Character Mod Problem

[Dwim]

Hello all, 

 

     I have made a character mod, yet when I enable it, the game freezes on a screen saying that the mod has failed to run last time and will be disabled. What causes this problem?

 

Thanks!

 

-Dwim

[Sketchiverse]

Hello Dwim,

 

you're going to get grounded ! This gets asked a million times everyday 

 

Go find the log.txt file in your Documents > Klei > DoNotStarve and search your mod's name in it to find what caused the error. This file shall be your best friend for any weird crash issue in the future.

 

Make sure you read the general mod help threads, there's a bunch of stuff you should know about mods in order to work at ease.

 

Good luck.

[Corrosive]

@Dwim,

 

This is a little bit like asking, "My friend recently broke his leg.  How did he break it?"

 

Edit: Dangit, had this open in a tab and by the time I switched over and posted, you'd given a more useful reply

Edited February 20, 2015 by Corrosive

[Sketchiverse]

@Corrosive,

 

That's fine my friend, it's the first time I make myself kind of useful around here, haha.

[Dwim]

Thank you for your answer, it helped me out a lot! I am very new to modding, so I apologize if I ask questions that would be considered dumb.

[Sketchiverse]

It's okay, I was just like you a few days ago. ^^ Good luck with your mod ! When it really doesn't work, don't panic and go search for similar problems other people had on the forums.

[Corrosive]

@Dwim,

 

I wouldn't consider it dumb, just lacking in information

 

Can't fix a problem without knowing what the problem is!

[bpl1234]

okay, so I made a character mod but every time I try to launch the DST Beta with it on, it crashes because it's expecting an "=" after the '

 

I'm not sure how to fix it, being that the character's name contains apostrophes

 

Any words of advice to get it working?

 

Thanks.

[Blueberrys]

@bpl1234

You can alternate between double ( " ) and single ( ' ) quotation marks.

var = "some string with ' mark"

or use the escape sequence.

var = "some string with \' mark"

Both of the above will give you: some string with ' mark