making-mods-general

[proven narwhal]

huh anyways thanks for answering i just wanted to know like a weird quirk about the textures

[hard fern]

now look in cursors :3

[proven narwhal]

💀

[royal remnant]

I need some help im stuck on a coding error that i can not figure out

[rancid temple]

Actually, unless the patch that switches out the board removes those tiles from the whole map, it doesn't make sense that during spring a random broken board shows back up every year lmao

[calm nebula]

hmm

[teal bridge]

No, it's simply that the sprite doesn't need to be added to any other map because it can't show up in those other seasons. It doesn't magically reappear in spring 2.

[calm nebula]

where is the broken boards?

Town.makemapmodifactions

[rancid temple]

To the right of the bookseller

It's outside of the accessible area but it's just out there in the weeds

[royal remnant]

anyone available for possibly some help?

[hard fern]

huh

fascinating

[calm nebula]

wait

[uncut viper]

you havent posted any error. just post it and if someone is free and able to help theyll help

[calm nebula]

the special ordres board doesn't appear until fall

[hard fern]

yeah

i thought i was just misremembering

but i remember it showing up fall

[royal remnant]

ok let me see cause im not sure how to copy errors stuff entirely from the visual studio

[calm nebula]

then again, like

I just failed to count to 32 so

you might not trust me 😛

[royal remnant]

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'bool' to 'byte'
Argument 1: cannot convert from 'bool' to 'byte'
'new' expression can be simplified

[calm nebula]

we're going to have to see the code

like, seriously, take a screenshot

[teal bridge]

I wonder why smapi.io doesn't have a C# pasty thing.

[rancid temple]

So just during Summer the broken board disappears lmao

And the extra one near the bookseller just comes back every Spring

[calm nebula]

tbh coders can be trusted most of the time to know how to use pastbin or git

[teal bridge]

You say that, but...

[calm nebula]

tbh I never noticed

[uncut viper]

maybe they removed it to make room for the new one in the fall

[rancid temple]

Me either lmao

[uncut viper]

the lumber was on backorder

[proven narwhal]

😭 ngl i was just so confused since i noticed it

[royal remnant]

well i cant seem to get all the code into the screenshot hmm

[uncut viper]

just take a picture of the part thats giving the error and a handful of the surrounding lines

or just put it on pastebin and tell us what line is erroring

[royal remnant]

i beleive this is the culprit

[uncut viper]

those functions do not do what you think they do

they do not take bools as parameters

[royal remnant]

then byte?

[calm nebula]

that;s fucking amazing, CA

[uncut viper]

your IDE should tell you that they take bytes, or the decompile

[calm nebula]

anyways, like

[hard fern]

mystery of the special order board... solved?

[uncut viper]

for what purpose do you need to use these functions

[calm nebula]

apparently what you want is Game1.player.setMoving(64)

or something like that

(or more sanely, do Game1.player.Halt()) lol

that's amazing, CA

[royal remnant]

well the problem in fact is i have tried now both byte and bool with booltobyte

Im making an ai bot to play the game

[uncut viper]

if ((command & 0x40) == 64)
{
  this.Halt();
  this.running = false;
}

you want whatever makes this happen

i guess

[teal bridge]

booltobyte, what? Is that some AI-generated thing?

[uncut viper]

alternatively just call player.Halt

[tiny zealot]

you should read your decompile. the error message is telling you your argument is the wrong type, but you are more seriously not comprehending what the function does

[tiny zealot]

(also, having read this function for the first time... what.)

[calm nebula]

that's exactly how I program for work but in my defense I'm an EE so

[tiny zealot]

i've written protocol code that does stuff like this but not in this context

[royal remnant]

i am not a super expert im sorry 😦 https://pastebin.com/0PHLwm2h

[calm nebula]

I mean, yes, and if I was Actually Doing This for some reason in C# I would use a bitflag enum to make it readable, lol

[uncut viper]

making a bot to play the game is going to be rather difficult

[royal remnant]

ive had it pretty much do everything i want it to except for the fact of the player floating off screen and then walking through the wall borders but now this stupid little issue wont let me build

[indigo yoke]

So I did not do custom skill buffs, but Dr birb did custom skill buffs.

You can check out YACS. I have custom skill buffs for food items for cross-mod stuff

[uncut viper]

well you just need to look at the decompile to see how the function you're trying to call works

[indigo yoke]

Like cheesey cauliflower buffing binning from YACS

[uncut viper]

and figure out what byte to send

[royal remnant]

ok let me see if i can find a syntax snippet and see what it says brb

not syntax grr been working on this for 12 hours plus lol

[rancid temple]

This sounds like exactly normal AI behavior for playing a game

[teal bridge]

Definitely possible, though; it's been done already.

[royal remnant]

so i just asked chatgpt said this,

The errors you are seeing stem from the fact that setMoving() and setRunning() methods are expecting byte values, not bool. The other errors around ambiguity and the readonly field are secondary at this stage.

Goal:
We need to:

Fix the byte vs bool confusion.
Ensure that only one definition of methods and classes exists.
Resolve any remaining issues in order to have a working mod for testing the AI.

[uncut viper]

please do not ask chatgpt

[royal remnant]

is it not good one?

[uncut viper]

if you ever feel like you need to ask chatgpt anything abouit stardew, do literally anything else instead

[teal bridge]

about stardew

Or about anything else.

[royal remnant]

hmm could i infer with claude sonnet perhaps?

[rancid temple]

AI is just not good lmao

[uncut viper]

no

[teal bridge]

Yeah, you're really not hearing us here.

AI cannot write your code for you.

[royal remnant]

im just trying to keep anonimity because i want to get this done do a series on it then release it for everyone to enjoy im sorry i may be a bit stubborn but since i have no friends and such i just do this on my own just trying to find a fix

[brittle pasture]

!chatgptcode

[ocean sail]

Please stop trying to get ChatGPT to write your C# mods for you, especially if you don't know how to write C#. It won't work without heavy editing, and it wastes everyone's time.

Large language models fundamentally are reguritating something from their input—which is roughly speaking, the written output of humanity up until 2021 or so, for ChatGPT. For specific, niche topics like "is this framework going to do what I want" or "which things does Game1.cs have access to", it probably has no idea! But it's good at detecting that people in the past have....said things about frameworks and written things in C#, so it does its best to assemble words and symbols into a nice order for you. Sometimes it tells you true things, and sometimes it tells you false things, and if you can't detect when, you're in trouble. When you're writing code, this usually produces garbage, because you can't be "sort of similar", you have to be exactly correct or it won't work.

To use this command, type !chatgptcode.

[royal remnant]

I literally just asked gpt if it knew what was going on :/

[calm nebula]

(also, I strongly suspect you're trying to re-implement the PathFindController class in game)

except, well, very weirdly

[uncut viper]

you will not really get any support for using chatgpt here nor will you get help fixing chatgpt generated code

[teal bridge]

I don't think anyone has a problem with anonymity - none of us are using our real names. We do have a problem with LLM junk being posted here.

[uncut viper]

we are merely letting you know this so you don't waste your time

[royal remnant]

Ok. Anyways thanks for the help then i will see what other things i can use in the modding wiki

[uncut viper]

you will genuinely have much better results figuring out how to code it without chatgpt. and that is when taking into account any amount of knowledge you have of C# or sdv

!decompile

[ocean sail]

If you want to make SMAPI mods with C#, one important resource is decompiling the game to read the game code. Here's how to do it: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/Get_Started#How_do_I_decompile_the_game_code.3F

To use this command, type !decompile.

[uncut viper]

i recommend following these instructions and taking a look at the games code to see how it works

[royal remnant]

OK sounds good! Thanks for not being to harsh on me!

[hard fern]

everyone's gotta start somewhere~

... as i fight with my events again

[void obsidian]

hey y'all, any chance someone could help me out with my modding attempt?

i'm trying to just reskin krobus as another character but i'm encountering a weirdly specific issue where concernedape uses krobus's sprite for the magnifying glass event

at a glance it seems like the only way to fix this is to edit the town.cs code but that would involve harmony i believe and... i truly have no idea how i would even begin to start such a small edit through harmony

[hard fern]

is that scene not using just the normal monster texture?

[void obsidian]

you would think so right

but no it uses krobus' sprites

[hard fern]

😔 i would think

[void obsidian]

haha

so if anyone knows how to just replace "Krobus" in this code with a new character i've added (that just has krobus' sprites) named "ShadowPerson" i would owe you my life

[drowsy pewter]

and why doesnt patching krobus's texture work?

Okay hold on. Are you changing how krobus looks with this reskin or are you adding a new NPC that looks like krobus called ShadowPerson?

[void obsidian]

initially the mod is just a fancy reskin of krobus, but i added an additional NPC to play the role of the magnifying glass thief

(which is just original krobus assets)

[tiny zealot]

changing krobus, but the problem is that the magnifying glass event is hardcoded to use krobus's sprite

[void obsidian]

^this

:'D

[drowsy pewter]

but why do you need to make ShadowPerson the NPC in the cutscene if they look the same?

[tiny zealot]

i think what you should do is edit Krobus's entry in Data/Characters to use a new TextureName

[ornate locust]

I think they want their NPC to be Not Krobus and Shadow Guy to be a shadow guy?

