making-mods-general

[ocean sail]

JSON is a standard format for machine-readable text files that's used by Stardew Valley mods.

If you need help with a JSON file, you can upload it to smapi.io/json to see automatic validation and share the link here.

When making mods, it's recommended to edit your files in a text editor with JSON support, such as VS Code, Notepad++, or Sublime Text. These programs will check for syntax errors.

To use this command, type !json.

[lucid iron]

buffs is a list

[rancid temple]

Buffs is an array of models

[lucid iron]

need [ ]

[rancid temple]

Each buff inside it needs to be inside {}

[tardy adder]

Oh my I finally found the token that was messing the mails up

[faint ingot]

I'm trying to edit the general store so that Caroline or Abigail can 'run' the shop. This doesn't seem to be working: "LogName": "Seed Shop changes", "Action": "EditData", "Target": "Data/Shops", "Entries": { "SeedShop": { "Owners": [ { "Name":"Caroline", "Id":"Caroline" }, { "Name":"Abigail", "Id":"Abigail" } ] } }

[green patrol]

oh so it's not a {} then gotcha

tyvm chu and rokugin! and ty for the link lumina

[uncut viper]

using Entries for an existing entry (SeedShop in this case) will reset everything else you dont fill out to their default values

[lucid iron]

u need {} inside of []

[uncut viper]

you will want to try Fields instead

[lucid iron]

check vanilla examples of food that give buff

[faint ingot]

that works, thank you!

[uncut viper]

(also to go off my last response too, using Fields here will still replace the entire "Owners" list too, itll just leave everything else in tact, but i assumed you didnt want Pierre to run it anymore at all?)

[green patrol]

so like

buffs: {
CustomAttributes: {
["FarmingLevel", "0"],
["FishingLevel", "0"]
}
}

[rancid temple]

Nope

[faint ingot]

He's not available! But thanks for the FYI!

[uncut viper]

i would def just look at a vanilla object with buff data

[rancid temple]

I know he punched another person, but damn

[tardy adder]

And I broke the mailing again AAAAAAAAA

[latent mauve]

At least give the man a sink and toilet xD

[faint ingot]

but nobody else gets one...

[latent mauve]

I mean, every house has a sink at least

Even if nobody in Stardew seems to have visible bathrooms LOL

[hard fern]

😭 damn pierre is in jail??

[latent mauve]

(I am choosing to believe that their bathrooms are just 'off limits and invisible' rather than they all don't bother to bathe until you unlock the spa.)

[rancid temple]

I just don't want to believe they go dig a latrine or somethin'

Or Pelican Town gonna smell ripe

[latent mauve]

roku, I think we just figured out why Grandpa's fields were so fertile even though Grandpa's been gone and they were abandoned.

[rancid temple]

I wish Tiled had a "changes only" view

[lucid iron]

Git integration for tiled...

[rancid temple]

I mean, I probably could use git diff, if I was a lunatic that enjoyed looking at xml

[uncut viper]

you could always make a PR to it

[rancid temple]

Ah, but that would entail actually knowing how to make this functionality a reality lmao

[uncut viper]

be the feature change you wanna see in the tiled world

[rancid temple]

It's primarily C++, I'm out

[tardy adder]

nauuur now I did a token not ready >->

[tropic lichen]

hi guys, im trying to make a torch retexture with Content patcher, and I don't know the asset name for the torch item 😭

[teal bridge]

Write a converter to convert the XML to JSON, then diff that.

[lucid iron]

Is it on springobjects

[rancid temple]

Are you trying to find it in Data/Objects to change the texture or just trying to EditImage the tilesheet?

[tropic lichen]

im using edit image

[rancid temple]

It is on Maps/springobjects near the top right

[iron ridge]

(or export the map as a json)

[rancid temple]

The most useless emoji ever lmao

[tropic lichen]

ok how would i write it in the content json file? im sorry if this is a weird question im a beginner

[rancid temple]

https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/blob/develop/ContentPatcher/docs/author-guide/action-editimage.md
Sorry, a bit pre-occupied at the moment, if you still need help in a little bit I'll be done

Could also look at some other CP mods that have changed textures of objects

[hard fern]

"Action": "EditImage",
"Target": "Maps/springobjects",
"FromFile": "assets/your filepath.png",
"ToArea": {idk man you gotta find that yourself sob "Width": 16, "Height": 16},
}```

[tropic lichen]

lol thank you

so if i put maps/springobjects after "target" it should know to replace the torch?

[hard fern]

that's where you have to specify where on the image you're editing

"ToArea"you need the coords

[tropic lichen]

the coordinates of the torch on the springobjects ?

[rancid temple]

It's pixel coordinates, so open it in some editing program and find the top left corner of the torches 16x16 sprite

[hard fern]

yep, the coordinates of the tile the torch is on

it's top left isn't it

[zenith robin]

make sure it is the top left

[rancid temple]

Sorry, like I said, otherwise distracted lmao

[hard fern]

i live in springobjects 💀

[tropic lichen]

im so confused lol but ill try that thanks so much

[rancid temple]

"X": 336, "Y": 48, "Width": 16, "Height": 16 should be the rect

[indigo yoke]

So I am brainstorming a new skill idea, Anyone have any ideas they could pitch in to help fill out the skill?

Skill Name: Bibliophile 
Level up effect: Gain more exp from reading books

level 1 unlocks
- Blank Copper Letterpress
- Letterpress Workstation (Sacrifice a book here with a blank letterpress to gain a letterpress of that book)
- Letterpress Inking Station (use the book letterpress here with ink to gain an inked version)

level 2 unlocks
- increase the effect of the `Monster Compendium book`

level 3 unlocks
- Paper Mill Station (turn 1 logs into 10 wood pulp. Use 1 hardwood log to turn into 10 hardwood pulp)
- Paper Pressing Station (turn 100 wood pulp into paper. Turn 100 hardwood pulp into a book cover)

level 4 unlocks
- Increase the effect of `Woody's Secret`
- Increase the effect of `Dwarvish safety Manual`

level 5 unlocks (professions)
- I have no clue what the professions can be right now)
-- Possible profession: Typesetter, Lower the cost of the Blank letter press and increase the speed of the printing press)
-- Possible profession: Bookworm, reading a book grants a random buff for the day

level 6 unlocks
- Printing Press (Use 1000 paper and an inked letterpress to get 5 unbound version of the book)
- Binding station (use 2 bookcovers, 8 fiber, and 1 unbound version of the book to get a book. Yes, after 6 levels you can finally copy books through a long process)

level 7 unlocks
- Increase the effects of `Ol' Slitherlegs`
- Increase the effects of `the alleyway buffet`

level 8 unlocks
- Increase the effects of `The Diamond Hunter`
- Increase the effects of `The Art O' Crabbing`

level 9 unlocks
- unlock forgery ink recipe (squid ink + fairy powder)
- Prize ticket forgery station (takes 1 week, and 1 prize ticket + fairy powder to make 2 prize tickets)
- Book donation bin (generates a random book every 7 days)

level 10 unlocks (professions
- I have no clue  
-- Possible profession: Bookseller, increase the value of books
-- Possible profession: Page finder, find random book making supplies when doing tasks
-- Possible profession: Page Master, reading a book causes a small explosion around you

professions are the biggest roadblock atm.

[rancid temple]

Is the goal to craft books?

[wispy cosmos]

could have professions related to selling books perhaps? eg. books worth x% more

[rancid temple]

That's usually the general effect of professions that aren't combat related

Increasing profit

[indigo yoke]

yeah, and increase the effects from books.

After 6 levels you can craft your own books.

books are meant to be "rare" so I did make it a multi-step process to copy a book.

[rancid temple]

Probably the best choice really considering that once you max out your mastery, books become only good for selling

[wispy cosmos]

perhaps you could have one profession where it increases book price by x% and a second one where (if the machines take time) they would take less time

not much I can think of here

it'd be hard to think of professions

[indigo yoke]

yeahhhh T_T

[indigo yoke]

[lucid comet]

with "bookworm" i was more thinking of reading than creating books

[wispy cosmos]

well it helps with effects of read books as well

[lucid comet]

true true

[indigo yoke]

I got an idea for a profession...

Reading a book gives you a random buff for the day. That way they still provide use even after mastery is maxed

[wispy cosmos]

that's a good one

[indigo yoke]

ty rokugin

[rancid temple]

Is Bibliophile derogatory?

[wispy cosmos]

so maybe you can have a profit path and buff path for the book professions

[lucid comet]

not in my book

bibliophile sounds more fitting imo, bookworm could be one of the professions mb? getting better effects/longer random buff duration or smth

[indigo yoke]

That's the skill name I wanted but then someone commented on another server that it sounds like a bad word, so I changed it to bookworm.

tho screw it, Bibliophile it isssss

[wispy cosmos]

maybe a profession where you can find book crafting materials randomly? like when tilling or mining etc.

[rancid temple]

I think -phile can throw some people, it's commonly used in some words that describe problematic behavior

[wispy cosmos]

or one that increases chance of finding the skill/power books

[lucid comet]

and the other path/side would be more around making books more valueable i guess?

(and you can maybe get xp from/for reading the museum books, those exist)

[wispy cosmos]

ehh those ones are a one time find

[rancid temple]

(this just makes me want a book weapon that turns you into a paper master from RoD)

[indigo yoke]

Read or Die SOOO GOOOOOD

[indigo yoke]

If I could have it be a one time effect, tbh I wouldn't mind having reading a library book the first time give exp

[lucid comet]

sadly, i was thinking if we go books maybe those could get some additional use ... maybe new copies?

[rancid temple]

Could just have it add experience whenever you loot one of those museum books

It's an addition that is self ending because eventually you stop getting them lol

[indigo yoke]

That's a good one as well. Page finder: find random book making supplies while doing tasks

[wispy cosmos]

inker profession, all monsters have a chance of dropping ink /hj

[lucid comet]

thats what i was thinking + when you read it the first time so there is a reason to do so beyond getting rid of th floating icons

[wispy cosmos]

makes sense

[indigo yoke]

it would also make the exp more consistent. instead of just like a random large (like 100 exp) from the usable book find early in the game.

[lucid comet]

otherwise ... book restoration? for the later skill levels

[wispy cosmos]

ooh something like you could find ruined books and restore them?

[lucid comet]

you find ancient/old pages and cant do anything with them in the beginning, make books and donate them to the museum/gunther sends them away for study

like all the secret notes

[wispy cosmos]

ah I was thinking a little differently

perhaps you'd get a chance to find a ruined book and when you restore it then it turns into one of the skill books or a power book

[faint ingot]

What is the correct way to make a tile passable by NPCs but not by the farmer? Right now I have a tile on the buildings layer to prevent passage, and a box on the Buildings Object layer with the "NPCPassable" property set to "T", however NPCs still don't seem to treat it as passable.

