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Is there any way to to convert the new files (such as blueprints.yaml) into a more usable format similar to the old one?

I'm not good with macros and so don't know how to write one. Ideally, I'd like something similar to the old list with columns that were:

blueprint | material id | qty

Anyone able to help?

I've stumbled across those before, but would like to know how to do it myself.

Easiest way I found to do this was to import the data into a tree object. I just used VB.net's tree object they provide standard. I put it on the form and could see the yaml output when debugging it to make sure I had it right. But basically that's all the blueprints yaml file is, is a tree with a few branches and node levels.

As part of deployment, LMeve loads all YAML data into MySQL using a library ather than PECL module, so it works on shared hosting where you don't have root access.

here's URL: https://github.com/roxlukas/lmeve/

Check file ./bin/update_yaml.php script and libraries included in it

Concerning that Yaml is a superset of Json it not that hard to work with. Depending on the file you may even be able to use Json tools to work with it. For anyone working in PHP just use Symfony2's Yaml library. Just to show you how easy it is to use:
[code]
$yaml = new Yaml();
$config = $yaml->parse(file_get_contents($configFile));
[code]

It has little or no dependence outside of itself unlike what many Symfony2 components usually need.

I'm sure if you look around you'll all find a library like it for your favorite programming language to use. I'd suggest starting with the Yaml site itself since it list many existing ones for over 10 languages.

No idea why they wouldn't put this data into a table like invtypematerials

Anyway for PHP I'm using Spyc which you can find here

https://github.com/mustangostang/spyc/

Which is also super easy to use.

require_once "spyc.php";
$Data = spyc_load_file('spyc.yaml');

$Data will be an array that holds everything in the yaml file.
I parsed it and dumped it into a table as typeID | materialTypeID | quantity

Dumped the table to an excel file for you below.
If you want it in a different format just let me know :)

https://mega.co.nz/#!PZZUiaZb!S8vafYTBfFBLjKWz4J2LqRO9idmKaaIQnKjKFe7yI24

Link seems a bit broken so make sure you copy the whole thing.
Also, I don't really expect any errors in here and from what I've tested so far it seems fine but do check to be sure