[tiny zealot]

then replace that one with your edit. then put your new thief guy graphics in Characters/Krobus

[drowsy pewter]

Yeah do that

[drowsy pewter]

it was confusing but i got there in the end

[void obsidian]

i will try this, thank you ichortower!! 🙏

[tiny zealot]

good luck! i hope it works

[dusky sigil]

is there a transpiling for dummies somewhere because i have no idea what i'm doing

[tiny zealot]

with transpilers, it's helpful to remember that it's a totally different kind of code writing than prefix/postfix

instead of writing C# code as it will run alongside the patched functions, you are writing a function that takes a list of CIL instructions (the original method) and returns a new list (the method as you want it to be)

(please forgive me using function and method interchangeably, for i am an old)

[dusky sigil]

thank you! i will look into it

[shadow pagoda]

I'm trying to understand how to get the amount of times something has been crafted by a certain player. I found the timesCrafted variable in the CraftingRecipe class. I'm currently just having issues getting the CraftingRecipe object I want to check. The code below shows the various booleans I'm checking. Is there a way to get the CraftingRecipe object based on the name, or do I need to load it through CraftingRecipes.xnb?

string craftName = "Chest";
CraftingRecipe chestRecipieObj = /*unsure what to put here*/;

//does the player know the chest recipipe
Log($"Player knows {craftName} recipe: {Game1.player.knowsRecipe(craftName)}");
            
//Has the player crafted the chest at least once
Log($"Player has crafted a {craftName} at least once: {chestRecipieObj.timesCrafted > 0}");

//Does player have the items to create the item in their inventory
Item wood = ItemLocator.GetItem("388");
Log($"Player has the items to create the {craftName} in their inventory: {ItemLocator.PlayerItemCount("388") >= 50}");

[brave fable]

i want to say that Game1.player.craftingRecipes is a dict<string, int> where the int value is the number of times crafted?

just going off memory though

[shadow pagoda]

it's a NetStringDictionary<int, NetInt>. I'm unsure exactly what the value data type is and how it's different from an int or Integer

[brave fable]

oh, that's all fluff to say it's a net-synced dict<string, int>

[shadow pagoda]

net-synced?

[brave fable]

you should be good to use Game1.player.craftingRecipes.TryGetValue(recipeName, out int timesCrafted), which will return false if the player doesn't know the recipe

net-synced data types will have their values updated for all players in multiplayer

which is to say when you learn or craft a recipe, the host and farmhands will all be given the same dict state as soon as possible

[shadow pagoda]

I'll try it. Though having the CraftingRecipe obj would've made the last two checks easier and less hardcoded

thanks

[brave fable]

you can quite easily get a list of all crafting recipes, i just don't remember exactly how. try DataLoader.CraftingRecipes or Game1.craftingRecipes or CraftingPage.craftingRecipes or something like that

[hard fern]

...yaaa....i redrew all my portraits.

sigh

[brave fable]

addictive, isn't it 😌

the ever-repeating cycle of improvement and dissatisfaction

[hard fern]

hooray!

[deep cypress]

My "that's good enough, we can move on" has a one year max limit of working on things. Looking at my older work makes me sad...

[hard fern]

i also wonder if i have too many weird random configs but like XD

[royal remnant]

well the ai i made is uhm, well at least working but there's a few screws loose i believe!

[woeful lintel]

don't know what type of AI you're making, but if it's a learning one, at least it learnt to moonwalk, which isn't nothing

also fazes through Furniture. Probably managed to slit between tiles somehow

[hard fern]

honestly for an ai, uhh it's a start XD i've seen them do weirder things

really wants to investigate that wall though

[deep cypress]

Hi loves! A question! I have made a farm, adding by CP. I was wanting to add a mermaid to it, much like the mermaid on the beach in the Island. I Figured to make a custom Location C# class. It is not applying to the location. I have a staunch feeling that C# editing a custom farm map rolls much differently than a typical location. So, if I might ask, has anyone done this before? Any reccomendations on how this would best be done, (so I don't flop about like a beached mermaid for a few hours confused as to how to do anything!)

[royal remnant]

Dude wants to phaze so bad but hes at least learning lol, anyways animation stuff will be worked out later after i get his head straight right now hes had a little to many bubbly hops

[hard fern]

ooh now he's dancing XD

[royal remnant]

Getting down XD

ill update in a little while after i throw some words at him again

[faint ingot]

Oh yeah, it's all coming together...

[deep cypress]

Hell yeah!!! I love this so much!!! I need to finish my repuation framework mod, this would go perfectly with it! (reputation affected by things u do or don

[hard fern]

😭 pierre is in jail

[deep cypress]

He deserves it. He definitely commits crimes. Boring crimes.

[strong ice]

Hi! How can I edit assets? When I do it a white background appears... What photo editor could I use? Thanks

[hard fern]

any phot editor that allows transparent pngs

!software

[ocean sail]

Here's a list of software for pixel art and JSON text editors we recommend: https://gist.github.com/ishanjalan/c8efb21afa21f74a052293176db107f7

For making SMAPI (C#) mods, see the Requirements section here for which IDE to install https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/Get_Started#Get_started.

To use this command, type !software.

[smoky wraith]

I’ve never quite understood the process of making custom npcs. If someone can give a basic rundown of it, i would appreciate it a lot. Thanks.

[tender bloom]

!npc

[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.

[smoky wraith]

Thanks.

[strong ice]

Thanks

[deep cypress]

Going to make some patches to GameLocation, based on if the patient's current location is the custom farm I am making.

if (Game1.GetFarmTypeID().Equals("ApryllForever.MermaidFarm"))
This is how I make sure it is that farm, right?

[subtle saffron]

Finally published the mod I've been working on... but finishing the night before vacation was maybe a tad too close for comfort, but we big chillin now

[proven spindle]

Congrats! I can publish it to the showcase for you if you'd like, just post the link here and let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like me to mention in the showcase post :)

[subtle saffron]

The link is here: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/29834

And I don't really have anything to say :p

Maybe you could mention the original creators are Holychurros and Stanloona420, and that I'm just maintaining the mod

[proven spindle]

Posting on behalf of @subtle saffron, who has updated and is now maintaining this mod which was originally created by Holychurros and Stanloona420:

"Are you tired of the rude and often shady Pierre? Would you like someone who is kinder and more well rounded?! Well look no further! Piper is the replacement you are looking for!"

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/29834

Posted to the showcase!

[hard fern]

:( aaaa i think im coming down with a cold 😔

events will have to wait...

[proven spindle]

And I'll work on compat for my mods adventurer abigail and morris redeemed (I think the former will be fine as is for now, but I'm planning to bring her parents in more for the next arc so I'll make sure its still compatible when I'm writing those events)

[subtle saffron]

I severely underestimated how much work would go into adding support/compat for other mods

😭

I was asked to add compat for the childhood sweetheart caroline mod, and that mod alone will take me sometime rewriting.. cause uh.... Piper and Caroline have a good relationship, so I think dynamic wise the best way to go about it would be a poly relationship, or else I gotta go kinda crazy with it and lean into some crazy drama that'd split the two up

[blissful panther]

It's definitely also okay to just not add compatibility if doing so would go against the narrative written into your mod to such a degree you need to change too much.

[rancid temple]

Normalize saying no

[subtle saffron]

Also very true

I'll see how I feel when I get back from my vacation

[subtle saffron]

But I really should start saying no

💀

[hard fern]

😔

[tight rivet]

I would honestly say no to that

[subtle saffron]

yeah

[tight rivet]

To put on my judgemental hat..

CWC does a fw things that really should be the author's problem: it does narration to dictate the farmer's thoughts, ||Abigail is adopted but they think she's theirs via uh.. magical memory modification.||, and the author doesn't know how to handle marriage events + scheduling.

[subtle saffron]

o h

[proven spindle]

A couple of my mods have run into story compat issues with other mods that I just didn't have it in me to figure out, so I just mention the situation on the modpage and let the users decide what they want to do based on that. It's worked out pretty well :)

[tight rivet]

This is fine. But it's one of those where it's like "it should try to make itself compatible. with others."

[hard fern]

😔 im thinking about my mod that i have in the works thats probably gonna end up being incompatible with sve for like 20 reasons

[proven spindle]

(Or I make funny and slightly fourth-wall-breaking in-game references about the situation. See the morris redeemed + marry morris easter egg 🤣 )

[subtle saffron]

Okay yeah.. I'll probably drop that then cause yikes 😭

[hard fern]

with lore/worldbuilding being one of them...

[tight rivet]

yeah. I'd be willing to agree you should maybe do minor changes but I'd wait until CWC is actually feature complete with..

you know, a married schedule. c.c

[hard fern]

oof

[tight rivet]

(CWC also, tangentially, forces you to be the same age or within 3 as Caroline for half the dialogue to make sense.)

but taking off judgemental hat

I think that dialogues that change married couples should at some level be up to that author because well, a lot of assumptions on the part of other modders is that these mods aren't being used for.. well, a lot of reasons

That said, thanks for linking the Piper mod, I'll probably grab it for a fun run after I 100% this one

[subtle saffron]

I hope you enjoy it when you do have a chance to play!

[hard fern]

compatibility is hard...

[subtle saffron]

Rewriting dialogue can take a bit, and then comes the implementation of the dialogue, which is the most tedious process ever 😭

[hard fern]

sigh, and seasonal outfits too

[subtle saffron]

Oh yeah

😭

Buildings as well

got 32 different images for the general store

But speaking of seasonal outfits, I'm planning to create some outfits for modded events/new 1.6 events, surly it'll be a fun time that I won't burn myself out over

[hard fern]

i found one misplaced pixel in my npc portraits

[brave fable]

compatibility is easy. just ask the other sucker to do it

[hard fern]

modmaking hard

[rancid temple]

Compat in two easy steps:

1. Make mod open source
2. Tell users they can do it themselves

[brave fable]

oh perfect, free open-source suckers

[proven narwhal]

hey can someone explain to me on how to add my new area to the world map?

[inner harbor]

Yeh, sometimes things just need to be incompatible.

I also really dont like it when mods add "farmer" dialogue via message. Give me options, or even just one basic option to click.

(My brain cant cope with it and it takes too long to figure out "im saying that? But i wouldn't say that!")

[lucid mulch]

just have every dialogue be a trolley problem instead

only bad options but you have to actively pick them

[proven narwhal]

like ive read up on the wiki section of the topic but ngl im not sure i get it fully

[slender badger]

Heya! Do you mind if I shoot you a DM about some compat stuff? 😄

[subtle saffron]

Sure thing!

(Sorry for the ping the first time )

[proven narwhal]

😭 so i tried following the wiki to add the custom world map by testing it with just a black square but i loaded the game up and nothing happened

not even an error

so im not sure what im not getting at

[drowsy pewter]

Did your mod load?

I cant help with this area but if you share the code someone can

!json

[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.

