making-mods-general

[ocean sail]

wat

To use this command, type !stopmodding.

[lucid mulch]

though for that method, if you just want the who.changeFriendship(amount, this) to do something different, I'd just do a postfix that does what you want that takes into account the original amount already being added

[calm nebula]

(Or prefix and ref the amount and change it there.)

[vernal crest]

Nobody is expecting you to already know how to do anything. Go find SpaceCore on Nexus, find a link to its documentation, and then search that for "stable". See if that gives you any results.

[lucid iron]

Iirc the fishing minigame is BobberBar

[opaque field]

I want it to slightly increase it (to like 80 instead of 60) when you do be chatting with someone

[lucid iron]

But yeah dw about all that get ur dev environment setup first

[lucid mulch]

oh yeah ref prefix could do it too, I wasn't fully paying attention and didn't see it be input params

[opaque field]

Ooh okay. I’ve got the nuget for pathos and harmony set up

[calm nebula]

Ie
private static void Prefx(ref int amount) { amount =Game1.player.HasBuff("MyFancyBuff") ? amount * 2: amount;}

[lucid mulch]

doesn't harmony get upset with private

[calm nebula]

Typed that on my phone with no access to anything so it might be very wrong

[vernal crest]

I think chu's message about getting the dev environment set up was to pitt

[calm nebula]

Nah harmony is fine with private

[lucid mulch]

I swear I got errors every time I did private, but ah well

[calm nebula]

I've always done private methods

[sudden lantern]

You are right there is no result without effort. I will try to learn it, at least I can give it 30 hours.

[calm nebula]

https://github.com/atravita-mods/StardewMods/blob/b26af1691335facebe60e551c098635c95513d14/AtraCore/HarmonyPatches/FishPondPatches/FishColorPatches.cs#L18

[lucid mulch]

might be different for attribute vs .Patch()

[calm nebula]

(Thank you Patbos for making this one 100% obsolete)

It's not any different

[lucid iron]

Yeah i always do private methods too

And i do manual patching

HarmonyMethod just reflects anyways so it shouldn't care

[calm nebula]

https://github.com/atravita-mods/StardewMods/blob/b26af1691335facebe60e551c098635c95513d14/SlightlyMoreDehardcoding/HarmonyPatches/LetterMenuPatch.cs#L23

[lucid mulch]

I don't know what I'm misremembering then

as I have to correct vs every time it generates the method to make harmony be happy

[opaque field]

Do I put that right into the csproj?

[lucid iron]

I think i mainly need to correct the signature?

Like make it ret void or bool and put the right args

[lucid iron]

No that's for cs

[winged crow]

hello again, I'm still editing the frontier farm map, from SVE, everything works until this point, I just did one last edit, I moved grandpa's shed a few tiles back, managed to edit the warp to go in, but I cannot edit the warp to go out, from the shed to the farm, I edited the warp in the map properties of the shed, both ruined and repaired, but I still get warped to the original coords, since gradpa's shed can be used in different farms of SVE, I feel that it's not that simple... any ideas? I just need to warp about 3 tiles back

[hallow prism]

ok so, for my issue with events and token not being ready, what are my options? if i do a trigger action using the same tokens it'll create the same issue, right?

or will it works fine if it's an end of day trigger action because at this point the tokens will be set?

[calm nebula]

My guess, lumi, it becomes ready at day2

[hallow prism]

yeah but that isn't really consistent

like, if a player plays one day at a time pretty regularly for whatever reason, they can spend some weeks without having stuff working properly?

[opaque field]

Ok ok NPC idea : Axel from Kingdom Hearts?

How hard will I get sued

[gentle rose]

likely won’t?

especially if you redraw the assets

[opaque field]

Perf

I definitely plan to draw the assets

[gentle rose]

(by which I mean draw your own from scratch obviously, not trace existing ones)

great!

[opaque field]

rabid foaming just uh… gonna go… do that now lmao

[devout otter]

(There's an entire expansion with characters from another game, after all.)

[opaque field]

That is an extremely good point

[tiny zealot]

nintendo has not (yet!) gone after all the pokemon mods. if nintendo's lawyers have not attacked, you are unlikely to see action from any others

[opaque field]

Oh Nintendo. The king of “maybe nintendont”

Is there a way to add “this NPC likes all things that are yellow?” Like a context tag?

[brittle pasture]

sure, most items have a color tag like color_yellow

[opaque field]

Kinda like how penny likes artifacts?

[brittle pasture]

(Lani SBV actually loves, or loved, all yellow things so you can gift her sap lol)

sure

[opaque field]

Yay! My NPC Iggy also loves all things yellow :p ty

[quartz arrow]

Okay so im trying to figure out how to add Aquarium Sprites for my fish. Ik they need a lil asset.png for that and I've looked at some other mods info on it but was wondering if there was a breakdown/tutorial anyone know of for how the code works for it specifically?

[opaque cobalt]

what category would the new appearance style modding for outfits be under? I dum dum and can bring no gum gum

[royal stump]

There's info here about Data/AquariumFish, if you're already familiar enough with CP to add an entry to it: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Fish_data#Aquarium_fish
So each entry is formatted like this:
"Your fish's item ID": "sprite index/fish type/idle animation/darting around animation/your loaded sprite's Target/hat position",

[quartz arrow]

ooh ok ok yes that makes sense

i was trying to figure out what each point of data was lol

[royal stump]

sometimes I forget a bunch of assets are still unlabeled text strings like that

[dusk terrace]

Game1.clientBounds is just XNA conversion for Game1.viewport, it all makes sense now

[carmine moat]

can anyone tell me the context of why gil made that face? pic on right

[round dock]

Something to do with the eggs you get in the SC challenge during the festival

[opaque cobalt]

Is this how to do appearance modding or have I misunderstood the wiki? Would I change "Indoors" to "weather"?

    {    
        "Action": "EditData",
        "Target": "Data/Characters",
        "Entries": {
            "TL13.SeasonalPenny": {
                "Appearance": [
                    {
                        "Id": "Outdoors",
                        "Indoors": false,
                        "Portrait": "Portraits/Penny_{{Season}}_{{Random:Sun, Sun_2, Sun_3}}",
                        "Sprite": "Characters/Penny_{{Season}}_{{Random:Sun, Sun_2, Sun_3}}"
                    },
                    {
                        "Id": "Default",
                        "Portrait": "Portraits/Penny_{{Season}}_{{Random:Rain, Rain_2, Rain_3}}",
                        "Sprite": "Characters/Penny_{{Season}}_{{Random:Rain, Rain_2, Rain_3}}""
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },

[carmine moat]

I mean how is he reacting, is he shocked or did something fall on him? Im trying to make a mod for him

[round dock]

Ah, shocked with the amount of eggs you collected, I believe

[carmine moat]

okay thank you :3

[brittle pasture]

1. The character name is Penny, not TL3.SeasonalPenny. You're editing an existing NPC's data.
2. You want to use TargetField to put entries into Appearance, right now you're wiping all of Appearance (and every other field in NPC data) with your own
3. You need a condition field for your season/weather condition
4. Related to 4, you shouldn't need tokens and can just list them out directly. Tokens would still work but then there's little difference to replacing portraits directly since you're still asking CP to reload the asset every time the token changes. This is not important though
5. Pls use either the json parser or put your code between triple backticks, discord formatting is messing it up

[opaque cobalt]

okay thanks. I just went off of how the wiki formatted it to see if easy enough to change from what I was currently using. Is there a more indepth article on how to work the appearance modding more than the short blurb in "Modding:NPC data"?

This is what I currently have which I was told is the old way to do the seasonal outfits

[patent lance]

@hallow prism: actually do that uber pls (5h ago)

[brittle pasture]

https://stardewmodding.wiki.gg/wiki/Tutorial:_Adding_Seasonal_Outfits_via_Appearances

[opaque cobalt]

thanks

[dusk terrace]

can SMAPI's reflection API handle methods/fields that only exist in the android assembly?

I imagine the value would be null for PC..?

should I be concerned over performance cost if it's in a draw call?

[rigid oriole]

I think smapi reflection is cached?

[royal stump]

it would probably help to store the reflection object somewhere, but it's hard to say whether it'll matter without testing
https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/APIs/Reflection#Fields_and_properties

also yeah, the objects are just null if the target doesn't exist* unless you set required to true when getting them for a field/etc

[opaque field]

I am thinking of making CP video tutorials do we like this idea?

