trying to replaceInput() but failing

[dapper plaza]

Context:

• I want to replace all iron and diamond armor inside recipes with botania and livingarmor equivalent. I thought i was being smart by making 2 arrays and do a double forEach loop, but this failed (the console.log works, but the recipes arent actually being changed)
• using just the event.replaceInput(from, to) doesnt work either

code:

    const replaceInputArr = [
        ['minecraft:iron_helmet', 'botania:manasteel_helmet'],
        ['minecraft:iron_chestplate', 'botania:manasteel_chestplate'],
        ['minecraft:iron_leggings', 'botania:manasteel_leggings'],
        ['minecraft:iron_boots', 'botania:manasteel_boots'],
        ['minecraft:diamond_helmet', 'bloodmagic:livinghelmet'],
        ['minecraft:diamond_chestplate', 'bloodmagic:livingplate'],
        ['minecraft:diamond_leggings', 'bloodmagic:livingleggings'],
        ['minecraft:diamond_boots', 'bloodmagic:livingboots']
    ]
    const modsToChange = [
        'ars_nouveau',
        'bloodmagic',
        'rootsclassic',
        'malum'

    ]
    modsToChange.forEach(mod =>{
        replaceInputArr.forEach(recipe =>{
            let input = recipe[0]
            let output = recipe[1]
            console.log(`replacing ${input} with ${output} in mod: ${mod}`)
            event.replaceInput({mod: mod}, input, output)
        })
    })

    event.replaceInput('minecraft:iron_helmet', 'botania:manasteel_helmet')

[upper meadow]

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[random cave]

do these mods add recipes using the armor in the crafting table, cause if they use custom recipe types replaceInput won't work (only vanilla and those that have addon mods work)

also for the last line you would need to do event.replaceInput({}, 'minecraft:iron_helmet', 'botania:manasteel_helmet')

[dapper plaza]

akshually:
https://github.com/KubeJS-Mods/KubeJS/blob/09038a1329a6029fd2068ec02bfdc941793a5efd/common/src/main/java/dev/latvian/mods/kubejs/recipe/RecipeEventJS.java#L514

tehres also 1 where u dont need to specify a filter, but ill try

[dapper plaza]

and yea, this is the issue then

need to change recipes like these:

guess ill have to do it the tedious way by copying over all the jsons and replace in file

[random cave]

yeah that won't work then, would need to manually overwrite or do .forEachRecipe and check if an input is that item (though this is complicated)

[dapper plaza]

meh, ill just copy over all recipes .jsons and do replace in file, and then remove all unedited files

[viral sandal]

yea and then you want to change them later and its a pain