[proven narwhal]

it did everything else did properly

i think its just me being a little stupid since ive never done this before

[fallow musk]

Does anyone know an example of a mod which modifies the character creator screen?

i want to try my hand at adding a new <= option => kind of thing, but it seems very daunting, especially since im new to modding

[tiny zealot]

mods that add or change UI are notoriously difficult in this game because so much of the UI is directly in code and inconsistently implemented

i don't mean to discourage you, but it's a tough first mod to choose

[fallow musk]

ohhh

[tiny zealot]

what option were you thinking of adding? maybe there's a different way to accomplish the goal

[fallow musk]

i kind of wanted to add an 'origin' kind of stuff which would give buffs/nerfs/passives based on the job the player had at joja corp. Something like an accountant starting with extra 250g or a Warehouse manager starting with a chest in inventory etc

i assume i could ask this as a dialog on the morning of the first day

but itd been cooler if i couldve asked this in character creator

[tiny zealot]

ah yeah, i see what you mean

[calm nebula]

It's not impossible; it's a bit of a faff but like

[tiny zealot]

have you done programming before?

[calm nebula]

I would get it working first with dialogue options on day 1

Then retrofit to a box in character customization

Or maybe hijack into the intro cutscene

[fallow musk]

you mean me? I am a developer irl, tho C# is new to me, not a major problem with that

[tiny zealot]

yeah, i did. you're probably fine in that case

[fallow musk]

ill try to implement the day 1 dialog option for now, will try more complex path once i get used to modding.

thanks for the help

[cold summit]

Hello! I am currently making my first mod, no coding background whatsoever, I am learning on the fly. I got my custom item into the game but it will not load the texture. SMAPI is saying the asset doesn't exist but the file is there, and it even displays the picture when I hover over it in the code. any ideas?

[brittle pasture]

!json post your code

[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.

[brittle pasture]

!log and your log

[ocean sail]

Important note: Your computer username may appear in the log. If your username is your full name, please be aware of this before uploading it.

Please share your SMAPI log file. To do so:

1. Open this page: smapi.io/log.
2. Follow the instructions at the top of the page to upload the log file. (Don't copy & paste from the console window!)
3. After uploading, it will show a green box with a URL to share. Post that URL here.

Please do it even if you don't see any errors. This has useful info like what mods and versions you have, what the mods are doing, etc. If the issue didn’t occur in your last session, please load the game to the point where the issue occurs, then upload the log.

To use this command, type !log.

[slender badger]

What custom item are you trying to make? If it's something that fits into the base game categories, you can most likely create that with Content Patcher and have a much easier time of things

[cold summit]

It is a decore piece, and everything else works except for the texture, the description is there and everything

[tiny zealot]

i have a few questions, but the first one is did you copy this code from a tutorial or something?
(what on earth are you doing with a using directive for X509Certificates)

[cold summit]

yes everything is from tutorials, as I said I have no coding experience at all (only R lol)

[tiny zealot]

ok that content.json is for content patcher. so just throw out your C# code, you won't be using it

[cold summit]

oh! ok got it

[tiny zealot]

here's some more info on content patcher https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Content_Patcher

[drowsy pewter]

someone will tell you the texture issue but I recommend changing your item ID to StarJewMod_Khannukia as I dont know what will happen if you try to use the slash there in some sitations

[tiny zealot]

6480 is right, your problem is you are referencing your file assets/Khannukia.png but you need to reference an asset instead

the quickest fix is to use the InternalAssetKey token instead, which will do the work for you:
"Texture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/Khannukia.png}}",

[calm nebula]

To be fair VS does that

[cold summit]

I will try this! thank you so much

[calm nebula]

I keep having to remove random unhelpful usings

[tiny zealot]

oh, so it's AI slop after all (what i was driving at)

[calm nebula]

Nah, you'll just be typing

[cold summit]

omg it worked!!! thank you

[finite ginkgo]

Yeah I've definitely had VS just add that exact using before on a whim, what am I supposed to be using x509 certificates for VS

[calm nebula]

And VS will be like, hey, you want AbortedThreadException right?

[tiny zealot]

(the work that this does for you is to load your image to an asset and then use that asset's key. i typically prefer to do this myself, but i am told InternalAssetKey is more performant. you likely won't notice the difference except at scale)

[cold summit]

yeah the dimentiones are off lol

one more question lol, can i change the dimentions?

[tiny zealot]

not without specific other mods that alter the game code to allow it. for objects you are stuck with 16x16 by default

[cold summit]

ok so i can just edit my image

[tiny zealot]

yup

[cold summit]

thank you so so much for the help ♥

[fallow musk]

What would be the approach to code a 'take 25% more damage from a specific kind of enemy' permanent hidden nerf?

i could not find any taking damage specific Event in SMAPIs Event lists

[tiny zealot]

my approach would probably be a harmony postfix on whichever take damage function is closest

spacecore might have an event for it (spacecore has a lot of jobs)

[fallow musk]

oh thanks. Ill check it out.

[coral solstice]

Hope it’s okay to ask in here -

I’ve made a basic recolour of Abigail’s hair, following a YouTube tutorial- I have manifest.json and content.json files, but SMAPI says that none of the files are manifest.json

I am very new to this and I’m just kinda practicing I guess - can anyone gimme a hand to figure out why it’s not reading properly??

[timid ice]

Are you swapping out the spritesheet with your mod?

If so - can you take a screenshot of the folder structure/files for your mod real fast?

[coral solstice]

Gimme 2 seconds

[timid ice]

With file extensions, if possible.

[coral solstice]

Just gotta load discord up on my laptop lol

thats what the mod file looks ike

[tiny zealot]

just to be sure, do you have visible filename extensions turned on? (i forget the steps. View menu?)

your file might be named manifest.json.json if not

[coral solstice]

That may be possible

Yeah it is

Thank u, I am a dumbass

[tiny zealot]

no, you're not. windows's default setting is the problem

[coral solstice]

Thank u very much for letting me know that it’s even a thing to be seen!!

You’re very much appreciated 🫶🏼

[timid ice]

And for what it's worth - I didn't catch it right away - Was trying to think of ideas why it wouldn't be happy with what you posted, didn't occur to me that you had the extension doubled. So no calling yourself a dumbass over that one.

[coral solstice]

Thank u thank u! 🫶🏼

SMAPI is now telling me its dependencies have a circular reference 😭

Gosh I’m terrible at this. Only up from here though. Gotta remind myself that I’m just practicing and I’m not gonna be amazing at it straight away

[timid ice]

That's easy enough to fix. What dependencies do you have listed in the manifest.json?

[coral solstice]

None at all

[timid ice]

Can you upload a log then?

[coral solstice]

Sure thing

I’ll pop it in support once it’s parsed

Unless it’s okay for me to drop it here - I don’t mind 🫶🏼

[timid ice]

Just toss it in here

[coral solstice]

Awesome will do

[timid ice]

It's related to making a mod (And we'd just bounce it back here anyways)

[coral solstice]

Just waiting for the full log to load up and then I’ll grab it - thanks for helping me btw, I really appreciate it

https://smapi.io/log/86a8493e1bd64dfeb62e0b84d247de2c

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.1.8 with SDV 1.6.14 build 24317 on Microsoft Windows 10 Home, with 90 C# mods and 177 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[timid ice]

Ok - Can you open the manifest.json and post it here

(Can't say I've ever seen a mod circular reference itself)

[coral solstice]

I've probably buggered up somethin in there

[timid ice]

The ContentPackFor should be pointing at Content Patcher

I believe

[coral solstice]

Ah that makes sense I shall move it and see what happens!

Thank u

[timid ice]

      "UniqueID": "Pathoschild.ContentPatcher"
   },```

Since you're telling SMAPI what mod to use to parse the Content Pack

[coral solstice]

That makes a lot of sense

It loaded!!

Thank you so much!

Time to see how bad my recolour job is 😂

[dusty vortex]

Anyone have experience creating mods for Custom Companions?
Can't seem to stop the error "Command Failed"

[dusty vortex]

I've been trying to get one of the example companions to work and every time I use "cc_spawn" to make it appear, it says "Command Failed" in the cmd window

I began with a custom sprite, but encountered the issue, so I went through the guide using the example companion instead and it was the same result

[coral solstice]

That was short lived

Her hair is still purple 😂

[timid ice]

Are you using any other mods that retexture her?

[tall shale]

hello, guys! is there a chance to combine ContentPatcher with specific code in .dll files within 1 mod? if i relate to both .dll and ContentPatcher, the mod won't load because like the error says these 2 parameters exclude each others

[coral solstice]

Oh gosh of course 😭

I have seasonal cute characters, i completely forgot about that

[gaunt orbit]

A mod cannot be both a standalone mod and framework content pack. You will either need to create two mods and package them together, OR port your cp stuff to c#.

I can help you with the second option if you like

[tall shale]

would be awesome

[gaunt orbit]

So the heart of it would be using the Helper.Events.Content.AssetRequested event. You'd create an event handler for that event which checks the name of the asset being requested and either loads or edits the asset if needed.

What is your CP component doing?

[tall shale]

my CP component is creating a new item with unique id, loads my own assets into the general objects sheet and uses this sprite for my new object. + item's recipe object i can buy from the shop

[gaunt orbit]

okay, that's all pretty easy

do you want to write your object/shop entries in c#, or write them in json and just copy them in with c#?

both are pretty easy to do

[coral solstice]

I am peeing my pants

I love learning

[tall shale]

the first option is good, i think

honestly, i'd like to see how both options would work, but don't want to waste too much of your time

[gaunt orbit]

https://github.com/tlitookilakin/HappyHomeDesigner/blob/master/Framework/AssetManager.cs
this has examples of both, but is also a little more advanced than it strictly needs to be

[tiny zealot]

tackle this after you solve your main problem, but it is a good idea to use your own spritesheet instead of adding your item sprites to springobjects

[whole raptor]

Anyone knows if this button from Spacecore is editable by CP? I can't really find anything obvious in the log

[tall shale]

so i should write my spritesheet into the game files, or can it be read right from the mod's assets folder?
i did like that because i'm creating a bomb, so i've searched some existing bomb mods to peek, and it was done like that

[tiny zealot]

probably need to check the code to know. if it goes through the asset pipeline, then yes; otherwise i expect not

[fallow musk]

does a postfix harmony patch need to have the same function arguments as the original function? even tho lets say the logic doesnt need any of those values

[tiny zealot]

no, you can omit any parameters you don't need. but if it's an overload, you might need to use them to match the correct method (when reflecting. the postfix itself won't need them)

[whole raptor]

I guess.. it does?

