oh that explains it! i didn't realize that's how debug mode worked ^^' unselected it in the mod menu + put it in the right spot and everything's working fine now! my guess is the first go around was the aricsexpansion-main issue and then i was a dunderhead with debug mode, thank you so much! (misunderstood the ingame instructions of debug as it not being visible right away/in the mod menu, not that it wouldn't be in the mod folder until i looked at the txt file)