Coding Help Adding item to my Mod

[CellaScarpi]

I am currently working on a mod that I'm excited to say is coming along well. My newest hang up is adding items.

I am using Content Patcher
Here is the section in my content.json
{
"Format": "2.5.3",
"Changes": [
{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/ObjectInformation",
"Entries": {
"Mods/CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC/MisdeliveredLetter": "Misdelivered Letter/0/-300/Basic/-1/A letter addressed to someone named Carlisle Cullen. It's clearly not meant for you."
}
},
{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/ItemNameOverrideInformation",
"Entries": {
"Mods/CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC/MisdeliveredLetter": {
"Texture": "Maps/springobjects",
"SourceRect": { "X": 368, "Y": 672, "Width": 16, "Height": 16 }
}
}
},
{
"Action": "EditImage",
"Target": "Maps/springobjects",
"PatchMode": "Overlay",
"FromFile": "assets/img/letter.png",
"FromArea": { "X": 0, "Y": 0, "Width": 16, "Height": 16 },
"ToArea": { "X": 368, "Y": 672, "Width": 16, "Height": 16 }
},


Obviously there is more after I am not including I have tried changing quite a bit and different item numbers...

The item is being retrieved at the end of this event also in my content.json


{
"LogName": "Edward's Farm Events",
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/Events/Farm",
"Entries": {
"CS9901/y 1/t 600 1800/H": "none/-1000 -1000/farmer 64 15 1/playMusic CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC_preintro/viewport 64 18 true/pause 500/message \"Grandpa never could have realized the path he set me on when he gave me that letter... not truly.\"/pause 1200/message \"No one could have predicted where it would lead.\"/pause 800/message \"But is life worth living if it's predictable?\"/pause 800/message \"For some, maybe. Some people could live the same day over and over and feel perfectly content.\"/pause 1000/message \"Others crave something different. Something unexpected. They wait to be woken from the monotony.\"/pause 1200/message \"But what does that make the one who wakes them? A savior... or the villain who shattered their peace?\"/pause 1500/message \"You notice there's already a letter in the mailbox.\"/pause 1000/move farmer 0 2 0/faceDirection farmer 1/pause 500/move farmer 4 0 0/faceDirection farmer 0/pause 400/message \"*'Carlisle Cullen'...? That's definitely not me.*\"/pause 800/message \"*It must’ve been delivered by mistake...*\"/pause 800/message \"*Well, I was planning to go meet the locals today anyway. Maybe someone in town knows who this belongs to.*\"/pause 1000/showFrame 94/pause 300/globalFade/viewport -1000 -1000/addItem \"Mods/CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC/MisdeliveredLetter\"/pause 1000/end"
}
},

Depending on how i edit the above I have gotten my actual image but it says slime loot when I hover over it, or 9/10 times it says error item

I tried adding DGA but that killed my events so i decided I did not want to mess with that and want to stay with just content patcher.

Any help is appreciated

 

[Leocardia]

So I don't know anything about Event Coding but I think your doing something wrong with the Item implementation.
I'm always a bit unsure with the springobjects tilesheet coordinates but the ones you use there can't be right since the tilesheet is only like 384x624. So wherever "y:672" is, it's not on the vanilla tilesheet. And that means overlaying your letter on it makes no sense? Also, overlaying it or replacing something on the vanilla tilesheet could cause compatibility issues.

So from the event bit I gather that you want to add an Item that is an "unuseable" Letter with a Name and a description to add to the players inventory during the event (and then presumably have the player bring it to the addressee).

So I think (no promises) that it should look something like:

{
"Action": "Load",
"Target": "Mods/CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC/Letter", //assumeing CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC is your ModID
"FromFile": "assets/img/letter.png"
},

^ this bit should tell content patcher to load the image of your item, if your mod adds multiple objects you can have them all in one tilesheet and adress them by spriteindex as needed

{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Data/Objects",
"Entries": {
"CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC.MisdeliveredLetter", //<- that'd be the internal ID. you'd address it in your event with (O)CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC.MisdeliveredLetter the (O) identifies it as object
"Name": "Misdelivered Letter",
"Description": "A letter addressed to someone named Carlisle Cullen. It's clearly not meant for you.",
"Type": "asdf", //not sure about this one
"Category": -20 //this is the trash category your can check if you find a more fitting one or test if you can leave the category out idk I never added quest items like that so..
"Texture": "Mods/CellaScarpi.EdwardNPC/Letter",
"SpriteIndex": 0,
}

You can add a bunch of additional informations, context tags and the like (check the wiki) but I hope this helps. :3