[indigo yoke]

Actually that gives me a wonderful idea for a profession.

Reading a book creates an explosion around you, damaging all enemies / destroying rocks.

[wispy cosmos]

chance would be higher than the normal books but it would take a few days to restore

[lucid comet]

a "booklet"/secret note could be small bomb area, harder to craft "normal" book the medium and skill books do biiiig explosion

(though that reminds me more of cursed books, hmmmmm)

[zenith robin]

If I do debug warp {custom location} and get the msg "Sent debug command to the game, but there was no output." does that just mean the game didn't add my location?

[indigo yoke]

[rancid temple]

That is just a generic return message that indicates there was no response message from the game

[uncut viper]

did you actually tab back in and see if it warped you

[rancid temple]

It basically always appears, I don't think I've ever used a debug command without it appearing lol

[zenith robin]

yes id id, and it didn't do anything

[indigo yoke]

what would be a good counter profession for Page master (the book explosion one?) cause that would be a level 10 profession

[zenith robin]

I'll see what I can find

[fossil bear]

Hey ho. Is NET6.0 necessary or can I also use Net 8.0?

[rancid temple]

6 only

You can target a higher language version though

[wispy cosmos]

hmm well if that one is combat then something in the opposite way...
maybe something farming related?

[rancid temple]

There should be other information in the log to indicate your location wasn't added properly if it wasn't

[indigo yoke]

reading a book fairy dusts all machines around you?

[wispy cosmos]

ooh that's a good one

[rancid temple]

But also pretty sure it complains when you try to warp to a non-existent location

[wispy cosmos]

although could be a bit OP? idk
maybe increases crop growth stage instead of fairy dusting machines

[zenith robin]

that seems really op though

[rancid temple]

Could make it mimic a treasure totem

[indigo yoke]

mhm Messing with crops in code is outside of my strong suit atm, but is doable.

[indigo yoke]

hmmmm?

[lucid comet]

if we go with the lvl 5 page finder (get random book supplies), page master for one lvl 10 then probably something simple profitable? books sell for 10% more?

[wispy cosmos]

so... just spawn artifact spots?

I feel like that'd be a bit underwhelming and just doing the same thing as another item is kinda ehh

[indigo yoke]

Already have books being more profitable.

[wispy cosmos]

could try looking into crop fairy code maybe? since that takes a crop and increases it's grow stage so you could perhaps find out how that's done

[uncut viper]

crops just have a growCompletely() function on them

[indigo yoke]

atm I have (for possible professions)

Bookworm - gain random buff when reading a book
Page finder - gain random book supplies when doing stuff

Page Master (off bookworm) - Cause an explosion when reading a book

Typesetter (off Page finder)- All machines you own work faster
Bookseller (off Page finder) - All books you sell are worth more

[wispy cosmos]

sounds good so far!

[indigo yoke]

So like one path is focus on giving more utility to books, while the other is increase production / profit.

[wispy cosmos]

yeah that's good, kinda how some of the professions in stardew already do

it feels right imo

[indigo yoke]

is there a simple grow one stage function as well?

[uncut viper]

nope!

[indigo yoke]

darn

[uncut viper]

fairy goes all out

[zenith robin]

Is it all machines or just the book machines? Either way you should probably specify in the end.

[wispy cosmos]

hmm well since crops do grow one stage at a time there has to be something in the code that does that

[uncut viper]

well yeah, it has a property for its growth stage

it just increments

[wispy cosmos]

sounds simple enough, just increase the value

[fossil bear]

Do i need the Monogame Framework?!

[indigo yoke]

[wispy cosmos]

well it wouldn't make sense if it was all machines

[uncut viper]

you'd also need to manage its regrowing too

[wispy cosmos]

ah right

[teal bridge]

@next plaza it turned out that the GMCM update last week wasn't as backward-compatible as I anticipated; specifically, this line here: https://github.com/spacechase0/StardewValleyMods/blob/980e44fa2a727662eafae51e03c94699fff8a31e/GenericModConfigMenu/Mod.cs#L75

...means that if a menu calls OpenListMenu, directly or indirectly, then it will open GMCM's list menu as a child of itself.

I know that this is mod-internal state, but is there a way to make this a little less fragile? As it is, I'm not seeing an obvious way to work around the change; if I don't "close" my menu via OpenListMenu then all sorts of other things go wrong - calling that method was the only way I could find to get the original hacky integration working the first time.

[indigo yoke]

what would be the name of the profession that "reading a book causes all crops around you to grow?"

[wispy cosmos]

regrowables have an extra stage don't they

[uncut viper]

it also has a "fullyGrown" bool property

it wouldnt be impossible ofc if you just make sure you do the same thing the vanilla functions do, its just not as simple as "increment the phase counter"

[indigo yoke]

yeah, just using the growCompletely() function would most likely be the easiest solution, even if most powerful.

[lucid comet]

crop whisperer? reminds me of reading them a bedtime story, so they grow

[calm nebula]

I would love a book that gives every plant a chance of becoming regrowable

Hi casey!

[lucid comet]

could also use the different tiers of books for different effects again

[uncut viper]

(when i said "it just increments" i meant the phase counter is an int, but its not the only thing that gets touched during a crops lifecycle)

[lucid comet]

like one just waters/harvests/tends/gathers forage around you, one you pick a fertilizer or smth and only the big, rare books work like the fairy?

[next plaza]

Ah, that had crossed my mind, but I didn't think about the fact that it would change how you close the menu.

The child menu thing was intended behavior, but clearly I didn't fully think the mod interopt part.

I'll change that API method to be the old behavior, and then add a new method for the new child menu behavior.

[indigo yoke]

I feel like that would be difficult for the player to follow, given professions don't have a lot of text to them.

[next plaza]

Hi

[indigo yoke]

I shall use Crop Whisperer.

[wispy cosmos]

I had something stupid in mind but crop whisperer works

[indigo yoke]

give ittttt

if it's a pun it might winnnnnnn

[teal bridge]

That'd be awesome, thanks. I guess calling it "interop" isn't even really fair since it's duct-taped together with Reflection and Harmony. But IIRC the reason why OpenListMenu was necessary was because of the TitleMenu shenanigans and GMCM overriding the loading state to make virtual gamepad-cursor operate.

[wispy cosmos]

I was thinking like seasoned reader or something because season idk I'm stupid lol

[indigo yoke]

..... I actually like that more cause of the implications xD

[wispy cosmos]

well maybe I'm not stupid after all

[lucid comet]

if puns beat me, i'm all for that >:3

[indigo yoke]

Question, if going bookworm -> level 10 professions, should I reset the random buff per day (like cooked food) or should I just have it be like "The first book you read a day gives you a random buff"

since getting a random buff you like reset from using the explosion or cropgrowth might be annoying.

[wispy cosmos]

I think the first book would work better

cuz yeah accidentally resetting it randomly wouldn't be good

[lucid comet]

maybe a statue/bookshelf interactable to grab it in the morning?

like the fancy 1.6 mastery statues

[wispy cosmos]

so like the mastery statues

but I feel like that would be too easy, unless the bookshelf thing would cost a lot to craft

cuz you wouldn't actually have to have/find a book

or you sacrifice a book to it for a buff

[lucid comet]

sacrifice book could work

[indigo yoke]

I could also make the radius of the (explosion or crop growth effects) be like Bibliophile level / 3. So 3 tiles away from the player at level 10. but if you like drink hotcoco... which I would give it it like +2 Bibliophile level, you could increase the radius to 4 tiles away.

[wispy cosmos]

yeah that sounds good

[lucid comet]

huuuuh, that works

[indigo yoke]

hmmm, I would want it more tied towards the player if they have the profession, then try to program a statue to check the player. Would be easier to just have a postfix on the read a book function.

hmmm, is 3 tiles too small of a base radius? I could do level/2 so the base radius is 5 tiles away. Buffs then could extend that to to like 6 or 7.

[wispy cosmos]

hmm yeah that sounds good

[lucid comet]

5 is the normal bomb radius

so that would be what i would guess from the skill without more context i think

[indigo yoke]

Okay, that works then.

[teal bridge]

Books are a lot harder to come by than bombs, even if they don't have much vanilla use after the first read - is there a catch I'm missing? Why would a player pick the "exploding book" perk?

Is it reusable or something?

[rancid temple]

Part of the skill is crafting books

I think the idea is to give them longevity beyond just as a means to make a little more money

Because books are not very profitable

[uncut viper]

i do agree though that i dont understand the benefit of exploding books as a perk over just plain bombs

[zenith robin]

can I rename tile sets in tiled without breaking anything?

[rancid temple]

I was a bit checked out during the discussion, but I assume the explosion is player safe

[teal bridge]

I see, found the original textual description, so basically you're making a bomb substitute from wood and fiber. Still feels a little underpowered, but maybe it has some utility.

[indigo yoke]

I could have it do more damage over a regular bombs to make it worth it, as well as having it be player safe.

[lucid comet]

that's why i thought it could work with different tiers - crafting some fiber and other stuff into basically cherry bombs sounds fun enough

player save would be a big change

[uncut viper]

bombs are also player safe if you move away

[teal bridge]

Player safety with bombs seems fairly irrelevant to me, especially with the Dwarvish Safety Manual already being an item.

[rancid temple]

I don't really use bombs, what does that do?

[indigo yoke]

Also you become invincible while reading a book, so you can use that to your advantage when fighting.

[teal bridge]

If you're playing in such a way that you're actually going to be using a lot of bombs, you're going to be bringing plenty of healing items too.

[lucid comet]

fair

[uncut viper]

you cant move while reading a book, though

[teal bridge]

Giving a few seconds of iframes after reading a book sounds quite a bit more useful than exploding books. (I don't struggle that much with Stardew's basic combat, but I think some players would like that.)

[uncut viper]

ultimately its up to you but as a player i personally would think "why would i go for this profession when i can just buy bombs?"

[rancid temple]

If the world is exploding around you, do you really need to move? lol

[calm nebula]

Cool guys don't....

[acoustic summit]

Explosions can be coded explicitly to hit players or not

[calm nebula]

(Anyways, I've lost thread of the cpnvo like four hours ago.)

[teal bridge]

Cool guys jump in the air just before the explosion and surf the wave, obviously.

[shut bane]

Another possibly basic question: Does anyone know if the different types of Harmony patches happen at different points? Like, if I use the reverse patch, will that happen before a pre or post fix?

[indigo yoke]

I could extend the invincibility frames for a few extra seconds after the explosion yeah.

[uncut viper]

im pretty sure you can count on less than one hand the number of mods that have ever used a reverse patch

[rancid temple]

I don't even know what that is

[teal bridge]

Neither, reverse-patching affects your method, not theirs.