[tiny zealot]

yup, there you go! "Target": "spacechase0.SpaceCore/ExtraEquipmentIcon"

[latent mauve]

And then you just need to make sure you're loading after Spacecore, yeah

[whole raptor]

Weird it didn't show up in the log like with GMCM, but at least it's doable

[tiny zealot]

any EditImage will come after spacecore's Load. and even a Load is safe; casey used a priority

[latent mauve]

I missed the Priority, my bad

Was just doing a quick glance while I try not to freeze over here, LOL

[coral solstice]

Ugh Abigail is still purple

[gaunt orbit]

adding via c#:

private void HandleAssets(object sender, AssetRequestedEventArgs ev) {
  if (ev.NameWithoutLocale.IsEquivalentTo("Data/Shops"))
    ev.Edit(d => {
      if (d.Data is Dictionary<string, ShopData> shops && shops.TryGetValue("ShopToAddTo", out var shop))
        shop.Items.Add(new(){
          ... shop entry info goes here ...
        });
    }, AssetEditPriority.Normal);
}
``` adding from json:
```cs
private void HandleAssets(object sender, AssetRequestedEventArgs ev) {
  if (ev.NameWithoutLocale.IsEquivalentTo("Data/Shops"))
    ev.Edit(d => {
      if (d.Data is Dictionary<string, ShopData> shops && shops.TryGetValue("ShopToAddTo", out var shop))
        shop.Items.Add(Helper.ModContent.Load<ShopItemData>("assets/shopEntry.json"));
    }, AssetEditPriority.Normal);
}

[whole raptor]

Oh no... I lost all my modding snippets for VSC after reinstalling the OS

[coral solstice]

Really confused as to why Abigail’s hair is still purple when the assets in my file have been recoloured, and SMAPI & CP are reading it and loading it fine

I’ve only loaded up CP, my recolour, and CJB so there’s no other mods recolouring her 🤔🤔🤔

[fallow musk]

im getting AmbiguousMatchException trying to postfix patch a takeDamage method in StardewValley.Mosters/bug.cs

I checked some older messages with same error and the cause is overloaded original method

but when i look at Bug.cs in decompiled code, i only see one takeDamage method

[gaunt orbit]

there is probably another overload on a superclass

[tender bloom]

Does base have multiple or something?

[gaunt orbit]

you can add the DeclaredOnly flag to filter those out

[fallow musk]

oh yes that makes sense

[tender bloom]

Monster.cs would probably be base

[gaunt orbit]

I recommend BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Instance | BingingFlags.Public for GetMethod in this case

[coral solstice]

So CP has decided that two of my recoloured assets just don’t exist 😂

They definitely do exist, and they’re both written correctly in my content.json file so I am v confused

[tiny zealot]

maybe you can upload & link your content.json again and we can take a look?

[tiny zealot]

this one is because you used Characters/Abigail instead of Portraits/Abigail for her portrait asset

[coral solstice]

Yeah i figured that one out pretty quick

This is the content.json - which should be correct but this is what my SMAPI log is saying > https://smapi.io/log/740ecf9aee454b0b8d85eb32c5ee2b7f

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.1.8 with SDV 1.6.14 build 24317 on Microsoft Windows 10 Home, with 4 C# mods and 1 content packs.

[tiny zealot]

hmm. as you say, nothing seems obviously wrong

i guess make sure the content.json and assets folder in your actual Mods folder are up to date? (if you are working on the files elsewhere, as is my practice)

[coral solstice]

they’re all in the actual mods folder - so they should be fine, not sure what’s happened at all

They should be up to date too

[tiny zealot]

CP's warning about missing assets usually matches exactly what is in the FromFile line, in my experience, so since it's missing the ".png" i have to wonder

[tall shale]

so i am calling this method here? if yes, what arguments should i put inside?

[coral solstice]

I did it with the .png and without, still the same error

[gaunt orbit]

no, you would add it as an event handler like this

helper.Events.Content.AssetRequested += HandleAssets;

[coral solstice]

Wait it’s fixed itself?????

[stable leaf]

Hey, I'd like to make a custom garbage can-type object (without the "NPCs get grossed out" behavior) that spawns multiple debris items for the player to pick up. Is this possible to do with ContentPatcher or do I have to write C# code? Basically, it's a fixed object on the map that the player right-clicks and causes, say, multiple pieces of wood to fall out.

[tiny zealot]

ok phew i was about to ask you to make sure your images aren't called Abigailred.png.png 😅

[coral solstice]

I am bewildered, tired, my brain is burning, but it WORKS

[coral solstice]

I’ve got the file extensions on so definitely not 😂😂

[gaunt orbit]

definitely c#

you would need a custom tile action, which requires scripting

[stable leaf]

Thanks!

[coral solstice]

Thank you so much for all your help Ichor 🫶🏼

[gaunt orbit]

it would be a great first c# mod though if you want to give it a try!

very easy

[tall shale]

so i've seen that data/shops is changing in the console, but i don't see the recipe appear in the game. is something here wrong? (it worked with CP)

[gaunt orbit]

so you'll notice that I called it "shopEntry.json". the json file you're loading should just be the shop entry itself, without all the other json faff around it from CP

IE. this part json { "Id": "(O)Arteesian.ExplosiveKegs_ExplosiveKeg (Recipe)", "ItemId": "(O)Arteesian.ExplosiveKegs_ExplosiveKeg", "IsRecipe": true, "Price": 5000 }

[cold summit]

hey if i added a piece of furniture how can I make it so players can get it without item spawner?

[gaunt orbit]

by default it will appear in the catalogue and randomyl for sale, you don't need to do anything

[cold summit]

I didn't see it in the catalogue :\

[gaunt orbit]

if you want to exclude if from both, you can use one of the optional furniture data fields to exclude it

[gaunt orbit]

can you paste the entry?

also !log

!log

[ocean sail]

Important note: Your computer username may appear in the log. If your username is your full name, please be aware of this before uploading it.

Please share your SMAPI log file. To do so:

1. Open this page: smapi.io/log.
2. Follow the instructions at the top of the page to upload the log file. (Don't copy & paste from the console window!)
3. After uploading, it will show a green box with a URL to share. Post that URL here.

Please do it even if you don't see any errors. This has useful info like what mods and versions you have, what the mods are doing, etc. If the issue didn’t occur in your last session, please load the game to the point where the issue occurs, then upload the log.

To use this command, type !log.

[lucid iron]

You can use cp's patch export Data/Shops to validate what you did

[gaunt orbit]

oh, that's not furniture, that's just a regular item

[lucid iron]

It'll get stuff added by C# too

[tall shale]

so i'm not specifying the shop here?

[gaunt orbit]

you need to edit Data/Furniture to add furniture, and the format is different

[gaunt orbit]

no, that's in the c#

see "ShopToAddTo"

[cold summit]

so how do I make it furniture?

[gaunt orbit]

[[Modding:Furniture]]

bah I'll just link it myself, one sec

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Items#Furniture

apparently doesn't have it's own page

[gaunt orbit]

edit Data/Furniture following the format here https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Items#Furniture

[uneven dagger]

Hello gurus. I'm attempting to load NPC's birthdays and favorite gifts at the beginning of the day with a C# mod. So far I've had good success loading birthdays! The gifts are a bigger beast. I can get the gift IDs after some work. Now I'm trying to load object data for name lookups with issues. Skipping most of the cruft, this works:

// Load the NPC gift tastes using SMAPI's Content API
var giftTastes = this.Helper.GameContent.Load<Dictionary<string, string>>("Data/NPCGiftTastes");

This does not work:

// Load the "Data/Objects" asset as a dictionary
var objectInfo = this.Helper.GameContent.Load<Dictionary<string, string>>("Data/Objects");

SMAPI output:

[My Mod] Error loading Data/Objects: My Mod failed loading content asset 'Data/Objects' from the game content.

I see Objects.xnb in the Data folder. Is that not what I think I need?

🕰️ No urgency to respond. I realize I need to run an errand super fast. I'll be back in 30 minutes. Thanks for your awesome knowledge in advance!

[gaunt orbit]

that line is technically correct, but it's possible you're either calling it before mods are ready or you have another mod that's broken.
that said, the BETTER way to do it would be to use DataLoader instead

[blissful panther]

You could also just use Game1.objectData. I'm 99% sure it should be automatically kept up to date with content changes? Might be more of a hassle to keep your cache up to date, though.

Though thinking about it...

It should be Dictionary<string, ObjectData>, yeah.

Not string, string.

[gaunt orbit]

good catch, I missed that

[blissful panther]

So did I until I looked at the type here!

[gaunt orbit]

the 1.5 brainrot is forever isn't it 💀

[lucid iron]

Usually u only need to maintain ur custom assets

For vanilla stuff there's DataLoader

Tho ofc u should cache anything u want to access every tick

[tall shale]

great, so it worked, tysm, but i need to create the recipe and item themselves somewhere. how do i define the recipe itself (what it contains of) and the item itself? i mean how do i do the stuff that was in the contex.json file

[gaunt orbit]

just make more json files and do the same sort of thing

like have one for your object, and another for your recipe

for loading your custom sprite you can just do a ev.LoadFrom and point it at your image

[cold summit]

this is not working :\

[cunning holly]

Is it possible and how simple/difficult is it to use ContentPatcher to change NPC characters' names? And if not ContentPatcher, which mod is the best to do that?
Just pointing me in the right direction would be a big help. Thank you. 🙏

[lucid iron]

It's possible to use only content patcher, but difficult for compatibility

[blissful panther]

I you just mean their display name, that should be one of the simpler things to do, I think?

[lucid iron]

There is no magic global token to edit for all dialog

[blissful panther]

Ah!

Unless you care about in-dialogue, yeah. Then...

