FencersGhosts

Can someone please explain to me like I'm a complete and total idiot how to make a fairly simple patch mod that just adds a couple recipes? Or like, point me to a guide or tutorial somewhere? (IE: I have one mod that adds more types of fabric, and another mod that adds more types of mordant. They were not made to be compatible, so only vanilla mordants work on the modded fabric. I want to make it so that I can use the modded mordant on the modded fabric.) All of the explanations or tools I can find are either outdated or don't work on mac. I can't even find the assets folder. I have checked the wiki modding guides and I feel like nothing makes sense and I'm just going in circles.

Got the reinstalled version working! 1.21 requires .net 8 instead of .net 7, apparently. Still would like to not have to reinstall every time there's an update.

I can't tell if this is just me being stupid, but I can't figure out how to update to 1.21 on mac. (I tend to go through phases of being obsessed with something and playing it constantly and then not picking it up again for months, so I haven't played since 1.20. When I open VintageStory, there's a popup in the upper left corner that says "Version 1.21.5 now available, click here to go to downloads page. Clicking that takes me to the downloads page on the website, which just has the stuff to download the whole game again, not update the existing game. I tried doing that as a last resort since I couldn't find any instructions on how to update that actually made sense based on what I was seeing, but the new version doesn't open. I saw on the "Installing the Game on MacOS" wiki page that the location of the game data folder has changed, does that have something to with it? How do I fix this? I just wanna update my game T-T