[uncut viper]

its the one i know nothing about, but excluding them the order is prefix -> transpiler (during original method) -> postfix always

"always" as in "postfixes always run"

[rancid temple]

Do they run if you skip the original?

[uncut viper]

yes

[teal bridge]

Caveats here: https://harmony.pardeike.net/articles/reverse-patching.html#types-of-reverse-patches

[uncut viper]

they may not run if a transpiler throws an exception, i cannot recall

but under normal operation a postfix will always happen

[lucid comet]

if you want it to be really strong/worth you could try to just wipe a floor - destroy everything and you can run around and gather, woulnt have any use outside mines tho, but that would be ... difficult to balance imo

[acoustic summit]

When doing explosion set damageFarmers to false and set the player's current invincibility duration to something arbitrary, probably in milliseconds so maybe 500?

[teal bridge]

500 ms is way too short of an invincibility to have any use at all.

[acoustic summit]

fair enough, could be longer

[teal bridge]

If it were me, I'd say, forget the explosion entirely (there are already items that do that) and just give 3-5 seconds of invuln depending on skill, perks, buffs, etc.

[calm nebula]

I read that as insulin

Maybe I need more sleep

[wispy cosmos]

perchance

[teal bridge]

Or more sugar, apparently.

[indigo yoke]

another thought popped in my head, instead of a single explosion per book read, I could have it do like 2, 3, or even 4. Since reading the book (and thus your i frames) are like 2 seconds long.

[uncut viper]

im also not even sure you have i-frames during book reading, ftr

it just freezes your movement

[wispy cosmos]

isn't the game paused during book reading

[uncut viper]

no

[indigo yoke]

the world isnt paused but you do get some iframes. I remember looking at it when doing the patch for exp books on spacecore

[wispy cosmos]

ah okay

[indigo yoke]

let me take a look again

[uncut viper]

there is no temporary invincibility set in readBook

[teal bridge]

(I have never not played with Fast Animations and forgot that book animations were even a thing... so yeah, I guess standing there for like 5 seconds would require iframes to apply while reading it)

[wispy cosmos]

well it's more like

a second

[indigo yoke]

mhm, I would set invincibility then as a prefix if you have the profession.

[lucid iron]

just eat the book

[indigo yoke]

okay so given all the feedback and everything here... Here is the skill (thank you all for your input!)

Skill Name: Bibliocraft
Level up effect: Gain more exp from reading books

How to gain exp
- Gain a large amount of exp from finding a lost book
- Gain a meduim amount of exp from reading one of the 1.6 books
- Gain a small amount of exp from interacting with the work stations from this skill

level 1 unlocks
- Blank Copper Letterpress
- Letterpress Workstation (Sacrifice a book here with a blank letterpress to gain a letterpress of that book)
- Letterpress Inking Station (use the book letterpress here with ink to gain an inked version)

level 2 unlocks
- Cooking Recipe Potato chips (food buff, gives 2 levels to Bibliophile)
- Book restoration station (insert a book to increase it's quality, and thus selling price)
- You can start find ruined books you can use at the book restoration station to turn into restored books to sell

level 3 unlocks
- Paper Mill Station (turn 1 logs into 10 wood pulp. Use 1 hardwood log to turn into 10 hardwood pulp)
- Paper Pressing Station (turn 100 wood pulp into paper. Turn 100 hardwood pulp into a  incomplete book cover)

level 4 unlocks
- Increase the effect of `Woody's Secret`
- increase the effect of the `Monster Compendium book`

level 5 unlocks (professions)
-- Possible profession: Pagefinder, gain book materials while doing random tasks
-- Possible profession: Bookworm, reading a book grants a random buff for the day. Effect only triggers once and can't be refreashed

level 6 unlocks
- Printing Press (Use 1000 paper and an inked letterpress to get 5 unbound version of the book)
- Binding station (use 2 incomplete book covers, 8 fiber, and 1 unbound version of the book to get a book. Yes, after 6 levels you can finally copy books through a long process)

level 7 unlocks
- Increase the effects of `Ol' Slitherlegs`
- Increase the effects of `the alleyway buffet`

level 8 unlocks
- Increase the effects of `The Diamond Hunter`
- Increase the effects of `The Art O' Crabbing`
- Cooking recipe Ginger Tea (Drink buff, Gives 3 levels in Bibliophile) 

level 9 unlocks
- unlock forgery ink recipe (squid ink + fairy powder)
- Prize ticket forgery station (takes 1 week, and 1 prize ticket + fairy powder to make 2 prize tickets)
- Book donation bin (generates a random book every 7 days)

level 10 unlocks (professions)
-- Possible profession off Page finder: Bookseller, increase the value of books
-- Possible profession off Page finder: Typesetter, Increase the output of all the book making machines you own
-- Possible profession off Bookworm: Page Master, reading a book causes a strong explosion (level/5) tiles around you
-- Possible profession off Bookworm: Seasoned Reader, reading a book causes all crops (level/5) tiles around you to instantly grow

[indigo yoke]

reminds me of VMV and the book eating....

[uncut viper]

as long as you make it clear this is supposed to happen with your books only so I don't get bug reports about it again

[lucid iron]

hm for this bit

- Gain a large amount of exp from reading one of the 1.6 books
- Gain a meduim amount of exp from finding a lost book
- Gain a small amount of exp from interacting with the work stations from this skill

[uncut viper]

(i got bug reports on my book mod about eating vmv books)

[lucid iron]

lost books are not reobtainable, while 1.6 item books are

so i would probably make item books the small to mid xp option

[wispy cosmos]

Awesome

[indigo yoke]

aren't the 1.6 skillbooks rare early/mid game tho while the lost books are not?

[wispy cosmos]

Yeah a bit

[lucid iron]

well its just matter of becoming rich

[indigo yoke]

so like the idea is early game you mainly get exp from the lost books, while mid/late you get it mainly from the 1.6 books.

[wispy cosmos]

I mean u can get a ton of farming xp by becoming rich and planting a ton of seeds and harvesting so ehh

[indigo yoke]

om nom nom nom

[teal bridge]

You actually get skill books before you get lost books, generally. In terms of "rarity" I'd say they're about the same, except lost books are limited.

[hard fern]

did 1.6.9 change how spouse rooms work in any way

[indigo yoke]

[wispy cosmos]

Don't think so

[indigo yoke]

lost books are also a competing resource too. Maybe I should have it be a large exp boost

[wispy cosmos]

[teal bridge]

I mean, you certainly won't have all skill books before you find any lost books, but in typical progression you'll get some skill book, like the fishing one or Monster Compendium, before you find your first lost book. And after that it's probably roughly even.

[hard fern]

i was asking bc im getting this really stupid tile

[hallow prism]

nooooo, noooo aaaahhh, why users why

[hard fern]

when i load the farmhouse map in tiled it's connected as usual

but in-game it's being Like that

[indigo yoke]

tbh both my 1.6 saves I got a lost book before any skillbook. RNG gods gave me the 20% luck roll T_T

[wispy cosmos]

So a recolor is messing it up?

[hallow prism]

lost books are pretty common in my opinion, and they are indeed a finished resource, while xp books aren't

[indigo yoke]

maybe add text in brackets being like (you consume this book)

[hard fern]

im not sure if it is a recolor?

[wispy cosmos]

Do you have earthy interiors

[hard fern]

no

[hallow prism]

i want to look at either IE or spacecore to see if i can make the book being read

[teal bridge]

Well it is a lot of RNG, for sure. Even with my Prediction Layers, I tend not to find a lost book until a week or two into Spring, whereas I might get the fishing/monster book by day 4 or 5.

[hallow prism]

at least have a non eating animation

[wispy cosmos]

Asking cuz Earthy interiors had a similar issue before it was updated

[hard fern]

hmm

what was the thing that needed to be updated?

[wispy cosmos]

I don't know

[indigo yoke]

oh! I forgot.

I need two foods that provide skill buffs. I know I want some nice ginger tea for one (would be like the level 8 unlock)... but what should be the second? hmmm

[hard fern]

oh. hmm

[lucid comet]

mochi

no particular reason beyond taste

[hallow prism]

something you eat with fingers so you can read and eat it

chips is my obvious answer

[indigo yoke]

I usually have tea and cookies when reading.

[hard fern]

it's supposed to show up like this but just. doesn't.

[indigo yoke]

oh hey, chips are... actually not a vanilla recipe. neat xD TYVM that's a good idea

[lucid comet]

alphabet cookies? 🤔

[rancid temple]

What kind of patch are you doing?

[hard fern]

It's just loading the farmhouse map

[teal bridge]

You're going to get oil all over the pages!

[rancid temple]

Is this in an area where a renovation is?

[hard fern]

It's the spouse room

[brittle pasture]

https://tenor.com/view/death-note-light-yagami-gif-21202955

[calm nebula]

Lumi, I can take a look

[hallow prism]

see if that stops me!

[rancid temple]

There's several renovations around the spouse room

[calm nebula]

But like

[indigo yoke]

I could do that too

[calm nebula]

Probably not until Thanksgiving

[hallow prism]

the american or canadian one? 😄

[calm nebula]

(Mild screaming going on over here.)

[calm nebula]

American

That's my next break

[rancid temple]

You'll need to change the renovation patches to make sure they match what you expect, both the renovation and de-renovation

[calm nebula]

My actual next break in anything

[lucid comet]

just to go with the book theme + the ones i know are pretty dry --> no stains

[hallow prism]

honestly atra it's not a big deal, if you remember by then you can just tell me "hey lumi you wanted to look at that" and enjoy your break

[calm nebula]

Hey, I like making stuff for you

[hallow prism]

as far as i remember both the frameworks should have options for that, i just like, need to remember to look at it 😄

[calm nebula]

You're great

Ie does I swear

[hard fern]

Which ones would those be ..? Im not sure where to look

[hallow prism]

❤️ i like when you do stuff for me but i also like you being rested 🙂 but if you want to do stuff when you are rested we can discuss stuff!

[rancid temple]

FarmHouse_CornerRoom_Add and Remove as well as _ExtendedCornerRoom_Add and Remove should all be in roughly that spot

[indigo yoke]

now I shall poke Tea and see about commissioning all the icons @-@

[calm lichen]

I've got a question for all you gameplay modders (I've only made basic cosmetic mods before this). I'm using Content Patcher to add a new farm animal to the game. I've got all the basics working, but I was wondering - is there a way to use this framework to make it so that you can only have one of this animal type per barn? Or is that something I'd have to venture outside of Content Patcher for? It's using the ostrich incubator, so not available from Marnie's shop

[hallow prism]

i am not aware of a way to do that with CP on the top of my mind

[rancid temple]

I think you could limit the total building occupants, but I don't think individual

[teal bridge]

Since there's no vanilla feature to do that for any vanilla animal, I'm going to say no as well.