[cunning holly]

Yeah. I thought it might be difficult. Since you can't change the name in one place without affecting something else. x\

[tiny zealot]

mentions in dialogue etc. are the tricky part

[lucid iron]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/29834

New topical mod

[tiny zealot]

however, i made a shitpost mod that changes everyone's name and it's pretty thorough. you could look at that one for help https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/28276

[lucid iron]

I believe this one just brute force edit all mentions of pierre

And yea if you want something fancier u will need C#

[blissful panther]

This is truly a Spenny vibe mod.

[tiny zealot]

i aim to please

[lucid iron]

It is easier than pre 1.6 at least

Since npcs have proper internal names now

[cunning holly]

I see. Thanks everyone. I'll look more into it. x]

[stable leaf]

This is jeautiful.

[whole raptor]

Names are easy, genders are harder

[gaunt orbit]

did you use the format the wiki shows? it's different from regular items

[cold summit]

yeah, but I am unsure how to implement it...

I put in what was in the wiki (with my item's name and texture) and it just gave me a chair lol

[gaunt orbit]

can you paste what you have?

[latent mauve]

this may or may not help: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nE9-qRqVA1LouhsVIMiu1b8QmJ7vGyToAksgcLztBnQ/edit?usp=sharing

Ignore the name there, it's primarily a Data/Furniture spreadsheet meant for use with CP

[fervent horizon]

I feel like I am going to facepalm when I see the solution, but I have tried many things and can't figure this out, as I am a C# newbie. I have a texture at

string iconRelativePath = $"assets/Generated/{farmName}_{horseName}.png";

That I want to set to horse.Sprite.textureName.Value

Everything I do, it sets it as an xnb, and i am honestly just stumped

[gaunt orbit]

"{{ModId}}_Khannukia": "{{ModId}}_Khannukia/decor/1 1/1 1/1/1000/2/Khannukia/0/{{InternalAssetKey:assets/Khannukia.png}}"
your entry should look like this

[gaunt orbit]

don't do it with any file extension

assets don't have those

[fervent horizon]

ok, so it will match name first, and if it doesn't find it, it assumes xnb

[latent mauve]

only filepaths use extensions, right?

[fervent horizon]

so that is why I am getting the .png.xnb

[latent mauve]

Well, direct file paths

[gaunt orbit]

files use extensions, assets do not. asset paths look like filepaths but they aren't really

[latent mauve]

gotcha

[gaunt orbit]

it's more like a lookup key

[latent mauve]

I really only fiddle with CP, so I'm used to referring to asset paths as Targets

gotta assimilate the new vocab 🙂

[iron ridge]

yay

[latent mauve]

Congrats! I just hit 6k this past weekend

[gaunt orbit]

wow nice!!

[fervent horizon]

So would I do something like this once I remove the png - horse.Sprite.textureName.Set(iconRelativePath);

[dusty scarab]

if I wanted to have my crop mod's carrots also be able to be fed to the horse to increase its movement speed (like vanilla carrots can), would that require C#, or can I do that in CP?

[latent mauve]

That makes me wonder if carrots have a native context tag or if that's hardcoded

[fervent horizon]

have you checked if there is a context tag

[dusty scarab]

I haven't seen a context tag for it, but I am also liable to miss things

[cold summit]

it works! but now it won't load the texture again :(((((((((

[tiny zealot]

frankly i would be shocked if feeding carrots to the horse were not hardcoded

[rancid temple]

Fairly hardcoded

[latent mauve]

Also the only context tags for carrot are: "color_orange", "dye_medium", "season_spring"

[lucid iron]

Well it's probably a ez transpiler

[dusty scarab]

awww, darn. that means it needs C#, doesn't it?

[lucid iron]

As long as you don't want some alt animation for it

[rancid temple]

horse.Sprite.textureName = Helper.ModContent.Load<Texture2D>(iconRelativePath);

[gaunt orbit]

I... didn't know you could combine is conditions like that. that's gotta be some v12 syntax

[fervent horizon]

Thanks, I will try that

[rancid temple]

Seeing as how it doesn't appear that you're loading it into the content pipeline

[gaunt orbit]

isn't textureName a string?

[rancid temple]

I am flying by the seat of my pants when it comes to is and similar things lmao

His relative path was a string wasn't it?

Also it would need the .png if you use ModContent.Load

[gaunt orbit]

yeah but you're loading a texture2d and setting a netstring to it

[rancid temple]

Oh, uhhh

[latent mauve]

Are you sure you have the spriteindex exact?

Also I think Texture might prefer an asset path instead of an internal asset key, but I am not sure that having an internal asset key would prevent it from working. It's not very hard to load your furniture PNG as a Target path to use in the Texture field, if you need to.

[rancid temple]

I did this once but I switched to loading to content pipeline so I'm winging it lmao

[latent mauve]

I fought so hard with furniture sprite indexes.

[dusty scarab]

tlitookilakin, are you the same Wren that made the Wren's Greenhouse mod?

[gaunt orbit]

internal asset key is an asset path, CP just makes an invisible Load patch for you automatically

[gaunt orbit]

yes I am!

[latent mauve]

Yeah, I'm more thinking it's the spriteindex being a butt

[dusty scarab]

I love your mod, I use it for my greenhouse every time :D

[latent mauve]

I don't see why InternalAsseyKey wouldn't work

[rancid temple]

Oh textureName is readonly anyways

[cold summit]

it worked before with the same index

[dusty scarab]

mind if I pm you a question about it?

[gaunt orbit]

sure!

[cold summit]

computers hate me lol

[gaunt orbit]

@fervent horizon so what you need to do is set textureName.value to a string that is an asset path, then you need to use AssetRequested to provide your local image for that asset path

assets and files are different things, and the game cannot directly read your mod files

[fervent horizon]

ok, I will try some things out

[latent mauve]

You shouldn't have to reverse the /'s if it's enclosed in the InternalAssetKey brackets, right?

I know for normal Textures you have to reverse and escape the / to become \\ for delimited lists

[dusky sigil]

so i'm trying to write code to make a monster move towards another monster and it's just... not working. i tried copying the structure of the code that makes monsters move towards the player but no dice

[latent mauve]

NikiMouse, if you look at the link I sent before, there's a "Furniture Code Examples for CP" tab that includes what you'd need if you wanted to load the Texture directly rather than though the InternalAssetKey

[gaunt orbit]

yeah because that's resolved before it hits the game

[latent mauve]

Yep, just trying to spitball ideas as to why it's not working right for NikiMouse

[cold summit]

nope still not working with \ \ :((

[latent mauve]

are there any errors in your SMAPI log with the initial code tlitookilakin gave you?

[cold summit]

no it works perfectly and the item is in the catalogue and everything, just no texture

[gaunt orbit]

can you post a screenshot of the folder your image is in?

[gaunt orbit]

does your log say anything?

[cold summit]

it said the asset didn't exist

[gaunt orbit]

can you enable file extensions and make sure it's actually a png?

[cold summit]

i chevked its properties and it says png

[gaunt orbit]

can you enable the file extensions anyways?

[cold summit]

and it worked before when it was just an object

[latent mauve]

And your content.json is directly in the folder above this?

[cold summit]

yes

[gaunt orbit]

well, you can always load it separately

[latent mauve]

Also I can't believe nobody fussed at me for having EditData instead of Load in the Code Example for Loading a Texture in that sheet. xD

It's fixed now.

I blame cold medicine brain

[frosty hull]

Hi, i have question about Facade
how can i write field from "private Item hoverItem" into public?

[uneven dagger]

var objectInfo = Game1.objectData;
This met my basic needs today. Thanks!

[gaunt orbit]

"Changes": [
  {
    "LogName": "Add Furniture",
    "Target": "Data/Furniture",
    "Action": "EditData",
    "Entries": {
      "{{ModId}}_Khannukia": "{{ModId}}_Khannukia/decor/1 1/1 1/1/1000/2/Khannukia/0/Mods\\{{ModId}}\\Furniture"
    }
  },
  {
    "LogName": "Load furniture sprites",
    "Target": "Mods/{{ModId}}/Furniture",
    "Action": "Load",
    "FromFile": "assets/Kannukia.png"
  }
]

@cold summit try this

[cold summit]

will do

[gaunt orbit]

sorry I made a typo, just fixed it

[latent mauve]

yeah, change the typo in the PNG to remove the h

[cold summit]

you're my heros

[fervent horizon]

welp, removing the png didn't work, the game still assumed it was looking for an xnb file An error occurred in the base update loop: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentLoadException: The content file was not found. ---> FileNotFoundException: Content\assets/Generated/Pumpkin Acres_Daximus.xnb ---> DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content\assets\Generated\Pumpkin Acres_Daximus.xnb'.

[tender bloom]

That’s the way the errors always look

The game always displays errors by XNB even when what it needs is png

[rancid temple]

You're still trying to feed a string into an asset spot

[gaunt orbit]

do you have your full code on the web anywhere? (ie. github/gitlab)

[fervent horizon]

I can throw it up real quick

[fervent horizon]

https://github.com/bsavage81/StardewMods

[gaunt orbit]

okay, yeah. so you're currently trying to use file paths as asset paths.
assets and files are two completely different things. The game can only "see" assets, not your files. You have to turn your files into assets to make them available to the game
you can do that using the AssetRequested content event

[rancid temple]

Why can't I just make a mod, why do I always have to have ideas

[lucid iron]

Are u scope creep agen

[rancid temple]

Yeeep

[lucid iron]

You can stop creep if release mod now then update later

[rancid temple]

Lol, delayed creep

[lucid iron]

Long Term Support

[rancid temple]

The problem is, I generate scope creep before I've even finished the base of the mod

[brittle ledge]

If it helps, when I've got a big project with lots of creep, I delineate between "needed for initial release" and "good in a future update". Like specifically ask yourself what is strictly desired for an initial release.

People love updates for more content!

[tight rivet]

congrats

[teal bridge]

Yes, learn to love the MVP.

[tall shale]

could you guys please tell where can i find so called "tall" sprites like casks, mayo and cheese machines, etc.?

[brittle pasture]

tilesheets/craftables

[brave fable]

fortunately, MVP can just as easily stand for Maximum Viable Product

which pairs well with my plans for Long-Term Suffering

boy i hope pathos appears by chance today so i can casually send a sly message about making EditData MoveEntries optionally not send a warning if the BeforeID/AfterID is not found in the list or like, have a fallback operation

[rancid musk]

I am good with Maximum Viable Products.