I've been streaming while I do modwork and husband just kinda suggested that I should share my streams/recordings to help people learn

[rigid oriole]

I think a lot of people like to learn things from videos, but they're really hard to keep updated

[dusk terrace]

hmm I guess it wouldn't hurt to keep references to fields of objects that never get destroyed/created...
thanks

[rigid oriole]

So if something changes, the info is outdated

[opaque field]

hm, valid. maybe I'll just keep to streaming my modwork then haha

[opaque cobalt]

Is this the proper way to handle appearance modding? Also, to check my comprehension. These two test outfits would have a 50/50 chance of applying as they have the same weight and only appear during the season spring and weather conditions I laid out correct?
https://smapi.io/json/none/da35ee73f1574d35842bd2db7339e1c4

[quartz arrow]

do i need to add new crabpot fish to the Locations.json or are they good because they have the correct like, ocean/freshwater tag?

[brittle pasture]

That looks good but do test in game

[brittle pasture]

should be fine (crab pots only read from Data/Fish)

[calm nebula]

Smapi itself caches it but I tend to go all the way of creating a delegate

[urban patrol]

can the hideShadow event command not take farmer? it's telling me no actor found with name 'farmer'

[tiny zealot]

correct. decompile says it only works on NPCs

[urban patrol]

bummer :(

oh well probably only i notice it because i'm the mod author, i bet most people won't care

[opaque field]

so, my mod splits into 3 different adventure 'paths' based on acumulated 'bratpoints' is there a way to make that into a dynamic token or something so if I need a vanilla event to run a specific way I could say When: "Bratpath" or etc

or should I just do it via PLAYER_HAS_STAT

[lucid iron]

Well the previous suggest was to lock it in as a mailflag

So that u can use it in When as well as gsq

[opaque field]

right but I'm trying to integrate the vanilla events storyline with mine T.T

[lucid iron]

Then use player has stat whenever able

[opaque field]

okie

hm maybe once on a certain path I can also create "Blush" and "Wolf" points to track each path separately too

[twin wadi]

how hard would it be to make monsters be able to talk after you meet a certain condition (with c# obv)? like, when you click on them, a dialogue box appears, with randomized dialogue

[gentle rose]

it would mean having to do a lot of reading the decompile yourself

and probably some harmony patching, since I don’t think monsters are npcs?

[royal stump]

I've considered that but never actually tested it, since yeah, monsters are a subclass of NPC and just don't react to interactions normally

getting them to care about a dialogue asset might be weird, though

[gentle rose]

ah, that makes it a little bit easier but not by much

[tiny zealot]

almost certainly some harmony crimes involved

[gentle rose]

assuming you still want them to act as monsters. If you want them to just turn into normal npcs then you can probably do that with content patcher ngl

(and a little bit of something to get rid of the original version of the monster)

[tiny zealot]

(in particular, adding interactions to an NPC usually involves skip prefixing on checkAction, which is a crime but also sometimes necessary)

[royal stump]

if you don't mind the base game monsters not talking, you could spawn a talking subclass with FTM

[gritty sandal]

how do I commission someone to make him into an npc... Marriageable npc.

[gentle rose]

!commissions

[ocean sail]

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

To use this command, type !commissions.

[twin wadi]

so the thing im thinking for my case is making the monster "spawn" in the mines randomly like normal monsters, wander a bit, and no longer chase you, OR chase you still but no longer attack

just a specific monster, not all monsters

[gentle rose]

changing the monster’s pathfinding code will also require harmony crimes

[twin wadi]

...maybe i could just leave them as chasing you but not attacking?

[tiny zealot]

i think Sen (lurking in the dark) does some shenanigans wrt non-hostile shadow people so you can maybe check out how that was done

[uncut viper]

look pretty much any way you slice it you're likely gonna need harmony

[lucid iron]

I think rather than talking via dialogue box it's easier to have s pool of textoverhead

It sounds funny maybe i toss into monster variety 4 u

[gentle rose]

for context, in the mod ideas repo, harmony earns you an immediate “Hard” difficulty rating. This has been debated a little bit but it is generally considered to be on the more difficult end of C# mods

oh right guys, we were thinking about C# and content patcher but forgot about the third mechanism for making stardew mods

nerd sniping a framework author

[lucid iron]

This wouldn't need harmony cus all u do is pick a random monster every 5s or something and fetch a random line for them

[twin wadi]

i could work with that, that might make more sense too

[uncut viper]

naturally if you nerf your original idea enough eventually it will become easy (and also not really what you wanted) /lh

[brittle pasture]

I need the slimes in the mines to greet me good morning even while my blade is cutting them in half

[patent lance]

New quote added by irocendar as #6485 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/156109690059751424/1392205231449702511)

[gentle rose]

I’m just glad quote 6480 is by 6480

[uncut viper]

that said chu them talking won't solve the hurting you part don't forget

[lucid iron]

Yeah if i make this it just becomes they say Hi >:((( and then still bonk u

So perhaps just make the c# for this specially

[twin wadi]

yeah im open to learning c# for sure, but harmony sounds... terrifying from what i've read in the wiki

[gentle rose]

the wiki somewhat exaggerrates

[rocky chasm]

Hullo, I’ve got a question regarding two ideas for an NPC and how hard they’d be to implement on a scale of “very easy” to “… just don’t”

The first one is an irregular schedule after marriage, as in NPC spouse spawns in their old house between a couple of days to a week per season.

[uncut viper]

for further context on harmony, I don't think the repo is right to instantly label it hard, because sometimes it's also like the easiest mods to make

[rocky chasm]

Second is overworld dialogue/reaction changes dependent on if the player has a weapon selected or not when speaking to said NPC (they’re scared of weapons for… reasons)

Noob terms preferred, I haven’t started with anything .json related yet, just planning

[uncut viper]

like, a skipping prefix that returns false on some condition is dead easy, but it is harmony

[gentle rose]

pretty famously hard, I can’t remember if anyone even does it right now

[gentle rose]

depends but probably easy with BETAS

[uncut viper]

so basically SOME harmony is really tough and some is really easy, so don't feel too intimidated by it

[tawny ore]

I think the harmony solutions are often the more obvious answer to things, the problem is when it comes to compatibility, it's the easiest to do irresponsibly in a way that negatively impacts other mods

[uncut viper]

BETAS can check if the player is currently wielding a weapon but changing EVERY dialogue to put a condition at the front of it would be annoying

And impossible without c#

well impossible if you want it to work for other NPCs I mean

[gentle rose]

I figured they just have a set dialogue for if you have a weapon? but I may have misunderstood

[uncut viper]

yes, but how do you swap to it?

[gentle rose]

fair

[lucid iron]

Once again what if it's just text over head

[rocky chasm]

I feared as much. The only instance I can think of is Elliot's book promo tour in vanilla. Would it be easier to make it a regular thing and just set the spawn point there for set days?

[brittle pasture]

$query

[tiny zealot]

there's a whole ongoing thing about marriage zero schedules, if memory serves. part of the problem is that marriageDuties says "lol no" and teleports them back to the farmhouse afterward

[brittle pasture]

annoying but possible...? (Edit: yeah I saw the post above, you'd have to modify every line)

[rocky chasm]

Yes, pretty much

[lucid iron]

Elliott tour just makes him invisible

[gentle rose]

avi did some betas dialogue swapping crimes to do with their random dialogue

[uncut viper]

BETAS can react to talking to them but by then it's too late to change the dialogue

[lucid iron]

I guess u can make ur spouse invisible?

[gentle rose]

oh I see what you mean now

[tiny zealot]

works for elliott

[uncut viper]

(i don't remember if Custom Schedule Keys overrides marriage schedules or not)

[gentle rose]

do custom npcs get to have job schedules / fun schedules after marriage?

[rocky chasm]

Meaning, they would just be gone for the day in general? 🤔

[gentle rose]

yup

[tiny zealot]

i don't think you can use job. maybe fun (does it default to monday? i forget). but you can definitely just use weekdays or days of the year or whatever

functionally equivalent, afaik

[gentle rose]

can you set them to whatever you want? because we may be overcomplicating their question now that I think about it

[calm nebula]

You can set them to whatever you want

[tiny zealot]

there are some restrictions, but yeah. the big problem is you can't zero schedule to spawn somewhere else

[calm nebula]

Whether or not the npc goes there is a question

[gentle rose]

ah, I see what you mean now

[tiny zealot]

so the schedule has to start in the farmhouse and has to leave (and return) through the bus stop

[gentle rose]

...what if you start in the farmhouse on a special hidden NPC only warp

[tiny zealot]

the "starting in the farmhouse" is determined by marriageDuties so you don't have a given starting point

they do standard spouse milling about until departure time

[quartz arrow]

hmmm so i added a new crab pot critter into the game but they're not on the fish collections tab- they're in the "Farm & Forage" tab actually

i think i put them in the wrong category-

[tiny zealot]

sounds like it

[gentle rose]

...what if you make the ENTIRE farmhouse an NPC only warp but only on that day

questionable poly compat, but...