Generally you can only do things with CP for which there is some sort of vanilla mechanism (or a CP framework mod).

[calm lichen]

Ah, darn, that makes sense. Thanks all. I'm really new to this so wasn't sure if maybe I could do some sort of shenanigans where maybe the EggItemId gets disabled or something

[hard fern]

the thing that bonked in my farmhouse was indeed that cursed renovation :/

[teal bridge]

You might be able to use CP to remove the incubating item from the game completely after the first animal is "born". But that doesn't actually limit the occupants.

[rancid temple]

Renovations are always applied, either the remove or add version

So you always have to update them whenever you're messing with the farmhouse

[brittle pasture]

Extra Animal Config has a GSQ for "animal count in current building". It also allows controlling what animals comes out of an egg based on GSQs
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/25328

[hard fern]

id actually never played with the extra rooms before so i didn't realize it did that

[rancid temple]

Well, basic renovations anyways

The ones that extend rooms can't apply until the base is applied

[brittle pasture]

so you can make "if current barn doesnt have your animal, hatch that animal. once it does give an ostrich or smth"

[calm lichen]

Ooh checking this out, thank you!

[rancid temple]

Ooh, a new Selph framework to shill

[teal bridge]

(It's an old Selph framework, actually)

[rancid temple]

Well, new for me lmao

[clever sinew]

Hello folks, i accidentally posted this in the wrong channel

[hard fern]

To answer your question, it would depend on the dish

I don't particularly like plain mustard, but will eat it mixed into pasta salad

[clever sinew]

These pizzas are gonna be the death of me lol

[hard fern]

Or the reverse, i like cherries, but don't like cherry pie

[teal bridge]

Me, I'll just eat mustard powder straight out of the tin. Delicious.

[lucid iron]

pineapple pizza

[clever sinew]

…….

[rancid temple]

I like pineapple on pizza, I don't seek it out, but it's good

[clever sinew]

new recipe

[hard fern]

Is there q debug command for getting robin to remove my corner room

[clever sinew]

What if i just give up

[lucid iron]

new original dish from leo

[clever sinew]

Only pizzas

Forever

[teal bridge]

Kent's pizza recipe uses 9mm bullets.

[hard fern]

If you need pizzas, you could always borrow my old mod XD

[rancid temple]

(the recipe is just a pineapple)

[clever sinew]

Vanilla cooking recipes but make it one pizza per villager

[lucid iron]

jas fairy rose pizza

[clever sinew]

Vincent bug pizza

[rancid temple]

Doesn't seem like it

[clever sinew]

Marnie quattro fromaggio

Lewis purple shorts pizza

[teal bridge]

Problem: there are only 2 types of cheese in the game.

[clever sinew]

Or that’s the secret bonus one

[calm nebula]

The French object

[clever sinew]

Throw eggs on it too

[teal bridge]

Pizza with cow cheese, goat cheese, eggs and... wool?

[hard fern]

??? awesome

[clever sinew]

Haley’s dessert pizza

Coconuts and pink cake

[lucid iron]

is there a situation where helper.Events.Content.AssetRequested doesn't fire

[calm nebula]

What's going on?

[teal bridge]

Hey, if it were me, I'd have added the whole smorgasboard of cheddar, brie, camembert, gorgonzola and roquefort. But what's there is there.

[brittle pasture]

that sounds like a x/y problem question lol

[lucid iron]

aye i'll give context let me write it out one by one

[hard fern]

🤔 i was thinking of updating my pizza mod but maybe i should just switch to something else

[calm nebula]

To be fair I also object to the idea of items for the sake of having more items

[teal bridge]

I have never seen AssetRequested not fire, personally.

[calm nebula]

Especially if it's 50 lightly different recolors of an object

[teal bridge]

I wasn't really serious. But I agree, items because items is not really useful.

[brittle pasture]

VMV does add a whole lotta new cheese. some you get from aging milk, some from aging cheese, some from smoking cheese. tier2/3 cheeses basically so they arent just reskins

[clever sinew]

I still have to test VMV

[teal bridge]

Of course, I'm the odd one out. To me, complexity is a cost to be managed. So having many ways to do the same thing, or many items with similar effects, is a net negative.

Lots of players love their endless cosmetic variety, though.

[clever sinew]

folks have requested some recipes with VMV ingredients so I'm going to have to get in there eventually

[clever sinew]

I mean? I like your pizzas

Also how hard would it be to update the code? I don't know what 2021 jsons looked like

[teal bridge]

JSON itself has not changed since they were created in 2013.

[clever sinew]

well that's good at least

[hard fern]

It's a JA mod so it would have to be converted to content patcher

[clever sinew]

ohhh

hmm

[teal bridge]

JA is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't it. Not quite XNB, but...

[clever sinew]

....I can't remember if the JA to CP converter is one of the ones that's down rn

unless i was misinformed which is entirely likely

[lucid iron]

Someone report to me that my trinket mod is broken, with log and all.

https://smapi.io/log/cabac30b5b3d4f7284fbbc0d17ec1705

They were nice enough to get me a patch export of Data/Trinkets too.

https://smapi.io/json/none/c29a0b0d929d4b7fae32240e99a47d6a

From this I can see that they r getting the data from Sinister Servants (trinket mod), but not the late priority edit to populate TrinketEffectClass, leaving them as null.
Expected value is "TrinketEffectClass": "TrinketTinker.Effects.TrinketTinkerEffect, TrinketTinker, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null",

Content edit:
https://github.com/Mushymato/TrinketTinker/blob/main/TrinketTinker/Wheels/AssetManager.cs#L71-L89

Initially, I thought typeof(TrinketTinkerEffect).AssemblyQualifiedName was somehow return null on mac, so I put in a fallback, but it did not fix their problem (above 2 logs were after fix)

They report to me that trinkettinker works fine in a minimal loadout, but not on their main playthrough. Doing patch reload mushymato.SinisterServants fixes things (presumably by actually triggering the asset requested edit). Unsure what to investigate next.

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.1.6 with SDV 1.6.13 build 24313 on macOS Unix 10.15.7, with 257 C# mods and 641 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[lucid iron]

the only other thing editing trinkets is Alchemistry, and i checked that Alchemistry only edits vanilla trinkets

[teal bridge]

That's not the longest mod list I've ever seen, but it's in the running.

[lucid iron]

oh hm, i think my problem is that

i need to invalidate Data/Trinkets whenever my custom asset gets invalidated

so that it repopulates

[calm nebula]

Yes

[lucid iron]

i am glad i wrote it all out it was helpful

[hallow prism]

i saw that cheeses were discussed, and i decided that i would limit myself to a few cheeses because i do not want a mod with 4579 cheese variety

but two cheeses isn't enough either so i tried a compromise 😄

[teal bridge]

I like a physical drawer with 4579 cheese variety. In the game, maybe not so much.

[clever sinew]

...okay I think I am done with this for now because i have just been staring at my computer screen blankly for about thirty seconds

[teal bridge]

4576 is enough.

[clever sinew]

thank yall for the help/ideas

[brittle pasture]

meanwhile the only cheese variant I know irl is La Vache qui Rit

and only thanks to the French

[teal bridge]

I'm sure you've seen more than that on a supermarket shelf. Even out here in the middle of nowhere you can find mozzarella, cheddar and jack.

[brittle pasture]

sure, but until recently I spent most of my life outside of the cheesosphere

also known as the western hemisphere

[teal bridge]

It's more of a wedge than a sphere.

(I'm here to collect my trophy for Ultimate Dad Joke now)

[prime meadow]

You :

[hard fern]

sigh if farmhouse goes kaboom again i'll just use the vanilla one 💀 i swear

[indigo yoke]

Selph, are you the one who made the mod so that machine data can accept 3 inputs and not just 2?

[brave fable]

is anyone else able to select stardew mobduilconfig 4.3.2 in their package manager? unsure if it's meant to be public yet

[brittle pasture]

Technically machines can already accept 3 inputs. What my mod does is allow variable input per recipe instead of always the same fuel for every of them

[brave fable]

i'd like to be able to build my projects and write a happy thank-you note on the git issue

[next plaza]

I mean Pathos has to manually upload it, so probably? Also there are release notes: https://github.com/Pathoschild/SMAPI/blob/develop/docs/technical/mod-package-release-notes.md

[indigo yoke]

oh, how do you do 3 inputs?

There is the default Input item, the fuel item, and the...?

[lucid iron]

u can have multiple fuel

[brave fable]

well there are release notes and the version has downloads counted on the nuget page, but also my vs only lists 4.3.0

maybe i can force it in the project file

[indigo yoke]

neat, did not know that. I only seen examples with 1 fuel looking at machineData

[next plaza]

Ah, I thought you meant you didn't think it was supposed to be out yet.

Yeah, it's selectable for me

[lucid iron]

yea machine data is neat, lots of not used in vanilla but nice for mod features

[brittle pasture]

AdditionalConsumedItems is a list

[next plaza]

Maybe you need to restart VS?

[brave fable]

i restarted vs when it came out, this is like 3 days later lol

anyway it works when changed from csproj

[next plaza]

Hmm

#BlameMicrosoft

[brave fable]

what's the format for file paths in csproj ignore lists? <IgnoreModFilePaths>bin/.*, obj/.*</IgnoreModFilePaths> isn't it

[blissful saddle]

if I am going to change music started on fly, it is better to use UpdateTicking or UpdateTicked?

[brave fable]

is your music reacting to any game event at all? or just randomly appearing

[blissful saddle]

it should replace the 'newday' music starting for 'nightTime' if Game1.TimeOfDay < 600

[lucid iron]

can u do it with time changed

[blissful saddle]

I could, but music starts playing if map changes after this time

I think I found it on Dynamic Night Time Mod

[brave fable]

would it be better to patch the map property that determines the current music, with a time condition for your new track?

unsure how silly the time-based music is in the game

[blissful saddle]

        private void OnUpdateTicking(object sender, UpdateTickingEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!Context.IsWorldReady)
                return;

            if (Game1.currentLocation is null)
                return;

            if (Game1.isDarkOut() && Game1.currentSong.Name.Contains(Game1.currentSeason) && !Game1.currentSong.Name.Contains("ambient"))
            {
                if (Game1.getMusicTrackName(Game1.MusicContext.Default).StartsWith(Game1.currentSeason) && !Game1.getMusicTrackName(Game1.MusicContext.Default).Contains("ambient") && (!Game1.eventUp && Game1.isDarkOut()))
                    Game1.changeMusicTrack("none", true, Game1.MusicContext.Default);
                if (Game1.currentLocation != null && Game1.currentLocation.IsOutdoors && !Game1.isRaining && (!Game1.eventUp &&
                    Game1.getMusicTrackName(Game1.MusicContext.Default) != null && Game1.getMusicTrackName(Game1.MusicContext.Default).Contains("day")) && Game1.isDarkOut())
                    Game1.changeMusicTrack("none", true, Game1.MusicContext.Default);
                Game1.currentLocation.checkForMusic(Game1.currentGameTime);
            }
       .
       .
       .
      }

[brave fable]

so quite silly, then

[blissful saddle]

this is the part of Dynamic Night Time that checks and change the music if Game1.TimeOfDay < SunriseTime

[blissful saddle]

it is

[pine elbow]

Hi, I'm trying to bring Lewis to the farm using C#, since it's not possible to use Schedule to do this on the farm. But it doesn't work unfortunately, he appears in the position where I put him, but he appears and walks away suddenly, he doesn't stay still. What could be causing this?

