diff --git a/packages/lib/src/ModStore.ts b/packages/lib/src/ModStore.ts
index e53fdb39..979df95d 100644
--- a/packages/lib/src/ModStore.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/src/ModStore.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import fs from "fs-extra";
 import path from "path";
-import { Static } from "@sinclair/typebox";
+import { Static, StringContentEncodingOption, Type } from "@sinclair/typebox";
 import { logger } from "./logging";
 import { ModInfo } from "./data";
+import * as libSchema from "./schema";
 import TypedEventEmitter from "./TypedEventEmitter";
 import { safeOutputFile } from "./file_ops";
 
@@ -11,6 +12,58 @@ export interface ModStoreEvents {
 	change: (mod: ModInfo) => void;
 }
 
+interface ModRelease {
+	download_url: string,
+	// /download/maraxsis/670de301df21001f6147fd1c -- append to mods.factorio.com to download file, auth required
+	file_name: string,
+	// maraxsis_1.8.0.zip -- the file name of the downloaded file ^^
+	info_json: {
+		dependencies?: Array<string>,
+		factorio_version: string;
+	};
+	released_at: string,
+	// 2024-10-15T03:35:29.892000Z -- (ISO 8601)
+	sha1: string,
+	// e227ee560d93485c7f215c9451eaa9cc38d81c98
+	version: string; // 1.8.0 -- just a normal version string
+}
+
+interface ModImage {
+	id: string,
+	thumbnail: string,
+	url: string;
+}
+
+interface ModLicense {
+	description: string,
+	id: string,
+	name: string,
+	title: string,
+	url: string;
+}
+
+interface ModDetails {
+	category: string, // content -- what mod catogory is this apart of, a mod can only be apart of 1 category
+	download_count: number, // 3653 -- how many downloads does the mod have as a number
+	name: string, // maraxsis -- the name of the mod
+	owner: string, // notnotmelon -- the name of the author of the mod
+	releases: Array<ModRelease>, // an array of all releases and version of the mod
+	score: number, // 1054.8333333333333 -- it's prob used for sorting purposes
+	summary: string, // the mod description
+	thumbnail: string, // append path to assets-mods.factorio.com to get full url to thumbnail file
+	title: string, // the full title of the mod, shown on the mod page
+	changelog?: string,
+	created_at?: string,
+	description?: string,
+	homepage?: string,
+	images?: Array<ModImage>,
+	license?: ModLicense,
+	source_url?: string,
+	tags?: Array<string>,
+	updated_at?: string,
+	deprecated?: boolean;
+}
+
 export default class ModStore extends TypedEventEmitter<keyof ModStoreEvents, ModStoreEvents> {
 	constructor(
 		public modsDirectory: string,
@@ -134,4 +187,55 @@ export default class ModStore extends TypedEventEmitter<keyof ModStoreEvents, Mo
 
 		return new this(modsDirectory, files);
 	}
+
+	// gets the latest version of the mod provided as a string
+	static async fetchLatestVersionString(modName: string): Promise<string> {
+		const modDetails: ModDetails = await (
+			await fetch(`https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods/${modName}`)
+		).json() as ModDetails;
+		return modDetails.releases[modDetails.releases.length].version;
+	}
+
+	// gets the latest version of the mod provided as a string
+	static async fetchLatestVersionModInfo(modName: string): Promise<ModInfo> {
+		const modDetails: ModDetails = await (
+			await fetch(`https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods/${modName}/full`)
+		).json() as ModDetails;
+		const latestRelease: ModRelease = modDetails.releases[modDetails.releases.length];
+		let modInfo = new ModInfo();
+		const info_json = latestRelease.info_json;
+
+		// info.json fields
+		if (modDetails.name) { modInfo.name = modDetails.name; }
+		if (latestRelease.version) { modInfo.version = latestRelease.version; }
+		if (modDetails.title) { modInfo.title = modDetails.title; }
+		if (modDetails.owner) { modInfo.author = modDetails.owner; }
+		if (modDetails.homepage) { modInfo.homepage = modDetails.homepage; }
+		if (modDetails.description) { modInfo.description = modDetails.description; }
+		if (info_json.factorio_version) { modInfo.factorioVersion = info_json.factorio_version; }
+		if (info_json.dependencies) { modInfo.dependencies = info_json.dependencies; }
+
+		const infoJsonSchema = Type.Object({
+			"name": Type.String(),
+			"version": Type.String(),
+			"title": Type.String(),
+			"author": Type.String(),
+			"contact": Type.Optional(Type.String()),
+			"homepage": Type.Optional(Type.String()),
+			"description": Type.Optional(Type.String()),
+			"factorio_version": Type.Optional(Type.String()),
+			"dependencies": Type.Optional(Type.Array(Type.String())),
+		});
+
+		const validateInfo = libSchema.compile<Static<typeof infoJsonSchema>>(infoJsonSchema as any);
+
+		const valid = validateInfo(modInfo);
+
+		if (valid) {
+			return modInfo;
+		}
+
+		return modInfo;
+
+	}
 }
diff --git a/packages/lib/src/factorio/mod_update_thingy.ts b/packages/lib/src/factorio/mod_update_thingy.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d55cf335..00000000
--- a/packages/lib/src/factorio/mod_update_thingy.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-import { ModInfo } from "../data";
-
-
-// the example comments are from the mod maraxsis
-
-interface modRelease {
-	download_url: string, // /download/maraxsis/670de301df21001f6147fd1c -- append to mods.factorio.com to download file, auth required
-	file_name: string, // maraxsis_1.8.0.zip -- the file name of the downloaded file ^^
-	info_json: { factorio_version: string } // 2.0 -- seems to just hold what factorio version it supports, due to it being nested, it could other info, not sure
-	released_at: string, // 2024-10-15T03:35:29.892000Z -- some kind of time stamp, i'm sure that can be imported/converted to a useable format if it useful to have
-	sha1: string,  // e227ee560d93485c7f215c9451eaa9cc38d81c98 -- it's a hash, not much to say
-	version: string // 1.8.0 -- just a normal version string
-}
-
-interface modDetails {
-	category: string, // content -- what mod catogory is this apart of, i think a mod can only be apart of 1 category
-	download_count: number, // 3653 -- how many downloads does the mod have as a number
-	name: string, // maraxsis -- the name of the mod
-	owner: string, // notnotmelon -- the name of the author of the mod
-	releases: Array<modRelease>, // an array of all releases and version of the mod, the type is declared above
-	score: number, // 1054.8333333333333 -- not sure, seems some kind of float or double, based on name, it's prob used for sorting purposes
-	summary: string, // the mod description
-	thumbnail: string, // append path to assets-mods.factorio.com to get full url to thumbnail file
-	title: string // the full title of the mod, shown on the mod page
-}
-
-
-async function getLatestVersion(mod: ModInfo) {
-	const modStuff: modDetails = await (await fetch("https://mods.factorio.com/api/mods/" + mod.name)).json() as modDetails
-	const latestVersion = modStuff.releases[modStuff.releases.length].version
-}