[quartz arrow]

oh i didnt realize things like "Lobster Bait" existed in game 😂 i had them in "Fish" but like then i saw them as a cooked option and i have the original as inedible i dont want smoked sea bunny

[torpid sparrow]

Quick q does TileData only work for the buildings layer

[lucid iron]

Baits r just flavored item

Weedses Bait

[uncut viper]

TileData only works if theres something on the actual texture layer below it

[rocky chasm]

Okay, I get it. No sleeping somewhere else, maybe set departure time to 6:10 and hope it works LOL

[torpid sparrow]

right okay perf

[uncut viper]

i.e. if you use it on Buildings there might be a tile texture painted on the other Buildings layer. same for Back, Front, etc.

must be* not might be

[lucid iron]

Also needs to actually do stuff there

Passable on Front doesn't do anything afaik

[quartz arrow]

so apparently you can smoke clams and cockles even tho the originals are inedibility

which i GUESS makes sense and i guess if people wanna be twisted they can eat the sea bunny

[lucid iron]

You can ban stuff from the smoker if u need

[quartz arrow]

i havent had t he best of luck editing the Machines data yet. i couldnt even get my rose quartz to be able to be turned into refined quartz xD

[lucid iron]

Well do u want it to be a special rose refined quartz or just refined quartz?

Machines is a lot of TargetFields but usually u can just copy a rule and change ids lil bit

[quartz arrow]

no just a refined quartz

but like i wanted to be able for it to become that since its in the quartz family

[brittle pasture]

tbh part of the fun is having smoked snail, pumpkin juice and hot pepper wine be possible

[lucid iron]

Yeah then u can drill down to the quartz rule and add a new trigger

[gentle rose]

my favourite part is that animated fish stay animated after smoking

[lucid iron]

Isn't pumpkin juice normal

Is this a surprise quiz

[brittle pasture]

okay, broccoli juice then

[quartz arrow]

i think i'll leave the sea bunny smoker thing alone xD but id love to figure out how to add in the quartz recipe 🤔

... lemme see if i just fixed my code i think i had a word wrong

[brittle pasture]

(one of these days I should make a "machines tutorial that's actually a TargetField and MoveEntries tutorial in disguise")

[lucid iron]

Did u look at cp edit data docs in target fields

[quartz arrow]

do it lol

[brittle pasture]

(tbh the vast majority of machine editing comes from needing to utilize those two concepts extensively)

[uncut viper]

(that ones on my tutorials todo list too but if you do it before me i wont complain i hate machines—)

[quartz arrow]

i'd copied the original quartz data in the unpacked SDV files and did what i'd done with like a "EditData" and added a new entry under "OutputRules" for the furnace

but i had an ID in there wrong for my new item

so imma see if this fixes it

[brittle pasture]

that should work, post your code if you need help

[quartz arrow]

IT WORKED

WOOO

[brittle pasture]

nice
dont forget the heavy furnace

[quartz arrow]

shit

https://tenor.com/view/pouting-pout-i-dont-wanna-tantrums-gif-14494328

time to find the tag for the heavy furnace xD

fingers crossed

WOOOO

[brittle pasture]

just in case make sure the vanilla quartz rules still work

[quartz arrow]

i added it as an additional entry into things that could be smelted in the furance so it shouldnt have impacted that but i will check

yep! it does

[dusk terrace]

what's the name of this cat?

[uncut viper]

seems like itd be easier to just go use Lookup Anything on the cat?

[brittle pasture]

also it's not an NPC, but a MEEP roaming farm animal

[dusk terrace]

aw dang that might be why

[primal cypress]

Hey, I've an odd bug with a map not updating in-game. (I've deleted the old Tmx and replaced it with the new one, which has the same name and everything, but it won't update. My other maps updated just fine with the same copy and paste.)
Tiled vs in game. there is no smapi errors

[twin wadi]

random idea what if i replace shadow brutes with a meep animal equivalent would that even work? since its in the mines?

[brittle pasture]

depends if MEEP allows spawning in instanced mine locations

[quartz arrow]

this is an adorable map what's it for? (sorry i dont have advice on how to fix it xD)

[primal cypress]

Kapusgrave Island, an island home to monster/non-human npc's

i'm fearing there's something just Borked internally in the tmx

[hallow prism]

verify the name of layers just in case?

i got got by the "building" instead of "buildings" in the past

ok so, about my tokens not ready for my UB issue earlier, what can i do as an alternative to UB tokens as event conditions?

my approach would be a trigger action to set a mail but i'm afraid the issue would be the same since the token wouldn't exist

[hallow prism]

ok!

[dusk terrace]

I'm so sorry munchie boi...

[primal cypress]

i think it's some sort of internal data issue in the TMX. I've had to manually update tilesheet names because the internal data was still the old tilesheet name and didn't update?

[brittle pasture]

he speaks the truth of this world's cursed existence

[primal cypress]

it's a fresh save eveytime as well, i do not know why it will not update

[urban patrol]

i have a stupid question, but are you a thousand percent sure you’re updating the correct file and in the correct place?

[tiny zealot]

thinking about a mod that makes all NPCs speak zalgo text, but it would sort of require implementing unicode and that seems not fun

[latent mauve]

If you have seasonal variations, have you replaced the file for all of them?

[gaunt orbit]

I mean you could just patch the dialogue box and draw a bunch of text over itself

[latent mauve]

The number of times I realized I wasn't seeing a change because I had only replaced the spring version of my tmx and it was summer in game, I swear

[primal cypress]

Not a stupid question what with things being very easy to miss. I am certain, the warps are even working on it and the beach that leads to it updated. only the TMX were edited the code is still the same there is no hidden second grove TMX
{ "LogName": "Load Grove", "Action": "Load", "Target": "Maps/{{ModId}}_Grove, Maps/{{ModId}}_SkellyShack", "FromFile": "Assets/NewMaps/Grove/{{TargetWithoutPath}}.tmx" },

[tiny zealot]

of course i mean proper, idiomatic zalgo /lh

[dusk terrace]

or images even

DDFC would already support that

[gaunt orbit]

DDFC?

[dusk terrace]

Dialogue Display Framework

[gaunt orbit]

oh I was confused by the C on the end

[dusk terrace]

Continued

[latent mauve]

Is your Data/Locations entry posted somewhere for that area, LavenderSkelly?

[gaunt orbit]

when I was doing the fancy text thing in hhd I was very tempted to write a general-purpose utility method for doing text with effects but I think the effort would not be worth the amount of use it would get

[primal cypress]

I do all of my map making in content unpacked maps folder then copy paste them to the mod folder, the only seasonal that is a custom is the house and it is spring in game

[urban patrol]

and you most recently modified it june 17, is that correct?

[primal cypress]

}, /////Grove "{{ModId}}_Grove": { "DisplayName": "Kapusgrave Grove", "CreateOnLoad": { "MapPath": "Maps/{{ModId}}_Grove" }, "DefaultArrivalTile": { "X": 24, "Y": 30 }, "ExcludeFromNpcPathfinding": false, "CustomFields": {} },

[latent mauve]

CreateOnLoad prevents your changes to the tmx from showing until you have reloaded your save (apparently whatever causes this for me is unrelated, but it has always resulted in that for me if I didn't use an EditMap after), but if you are indeed making a new save every time, that shouldn't matter

[gaunt orbit]

for text with icons the game uses BMFont to get character data and manually place characters, and it would not actually be too complicated to rip out the core logic and modify it to simply output source/dest arrays for the text character sprites so you can do the drawing yourself and do custom text effects.

[uncut viper]

CreateOnLoad doesnt prevent changes from appearing

[latent mauve]

It always has for me, Button, unless it's an unrelated quirk

[uncut viper]

unrelated quirk then

[latent mauve]

I use EditMap patches after to keep it from being an issue

[urban patrol]

lav are you doing any EditMap patches to your map? any overlays or anything

[dusk terrace]

hit me up if you ever decide to go for it and I'll make sure it works with DDFC

[primal cypress]

the dates don't line up... hmmm

and it should yesterday date???

[urban patrol]

in your working folder, send a screenshot of that map’s name and info?

if that’s the version that’s meant to be showing, then maybe try renaming it to something different and then copying that over

[primal cypress]

the grey is from the working folder

even deleting the folder and copy pasteing keeps it as the same date.... i'll try a differnt name

[hallow prism]

what's the easiest way to check for a mail being received so i don't have to do a patch summary full?