What's that? This feature is something like only 2 people ever would even use and definitely not worth delaying a release? But it sounds neat

[calm nebula]

We all know I only care about what user #1 wants

(User #1 wants gloves)

[rancid musk]

Knitting is just multithreading.

[drowsy pewter]

i also think it would be great if this was a trace or something. I have no control over other mods deleting the vanilla entries i use as reference

[dusky sigil]

just attempted to write baby's first harmony patch and my mod immediately crashed 🫠

[rancid temple]

Depending on what you tried to write, this is probably normal

I would say postfixing a monitor log would be the most "baby's first" you could do with the least likelihood of dying

[dusky sigil]

tried to use a prefix to prevent specific debuffs from applying

i have no idea what i've done wrong, just that it's clearly something

[brittle pasture]

you can always post your code if you're stuck

[brave fable]

we have no idea too 😌 a log could help that

[dusky sigil]

here's the relevant code, i'm sure i've made some kind of obvious mistake

[brave fable]

hint: log with $"Failed in buffing prefix:\n{e}" so you actually know why it failed

[teal bridge]

And what is monsterController, where is it populated?

[dusky sigil]

it's a custom class, it's populated in the mod entry

[teal bridge]

You also haven't matched the class to the method.

Game1.player.applyBuff is obviously a method on Farmer, not Game1.

[dusky sigil]

with that fixed it's finally giving me a useful error

System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException: Ambiguous match in Harmony patch for StardewValley.Farmer:applyBuff

[brittle pasture]

that means there are multiple applyBuff overloads on Farmer and the game doesnt know which one to patch

you need a 3rd parameter to AccessTools.Method that is an array of Types corresponding to the parameter type of the overload you want to patch

[lucid iron]

I thought you specifically wanted to ban the ghost from doing the debuff

Rather than prevent player from getting debuffed by nausea

[dusky sigil]

i want to specifically ban the ghost and the strong skeleton from doing debuffs

[lucid iron]

You need patch those subclasses of Monster

The nuance is just whether other sources like say modded monsters should be able to apply them

[dusky sigil]

right. doing it this way just seemed easier at the time but maybe i'm wrong

[brave fable]

yeah that happens a lot hahah

[brittle pasture]

yeah it is easier, patching the monsters need a transpiler

to switch out their debuffing projectiles

[tender bloom]

The monster classes are a bit monstrous sometimes

[rancid temple]

This way they'll still try to debuff won't they?

[tender bloom]

Don’t ask me how the serpents move

It’s black magic

[rancid temple]

The debuff just won't do anything when it hits the player

[tender bloom]

What about postfixing the methods and immediately removing the debuff?

[brittle pasture]

if you're going down the route of patching Farmer.applyBuff, perhaps patch BuffManager.Apply instead (which both applyBuff overloads are calling)

[tender bloom]

You could also do a prefix to record the farmer state before getting hit

This is less elegant but you’d avoid a transpiler

You can also add in conditions like the monster name matching what the vanilla monsters do if that helps any with modded monsters

RSV might be a good mod to test on, as they have tons of those nasty ghosts

You can either decide you do want to affect those monsters, or that you don’t, but I think they’re spawned via FTM like most mods adding monsters

[dusky sigil]

man i'll be honest, i'm pretty sure my mod is not at all compatible with modded monsters either way whoops

[tender bloom]

As long as it doesn’t crash the game, eh, sometimes that’s the way it goes. I know I personally don’t spend much time adding compat unless someone asks. And even then I sometimes put it off.

(And I doubt it would crash the game, Stardew modding is pretty chill)

[dusky sigil]

for me, compatibility is a "would be nice" kind of feature. not something for the minimum viable product

[teal bridge]

I have successfully crashed the game before. But it's not common.

[brave fable]

runtime engine execution error my beloved

fond memories of trying to harmony patch a specific switch statement function in communitycenter.cs that would crash the game only when debugging

[tender bloom]

I've crashed the game, but I was doing stupid stuff

[brave fable]

fond memories (i may have cried)

[tender bloom]

I had a brief time when I was causing AVEs using relatively normal harmony patches

I was mostly perplexed at how I managed it, iirc

[teal bridge]

Trying to use a struct like a class in IL is an almost guaranteed AVE.

Apparently it can also generate an execution engine error as happened to Pintail a couple weeks back.

[tender bloom]

I wasn't touching IL

That was the weird part

I forget what stupid mistake I was making, but I never do transpilers

[teal bridge]

Oh, I see, you meant postfixes etc.

[tender bloom]

So it was a prefix or a postfix

[teal bridge]

That does seem hard to do. Maybe marking (or forgetting to mark) some argument as ref, or using the wrong modifier? Or a version incompatibility, SMAPI's rewriter isn't perfect.

[rough valve]

Is there any way I could create a mod that changes the frog egg sprite to match its color? There is a framework mod called TrinketTinker so maybe I could use that.

[lucid iron]

There's always silly AVE stuff

[lucid iron]

TrinketTinker doesn't and likely will not support that, unless I finally make the hungry frog ability

[drowsy pewter]

the dumbest and most straightforward solution i have for this is to make a mod that lets you pick the frog color and just patch BOTH the item AND the frog sprites to be whatever color is chosen

Yes its dumb, and yes its easy

[lucid iron]

It has features for matching the icon to the variant (see the bat example) but it has no power over vanilla trinkets

[brittle pasture]

I guess it can be a standalone C# mod

just for the frog egg draw thing

[lucid iron]

Yeah

[brittle pasture]

I assign you, get to work

[calm nebula]

Great! You're nominated to make it

Crap

[lucid iron]

I think u can also reproduce the particular impl for variant icons, but for the froge

Which works by changing the parentsheetindex

No harmony required

To summarize u would

1. Change frog egg to different item icon texture, make colored variants on same sheet
2. Make custom machine output method based on the anvil one, change parentsheetindex here
3. Make a new machine rule on anvil that accept only frog egg and produces using the custom output method

[dusky sigil]

i fear i have done something else obviously wrong this time

System.Exception: Parameter "id" not found in method System.Void StardewValley.Buffs.BuffManager::Apply(StardewValley.Buff buff)

[brittle pasture]

that seems fine to me
did you save

[dusky sigil]

did i 🤔

if it didn't work because i forgot to build i'm going to flip a table

i can't believe it.... it's working

tested it and the patch actually works too, the debuffs aren't applying

[ocean sail]

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

[stable leaf]

Hey, my google skills are kind of failing me: Is there a good tutorial for GenericModConfigMenu? Or maybe is there a simple mod that has a small example I can look at? My mod will literally have one boolean checkbox for "Enabled" for the mod I want to create. (I'm experienced at coding, new to SDV modding.)

[brittle pasture]

are you making a CP or C# mod

[lucid iron]

I don't think you need a config like that

If people don't want your mod to take effect it's simple to uninstall

[rancid temple]

I've put a enabled bool in for when I have a mod that you can disable to finish up a day without issues

[teal bridge]

Yeah, having a master kill switch is generally Not Done, mods can be added or removed at will anyway.
But if you're trying to do this from C#, you probably want to start here: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/APIs/Integrations#Using_an_API

[brittle pasture]

GMCM itself has a guide here: https://github.com/spacechase0/StardewValleyMods/tree/develop/GenericModConfigMenu#for-c-mod-authors

[lucid iron]

Curious about the particular situation here

[teal bridge]

Betting it's one of those "unreleased" mods.

[rancid temple]

Nah, it's Custom Locks Updated, just in case there's some issue where my patches are making doors fully inoperable

Because I've had some conflict issues that literally cause that

[teal bridge]

....temporarily? That's bizarre.

[rancid temple]

And just disabling my mod makes them work properly and the issue can be reported to me

[lucid iron]

Oh the whole dtz business

[rancid temple]

It only happened during one of my updates so far, can't remember what I did wrong lmao

[uncut viper]

sounds similar in idea to my debug book that just removes all the book powers you got and refunds you, in case i fuck up again and cause issues from a broken power

doesnt hurt sometimes to have a "in case i fucked up, heres an easy out" button

[lucid iron]

Yeah ig these r more like "safely uninstall" buttons

[rancid temple]

I only add it in mods where it makes sense because I hate when I'm using a mod and a problem causes me to lose a whole day

[stable leaf]

Thanks. I'm doing it in C# since I have to have custom code anyway, and GMCM from CP seems easy enough to understand.

[mighty quest]

How the f** can this throw an NRE?

if (debris?.itemId is not null && debris.itemId.Value.StartsWith("(O)") &&
    Game1.random.NextBool())

[rancid musk]

debris.itemId.Value is null or Game1.random is null

[mighty quest]

itemId was null, so it shouldn't have gotten to Value

and Value shouldn't be null if itemId is not null, right?

Game1.random definitely is never null

[brittle pasture]

A non null netclass can hold a null value

[mighty quest]

is this better?

if (debris?.itemId?.Value is { } id && id.StartsWith("(O)") &&
    Game1.random.NextBool())

[rancid musk]

NetString, which I assume that is? Can absolutely hold a null value

[mighty quest]

yeah its NetString, but when VS broke it said itemId was null, so it should have stopped there

maybe it was refering to the Value

and I didn't pay attention

[brittle ledge]

Did STF get a 1.6.14 update?

[calm nebula]

It got a 1.6.9 update

Is it broken again

[brittle ledge]

Mmm let me see what version I have. I did all the updates I had in Stardrop.

[calm nebula]

I'll go grab the Nexus version when I get home at least

[brittle ledge]

Okay, I have ~20240227 while the newest is ~20241107 or so. I guess Stardrop didn't register it as an update because the difference is all after the alpha part.

[uneven dagger]

This evening's C# SMAPI mod puzzle: I know that a festival is today via Game1.isFestival. How would I go about getting today's festival name? Is there a good lookup chart for these variables? Maybe something to open up the .xnb files to take a look around?

... and now I need to run an errand. Ask and run! (back in 1 hour, no rush to respond and THANK YOU!)

[rancid temple]

Aren't festivals tracked by something dumb like checking the literal date?