Code:
NPC npc = Game1.getCharacterFromName("Lewis");
if (npc != null)
{
var currentMap = Game1.getLocationFromName("Farm");

if (currentMap != null)
{
    npc.Schedule.Clear();
    currentMap.characters.Add(npc);
    npc.setTilePosition(new Point(72, 15)); 
    npc.Halt();
    npc.faceDirection(2);

}

}

[blissful saddle]

he checking he should be in another place based on his schedule?

I think you would need to change his schedule somehow to keep the time he visits the farm free anyhow

[pine elbow]

That's why I used npc.Schedule.Clear();
To try to remove his schedule to make him go there and try to stay, but he doesn't.

[brave fable]

consider npc.ClearSchedule() instead of npc.Schedule.Clear() (it also prevents them from checking their schedule again and removes references to the current schedule)

[next plaza]

You need to clear the path find controller too

Or maybe just the route it uses

[acoustic summit]

I've been trying to figure out how to use netfields and netevents to make monster sprite frames consistent among multiplayer farmers for like a week, I've never been this hardstuck on a modding task.

[brave fable]

typically though NPCs aren't ever expected to be on the farm, so you're likely to run into unexpected behaviour

[lucid iron]

Oh hi nature, Nature.1011108 is ur boss battles mod right

[acoustic summit]

Mhm!

[lucid iron]

You can just use Nature.BossBattles

It'll make things easier when we read log

[pine elbow]

using npc.ClearSchedule();
Did the same thing, he appears at position 72, 15 but walks off to the left

[lucid iron]

As for the monster sprite frames thing, I think you are hitting the limits of sdv net code here

[brave fable]

you might need to set npc.controller = null? i think that's a legal move

[acoustic summit]

Sure! For harmony you mean right?

[brave fable]

and maybe won't ruin him for the next day (i've only tested this on event-only pumpkin men)

[lucid iron]

yea, just generally for identifying what mod easily

[acoustic summit]

I feel like Im bashing the limit with my skull

[lucid iron]

basically you can choose between smooth anim, or sync

[brave fable]

(i really thought AnimatedSprite would netsync its current frame, but no,)

    .AddField(spriteHeight, "spriteHeight");```

[lucid iron]

in my trinket mod i picked smooth anim basically every time, by doing sync only once at start and then making each client calculate the movement on their own

[next plaza]

That would be a lot of bandwidth if it did

[lucid iron]

if you try to sync position every tick it'll appear janky

[brave fable]

they specifically mentioned frames, though

[lucid iron]

perhaps instead of the whole anim you can have netfield that simply says "go into the attacking phase now" and have each client actually execute the attack phase

[acoustic summit]

Ive tried hard assigning currentFrame for players, assigning it in a netevent, etc. Ive also found that NPC.Jump is a hard one to synchronise

[pine elbow]

By putting this in, it made him not appear on the farm.

[brave fable]

npc.temporaryController = new()..... i have no idea haha

again normally people simply use schedules and avoid the farm

[lucid iron]

what if instead of actually having npc lewis

you just show a TAS of lewis

imaginary lewis who just check your bin

[brave fable]

while a TAS wouldn't have collisions or dialogue, it would open up the door for you to be able to oscillate him and gradually increase him in size over time

[acoustic summit]

Ive tried with a netbool "Animating" to assign the currentFrame in the behaviour script, but that didnt work either. I did feel like it should, though.

[brave fable]

he would also be vapourised as soon as you leave the farm, but that's fine too

[pine elbow]

Is there no way to control the character's movements? It's also very strange the way I'm doing it because it looks like he teleported to the farm.

[brave fable]

well npc.controller is the way, but i have no idea how well it behaves with the farm

[dreamy cedar]

I've been away from the game for a few months - just trying to fix my mods for 1.6.9. Is there a writeup somewhere of the internal changes to do with quests?

[next plaza]

Depending on how you use the bool, that would be weird in MP since once someone sets it to false its set to that for everyone (once synced anyways). A net event is better for one off triggers (though it sounds like you tried that?)

[next plaza]

Not sure if this is everything, but: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Migrate_to_Stardew_Valley_1.6.9#Quest_event_revamp

[acoustic summit]

I havent tried setting the netbool via netevent actually so I'll try that, can I ask how its different?

[calm nebula]

What do you mean by not synced

[acoustic summit]

All connected players do not see the animation. Only the main player

[next plaza]

You wouldn't use a net bool with the net event, you'd use the net event as a trigger to setup the animation. If you want a variable to track the current state of the current animation, you'd likely want a normal field, not a net field

[next plaza]

Out of curiosity, where are you doing your logic? If it's in behaviorAtGameTick, that only runs on the host

[lucid iron]

the frog trinket hop does the hop via net event, for example

[acoustic summit]

ohmylord

[next plaza]

😅 I take it that is what you were doing?

[acoustic summit]

Does update monster slave animation run for farmhands?

Yes, it is definitely what Im doing...

[next plaza]

Yes, it exclusively runs on farmhands

updateAnimation runs on both

[acoustic summit]

The number of hours spent without checking the update loop for "if (Game1.IsMasterGame) { this.behaviorAtGameTick(time);}" , I am a fool and a goose.

Thankyou

[blissful saddle]

ok. newday music playing late night is fixed. something that wasn't happening before the 1.6.9 update

glad I am playing and kinda testing it yet through these updates

if nothing more breaks or give problems, I will be releasing Night Owl Plus at friday

and this is a note to myself

[teal bridge]

NPC controllers don't behave well with anything, so there's no reason to believe they'd behave well on the farm.

Also, animations are like... never synced, in any netcode. Every client is responsible for its own animations.

[static wyvern]

Hey question, is there a way to open a shop menu when clicking on a big craftable/furniture?

[lucid iron]

yes but only with frameworks that let you add a tile action on those

better crafting for big craftable, calcifer for furniture

[next plaza]

For Furniture, you can also use SpaceCore and I think Furniture Framework

[lucid iron]

the tile action is called OpenShop

[static wyvern]

Okay thank you

[lucid iron]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Maps

[sharp field]

What draw method draws objects in the inventory/chests? It doesn't appear to be object.drawInMenu any more.

[teal bridge]

It's in Item

[lucid iron]

i dont think they changed that

if u r updating mod to 1.6.9+ a rebuild might magically fix things

[teal bridge]

Actually, Object has an implementation too. So yeah, it's the same as it's always been.

[brave fable]

true, i couldn't get tempcontroller to behave at all for random npcs in a very basic maze map, in the end i had to settle for moving them one tile at a time because they just kept ignoring walls otherwise

very irritating messing with npc pathing

[teal bridge]

Not only is the pathing questionable, but collision avoidance is basically non-existent.

i.e. the controller blindly follows the path regardless of whether or not there are obstacles or, say, an ocean in the way.

[lucid iron]

is Paper Mill Station a building or a machine?
Seasoned Reader seems really strong i cant imagine picking anything else

[sharp field]

My mod was crashing. I fixed that (local variable numbers changed in just one of the methods I was patching). Everything works as expected, except in the inventory/on the toolbar. Prismatic effect isn't being applied and, as far as I can tell, my code isn't being called. Which led to my conclusion that the draw is handled by some other function now.

[indigo yoke]

machine

[sharp field]

Or it's a mod conflict. That's right. I wanted to test that.

[indigo yoke]

the idea is since books are "powerful" that it takes a multi-step process to make copies.

[lucid iron]

it would be fun to make it a mill

you can have custom mill like buildings now

[indigo yoke]

I could make it a building

tho I would want it to have more use than just turning wood into pulp

[teal bridge]

There are many overloads of drawInMenu. Personally I wouldn't patch that one because it's really more of a "utility method" than the main entrée. Then again, there are already so many mods patching SpriteBatch.draw...

[lucid iron]

up to you, i think i'd be fine if you just stick wood pulping on regular mill too

[brittle pasture]

If it's small and built instantly I don't think ppl mind

[lucid iron]

well going by decompile, toolbar definitely still uses drawInMenu

Game1.player.Items[k].drawInMenu

[indigo yoke]

a building might mess with the automation of it as well (for those with automation mods).

but it would look so nice being like a 2x2 building

[sharp field]

This worked back when I created it in August.

[lucid iron]

nah automate supports mill im pretty sure

dunno about junimate, have not tried

[brittle pasture]

yeah it does, automate I mean
dont think Junimatic does

[indigo yoke]

I am being convinced more and more.

Tho I don't think I can lock a building behind a level? I could most likely lock craftable blueprints and you just use the blueprints to unlock it at robin.

[brittle pasture]

buildings can be locked behind gsqs

though the recipe route is more flavorful

[indigo yoke]

neat, and as talked about last night, Spacecore does support GSQ of skill IDs.

[lucid iron]

may want to limit daily conversion count

though if u want 999 wood to all become pulp next day thats fine

[indigo yoke]

is the custom mill building a framework mod or like base stardew?

[brittle pasture]

though one crafting recipe just for a new building you build
once might be a bit much (gods know my crafting page is bloated as it is lol)

[lucid iron]

base sdv

[brittle pasture]

nah just base

one of the wonders of 1.6

[indigo yoke]

okay.

side note crap I might need to look at YACS since YACS patches the mill to produce quality flour and rice

[lucid iron]

i made a niche feature to let you add lights for when the mill is operating

[static wyvern]

I would like to put it on a Big Craftable, but I cant figure out how to open a shop with better crafting

[lucid iron]

but u dont need that just for the mill anim, thats all draw layers

[fossil bear]

Im trying to inject mgfxo files. but im running into errors. has some experience with that?

