hello, so-far this is my first mod so im probably doing something wrong. so in my mods in the main menu i have base mod and the black market, both are enabled. when i click play game and a new game everything is on default, and i still have ore and no boxes. any ideas on how to fix this?

It's possible that the mod is active, but you need to research the correct technology. As for no ore, it's not part of the mod. You can make a new scenario in map editor, set resource size to none, generate a map and put the first chests somewhere.