second trip to the nanofab during every mission.

In tracking down a solution to this issue, I went through store.lua, worldgen.lua, procgen.lua, finding nothing relevant, until I got to procgen_context.lua, where I found this loot table right at the top:

local LOOT_TABLES =
{
	lab_safe =
	{
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_icebreaker, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_portabledrive, 1 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_paralyzer, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_adrenaline, 3 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_cloakingrig_1, 1 },		
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_clip, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_stim, 3 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_emp_pack, 2 },
		{ 50, 3 },
		{ 150, 3 },
		{ 400, 3 },
		{ nil, 40 }, -- cash out the rest of the value in credits
	},  	
}

I'm not 100% sure if this is all I need, but in any case, I can't figure out how to make the safe-spawning scripts reference my mod's itemdefs.lua instead of the base game's itemdefs.lua

[Shirsh]

Try this:

and in older thread Lemonymous described problem:

 

[SteelCrow]

*sigh,

I tried a myriad of ways to get lib_modApiFix.lua to work for me.  Kept running into failures.  I don't think it's intended to fix my problem, anyway.  I read through its code and nowhere did I find mention of safe, safes, lab_safe, LOOT_TABLES, or anything else related to the loot of safes.  The closest thing I found was the guards' droptables.  In my opinion, Klei already fixed their addItemDef before I began modding last week, using Lemonymous's library as reference.

I tried to code the changes I wanted directly into modinit.lua, using the technique I found from NewItemsAndAugments:

-- load will be refreshed and run each time a new campaign is started.
local function load( modApi, options )
	local scriptPath = modApi:getScriptPath()

	if options["itemgen"].enabled then
		local itemdefs = include( scriptPath .. "/itemdefs_changes" )
		for name, itemDef in pairs(itemdefs) do
			modApi:addItemDef( "item_clip_steelcrow", itemDef )
			modApi:addItemDef( name, itemDef )
		end
		
		local procgen_context = include( "sim/procgen_context" )
		local unitdefs = include( "sim/unitdefs" )
		local itemdefs_changes = include( scriptPath .. "/itemdefs_changes" )
		
		
		procgen_context.lab_safe = 
	{
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_icebreaker, 2 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_portabledrive, 1 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_paralyzer, 2 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_adrenaline, 3 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_cloakingrig_1, 1 },		
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_clip, 2 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_stim, 3 },
		{ itemdefs_changes.item_emp_pack, 2 },
		{ 50, 3 },
		{ 150, 3 },
		{ 400, 3 },
		{ nil, 40 }, -- cash out the rest of the value in credits
	}
	else
		procgen_context.lab_safe = 
	{
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_icebreaker, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_portabledrive, 1 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_paralyzer, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_adrenaline, 3 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_cloakingrig_1, 1 },		
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_clip, 2 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_stim, 3 },
		{ unitdefs.tool_templates.item_emp_pack, 2 },
		{ 50, 3 },
		{ 150, 3 },
		{ 400, 3 },
		{ nil, 40 }, -- cash out the rest of the value in credits
	}
	end
end

But still with no success.