[uncut viper]

what even is an mgfxo file

[brittle pasture]

have you read instructions on the BC author guide
https://github.com/KhloeLeclair/StardewMods/blob/main/BetterCrafting/author-guide.md#big-craftable-actions

[fossil bear]

effect files used by Mono

[lucid iron]

if it's item quality you might need the patch still, item conversion more limited than machines

unless u just make separate item called "quality rice"

[brittle pasture]

building conversions use item queries

it's possible

[lucid iron]

possible that smapi's gamecontent thing didn't implement loader for mgfxo yet

did you pack it into xnb

[indigo yoke]

Any examples of already existing custom mills I can look at?
I will keep the idea in the back of my mind.

though one crafting recipe just for a new building you build
once might be a bit much (gods know my crafting page is bloated as it is lol)

Yeah, I will just have it be a GSQ at robin's shop if I do the mill. On the level up screen I can have it display stuff, so at that level I can have it be like "The paper mill is now buyable at Robins".

Seasoned Reader seems really strong i cant imagine picking anything else

I could have it be like a (based on level) chance to grow crops with in the 5 tile range. eventually you'll run out of books to use for it!

[brittle pasture]

VMV adds the juicer, a mill-like building

[fossil bear]

nah im just trying to load the file directly and then render the world.

[indigo yoke]

Tho I can see some one like setting up a massive farm -> use books to grow crops -> turn crops into wine to sell with artisian -> sell wine -> buy more books

[lucid iron]

https://community.monogame.net/t/solved-mgfxo-with-pipeline-tool/9115/5
https://community.monogame.net/t/i-can-not-load-mgfxo/797/2

[static wyvern]

Thank you, I figured it out

[lucid iron]

ive never heard of anyone attempting to use mgfxo in sdv modding tbh

[humble flare]

Hi guys! i want to create my own mod, namely my own npc. i adhered to the initial guide on stardewvalleywiki but i don't know where and how to move on. can you recommend any useful documentation? i write in c#, i have a basic understanding of the language. sorry for the crooked english, using translator

[brittle pasture]

on second thought maybe not, if your goal is "mill output's quality can be as good as the item used". it doesnt look like building conversions pass any data about the input is passed in

but if you just want random qualities based on player skill or smth then it's possible

[brittle pasture]

!npc this has lots of useful resources

[ocean sail]

Creating a Custom NPC

Keep in mind that making NPCs is a complex process that requires learning many different aspects of Stardew modding.
Here are a few links that can help get you started on all that you need to know:

• Tiakall has a great tutorial on making a custom NPC for 1.6.

• NPCs no longer use dispositions, check the wiki page for the new NPC data.

• Aviroen has put together a template that will allow you to easily create a romanceable NPC.

• Feel free to jump into the https://discord.com/channels/137344473976799233/1277457201077813280 thread for more interactive feedback and help!

• Fireredlily has a WIP NPC Builder Please do report any errors you get with it into the NPC thread!

To use this command, type !npc.

[calm nebula]

For that one stupid fertilizers mod I once did that was a bitch of a transpiler lol

[brittle pasture]

and depending on what you want to do with your character you shouldn't need C# at all

[calm nebula]

that I still haven't updated to 1.6

[humble flare]

@brittle pasture ok thank you so much

[lucid iron]

well u could make npc in C# if u want, bit overkill

[humble flare]

what do u recommend to create an npc?

[hallow prism]

patience and ability to read a log

[brave fable]

commitment and inspiration

[hallow prism]

!cp

[ocean sail]

Content Patcher (https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1915) is a mod which loads content packs to change the game's images and data without replacing XNB files. If you want to make mods using Content Patcher, start at https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Content_Patcher.

To use this command, type !cp.

[brave fable]

(there's no chat command to get inspiration)

[humble flare]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-handshake-animal-gif-1552983923948963323

[lucid iron]

on technical level making npc is writing out all the required data entries defining that character

[calm nebula]

Unfortunately for you...

Awww there isn't a good magic school bus meme for thisssss

[lucid iron]

the game reads the data and apply logic

c# is usually used to add new logic to game, which you aren't required to do just for npc

[calm nebula]

What if you wanted to add new emotion instead

[brave fable]

i'd probably do an extendimage patch on tilesheets/emotes

[lucid iron]

obviously just extend the tilesheet with 0 regard for compat

[calm nebula]

I tried to Google the definition of Pathos but it just brought me to his github repo instead

[brave fable]

maybe you searched for ethos

[brittle pasture]

I have always wanted my NPC to be able to express dorcelessness

[hard fern]

my npc should express critical levels of cuteness

[sharp field]

sadly not a mod conflict. gah. what is drawing objects in the menu then??? the harmony patch doesn't crash and looks like it's in place...

[hard fern]

🤔 i still dunno if i want to go the roommate path or keep her non romanceable. friendable??? roommateable??? idk

[next plaza]

The only way to get inspiration is do something the DM really likes - assuming your DM even gives inspiration /s

[hard fern]

:( my dm never did

[tardy adder]

Do I need to targetfield for farmanimal data edit hmmm

Or can I just rambo edit them out mmm

[sharp field]

Hmm I have determined the issue. Harmony question? Any ideas why this:

matcher.MatchStartForward(
                    new CodeMatch(OpCodes.Ldarg_S, null, "color"), // Load color arg for multiply
                    new CodeMatch(OpCodes.Ldarg_S, null, "transparency") // Load transparency for multiply
                ).ThrowIfNotMatch("Could not find proper entry point for drawInMenu_Transpiler");

matches on this?:

        IL_0042: ldarg.s color
        IL_0044: ldarg.s layerDepth

[hard fern]

im not sure why, but the tiledatas on my map arent working

[teal bridge]

ldarg.s takes a numeric opcode, not a string.

It matches because (probably / I assume) it's just ignoring the opcode entirely, because it's invalid.

[sharp field]

It would have failed if that were the case

[calm nebula]

I think the third slot is like

[sharp field]

It is finding color.

[calm nebula]

Comment

[hard fern]

....oh i forgot the tiledata itself

[teal bridge]

Oh you're right, I was completely skimming over the nulls, that's not even the opcode.

[calm nebula]

And by slot I mean parameter

[teal bridge]

So those strings are doing literally nothing.

All it's looking for are two ldarg.s opcodes in a row, and it finds the first one.

[sharp field]

And what do you know. Those are the first 2 ldarg.s. I swear I wasn't able to get ldarg.s to work with a number before though.

[teal bridge]

That's definitely the type of argument it takes.

ldarg.0 through 3 are parameterless, maybe you got it confused with those?

[sharp field]

maybe. It's been awhile since I wrote this

[teal bridge]

If I'm reading Harmony's source correctly, what CodeMatch.Name does is very silly indeed:
https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony/blob/f54b3794d63981789be21039bc0cc94d332d052b/Harmony/Tools/CodeMatcher.cs#L638
and
https://github.com/pardeike/Harmony/blob/f54b3794d63981789be21039bc0cc94d332d052b/Harmony/Tools/CodeMatcher.cs#L649

It's a way to "store" a match so you can reference it later by NamedMatch, and that's all.

I'm sure there is some reason, somewhere, why someone somehow wanted to do this, though nothing springs to mind.

[sharp field]

I'm not even sure I ended up with that...

[teal bridge]

Your transpiler worked by coincidence before because the first two ldarg.s opcodes it found in a row happened to be the ones you wanted, and now it doesn't work because there's a previous sequence of those opcodes.

[sharp field]

I'm suspecting I may have used the wrong numbers, which is why numbers weren't working with ldarg.s shrug

Yup I realized.

[calm nebula]

Short iirc uses byte?

Something like that

[teal bridge]

You can pass it an int - at least you can in ILGenerator.

As long as it's not out of range, it'll work.

The actual range of ldarg.s is that of a byte though, yes. Used for arguments 4 through 255.

[lucid iron]

Really I always had to cast it to sbyte

[teal bridge]

It definitely shouldn't require an sbyte since the operand cannot be negative.

[lucid iron]

Sometimes I forget and scratch head about why me transpiler isn't transpiling

[teal bridge]

Maybe it's some Harmony thing.

[lucid iron]

Could be CodeMatch quirk?

[calm nebula]

Maybe I want the -1st local in a function, ficus

[lucid iron]

Rather than instruction

[calm nebula]

it bothers me when lengths of arrays, etc is signed

[sharp field]

Ok so how does it need to be formatted to work?

[teal bridge]

And I'd like my snooze button to wake me up in -1 minutes. We can't all have what we want.

[lucid iron]

OpCodes.Ldarg_S, (sbyte)num

[teal bridge]

I really don't think you should use sbyte, at least use byte. It's an unsigned byte.

If Harmony is representing that operand as a signed byte then Harmony is being a jerk.

[lucid iron]

Hm yeah that makes sense (byte) would be better

I don't recall why I was always use sbyte, probably yoinked it from other mod

[rancid musk]

You could also do new CodeMatch(op => op.IsLdarg(num))

[teal bridge]

Is that supported in SMAPI's version of Harmony?

[rancid musk]

I... think it is?

I feel like I've used that before, but I may be wrong

[sharp field]

casting as byte worked and now it's working as expected.

[rancid musk]

But that works for... say num is 1, then it'd work for both of ldarg.1 ldarg.s 1

[teal bridge]

Yeah, just checked and IsLdarg is there.

I lose track of which extensions are too new for SMAPI.

[sharp field]

I may want to review my code in the near future and remove any uses of name I happened to use. But for now, it works.

[teal bridge]

The name isn't actively doing harm, just maybe causing confusion.

[sharp field]

More that it's more likely to silently break in the future with more Stardew updates

[rancid musk]

If you really want to do ldarg by name, btw

Then pass a MethodBase argument to your transpiler and you can get the parameters list from it.

[sharp field]

I'm pretty sure I wanted to just use numbers, but didn't know to cast to byte.

[teal bridge]

(although that uses reflection which will slow the transpiler down a bit... trading a little extra forward-compatibility for a little worse performance)

It's so weird to me that you have to cast it to a byte/sbyte. The IL stuff under the hood really doesn't care.

[calm nebula]

Compared to emit performance, I could probably randomly decide to run a marathon and still not cause visible delays

[teal bridge]

It is pretty sucky. But this is Stardew after all.

Emit is everywhere.

[calm nebula]

(Okay that is an extreme overexaggeration.)

[sharp field]

I mean this works: CodeInstruction(OpCodes.Ldloc_S, 9)

[calm nebula]

Nah, this is startup so not too bad

[sharp field]

but this doesn't: CodeMatch(OpCodes.Ldarg_S, 7)

[teal bridge]

I'm doing Emit in some unsavory places right now. Should probably try to thread it.

[lucid iron]

Say can I make ilspy give me numbers instead of names in IL output

To skip part where I count up args

[teal bridge]

This makes sense, because CodeInstruction is being copied to ILGenerator and ILGenerator doesn't care.