[gaunt orbit]

I think there's a debug command for gsqs that you could use

yeah gq

[hallow prism]

thanks

[uncut viper]

you can also patch parse {{HasFlag}} (id prefer the debug gq though)

(though ig the patch parse one would be a day behind)

[gaunt orbit]

debug gq PLAYER_HAS_MAIL Current <MailId> Received

[hallow prism]

thanks

[primal cypress]

changed the name from "Grove" to "Woods" ...still borked

[urban patrol]

do you have some sort of file manager or cloud service like one drive that could be interfering?

[primal cypress]

no I don't think so

[vital dew]

hi guys
i'm back because i was editing my farmhouse map again and i'm having some issues with warp tiles :c
there are 2, one of them is the "going upstairs" warp tile is still where the original would have it, but i moved it over a bit
and second, entering the farmhouse puts me in the same place as the cellar LOL
but i checked the content.json and the only thing i see there is the warp to the cellar? so i'm not sure if its a warp tile in Tiled or of it's something i need to edit/add to the .json

[primal cypress]

ok so somone else opened the tmx with their tiled and it's the old verison that is showing up in game

but when i open it it looks like this!

wtf is going on?

[hallow prism]

verify the path yet again (and again and... )

no idea

you said you tried saving the file with a different name already?

[jaunty shuttle]

Witchcraft

[urban patrol]

(that's a very pretty map btw)

[lucid iron]

can you try intentionally making ur map error

by deleting the tmx (back it up tho)

[primal cypress]

ok doing a "save as" rather than a normal save in tiled finally updated it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAA

it's buggy but it there!

[hallow prism]

congrats, progress is progress

[primal cypress]

it makes no sense why this happened, i'm writing this bug down

and laying down for a rest, my poor coding duck has been yeeted in catharsis

[jaunty shuttle]

Ok so I have this mod in my head that'd add a portal to a shadow people town with explorable areas, npc's, etc... kind of like Shadow Cove does with junimos. But would anyone actually be interested in that?? I've been playing with this little world idea for so long now and I've wanted to make it real, but I don't want to start something that goes nowhere

[pine elbow]

Yes

[hard fern]

I think people are always interested in new mods, but you could probably ask in #modded-stardew about it too

[torpid sparrow]

Someone is making a mod similar to this rn but as always

!twocakes

[ocean sail]

If you discover that someone has made or is making a mod with a similar concept to yours, don't stress! Our community promotes the idea of "two cakes", where two versions of the same idea can peacefully co-exist. Your mod will have your own unique stamp on it that makes it special.

To use this command, type !twocakes.

[torpid sparrow]

ive seen a good level of interest for it as well so go for it

[lucid iron]

the problem is never "would people want it" and more "do I the author want it"

[primal cypress]

I love more monster npcs!

it's why i'm making Kapusgrave, it was a very "Fine, i'll do it myself" decision. I'm being the change I wanna see

[dusk terrace]

I the author want this bug fixed

[lucid iron]

are you venturing into android mordor

[proven spindle]

I've got some monster npc mods in progress too :D glad there's going to be so many of them between us all in the future

[twin wadi]

more shadow people!!!

[proven spindle]

Was getting tired of all the humans being crammed into pelican town

[half tangle]

Is there a GSQ for player health or stamina? Or more generally, is that value accessible to a CP mod?

[dusk terrace]

not yet, instead I'm in the strange laminar space that is dialogue being passed over to dialogue boxes and breaking with MEEP

[half tangle]

(I'm looking at the GSQ page and not seeing it at first glance/search)

[vital dew]

[dusk terrace]

secrit passage

[vital dew]

LMAO, that would be cool

but i can't for the life of meeeee figure out how to move the warp

i dont think i saw it in the json unless im blind

and there's nothing for it in tiled (unless im blind)

[half tangle]

I mean I guess I can just make those GSQs myself...

[uncut viper]

no, but BETAS has it

(as GSQs, not tokens)

[vital dew]

there was no tile data for warps (which, there isnt for front entry either, so i assumed it wouldnt be in tiled)

[urban patrol]

i think i might have broken my mod with my latest update.. i reorganized my files because the way i had them in folders and stuff was driving me nuts, but i just got a report that someone has an error item for their crop currently growing. did i break it by moving around files (i checked that all the file paths worked)? if so, is there a way for me to fix that for players who have error items on long-growing crops?

[hard fern]

Check map properties

[half tangle]

good to know - I figure that in this case I'll just make my own GSQs since this is a framework mod so it doesn't make sense to have dependencies to have this little feature available

[jaunty shuttle]

Omg they are? I’ve been stalking nexus since I started playing in 1.2 and haven’t been able to find any lol

[lucid iron]

i think if u just expose a Condition ppl can do anything right

whether it is use betas or ur own

[uncut viper]

i think if the mod in question has like specific reason to deal with health or stamina it makes sense to package your own GSQs for it though if not I would just leave it open

[hallow prism]

@spice inlet hi, i have an issue with trying to have condition of some bundles being completed as tokens in events/trigger actions : since the tokens aren't ready early enough this isn't working on first day loaded on a save. is there a way to check for that so i can use it as a condition in GSQ?

[uncut viper]

though either way if it accepts a GSQ it will accept one from any mod unless you specifically prevent it from doing so

[hallow prism]

like, does a GSQ exists for bundle completion? if no, would it be complicated to have one? alternatively, is there a mail flag set by default for bundles when they are completed?

[spice inlet]

Hi Lumina

is that with the purchased token?

I swear it worked before

it should be doable to make it ready earlier

for now you could try checking for the mail flag

[hallow prism]

i was also under the impression it worked before, but either it changed, or i was just testing it after a couple of in game day

[half tangle]

Interesting... I think I'll actually rethink making my own here with those GSQ thoughts in mind since it's not specfically relevant to the mod as a framework

[hallow prism]

is the mail flag always set? I don't believe i set one myself on those bundles

[brittle ledge]

If you changed the location of the files but updated your target from, but didn't change where you were patching to or the item name, in theory it should be fine

[torpid sparrow]

It’s a wip so it’s not uploaded anywhere! I’m sure your interpretations will be different through

More shadow people!

[brittle ledge]

(I would make sure the user deleted the mod and installed the update fresh instead of overwriting)

[urban patrol]

let me ask about this 👍

[spice inlet]

a mail flag is always being set. you can get the mail flag using the ub mailkey <bundleId> command

[hallow prism]

thanks, wonderful

ok i'll do something else for a bit then move to mails, appreciate the help and quick answer

[spice inlet]

I'll fix it for the next version so it should be fine either way

CP can be a bit tricky to work around

the flag is pretty nice for GSQ

iirc I use it in kustenheide

[hallow prism]

to be fair we content pack authors are sometimes doing niche stuff

[lucid iron]

It's probably good to use gsq event preconditions anyways

For info mods to have better info

[hallow prism]

but my tokens!! (yes i agree overall, there's a few things when tokens are hard to avoid)

[lucid iron]

You could use hasflag i suppose

If it came down to it

[hallow prism]

in this case the flag should be good in token

in GSQ i mean

[lucid iron]

Yeah i mean if u had another ub purchased token usage that cant gsq

[hallow prism]

the main case i use GSQ outside of this one is for hasmod

so with the move to use flag for UB i should have most of my niche stuff covered

[spice inlet]

here's a gsq from kustenheide for reference: "Condition": "PLAYER_HAS_MAIL Any DLX.Bundles.Kustenheide.MC.Backwoods"

with Kustenheide.MC.Backwoods being the bundle id

[urban patrol]

for those curious, the user had to update CP itself it's working now!

[uncut viper]

(if you wanted you could even replace the HasMod token with the BETAS HAS_MOD GSQ )
((This is not a serious suggestion))

[pine elbow]

What’s the general consensus on naming npc mods? Cause the ones that are just “[NPC] NpcName” are great for clarity, but the ones with fun titles like “Lurking in the Dark” or “Always Raining in the Valley” are, well fun

[hard fern]

I don't really think there's a general consensus or anything, people just come up with names as they see fit tbh

[urban patrol]

i'm guessing the glow on glow rings is hardcoded? it says they have no buffs associated with them

[brittle pasture]

yes

there's a mod for glow buffs if you need them

on food, custom rings, etc.