[calm nebula]

!unpack lol

[ocean sail]

Follow this guide to unpack the game's content files in order to see and explore how the game data is structured.
It's helpful when making your own mods, or just to learn about how the game works!

To use this command, type !unpack.

[lucid iron]

it seems like 184 is as big as i could go with only a Chest.GetActualCapacity postfix

i get index out of range if its bigger than that

[calm nebula]

Chue chest framework???

[brittle pasture]

ehh 184 is big enough, anything to remove Better Chest

(no offense to BC, it's just beeg fridge is literally its only feature that I use lol)

[lucid iron]

oh yea fridge needs a separate transpiler lol

[lucid iron]

no this is me dodging better chests bc the config menu of that is the necronomicon

but i do wonder why it caps out at 184

i believe it's something to do with the gamepad neighbour id business

[lucid iron]

@brittle pasture i dont feel like making this a proper mod so pls just yoink it
https://github.com/Mushymato/StardewMods/blob/main/MatoTweaks/Tweak/ChestSize.cs

[brittle pasture]

(nice, thanks. I'll also probably just build that for myself lol, I don't feel like dealing with the possible torrent of reported compat issues from BC/other inventory mods)

[lucid iron]

indeed

[hard fern]

😔 better chests necronomicon config...

[gaunt orbit]

that's a weirdly specific number

my solution to "chest not big enough" was a custom slice-base IList implementation

[fallow musk]

How do I go about using Spacecore in a project. I have it imported and i want to try the spacechase0.SpaceCore_TriggerSpawnGroup spawnGroupId location includeRegions excludeRegion call

i couldnt find it in the Apis methods after initializing like this
SpaceCore.IApi SpaceCoreAPI = new Api();

[gaunt orbit]

InventoryMenu does just use IList<Item> for its inventory, and doesn't cache state, so you can just do a list that maps back to a specific slice of a larger list and it works great

[uncut viper]

thats just a trigger action action. you dont need to reference SpaceCore's API or dll at all for this

that is also not the way you'd want to get an API from another mod anyway. theres a wiki page that explains how somewhere but i dont remember off the top of my head

but regardless you dont need it here anyway

[fallow musk]

im dumb, i think ill skip using frameworks till im more experienced
Assume my goal is to spawn a monster in the farm programmatically, what is the best way to do it?

[lucid iron]

im psure spacecore's spawning stuff is meant for usage with content editing, usually content patcher

[fallow musk]

nvm figured it out

[lyric kestrel]

Hmm, I'm trying to add a new piece of mail on winter day 14, that doesn't overwrite the travelling merchant mail, but using Id "winter_14" does. I'm just using ContentPatcher, if that helps.
I tried a When statement for Season winter day 14, but that didn't seem to work?

[latent mauve]

Keys have to be unique, you can control when a letter shows up with trigger actions.

[lyric kestrel]

Hm, okay, thanks I'll try that route.

[light bramble]

question, for gift tastes for npcs do you have to use the notation that says if it's an object, big craftible, clothing, etc?

[brave fable]

only objects can typically be gifted, so no

[light bramble]

ok

also, random question. the only "sushi" item in vanilla is sashimi...right?

[brave fable]

nope, there's Maki Roll too

[light bramble]

ok, wow XD

that's so little

[brave fable]

love of cooking adds Eel Sushi and Roe Roll

and Sushi mod adds like a billion soosh

[lucid iron]

there should be a mod that adds ceviche

[light bramble]

Well idk if I could allow for modded items in a modded npc's gift tastes...

[brave fable]

not sure how you draw ceviche in 16x16 without it looking like confetti

[light bramble]

Like wouldn't I need a conditional?

[brave fable]

it just compares names, you can add whatever items you like

it won't explode if it can't find Blueberry.EveryFlavourBeans.EggJam in the item registry, but if you give an npc that item and it's in their gift tastes, it'll use that taste

[lucid iron]

yea it doesnt care if it has a non existent id

u could use string operations to conditionally append if u want but not important

[tiny zealot]

you can also use context tags for gift tastes (context tags my beloved). for example, Maru likes edible_mushrooms

[latent mauve]

Bonus if you can use a standardized context tag for a taste, yep

[light bramble]

Is there a context tag for sushi? XD

[brave fable]

that's true, you can give them food_sushi for sushi items

[light bramble]

how do I find the context tags???

[brave fable]

they'll take anything from Maki Roll to Roe Roll to Snail Sashimi

use help ingame, there's a console command for it somewhere

[latent mauve]

It will be in the object/item data for them

[light bramble]

so I did list_items....

TIME TO SEARCH CONSOLE COMMANDS

[brave fable]

i believe you want list_contexttags

which is also a great way to increase your log by 5mb

but like, less 5mb

[light bramble]

LOL

[brave fable]

on a mission to draw the stupidest & floppiest cats for ur home

[latent mauve]

There is also debug iq ITEM_CONTEXT_TAG food_sushi probably if you just want to check if that one is a valid tag. It should open a shop menu with all those items that match in it

If I read the wiki right

[tiny zealot]

floppy cats you say 👀

[faint ingot]

is jumping around days/seasons with world_setday something that can fairly easily mess up your save file? I've had a couple files now go south while testing my mod, while new ones seem to work fine. I'm hoping it's all the debug commands and not something I'm mis-coding.

[light bramble]

that didn't work, however, doing a patch export on Data/Objects did

now I have all the items...and their context tags

[brave fable]

oh, i was thinking of https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Console_commands#listtags

[tender bloom]

debug listtags

[light bramble]

that didn't work

[brave fable]

well it does work, it just only lists the tags for the held item

[light bramble]

[Console Commands] Sent debug command to the game, but there was no output.

Oh...I have to HOLD the item...

😐

[tardy adder]

Remind me in 10 hours to check charity box compat, ponder dewb multiplayer

[patent lance]

grumbles, mutters some vulgarities about humans...13midnight in particular... fiiiine. (#6396262) (10h | <t:1733234637>)

[tardy adder]

The latter is really big ponder... I don't know

[brave fable]

incredibly annoyed i didn't make a dewbug for my bug collection given how many times i've typed it in the console while trying to send commands

[tardy adder]

dewbug would be so cute

[light bramble]

what does the tag dye_strong mean???

[next plaza]

Brb adding a dobug command that introduces a bug to random mod on your machine, permanently

[tender bloom]

it affects how much the color changes when you dye something

with the dye pots or sewing machine

[light bramble]

ah

[faint ingot]

question - I have a few assets from the base game "furniture.png" that I use in my custom location, and unlike some other base files the game will not find it automatically. Is it like a no-no to include the furniture.png in my location directory for it to use? Should I copy out the pieces I need onto my mod-specific sprite sheet?

[drowsy pewter]

theres also a full dump on this page under a dropdown https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Context_tags

[lucid iron]

furniture isnt under Maps/*, you need to load it again somehow yes

[faint ingot]

blah of course the one sprite I want to use for Jodi isn't present on her winter outfit, now I have to make it and patch it in, in case my event happens in winter

I don't even know what the sprite is used for in vanilla?

[teal bridge]

I'm getting a curious warning that I've never seen before, does anyone know what it is?

0>CSC: Warning CS8785 : Generator 'JsonSourceGenerator' failed to generate source. It will not contribute to the output and compilation errors may occur as a result. Exception was of type 'InvalidOperationException' with message 'Unreachable'.

It seems to have something to do with the ModBuildConfig, but hell if I can figure out what.

[subtle saffron]

It was the only way to really go about it

[light bramble]

what happened??? XD

[teal bridge]

It doesn't really seem to be affecting the build, but I'm worried that something's not getting updated and maybe there's something stale in the zip.

(Actually, it could also be in the ModTranslationClassBuilder - but like the mod itself, it seems to be updating despite the warning)

[latent mauve]

means it's not a valid context tag most likely. 😛

[light bramble]

So this is what happens though when I do this, debug iq ITEM_CONTEXT_TAG food_sushi

It seems that ITEM_CONTEXT_TAG just doesn't work

[latent mauve]

weird.

[uncut viper]

ITEM_CONTEXT_TAG isnt an item query is it? its just a GSQ

that can be put in the PerItemCondition field, but isnt an item query itself

[light bramble]

even tried with edible_mushroom

[latent mauve]

yeah, there's a different way to use that I think

ah, gotcha

[light bramble]

I just wanna find all the food_sushi items 😭

[brittle pasture]

doesn't seem like the debug command supports PerItemCondition unfortunately

you can patch export Data/Objects and get all items in-game, and search for food_sushi

[light bramble]

_< guess I'm back to doing that.

This is a wierd tag...fish_talk_demanding

[rancid temple]

Has to do with the way the fish pond item requests are worded

[hard fern]

if it doesnt look to be used, then maybe it's not in the game at all? i know some characters ( like penny) have weird leftover sprites that go unused

[brittle ledge]

You could set the event to not fire in winter, if you want

Wow okay way to not pay attention to where the timeline ends, discord

[faint ingot]

I'll do that if my patch attempt doesn't go smoothly the first time

aaaannd it didn't work 😛 why am i so bad at this { "Action": "EditImage", "Target": "Characters/Jodi", "FromFile": "assets/NPCs/Sprites/Jodi_Winter_Kneel.png", "ToArea": { "X": 16, "Y": 192, "Width": 16, "Height": 32 }, },

[hard fern]

your full json?

!json

[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.

[hard fern]

and, what exactly isn't working?

[latent mauve]

Wouldn't this be her 'helping Evelyn garden' sprite, if it was used?

[brittle ledge]

(There's also the fact that sprite mods are not going to have your sprite and may not support it)

[latent mauve]

There is dialogue that mentions that she helps out sometimes and that would track for not being in use during winter.

Though I have never seen her actually help, she just says she does sometimes

[ornate locust]

that makes sense

[faint ingot]

that's a good point, I guess I'll just make it not trigger in winter after all

and yeah it looks like gardening, i was using it to have her kneel by the mine ladder after Kent goes down to look for her son

that should do it, right? "239790008/t 1700 2400/f Shannon 2000/z winter":

or does winter need to be capitalized? the wiki doesn't say

[hard fern]

it doesnt

[latent mauve]

See, I am absolutely the type of person that would use the fact that PerItemCondition works to just add them all to a Shop entry and find them that way xD

Is it necessary? Absolutely not. Does it save me reading through a text document? Yes.

