Hey jayu, thanks for your very helpful guide for us Mac users!
I am facing an issue with content mods (not developing, just trying to use them for now, but I'd very much like to create some of my own) on a Apple silicon Mac. I can load mods like hudclock and zoombuttonreborn which don't really add any content to the game, but for content mods I only get the handbook entries and not any items at all.
I've tried your solution above for content mods regarding how to compress the files, but didn't notice any difference. I'd like to add that I've actually moved all my vintage story data from a Windows system to my mac after the support for Macs was re-established earlier this year, I've changed the filepaths in clientSettings.json etc, but it didn't fix the issue either. Do you happen to know whether it could be something else?