Hello! sorry for yet another report and this is partially my fault for updating my mods mid-run but i have run into this issue cause by the mod while loading up the game:
Failed to load mods: Error in assignID: recipe with name 'water-barrel-recycling' does not exist. It was removed by house-fire-overhaul-mod.

At ROOT.technology.quality-module.effects[555].recipe

Source: quality-module (technology).

Hmmm, a bit strange - the quality module technology doesn't unlock the water-barrel-recycling recipe, so not sure why it's having an issue. Is the issue happening when you start the game or when you load a save? Can you send me a list of the mods you are using, I'm guessing there's a mod that does something with the filled barrels and recycling them, and my mod removes those recipes because I found the recycling nature of them confusing/pointless.

understood! the issue is when starting the game as a whole, as for the list of mods, im not sure exactly how to best send the list as it contains many different mods

If you open the mods folder (on Windows this is "%appdata%/Factorio/mods") there's a file there called "mod-list.json", you can open it as a text file. You can just send the entire file after setting the mods to be active (the game won't load).

at the least i can provide the mods that are listed that seem to cause the issue, which are:
House Fire Overhaul
Quality (The actual factorio Quality mod)
Early Quality and recyclers: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/early-quality-and-recyclers?from=search
Molten Plastic: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/molten_plastic?from=search

Alternatively, and this could take a while if you have a lot of mods, you can just turn off all the mods, then turn on the house fire mod. Then turn on each mod one at a time (or 5 at a time if you have A TON of mods). When the error happens, you know which mod is the issue (or which set of 5 and you can narrow down from there). When you find the 1 that doesn't work - try loading just it and the house fire mod with no other mods. This will make sure it's not a three way mod issue...

aye that is fair! give me a moment to do so

ok so i decided to take a shot in the dark and it was this mod:
Early Quality and recyclers: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/early-quality-and-recyclers?from=search
it caused the issue somehow

without that mod, the game loads with House Fire Overhaul enabled without any other issues

This should be fixed in 1.0.6

Thank you! It worked sorry I was not able to respond earlier