solution found. requires 2 edits right now.
Open data-final.fixes.lua in quarry's mod file found in (appdata/roaming/factorio/mods)
in a program such as notepad++ where you can see line numbers....
on the paragraph that starts on line 7, add a single line, blacklisting thorium.
-- list of resources unavailable in quarries
local resourceBlacklist = {
["ground-water"] = true, -- bob's groundwater
["thorium-ore"] = true --bob's thorium ore. crashes due to thorium having no mining result
}
then go down to around line 167 and completely edit out that section of code.
--[[disable stone residue due to loading conflict on line 167 when loading with bob's mods
-- add stone residue
if settings.startup["quarry-stone-waste-percentage"].value > 0.0 and recipe.results[1].name ~= "stone" then
log("adding "..settings.startup["quarry-stone-waste-percentage"].value.."% stone waste to "..recipe.results[1].name)
recipe.results[1].probability = 1 - settings.startup["quarry-stone-waste-percentage"].value / 100
table.insert(recipe.results, {type = "item", name = "stone", amount = 1, probability = settings.startup["quarry-stone-waste-percentage"].value / 100} )
end
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