It turned out to be a missing comma at the end of a line in another mod i was using >.<'
no idea why the error brough your iron spears into the mix lol

so false alarm in the end.  thanks for the reply though.

Bazalisk: Unsure, not heard anything of that sort. Reads like something is zeroing out the vanilla recipe JSON, so would you mind enumerating any other mods you're using?

hi

not sure if you've had anyone else have an issue but i'm getting server shutdowns with this mod and the following errors..

5.4.2021 14:06:07 [Error] Patch 9 (target: game:recipes/grid/tool/spear.json) in ferrospear:patches/ferrospear_patches.json failed because supplied path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- is invalid: The json path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- was not found. No such element 'ingredients' at the root path

5.4.2021 14:06:07 [Error] Patch 10 (target: game:recipes/grid/tool/spear.json) in ferrospear:patches/ferrospear_patches.json failed because supplied path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- is invalid: The json path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- was not found. No such element 'ingredients' at the root path

5.4.2021 14:06:07 [Error] Patch 11 (target: game:recipes/grid/tool/spear.json) in ferrospear:patches/ferrospear_patches.json failed because supplied path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- is invalid: The json path /ingredients/T/allowedVariants/- was not found. No such element 'ingredients' at the root path

not sure how to repair it, any advice?