[pine elbow]

Okay cool, that’s good to know
I suppose I’m most worried that there’s like, a specific group that has those fun names, like only Eastscarp npc’s or smth, and I don’t want to confuse anyone by unintentionally using a naming motif with a specific association

[jaunty shuttle]

Ahhhh i'm so excited, i'll just see what they make then. Thank you!!

[urban patrol]

do you recall the name?

[midnight sand]

Is there a way to show a
Game1.drawObjectDialogue
without destroying the active menu? Or a similar one?

[brittle pasture]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/25157

[uncut viper]

Dialogue is a menu. your only options are to overwrite the current active menu or make the dialogue a submenu of the currently active menu

[midnight sand]

Is there a way to display a message without it being a menu?

Or how can I create submenus?

[spice inlet]

what kind of message?

[uncut viper]

well you can always draw whatever you want to the screen manually

if you want to entirely reimplement the drawing

and then also handling inputs like clicks and whatnot

and dont forget to account for screen sizes

or controllers

[midnight sand]

The second one. Was looking for a base option, but if I have to reimplement it then I will just play a sound and good luck

[uncut viper]

anyway, IClickableMenu has SetChildMenu(IClickableMenu)

[midnight sand]

Will check it, thanks

[night ore]

Are there any common dialogue variables for the player name and item if it is a gift? I'm just trying to translate the mod into my main language and I'm seeing things like (!@) and #$1 keyname#. Is there some kind of text guide to figure this out?

[lucid iron]

new skill menu (of some sort?)

if it is your menu anyways you can just draw the text wherever

[calm nebula]

[[Modding:Dialogue]] ?

[empty radish]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Dialogue

[uncut viper]

the former is a dialogue replacer command, the latter seems like its just an internal key the mod uses and not meant to be seen by the user? it really depends on the mod and context in which something is used.

[lucid iron]

seems less friction than child menu

[hallow prism]

i wonder if the $1 keyname is the command to set a flag in a dialogue so it's only seen once

[calm nebula]

Yes

[opaque cobalt]

Can you make it so that appearance modding overwrite the actual NPC character sheet in base game such as the file penny.png in the characters folder?
I wonder if that was the way I went back to the old style because it changed how their sprites looked in the calendar and the sprite of them when you clicked on them in the social tab.

[uncut viper]

that would just be going back to the old style of EditImage instead of using Appearances at all, which is worse for performance

[lucid iron]

It's true that calendar mug doesn't use appearances

[uncut viper]

i believe changing the TextureName field in the Character data would change it, but that might be similarly worse for performance to change that every time too

it certainly wouldnt be better

[whole raptor]

That is indeed very annoying

[lucid iron]

Did it actually used to

[whole raptor]

I don't think so

[lucid iron]

And then got removed for special anims

[calm nebula]

Not the calender no

[uncut viper]

i mean appearances were only added in 1.6

[calm nebula]

Isn't stardew on 1.6.smth

I can't find the post from pathos anymore

[uncut viper]

.15?

[calm nebula]

Does search not work in threads

[uncut viper]

you cant search in a thread specifically

[calm nebula]

Look, button, I knew it was between .13 and .17

[hard fern]

I think the most recent is 1.6.15 officially

[uncut viper]

im not sure you did

[lucid iron]

What's the basis for this range

[uncut viper]

the most recent is .15 unofficially too! its literally the version we're on

[whole raptor]

Btw... does anyone know if there are any "usual" rates on event scripting commissions? I'm kinda curious...

[uncut viper]

im not sure how its relevant to appearances tho

[hard fern]

Oh right .16 is only in testing isn't it

[uncut viper]

its not even confirmed to be 1.6.16

[lucid iron]

The usual tip is at least ur min wage

[lucid iron]

I would be incredibly sad if 1.6.16 isn't the actual number

[uncut viper]

why

[lucid iron]

I was already quite sad when 1.6.9 didn't stick

Aesthetics

[uncut viper]

13^2 is a nice number ill admit

i think 1.7 should be skipped in favour of 1.8 at least

i dont like the number 7

[hard fern]

:( i like the number 7

[lucid iron]

Win 7 was great tho do u really wanna go right into win 8(.1)

[uncut viper]

was win 7 great

[opaque cobalt]

So, using appearance modding through the provided Json, here's what it seems to change and what it doesn't
Changes: Social tab image, map icon, character sprite, portrait
Doesn't change: Gift log sprite, calendar

Json file: https://smapi.io/json/none/f917472046754a788f78ec1cc5cb891e
SMAPI Log: https://smapi.io/log/65f3095152cb415aa9b5e661406b277f

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.1.10 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows 11 Home, with 39 C# mods and 49 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them, SMAPI is out of date, consider updating it

[lucid iron]

Yes (sincere)

[uncut viper]

im not sure why you're sending logs or jsons or anything. this isnt a bug or an error. its just how those things work.

[lucid iron]

Yeah it just be like that

[lucid iron]

I think if ur appearance is merely seasonal then doing a editimage just for having it work on social page and calendar is not so bad

[opaque cobalt]

I always try to have them as a backup because sometimes, I can just be being extra stupid that day and screwed up a line somewhere. That way if someone's suspicions were raised, they can check what I coded and go "oh, you dolt, you forgot to do X:

[hard fern]

Speaking of appearances

[lucid iron]

You can leave more frequently changing appearances as they are

[calm nebula]

It affecting the social menu was what was pulled in 1.6.9 due to animation issues

Do appearances have specialfields

Customfields

[uncut viper]

customfields?

they dont

[vital dew]

if i wanted to back up my save to test somethin by resting, it's this folder to copy and re-paste here, right? i forgot

[calm nebula]

Yeah the pjffle got almost no sleep and thus is pretty dumb

[lucid iron]

!saves

[ocean sail]

Use this guide if you want to find your save file or transfer it between platforms:
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Saves.

To use this command, type !saves.

[lucid iron]

That folder is smapi save backups

[calm nebula]

S&p500

[lucid iron]

Are you doing ok atra

[vital dew]

[calm nebula]

It's just the spread between buy and sell orders

[hard fern]

Is it fine to just do an edit on locationchange if im making an npc change into their work uniform once they go to work... Or like am i gonna cause the game to explode

[uncut viper]

well locationchanged only happens if the player changes locations

[lucid iron]

Yeah it's just unreliable

[uncut viper]

but also, what you describe is like, prime use case for Appearances

just add an appearance

[hard fern]

😔 i guess i have no choice then

[uncut viper]

you pensive as if thats a bad thing but an Appearance is like 100x better here

[brave fable]

well you have no choice but you do have a perfect bespoke solution served on a plate

[opaque cobalt]

So just keep appearances as is and have just one file overwrite the original Penny file for the calendar sprite and gift log section? That would allow appearances to work and have all things change as I want while still being less process heavy correct?

[uncut viper]

id daresay call it a golden platter

[brave fable]

this world is a prison

[calm nebula]

Technically you have a choice

You can choose your own c#

Or touching grass

Or fingernail biting to the s&p500

[hard fern]

I have allergies 😔

[calm nebula]

Don't recommend the last one

[lucid iron]

The idea is that editimage on the default day update rate is not so bad

[hard fern]

What is the last one anyways

[lucid iron]

So it's alright to do editimage solution for that i feel

[uncut viper]

worrying abouty your retirement index fund on the stock market

[hard fern]

[lucid iron]

However you wouldn't want to do this for npc beach outfits cus

There's no actual way for you to update just as npc reaches beach

Same with uniform outfits

Does that make sense

[opaque cobalt]

I think it makes sense
So, currently, all I have is 3 outfits per season, sun and rain variant and one beach outfit. They only update each day or when they are on location for beach (made one sense base game has one titled that)? So I assume it shouldn't be process heavy, but if things are moving towards appearance modding, I would like to future proof and start converting. Only other outfits planned to maybe add eventually would be for festivals.

My current plan (Please tell me if it is dumb) now is to write up all the appearances and to get the calendar to work (have two hair color options), I choose just one file to overwrite the base game one and it would never change so it shouldn't waste computing resources

[uncut viper]

well it will change every time the season and weather changes

if you want the calendar and social tab and etc to update though, you need to use EditImage for the seasonal and weather variants yes
you dont want to EditImage for the beach outfit

the Beach outfit should be set up as an Appearance, which will not change the social tab or calendar or whatever, but those will show the base (that you've used to overwrite with in EditImage) instead

however things arent moving towards Appearance modding. they already have, with 1.6 last year

the season and weather variants will not be "Appearance" modding

[lucid iron]

Use the right tool that fit for ur case

Gotta remember that base game uses appearances for winter because mr ape is not using content patcher

[opaque cobalt]

eh, calendar and social tab can stay as Penny_Summer_Sun_2 file. My main reason for wanting those to be one of my files was so that the hair color/eye color overlays could apply to them.
I may as well just do it how base game does and use appearances then.