[rancid musk]

What I was talking about with getting a parameters list, for the record, should be like: ```csharp
static IEnumerable<CodeInstruction> SomeTranspiler(IEnumerable<CodeInstruction> instructions, MethodBase method) {
var args = method.GetParameters();
int someParam = -1;
for(int i = 0; i < args.Length; i++) {
if (args[i].Name === "something")
someParam = i + (method.IsStatic ? 0 : 1);
}
if (someParam == -1) throw new ArgumentException("couldn't find the argument we need");

// ... otherwise, later
new CodeMatch(op => op.IsLdarg(someParam));

}```

[teal bridge]

But Harmony apparently does care because the matching is being done by Harmony, not ILGenerator.

[rancid musk]

Names for locals is entirely different and you can't do that with just Harmony, though SpaceCore has stuff for getting local names.

[teal bridge]

You can at least get local types from GetMethodBody.

Names, not so much. I don't think those even exist outside the PDB?

[calm nebula]

Yup, Casey loads the pdb for that

The entire protein database

https://www.rcsb.org/structure/6PJV

[teal bridge]

That's not what it stands for. It's named after the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

[hard fern]

Ah the sonic hedgehog gene

[sharp field]

What versions should I be using on the manifest and csproj these days?

[brave fable]

the latest ones, hopefully ☀️

[teal bridge]

Yeah, it's best to make the versions whatever you've actually tested against. If some user wants to change them to run an older version, well, that's on them.

[brave fable]

smapi 4.0.0+, modbuildconfig 4.3.0+, ..?

[lucid iron]

4.3.2

[teal bridge]

As I've discovered so rudely over the last few days, just because the game code doesn't seem to have changed between versions does not mean your mod will be compatible with an older (or newer) version, so specify the exact version you use to build.

[sharp field]

so the manifest is still 4.0.0 then

[teal bridge]

I really would not put 4.0.0 in there. Put the version you are actually developing against.

[lucid iron]

You can use mod manifest builder

[sharp field]

csproj vs manifest: should they be the same

[lucid iron]

Less thinking

It's got auto updating feature

[sharp field]

ironically lazy right now to learn a new tool. just want to get this update out since it was crashing before

[rancid musk]

ModManifestBuilder will automatically set the minimum game version and minimum API version based on what you compile against too, if you like.

You should make the version match

[teal bridge]

It does? Hmm, what's the switch for that?

[sharp field]

is there a governor command for it

[teal bridge]

It wasn't doing it automatically for me yesterday.

[lucid iron]

https://github.com/Mushymato/StardewMods/blob/main/SpecialOrderNotifications/SpecialOrderNotifications.csproj

Example csproj, ignore the sdv.props bit at top

[teal bridge]

Ah. Special keys.

[lucid iron]

I think I can switch to UpdateFull now

Since Khloe did the +hash remove

[sharp field]

the manifest can be in the csproj now? Nice

[lucid iron]

Yeah with the Leclair.Stardew.ModManifestBuilder nuget

It's not feature of ModBuildConfig

[feral oar]

does anyone know if smapi somehow exposes custom i18n keys to the game? trying to add an item thru OnAssetRequested and use i18n for the name

[lucid iron]

It doesn't you need to use helper.Translation

Can also use modtranslationclassbuilder

[sharp field]

brain fried. no idea what I'm doing now

[lucid iron]

R u trying to fix prismatic valley

[feral oar]

tried using that, but it seems like it just uses the default language

[calm nebula]

https://github.com/atravita-mods/StardewMods/blob/89b54742d1808b7177252410ece31d795759485e/CritterRings/Framework/AssetManager.cs#L195

There are other ways to do this but this was easiest

[lucid iron]

The important thing is that u need to reload_i18n

It's cached separate from content

[sharp field]

Yes. It still says minimum api version as 4.0.0 so clearly I"m missing something

[feral oar]

got it, that helps, thanks!

[lucid iron]

Delete the existing manifest.json?

[sharp field]

It did update it. just not that. I'm guessing i'm just missing something things in my csproj

[lucid iron]

You need the <MinimumGameVersion_Behavior>UpdateFull</MinimumGameVersion_Behavior>

[faint ingot]

Is there a way to modify a shop and adjust all its prices without changing every single one? I tried this but it didn't seem to have an effect: { "LogName": "Seed Shop changes", "Action": "EditData", "Target": "Data/Shops", "Fields": { "SeedShop": { "PriceModifierMode": "Minimum", "PriceModifiers": [ { "Modification": "Multiply", "Amount": 0.80 } ] } } }

[lucid iron]

The seed shop is special iirc?

0.8x probably works on the tree saplings

[brittle pasture]

yeah lots of the entries have IgnoreShopPriceModifiers set to true

gotta go through all of em unfortunately

[tepid escarp]

Very specific question, but is there anyway to get a fish tank with animated fish in an event at all?

[faint ingot]

Oh, it looks like it is having an effect on the tree saplings. OK, good to know thank you

[sharp field]

ModManifestBuilder: ModManifestBuilder will append your build configuration to the version of your mod for anything other than Release.
How do I indicate Release

[lucid iron]

dotnet build -c Release

It's the build configuration

[tropic lichen]

hi guys, i'm making a torch replacement mod using content patcher. I successfully replaced the torch with my image, but i'm having trouble getting rid of the flame. I tried replacing the fire with a transparent image but its not giving the effect i want. When i use the overlay option the flame is still visible and when i remove the overlay option my torch is cut off

[lucid iron]

hm i think that flame is shared texture

[tropic lichen]

what does that mean 😅

also i forgot to memtion the image is an example of the torch being cut off and the flame still being visible

[brittle pasture]

your patch mode is overlay, is that intended

[tropic lichen]

i set it to overlay to see if it would not cut off my torch but it still is

[brittle pasture]

since you mentioned the replacement being a transparent picture it will do nothing in overlay mode

[tropic lichen]

ah ok

[lucid iron]

ah yea disregard me from earlier, you did patch the right place

[tropic lichen]

this is what i want the torch to look like

there shouldnt be a flame because i set it to be transparent so i know i did something wrong here lol

[rancid temple]

Isn't the flame drawn in code?

[tropic lichen]

i have no idea, i took inspiration from another mod that replaced the flame

[brave fable]

yeah the flames are just pixels drawn after the fact

nothing to do with the sprite

[tropic lichen]

when i take overlay off the flame is gone but my torch is cut off lol

[brittle pasture]

hmm you may have to duplicate your torch heads in cursors

I wouldn't expect it to cut off the torch's head either but I am probably misunderstanding what the draw code does lol nvm yeah it does

[tropic lichen]

so use the torch image as the flame?

[brittle pasture]

yes, just repeat your head sprite seven times

[tropic lichen]

ok ill try it

[lucid iron]

did 1.6.9 add a way to make custom torch

without overwriting

[brave fable]

did someone request it to

[rancid temple]

You can use context tags to make things a torch or campfire

[lucid iron]

i have vague recollections

[rancid temple]

Dunno when that was added

[lucid iron]

how would it handle the flame tho

[brittle pasture]

custom torches context tags were there since at least 1.6 but IIRC it is rather screwy still in ways I don't remember

[rancid temple]

It's just drawing shit from cursors isn't it?

[calm nebula]

It makes it a torch yeah

[rancid temple]

It's just drawing these on those items with those tags

So you can patch them to look different, but every torch and campfire will change lol

[tropic lichen]

am i cooked

[calm nebula]

I'm surprised no one has made a cactus like furniture yet

[brave fable]

torched, in fact

[lucid iron]

didnt mr ape do that

a whole lotta free cactus

[rancid temple]

Technically, it's worse than just every torch and campfire, since other stuff I'm sure uses those lol

[calm nebula]

My wife Leah needs to give me a different randomly generated sculpture per playthough

I mean like the same system

Not a cactus

[brave fable]

oh yeah, tilesheets/freecactus or whatever. do those actually hurt though

[calm nebula]

The game has enough cactus

[rancid temple]

Since you're already changing torches, changing that torch fire and making every torch look like that would be fine, but it's all the other things that use those that would be a problem

[tender bloom]

fireplaces

[brave fable]

pretty sure love of cooking uses those fires too for the frying pan in the menu lol

[tropic lichen]

ill do whatever it takes for the aesthetic lol

[brittle pasture]

does AT have something to help with this

[brave fable]

feel free to pave over it

[calm nebula]

The funny conflict is that I kept on using the prarie king puff to hide pop in

And someone reskinned that minigame

[brave fable]

i'm sure there's a makePoof method in the code somewhere for non-jotpk poofs

half the menus in the game seem to have a poof member somewhere

i used it for gus' delivery bike in the absolutely defunct community kitchen mod

[brittle pasture]

also how many here knows of the existence of the unused (I think) spirit torch
because I learned about it relatively recently and it kinda blows my mind lol

[brave fable]

that was the torch with dark light wasn't it? i have no idea what it actually did

[lucid iron]

does it have a sprite

i seen the object entry but i never seen it in game

[rancid temple]

Is it the one right next to the regular torch?

[brittle pasture]

yeah, you can spawn them in with CJB Item Spawner. Gives off blue light, berry spooky

[lucid iron]

wait

does the blue light look blue without glowbuff?

[brittle pasture]

only after dark
it turned out the 'problem' glow buff solved was making colored lights showing up properly during day time

[lucid iron]

huh but i was always testing after setting time to 1200

[brittle pasture]

is this the invert thing

because no way around it I think

[lucid iron]

possible?

but i did the inversion in code so that i can just put Red

shrug i'll put effort into real fix once i want blue light on something

[tropic lichen]

is there a way to check your mod without restarting the game every time you make a change 😅

[calm nebula]

!hotreload

[tender bloom]

what kind of mod?

cp has patch reload

fs has reload

[rancid temple]

!reload

[ocean sail]

How do I reload my changes while I'm still in game?

-You cannot reload tokens, that's a forced restart unfortunately
-If you've done any CHANGES, then type into SMAPI:
patch reload YourMod.UniqueID
-If you've done i18n DEFAULT.jSON changes, then type into SMAPI:
reload_i18n then
patch reload YourMod.UniqueID
-C# Visual Studio has a feature called Hot Reload
-C# Rider also has Hot Reload
-Generally working in C# it will be called "Hot Reload" (usage may vary)

To use this command, type !reload.

