How to copypaste WX-78's upgrade system to a custom organic character?

[JoshuaMadoc]

I'm trying to implement WX-78's upgrade system by pasting it to an existing organic custom character's .lua file, but I don't know why it won't acknowledge the gears as anything but a generic item. I tried changing the gears to meat, I tried omitting what looks like certain irrelevant parts, I even tried to delete savefiles and recreate them every time I made changes to the .lua. What am I doing wrong, here?

[Toros]

Well, without knowing exactly what you're doing it looks like the primary issue is you probably aren't including the line 

inst.components.eater:SetCanEatGears()

There's a number of related systems you'd need to move over to make Wx's upgrade perk translate.