[uncut viper]

you need to use both EditImage and appearances to do what you want. not one or the other.

if you only use Appearances, then you cannot change the calendar or social tab at all. it will not be "Penny_Summer_Sun_2" it will just be the normal vanilla Penny texture

[opaque cobalt]

Thanks, I think I should have clarified that I would use edit image for only that one so it never has to change. Calendar sprite wouldn't change with outfits, but works enough for what I need
Like this: which seems to work as intended now: https://smapi.io/json/none/9cab4cb72dd04a3daf2b4b6e45b44e5f

[vital dew]

is there a way to bypass "stormy" dialogue to get a specific day's dialogue for an npc? maybe just debugging the weather to clear? or

[torpid sparrow]

nvm figured it out

it was a typo i knew it was gonna be something dumb

[wind basalt]

is it allowed to commission someone for a mod here?

like to look for someone (who makes mods)

[calm nebula]

!comms

[ocean sail]

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

To use this command, type !comms.

[calm nebula]

Do note if someone cold DMs you [it may be a scam](#making-mods-general message)

[dusk terrace]

I like messing around with those

[wind basalt]

alright but if it's a specific list it's gonna be a bit occupied no?

[calm nebula]

Wdym?

[brittle pasture]

I mean people who put their name on there are willing to work, and willing to let people know they're willing to work
chances are if you resume asking in this channel you'd run into them anyway

[hard fern]

Better to look on a specific comms list than to take your chances hoping someone responds out of the blue imo

[brittle pasture]

just in case I want to reiterate that anyone who reach out to you in DMs first are most assuredly scammers

finding people on that list and DMing them first instead is much safer

[calm nebula]

What type of mod do you want anyways

[floral stratus]

I just finished my first mod (Content Pack) in 5 years! Is there a best time to post to Nexus to maximize exposure?

[ornate locust]

After the day change isn't a bad time. Makes sure it stays in "new files" all day

[calm nebula]

I would normally say Fridays

But I don't think it's relevant in summer

(It feels like a large population of users are students of some sort)

[floral stratus]

If anyone's interested in the details, this was the one where an old JojaCorp coworker sends you letters.

[floral stratus]

Do you know what time zone?

[ornate locust]

Trying to figure that out, one sec

heck I'm bad at numbers, I wish I could remember them better. Honestly, I think it's around now. I know it's earlier than I'd expected

[astral prism]

chat what do i do if someone who i did a commission for owes me money and they’re airing me 💀💀💀

[ornate locust]

I always forget the time and just wait for a mod to show in the next day on New Recently and post then.

[floral stratus]

Good advice! Thank you!

[ornate locust]

I think it IS now, just looked at the earliest mod "today" and it says posted at 7, and it's 7 here

[floral stratus]

I'll get my post ready!

[lucid iron]

Do you have any contract

[astral prism]

not a literal one but there’s multiple message records of payment agreement and everything

they paid most of it (we agreed they could pay as and when they can as long as it was paid in a reasonable time) but now have had “an emergency” and totally ducking me

[lucid iron]

I dunno if there's anything you can do besides publically posting about it

[hard fern]

If they just never get back in touch they probably don't plan on paying u at all tbh

[astral prism]

takes the piss tho, you try to be helpful to people by letting them pay when they can and cheapskate scum take advantage and don’t fucking pay you

[twin wadi]

sorry that happened to you harvz that's such an awful thing to do

[astral prism]

😭 i just want my money im fkn broke 🤣🤣

[ornate locust]

aha I am correct, it is now

And that sucks. Unfortunately the best you can really do is make sure nobody else falls for that trap

[twin wadi]

omg sorry my foster cat walked over the keyboard

[hard fern]

Cat moment

[woeful lintel]

My idea (no idea if it's good) would be tell them that you'll report them on every place/forum/server that's relevant here, wait about 2 days for an answer, then report them. The hope is that they wouldn't want to be banned from these places.

[floral stratus]

I love foster cats. Had ours for 5 years now, and not planning on returning them to the shelter lol

[hard fern]

The reason my mother says she could never foster: shed just end up adopting them all

[floral stratus]

Letters From Cameron is officially up!

[woeful lintel]

My grandma did that recently, she was always saying "never again" after her last cat died, but she couldn't help but adopt the first cat she fostered

[floral stratus]

Awww

[jaunty shuttle]

I've fostered kittens for a couple years and adopted 2 of my babies that way :3

[hard fern]

🥺 kitties are just so cute how can you not want to keep every one of them

[floral stratus]

Ours were semi-feral fosters. We got them to like us, but they still hide from any other humans, so we can't send them back.

[jaunty shuttle]

I knoooow, but we already have 4 cats and 2 dogs

I can only keep so many

[twin wadi]

we got reeeally close last foster. this time the pair is absolutely terrified of my gentle 7lb dog (understandably so, but my dog means nothing but good ) so idk. the last one just slept with my dog

[woeful lintel]

My best friend fostered quite a variety of cats before adopting the one she has now, and I've seen some cats I would not adopt. Thinking about that shithead kitten that would piss on the bed anytime a man would enter the appartment...

[jaunty shuttle]

Omg lol

[woeful lintel]

She would also eat sponges

The kitten, not my friend

[floral stratus]

How do I post in #mod-showcase ?

[tiny zealot]

you need the mod author role

[brave fable]

only Leah can post in there. you'll have to ask her about it

[floral stratus]

Ahh, I'll figure out when I can get that then.

[tiny zealot]

when you hit server level 25 (farmer) and have at least one published mod, you ask the staff to give it to you

[jaunty shuttle]

You can have someone post on your behalf if you've made a mod and would like it posted

[floral stratus]

I don't know anyone here well enough for that yet lol

Unless ichortower was feeling generous

[hard fern]

Plenty of modders are willing to post on behalf of someone
(I mean, even i can do it)

[woeful lintel]

Knowing people isn't really a requirement...

[uncut viper]

its not, but showcasing for someone is kind of like a soft vouch, sometimes.

[floral stratus]

Would you please? It's my first mod in years, and I'd like people to see it.

You can look over the mod first of course

[hard fern]

Yeah, sure, do you have some kind of message you want to go with it, or? (And what is the mod link?)

[floral stratus]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/35474

Not really a message, I wouldn't know what to write

[hard fern]

🤔 if i put it in #modded-stardew , more people might see it right away, is that okay?

[floral stratus]

That would be fine. Thank you

You're awesome!

[hard fern]

[jaunty shuttle]

Yayyy new mod drop

[floral stratus]

MFM Content Pack, but yeah

(Mail Framework Mod, not Male for Male) lol

[wide widget]

Hi, I was wondering if I could get some pointers and tips on a mod idea. I've never made a mod before, but there's an idea that's been swimming around my head all afternoon based off the fanfiction I write and I wanna try to make it a reality, but it may be way more to handle for a first ever mod..

[calm nebula]

!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.

[torpid sparrow]

Hi inferno

[wide widget]

Hi Wem!☺️

[brave fable]

i would've imagined if someone's posting in #modded-stardew they probably also have #mod-showcase visible

but really who knows

[calm nebula]

Feel free to ask!

From fanfixtion I'm guessing npc

[brave fable]

it's probably easier for people to chat about it after the fact tho since they're already in the user chat channel

[calm nebula]

Npc isn't hard just tedious

[hard fern]

true, i didn't think of that i dont have the showcase channel visible

[uncut viper]

(i also dont have it visible)

[calm nebula]

I have it visible!

[jaunty shuttle]

Visible gang here

[brave fable]

the fruits of my labour. hidden.

[uncut viper]

when did you last post fruit

[brave fable]

love of cooking had a watermelon for a while...

[wide widget]

Multiple NPCs actually. I was wanting to basically add a whole new town for the player to explore.
See, I write fics for HTTYD, so I was wanting to add Berk and some of its residents that yhe player can interact with.
But I also wanna add a feature that's special to the Night Fury lore I created. 😅

[brave fable]

but i cant post it in the showcase. i'm not a mod author

[jaunty shuttle]

How do you hide that channel without hiding the whole mod section anyways?

[brave fable]

right-click/long-tap -> mute until i change my mind
server options -> hide muted channels

or go into the visible channels window somehow

channels & roles -> browse channels

but don't hide the showcase. it's very good

[uncut viper]

i need only mmg

[brittle pasture]

lies, I saw you post in programming-off-topic

[jaunty shuttle]

Ah I didn't even know that was possible, interesting. Thanks!

