Exception throwing on my custom weapon

[fathom ember]

I'm new to starbound modding as of right now, not sure what's wrong with what I have right now and can't really find what's up either

not sure if it'd be better to keep my .activeitem as is or make it a .txt

[compact crystal]

starbound.log file please

[compact crystal]

activeitem

[compact crystal]

the error shown on screen doesn’t tell much info so it’s a good idea to look in the log file to figure out what’s going wrong. you can find the log file in the game files: Starbound/storage/starbound.log

if you don’t already, it helps to show file type extensions

[upper slate]

missing comma

[compact crystal]

sometimes i forget that such issues can happen

[stone raft]

You have 2 missing commas:

1 before Stances; 1 before Builder.

[compact crystal]

use a linter or an editor that checks syntax for you

[fathom ember]

it wouldn't give me one for some reason

[fathom ember]

ouuuu, alright

I've been using notepad++

[compact crystal]

what do you mean?

[fathom ember]

I checked the logs and they were all just past errors, and after clearing it just didn't give me one

reward bag ⁉️

[fathom ember]

also thanks

[compact crystal]

are you showing file extensions? the latest one is called starbound(.log)

the other ones are like starbound.log(.1) or something

[fathom ember]

yeah

alright it works now, I'll look into the text editors when I wake up though and probably put any other issues I run into on this thread

[compact crystal]

i’m a big fan of vscode but i bet there’s some kind of plugin out there for np++ to catch json syntax errors

[fathom ember]

alright I got a log file this time, sifted through and for some reason there's another exception: Fatal Exception: (ItemException) Could not load item asset /items/active/weapons/staffs/WoodenStaff/WoodenStaff.activeitem

only thing that confuses me is that it loads fine ingame

albeit very small