[tropic lichen]

using content patcher

[tender bloom]

definitely a patch reload/i18n reload situation then

[hard latch]

Hello friends!! I was getting help from another modder on this, but we ran into a roadblock, so they suggested I come here for help. I am a newbie modder and wanted to get some practice in on making NPCs by adding events to an already existing mod (with permission from the original creator!!!). When I try to load the mod, it runs into an issue with the maps in the mod in the content.json file. Specifically, the "Name": line is causing an error message. If anyone is willing to help it would be super appreciated! 🙏

It's chill to send smapi content patcher json validator links right?? Wanted to make sure cuz some servers do not like it when people send links

[tiny zealot]

yeah links are fine. we ask people for them all the time! just don't mask them

[hard latch]

Ok cool!

[tiny zealot]

if you mask a link with markdown syntax you will get a nastygram from the bot

[hard latch]

I honestly don't know what masking links is so I'm going to assume it doesn't do it automatically when I send something lol

[lucid iron]

masking is when u do [some words](link)

unfortunately discord automatically does it sometimes

[hard latch]

https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/09a76a49266546f28d58740c74f1a490

[tiny zealot]

probably if you paste formatted text from a browser or similar

[hard latch]

This is the link to the content.json!!

Ok good thing I saw that message bcuz I was 100% going to send the link with text attached lol

[tender bloom]

where did you get the Name: line from?

and what are you trying to do with it?

[hard latch]

Honestly I had not touched the content file at all, I had only made edits in the events json, which runs correctly now. I am not 100% sure what the name line does..? 😭 that is definitely not helpful at all I apologize

[tender bloom]

Ah... well, it's not standard CP syntax, which is why the parser is complaining

[hard latch]

It seems to maybe help located a .tmx file?

[tender bloom]

Maybe they were trying for LogName

[hard latch]

Yes, the other person I was working with mentioned the code was not entirely in the newest CP syntax but didn't know how to change this portion since it has to do with maps

[tender bloom]

It definitely does nothing in terms of locating a tmx

[hard latch]

Ok lol good to know!

[tender bloom]

Try just swapping LogName in for Name

[hard latch]

Ok

[tender bloom]

Also, and this is not an easy fix so probably just ignore this, but the names of these maps are not very unique

Which is not the best practice — if someone else has a mod they're trying to have Maps/beachdate, then you can run into problems. Most likely, things will be fine, but there's a small chance it can cause weird problems.

but since you're just editing the mod, no need to fuss with this

just something to keep in mind

[hard latch]

Ok yeah thanks for the tip I will look out for that sort of stuff for when I dabble in map stuff!

[tender bloom]

Maps/10heartevent is particularly egregious lol

[hard latch]

Also thank you so much you are literally a saint because that worked!! I now have found out that I also have 8 million errors in my dialogue file too lmao but I think some of those I should be able to figure out myself before I turn for help again

[tender bloom]

Glad it's working!

[lucid iron]

(side note is it normal to patch over Utility.cs.5371 for wedding dialog)

[tender bloom]

that sounds... pretty plausible

but I thought wedding stuff is now its own asset

and you can make custom wedding events

[tiny zealot]

yeah the best way to do it now is to add your own wedding event and just have full control

but in 1.5.6 you had to replace the strings if you wanted different dialogue or whatever, since it was all hardcoded

[tribal umbra]

hii! i'm trying to update an old song mod to content patcher but for some reason it's not working, it should plays a song in jojamart, i wonder if the target is wrong?

https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/aeb951a3b1084123b6158a7678d9709b

[tiny zealot]

not sure if this is the cause, but StreamedVorbis is only for use with .ogg files and not .wav

i don't see anything obviously wrong with the patch

[shy quiver]

hi hi!!! i want to make a mod and was reading through the wiki on how to mod but im fairly a bit confused:((( was wondering if someone could help me? thanku!!!!

[tribal umbra]

then i'll try to take that part off, thx

[fast urchin]

Does anyone know where is the code that makes the machine look harvestable?

[brave fable]

in C#? one overload or another of Object.cs:draw should try and draw a bubble from Game1.mouseCursors, search for that

[tiny zealot]

if you're totally new, the best first project is probably something small added via Content Patcher, like a new item or some new dialogue. you can learn the first few ropes of modding that way

[fast urchin]

Thank you, I'll take a look

[tiny zealot]

to elaborate: the core skill of modding is putting text in a specific order in a text file, to tell the game what to do. for SMAPI/C# mods, that text is program code, but for content patcher the text is in JSON format, which is just a schema for presenting data to a computer. if you format your json file the right way and give it to content patcher, it will change the game for you

[shy quiver]

ooo thanku!!! is there a specific platform to code on or

[shy quiver]

ahh!!! got it got it

[tiny zealot]

it should be one that the game runs on, but otherwise it doesn't matter (windows, mac os, and linux are all a-ok)

[shy quiver]

im gonna try and make something small first and not get ahead of myself

[shy quiver]

ok got it cause i have a very old mac

[tiny zealot]

as long as it can run the non-compatibility branch of stardew, you're fine

[shy quiver]

uhh it runs on terminal

i believe

[tiny zealot]

(the compatibility branch is not compatible with SMAPI)

[brave fable]

-#

fuck it, broken text

[mortal halo]

Hello everyone. I was hoping some one could help me. I'm attempting building a new farm map, and I've been trying to find the Width and Height for the tiles for the standard map. I can't seem to find the answer. I can get how many tiles, and but I can seem to find Width and Height.

[brave fable]

if you're working in Tiled, it's best not to try and create a new TMX file from scratch -- instead copy an existing map file close to what you want, and work from there

you shouldn't need to define tile sizes

[mortal halo]

Sorry I mean Map Size. The tile size from what I've seen is just 16x16 but actual map size is eluding me

[shy quiver]

?

[ocean sail]

@shy quiver You leveled up to Cowpoke. You can now speak in our voice channels and share images in all channels!

[mortal halo]

But I'll follow your suggestion.

[brave fable]

oh i see, i thought you meant you were setting the Tile Width and Tile Height map properties

if you go to Map > Resize you can see the map dimensions

alternatively if you go to Map > Map Properties, you can see them in the Properties panel as Width and Height:

(which are immutable outside of the Resize dialogue window, unlike the should-definitely-be-immutable Tile Width properties)

[tiny zealot]

if your computer is very old, it may not run the newest builds of the game correctly. on Steam (and maybe on other storefronts, i don't recall), there is a "compatibility" branch of the game that runs correctly on some of those old computers, but that version cannot run SMAPI (the mod loader)

[mortal halo]

Ahhh gotcha. Thank you very much! That's what I was looking for

[shy quiver]

but my comp right now runs sdv fine

along with mods

[tiny zealot]

great!

when you said you had a very old mac, i was trying to tell you that sometimes that means you can't use (or make) mods

[shy quiver]

ohhh OKOK

SORRY I MISUNDERSTOOD U

[tiny zealot]

no worries

[lucid iron]

could i copy fish data of beach with just content patcher

in a way that adapts to mod changing that

[tribal umbra]

so, i tried deleting the StreamedVorbis part from the cp music mod i'm updating but it still didn't worked :/

[calm nebula]

sure!

like this LOCATION_FISH Beach BOBBER_X BOBBER_Y WATER_DEPTH

[lucid iron]

ty i gotta look up what the other 3 args do

[calm nebula]

I copied that from the Beach farm btw

the game will automatically fill in BOBBER_X BOBBER_Y and WATER_DEPTH

those aren't args, is litera

[lucid iron]

oh i see

so i just need a single 1.0 chance entry

[lucid mulch]

(LOCATION_FISH is what the Farm maps use to do exactly this and copy from mountain/forest/town spawns)

I cant remember what the fix ended up being on LOCATION_FISH to prevent accidently fishing the legendaries if you were in an overlapping position

[lucid mulch]

ah yeah the ability for rules to be aware of the nested behaviour

makes sense

[lucid iron]

hm does this also make u get jelly

[calm nebula]

yup

would be fun to have a fishing map that would randomly move across locations, huh

[lucid mulch]

in theory I think you can have a PerItemCondition? on the entry using LOCATION_FISH to veto certain things, and then have a fallback rule afterwards for your replacement stuff (or be trash I guess)

[blissful saddle]

or a map that randomly move across locations

I Lost My Farm

[lucid iron]

the boat farm

[hard fern]

why am i itching to make a new map, even though i just got done beating one with a hammer

[lucid iron]

what did they mean by this

bool flag4 = tile4.TileIndexProperties.ContainsKey("Passable");
if (!flag4)
{
    flag4 = tile4.Properties.ContainsKey("Passable");
}

[calm nebula]

Compiler artifact

First is the tile index

Second is the tile

[lucid iron]

well yes but also what is diff between TileIndexProperties and Properties

[calm nebula]

One is on the tilesheet

The other is on the tile

[lucid iron]

hm ok, so then isTilePassable seems to only check the former, making it not quite correct

[inner harbor]

Is it possible to (using content patcher) to set a store to buy shirts back from farmer?

(I have duplicateS)

[tender bloom]

SalableItemTags (Optional) A list of context tags for items which the player can sell to to this shop. Default none. if the clothes have context tags then yes, it looks like

try debug listtags with them?

[inner harbor]

I'm hoping category_shirts will work

making a clothing thrift shop (might accept other stuff too, but probably not furniture)

category_clothing

also does anyone know why it throws up an error of "item spawn fields with ID 'Default' produced a null or empty item ID"? I think it triggered when I opened my dresser (Customize Dresser installed)

[lucid iron]

yes it's a vanilla bug, sort of

[tender bloom]

i don't know why it does that but I think I've seen that around

[lucid iron]

one logging bit in item query incorrectly use general logger instead of the argument logger

not much u can do

but also harmless

[inner harbor]

as long as it's not one of my (Created) mods being broken

[calm nebula]

Vanilla doesn't do that

I checked

[teal bridge]

(Well, you can add a transpiler. That's what I did for Random.)

[lucid iron]

is Customize Dresser a C# mod in particular

[tall magnet]

Is this the proper channel to ask if any modders are available/around/hiring questions

[lucid iron]

what happens with modded sometimes is that ppl toss in itemspawnfield that doesn't resolve to any real item

!commissions

[ocean sail]

If you're looking for people who do mod commissions (either art or code), here's a wiki page with a non-comprehensive list of people who do them: https://stardewmodding.wiki.gg/wiki/Stardew_Mod_Commissions

To use this command, type !commissions.

[tall magnet]

I tried that x.x
Not as helpful as I was hoping

[tender bloom]

you'll need to reach out to the specific people, many of whom are in this discord

otherwise you'd really just be hoping that the people looking at this channel rn are in the small set of people who take comms

which is not very reliable

there are some kinds of mod comms that are just kind of tough to find people for

particularly C#

[tall magnet]

Could I DM you specifically? If that's alright to ask

[tender bloom]

if there's something specific you have questions about we might be able to point you in a direction?

please do not DM me

I do not do commissions

[tall magnet]

No problem! That's why I asked first