[brittle ledge]

Yeah, the winter should be lowercase iirc

Are you updating an old mod btw?

[faint ingot]

no its mine, not published yet

but SOON [tm]

[light bramble]

yeah imma just do the text document....would like some more sushi mods tho XD

[latent mauve]

Haha

[brittle ledge]

Just to point out, you don't have to make your event ID a number anymore 🙂 You can make it descriptive, like {{ModId}}.JodyEvent1.

[faint ingot]

Yeah I saw someone mention that the other day, its too late now though if I changed it somewhere I'd miss a reference to it somewhere else

[latent mauve]

Remind me in 5 days and I can make a mini-mod specifically to add a shop entry that you can change the item queries on for what should probably be standard food tags.

[patent lance]

for a moment there I was gonna say no, absolutely not. but fireredlily? yeah, yeah i will. (#6396408) (5d | <t:1733636294>)

[brittle ledge]

I had the same issue because I started my current WIP NPC in 1.5, but with the number of events she has it's SO much easier keeping track

[latent mauve]

Lol Uber

[brittle ledge]

But the old events in Jorts and Jean stayed on numbers just in case there's a mod tied to them somewhere

[light bramble]

So, fun fact. Did you know that the sushi project mod has references to Jorts and Jean?

[lucid iron]

Hm is there legit no debug command for this

[lucid iron]

Ik there's debug iq but I forgor if it takes per item

[light bramble]

I'm just going through a list of items really

What does fish_upright do? XD

Also love that brown eggs still give white color

[brittle pasture]

looking at the code it seems to change how the fish swims inside a fish tank pond

[hard fern]

i mean if you grind up eggshells, they're all gonna look egg

[brittle pasture]

my brain is too mushed for math rn to really say what it does though, though you can reference the fish that has that tag and compare it against the fish that doesn't

correction: not fish tank, fish pond

[tender bloom]

potentially it's like squids?

[light bramble]

question. is there a limit to how many items can be in a loved gift pool for gift tastes?

[brittle pasture]

I don't think so

[faint ingot]

blah I'm getting my code I'll cleaned up to publish and now I see a note to myself to create a night market schedule for my NPCs. Do I care any more? hmmmmm

[latent mauve]

Honestly there is a good chance that I will end up making that mini mod tomorrow if I keep thinking about it

Only thing stopping me right now is that it's cold and I don't want to get out of bed when I need to go to sleep soon

[brittle ledge]

I seem to recall discussing that with Bea, yeah!

[light bramble]

could you enlighten me on if there is a limit on how many items can be in a pool for each category for gift tastes?

Also, say I put food_seafood as a context tag for liked gifts, but have food_sushi in loved but have eel foods in hated...will the food_seafood have priority?

[hard fern]

I think there's something to check for priority on the wiki, but can't remember where it was....

Or what it was for.

Which i realize is unhelpful

[light bramble]

I just want to make sure that if I put spicy eel in hated gifts, it won't conflict with food_seafood in liked/loved gifts for gift tastes

[hard fern]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Gift_taste_data

[light bramble]

that does not help me at all as I do not understand if it would work for personal gift tastes

Like it says it will override universal tastes

but idk if it will do for my specific problem

[proud wyvern]

What’s your specific problem? All I’m seeing is a theoretical question, and I’m not sure where it came from

[light bramble]

So I want to have a liked gift taste list that includes items with the context tag of food_seafood but any food made with or of eels needs to be in the hated gift taste list. If I put the context tag of food_seafood into liked, will that then override having spicy eel in the hated list?

[proud wyvern]

then the page above does list how that would conflict and what would happen then

in a pseudocode format though

[light bramble]

then I either don't see it, or don't understand where it is mentioning that

[proud wyvern]

it's just generally complicated

[uncut viper]

its the big block of pseudocode at the bottom of the page

under "How a gift taste is determined"

thats the order in which it figures out the final gift taste result

[rancid temple]

This method is long lmao, it checks each list so many times

[hard fern]

Yeaahhh it's long

[proud wyvern]

but generally it looks like loved items > hated items > liked items > disliked items > neutral items

universal tastes > personal tastes

so it first does the love>hate>like>dislike>neutral for universal tastes, then again for personal

stops on the first it finds

[light bramble]

so if food_seafood was put into loved items then the spicy eel would be considered as loved...

[proud wyvern]

pretty much

[light bramble]

😐

[rancid temple]

Universal doesn't seem to return first found, but personal does?

[proud wyvern]

wait no, it doesn't stop on universals

yeah

i just woke up, forgive me

[rancid temple]

So if you set personal preferences it should choose the individual item taste before context tag

[light bramble]

well....poop

[rancid temple]

But if you rely only on universal, it'll choose context tag because that's checked last

[light bramble]

This makes my gift tastes thing much more difficult to do.....

[rancid temple]

Probably a reason as to why vanilla gift tastes are so boring

[light bramble]

because I can't use the context tag if the person I am making this NPC for wants seafood in the loved category

so I will have to MANUALLY put each id in for the seafood that match the criteria that being no eel.

[rancid temple]

This definitely seems like a "gonna have to test" moment, but I'm pretty sure if you put the context tag and then a personal preference for the specific items you want to deviate then it should work

Though I guess that would require the context tag in the universal for everyone?

[light bramble]

I mean I'll try that first...still trying to get all the context tags.

[rancid temple]

Which would be a different problem lmao

Actually context tag in personal should still choose item first

Since it returns as soon as it matches and it checks each category for specific items before checking for context tags

[light bramble]

Love that the wiki says there's a context tag of category_gem but when I search it in Data/objects there's no item with that tag.

[proud wyvern]

could be implicit

[rancid temple]

Not all context tags are in Data/Objects

Many are added by the context tag adder script thing

Totally spaced the name of it lmao

[light bramble]

ah

still needing to get all the context tags for items....fun

[proud wyvern]

here it is https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Items#Categories

basically if the item has a category of -2, it gets the category_gem tag

[light bramble]

Yeah but I also need for some modded items, so I am still needing to go through the patch export of data/objects

[proud wyvern]

i'm just saying where the category_gem comes from

[light bramble]

oh...sorry. am the dumb

it's also like 11pm...and I work tomorrow...I should get sleep

[pseudo roost]

Hey you made the Shiko mod? Well I mtrying to activate her 6 heart event and it refuses to work.

[rancid temple]

That was in 2019, pretty sure nobody has been able to get ahold of Papaya in years

[hard fern]

Wow... 2019

Does shiko even work nowadays?

[rancid temple]

I imagine not very well, seen at least a couple people trying to update without permission so I had assumed not at all

[fallow musk]

is it possible to add a single extra inventory slot? or is it only possible in multiples of 12.
Will the UI handle such an odd number of slots

[deep cypress]

Any tricks to quickly making animations in Tiled? As in, any way to do it quicker than making a million clicks and praying to all the Goddesses that I don't get the count wrong and create a horrifying monster?

[rancid temple]

Check out Bigger Backpack, it's possible but it's a ton of Harmony patching, the UI won't auto handle anything for you, you have to do everything to add those extra slots

[deep cypress]

This is the horror of which I speak, and also, I have trouble making good gifs.

[patent lance]

@calm nebula: do a wiki edit (36h ago)

[cold summit]

hey! so I tried to add a recipe as well as an item of furniture and it wouldn't let me put both in the same "content" json file. what should i do?

[hard fern]

!json

[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.

[cold summit]

it loads the furniture piece but not the recipe

[deep cypress]

Data/Recipes isn't where u want to load the png, methinks

I have done a recipe, but it has been a while, lemme look into the wiki...

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Recipe_data

U might want to review this. Are u in 1.6?

[cold summit]

yes\

[unique sigil]

i copy a map with an already-working waterfalls tilesheet, then animate everything else, THEN i use that .tmx as a template and copy it every time i want to make a new map.

[hallow prism]

There is a plugin for quick animation of several tiles

For aseprite

[unique sigil]

huh, TIL

i used to try and follow the "export animated tilesheet as .tsx" trick outlined in the wiki, but i keep running into issues that got tedious to fix, so i'm sticking to that template method

[cold summit]

so I changed it so it's seperate but now i'm getting an error notice

[unique sigil]

Your brackets are incorrect i think

[unreal spoke]

Missing a closing one for the first patch.

[unique sigil]

upload your json here, or use a program with a built-in validator
https://smapi.io/json

missing a closing bracket and the second patch has an extra bracket too

[unreal spoke]

Wait, no, the indentation is just very weird.

[unique sigil]

nah youre right, the EditData one is missing a closing bracket. and the Load action has an extra closing bracket after FromFile.

[unreal spoke]

Okay, first thought was right after all. I’ll leave this to your capable hands.

[deep cypress]

Thanks! I disovered the predominance of my error was my mermaids weren't quite lined up! I also simplified my count out method! Mermaid Farm now has mermaids dancing, singing, and waving! (I was gonna make TAS's, but I cannot figure out for the life of me how to successfully edit the Farm in C#).

[cold summit]

I don't see it 😦

[unique sigil]

use the json validator linked for you.

[cold summit]

no idea how to fix that

[unique sigil]

you are missing brackets, if you retype them in the program you use (what do you use?) to make the .json, there will usually be both brackets added automatically

[hard fern]

if you look at the thing the validator is yelling about, you can get an idea for what the issue is

[unique sigil]

if you want to add them manually, you need another closing bracket after the Entries in the Edit Recipe part

and an opening bracket before the "Load recipe sprites" part

[devout otter]

Watch out with how your opening brackets pair with your closing brackets.

[cold summit]

ok thank you lol

i think i got it!

the recipe is not showing up in the game 😦

do i also need to add it as an object?

[hard fern]

yes

well

you need to add the product of your recipe

to the game

[cold summit]

it works!!

[proven narwhal]

yeah i really cant figure out how to add a custom map overlay 😭

[calm nebula]

Mrrp

Remind me in 12 hours to edit the wiki

[patent lance]

I love meanies, so for you atravita? absolutely (#6396871) (12h | <t:1733271664>)