Greetings modding community. I come asking for help in making a small mod with the new EE editor. Most solutions that applied to the original no longer work, as far as I can tell.

My goal is to create a custom equip-able item and put it in a container (a new container or an existing container).
But I want this item to be usable in the main campaign, so we should place this item in a crate on the starting beach, for easy testing.

I've tried opening up the editor and poking at the main module, but I'm not able to make anything stick. I am certain I'm starting off with the wrong idea on how to do this, so let's start from scratch.

Assuming I have installed the editor correctly (pointing the paths to the right folders, mostly), what are the steps I must take in order to achieve my goal, using the least number of external programs (aside from the game and editor)?


Unless otherwise specified, just an opinion or simple curiosity.