[uncut viper]

if 95% of my posts in this server are in this channel, im allowed to round up

[brittle pasture]

somewhere a stats grad just sneezed

[uncut viper]

something something p-value

[torpid sparrow]

unable to reject the null or something

[jaunty shuttle]

That sounds really cool! But also a lot of work, I would definitely suggest starting something smaller as a first mod. That said, whatever you choose to do there are lots of great people here who can help guide you in the right direction 😅

[wide widget]

Yeah, I had a feeling it would be..

[hard fern]

I think like, starting with one NPC, and slowly working your way up might be better 🤔

[uncut viper]

just a single new NPC is one of the most common beginner mod ideas but its also one of the ones that takes the most effort to make

you have to interface with a lot of systems and its a lot of moving parts required to get it all working. for just one NPC

that said, none of it is actually technically challenging work, as far as mods go

its just a lot of it

[jaunty shuttle]

Yeah... not trying to discourage you at all, but just wanted to say that upfront

[uncut viper]

so if you're able to self motivate, it'll still be lots of fun

just dont get discouraged if it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill

[calm nebula]

If you're a fanfiction writer a lot of work should be normal

[hard fern]

I motivate myself my thinking about NPC lore and then starting at my json for 30 minutes

[calm nebula]

Signed, you don't want to know how long my HP fanfictions were

[hard fern]

Ive read like 300k word fics before and i know those aren't even the longest ones out there

[calm nebula]

I don't think you understand how much effort I put into understanding 1965 computers for Harry Potter fanfiction

[hard fern]

[wide widget]

For sure, and if you're curious on how long my pieces are just look me up on AO3, same user InfernoIronWings. I gots a lot up. But yeah, I'll keep all of that in mind and slowly work my way up. Maybe making a Hiccup NPC as my first one would be a good entry point.

[uncut viper]

itd be a good companion to the Toothless pet mod recently released. though, im assuming you're already aware of it

[jaunty shuttle]

I fear you

[wide widget]

Yeth, I've played through all the cutscenes for it already.

[keen seal]

🤝 shakes your hand in modding newbie doing something VERY ambitious off the bat

[patent lance]

New quote added by pneuma163 as #6486 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/156109690059751424/1392318668481757194)

[keen seal]

lmao this is very true

[torpid sparrow]

teehee teehee

i was doing some hiccup walk animation sprites for fun

i dont know if im gonna tackle a berk expansion until much later

[keen seal]

I’m also a fic writer and I’m working on a very ambitious fic at the same time I’m tackling an expansion mod idea XD

[brave fable]

always worth mentioning that while i've made a few big mods since starting in 2019, my first mods still aren't finished because the idea was too ambitious

[wide widget]

I tip me hat to chu Wem, an amazing mod. And yea? That would be perdy cool

[brave fable]

so like, just make an egg or a sandwich for your first one or something

[jaunty shuttle]

Or an egg sandwich

[brave fable]

if you want to make a chicken or a villager to lay the egg then do that later as an amazing 1.1.0 update

[hard fern]

I recently decided to chop down a big mod i was working on, not necessarily because it was overambitious, but because i just did not want to do that much work....

[brave fable]

no. i made that already. patented

[torpid sparrow]

the villager lays the egg?

[hard fern]

Like, technically i could but i like avoiding work

[brittle pasture]

possible with Poop Framework

[torpid sparrow]

or i guess i could tackle all the sprites for my berk expansion but i'd certainly not do any coding

art, maps, and then the likely headache-inducing code

[hard fern]

P- poop framework???

[wide widget]

That's fair, coding takes a whileeee

[torpid sparrow]

you know what

maybe i'll do the Edge instead

[jaunty shuttle]

There is a list of people who do commissions for stardew mod coding, maps, art, etc

[torpid sparrow]

at least before berk

that is much more palatable

[wide widget]

That would be awesome!!

[torpid sparrow]

so much modding to do and never enough time

i'd love to see your take on berk but yeah like everyone said it would be a looot of work

[wide widget]

Wait, really???

[torpid sparrow]

!comms

[ocean sail]

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

To use this command, type !comms.

[torpid sparrow]

whew that was the right one

[wide widget]

Trueeee

[keen seal]

Also, Inferno, the way I’ve been coming at this from, for the record, is doing one of each different aspect (item, NPC, map, event, etc) to practice and prove I Can

I’ve found it’s a good way of testing the waters

[wide widget]

Makes sense

[torpid sparrow]

my first mod was npc with events and custom items and custom map and mail so yur very doable if you take it bit by bit

[hard fern]

😓 my first mod was just retexturing bread

[wide widget]

Is definitely gonna have to be a long term project for sure

But, not the first time for me.😂

[brave fable]

i'm always thinking about a vanilla food retexture mod but there's enough choice already

[torpid sparrow]

!twocakes

[ocean sail]

If you discover that someone has made or is making a mod with a similar concept to yours, don't stress! Our community promotes the idea of "two cakes", where two versions of the same idea can peacefully co-exist. Your mod will have your own unique stamp on it that makes it special.

To use this command, type !twocakes.

[brave fable]

surely only so many ways you can draw a plate of vegetables

[torpid sparrow]

50 cakes!

[brave fable]

we're past two cakes. this is a whole bakery

[hard fern]

Call it a bread factory

[torpid sparrow]

i love content patcher i can let my imagination run wild and most things are possible

[wide widget]

Multitude of flavorsss

[wide widget]

Exacyyy

[brittle pasture]

my first mod is a C# mod

[jaunty shuttle]

My condolences

[uncut viper]

my first mod was also a C# mod, and a harmony one at that. before i knew how to write C# or what harmony was

[patent lance]

New quote added by atravita as #6487 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/156109690059751424/1392323022219903026)

[brave fable]

i learned c# by writing harmony at the tail end of a degree using cpp/java

[twin wadi]

why am i not surprised something like that exists?

[brave fable]

my first code was Extremely Bad

[brittle pasture]

the only reason I didn't add it to the frameworks page is because it's 1.5 only

once it is updated, no one is safe

[quartz arrow]

as someone who has never picked the most "Popular" recolor mod (cause im very picky with what i pick for retextures) you WILL find someone who likes your vibes and if nothing else you will like your vibes!

[calm nebula]

I learned c# by believing in myself

[hard fern]

I have never learned C#

[quartz arrow]

thats impressive

[brittle pasture]

I learned C# because I know Java, and C#'s basically purple Java

[twin wadi]

i am attempting to learn c#, but my brain cannot handle that information

[quartz arrow]

BIG same

my brain just starts to go bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[calm nebula]

I feel like 8th grade physics is more impressive

[twin wadi]

when are you graduating middle school atra

[quartz arrow]

they just went from 7th to 8th they're working on it

[brittle pasture]

quick, what's the formula for Newton's law of gravitation

this is urgent

[calm nebula]

Ugh, fuck. Mass 1 times mass 2 times gravity constant divided by distance squared

[brittle pasture]

thank you
dodges comically large anvil just in time

[hard fern]

[twin wadi]

selph its actually cat + gravity + cup of water = cup of water on floor

[jaunty shuttle]

Cat + gravity = catastrophe

[woeful lintel]

CATastrophe

[wide widget]

I think I actually know a great first mod I could do now that I've thought a little more! I could make Hiccup's flaming sword Inferno!

[woeful lintel]

Damn, I have some stuff to catch up to in this series, I've only watched 1 and ½ installments

I played the shit out of the wii game though

[opaque cobalt]

Did I format something wrong with this or why does it still use her vanilla winter character/portrait but the other seasons work fine?
https://smapi.io/json/none/2e694645fb1f4e188e5a1b7a85365d3f

[calm nebula]

Precedenxe

I think the vanilla winter are -100

[keen seal]

Heck yeah! Cheering you on!

[opaque field]

okay I spent a good chunk of today dedicated to C# and here is my (probably very bad and wrong) block o code for the magiceggbuff https://smapi.io/json/none/5612521f363d45378b7b1bfe4191167f#code.1

[wide widget]

Yee! Shouldn't be too hard. I hope. Just making a sword sprite and image for inventory with stats, then taking the sword animations that already exist, right??

[keen seal]

I’d assume so? I haven’t gotten to weapons yet, personally

on the list though!

[opaque cobalt]

thank you.

[wide widget]

Noice

[opaque cobalt]

side qustion, why is higher precedence a lower number? Are we playing golf?

[rigid oriole]

programmers like to sort low to high

[opaque cobalt]

ah, I guess that can make sense then. Thank you

[fresh sigil]

Hello! I am new to modding, I was wondering if anyone knows any good arabic food mods or a good guide to start modding on stardew. I want to add recipes of my own culture

[twin wadi]

you might want to ask in #modded-stardew first for finding good arabic food mods

but for getting starting modding,

!startmodding

[ocean sail]

Making mods can be broadly divided into two categories:

• Content packs are formatted text files, and don't need any programming knowledge. They can add/edit NPCs, maps, new items, shops, and more. To get started, see the list of framework mods, the wiki tutorial for Content Patcher, and there might be relevant guides on the tutorial wiki.
• C# mods use programming code to change fundamental game mechanics. See getting started with C# modding.

Usually it’s easier to start with making content packs, since you don't need to learn programming.

To use this command, type !startmodding.

[fresh sigil]

Oh my god thank you!

I thought modded farmers was just a show off of mods

Also if there's a mod I found on xhs, and I'm not too sure what it's called, could I ask it here?

[half tangle]

#modded-stardew is also more likely to be familiar with finding a mod

[twin wadi]

it's where people use and discuss mods and modded playthroughs! #mod-showcase is where people showcase their mods

[twin wadi]

what cam said, #modded-stardew is better for questions on using mods. this channel is more for making mods itself

[fresh sigil]

Is modding same as sim modding/cc?

(I am very new to this and i would rather learn by asking)

[fresh sigil]

(also i'm going to dl some of your mods)

[vernal crest]

Nope, not at all

[fresh sigil]

OH SHUCKS

[fresh sigil]

(i love ur pfp)

[twin wadi]

its a totally different game, but there's a lot of guides on how!

[vernal crest]

I find Stardew modding easier tham Sims 4 modding personally

[fresh sigil]

also w nexus mods (unless this is too political) there was something w the idf (if i can ask)

[twin wadi]

stardew is really good for modding

[fresh sigil]

I'll try!

[fresh sigil]

am I thinking of something different?

[vernal crest]

I'm not sure what you're trying to ask, but discussion about political mods is probably not allowed here

[fresh sigil]

All g

Oh nvm it was curseforge

SORRY Y'ALL

[vernal crest]

Trying to decide if I can get my brain corralled enough to do any mod work at all in a mere 30 minutes

[fresh sigil]

yes

[torpid sparrow]

would be fun to have a dragon eye although i guess it would be pretty useless in pelican town xd

[keen seal]

oh man that’d be awesome

[wide widget]

No kiddimg🤣

[keen seal]

but yeah, idk what it’d do XD

[wide widget]

Decorationnnn

[torpid sparrow]

questline...finding dragon eye lenses...

ohhhh

i need to turn my brain off

[wide widget]

Too many ideas, so little timeee😂

[vernal crest]

I guess I could investigate whether LocalTokens will make adding a photo for every animal in game any less tedious

[torpid sparrow]

me when i import the entirety of school of dragons into stardew

[undone kelp]

Well lads I found out my family would be leaving for vacation not on Friday but for TOMORROW aka i have less than 24 hours to get to work on my jinu portrait mod for @devout otter's casino jinu

Wish me luck o7

[vernal crest]

Good luck! But don't forget to pack!

[devout otter]

Good pack!

[vernal crest]

Ugh N++ is not automatically generating closing brackets and quote marks, what is this laziness

[finite willow]

how do I tell the game to not call Func`1 getScreenId

[wide widget]

That would be so cool, but a pain in the buttttt😩🤣

[undone kelp]

Thank youu

[undone kelp]

I do this for you (and for myself mostly ngl)

[brave fable]

this is one of those times where i must ask Why

[opaque field]

whew! okay I have my ModEntry.cs and my HarmonyPatch which I called NPCPatch.cs for the magicpinkegg

One of my old roomates has really been enjoying my 'come mod with me' streams and I was like 'ppspssssssssst can I throw some code at you?"

He was extremely patient with me

ok so is this the correct structure for the project AND the patch?

MagicPinkEggMod/
├── MagicPinkEggMod.csproj
├── manifest.json
├── assets/
│ └── heartstrings.png
├── ModEntry.cs
├── Patches/
│ └── GrantFriendshipPatch.cs

[vernal crest]

I don't think it matters where your .png or .cs files are as long as they're somewhere in the project folder

[opaque field]

eggcelent

[vernal crest]

(I recommend making your capitalised of folders more consistent though. Right now you have lowercase assets and capitalised Patches)

[opaque field]

heard

[vernal crest]

I personally would've put the Harmony patch inside the ModEntry.cs but I don't like to start splitting files until things get unmanageable for me so it's a personal preference.

[rigid oriole]

i capitalize like this all the time in my c# mods

for some reason C# folders get caps, but docs, i18n, and assets get the lowercase treatment

[opaque field]

I like this. I don't like the file splitting

yaaaaaay

[rigid oriole]

i think i stole this convention from pathos

[vernal crest]

You certainly can, but given how often people run into issues because of little things like capitalisation errors or they're sloppy with their capitalisation when making a mod on Windows and then it cries on Linux, I bring it up in case it's not an intentional difference.

[opaque field]

it was not intentional/permanent for sure I just wanted it to exist first haha

[patent lance]

New quote added by atravita as #6488 (https://discordapp.com/channels/137344473976799233/156109690059751424/1392345670811127879)

[calm nebula]

I wonder how many teensy c# programmers stole their idea of "standard c#" from pathos

Me? I..uh...borrowed his .editorconfig

[vernal crest]

The convention of mod folder name being UpperCamelCase but then assets being lowercase makes me cry and cry and cry. Why can't they be consistent 😭

[rigid oriole]

pathos github is how i learned i can put a readme in the docs folder in a multi-mod repo and everything can have its own readme

and thus i gained implicit trust of folder naming

[vernal crest]

Okay either I am using N++ wrong or it is really bad at indentation and error checking on top of not closing my brackets

[rigid oriole]

is ur file really big or something?

[vernal crest]

It

's 31 lines

One patch written entirely from scratch

[urban patrol]

does N++ normally close its brackets for you? i always have to do mine manually

[vernal crest]

Had to manually indent so many parts, was missing the closing bracket for my patch and N++ didn't even twitch

I don't normally use N++. I use VSC and it auto-closes them and auto-indents properly

[urban patrol]

ah i see

[vernal crest]

And I wasn't sure if I am just doing something wrong or if N++ is actually just like this

[urban patrol]

have you already saved it as json? mine won't auto indent until i save it

[vernal crest]

Yep first thing I did

[urban patrol]

so it just hates you personally then :(

[vernal crest]

It's doing some auto-indenting, but it's doing some of it wrong

Like when I made the object, it put the fields inside the object at the same indentation level as the object ID

[urban patrol]

yuck

[vernal crest]

Not a problem for me because I know what I want it to be like, but I'm wondering how many newbies are using N++ and experiencing their indentation going kind of wonky because of it

[floral stratus]

Wait, I use N++ for all my modding. Are you saying there's a better way? Please impart me your knowledge, oh wise one!

[rough lintel]

visual studio code

[vernal crest]

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

[rough lintel]

i’m a 75/25 notepad++ and visual studio code flopper bc im too used to n++’s jankness to leave it behind

[floral stratus]

Ahh, I shouldn't have said all. I use VSC for toml files and .logs

[vernal crest]

Or VSCodium if you want it without the Microsoft telemetry

[opaque field]

wait okay question about the public override void Entry(IModHelper modHelper) { Harmony harmony = new(ModManifest.UniqueID); harmony.Patch( original: AccessTools.Method(typeof(NPC), nameof(NPC.tryToReceiveActiveObject)), prefix: new HarmonyMethod(typeof(ModEntry), nameof(tryToReceiveActiveObject_Prefix)) ); } part here from the wiki example. so mine would be something about NPC.grantConversationFriendship?

[keen seal]

quickkkk question, where can I find tiles for a lit fireplace? Haven’t been able to spot it in any of the vanilla tilesheets

I don’t necessarily want to do more day/night tiling but it would look nice so XD

[urban patrol]

cursors has the fire sprites

but you'd have to put them in the fireplace (and animate them) yourself

[keen seal]

oh yeah there they are

augh. I will consider doing that tomorrow lmao

I may just leave it, this set of maps is basically done

[rigid oriole]

if you're trying to patch NPC::grantConversationFriendship, then that's the name of the original, yes

the point of using typeof and nameof is so that if that method disappears in a future game update, you'll know right away because your code will stop compiling

[opaque field]

yes! making a buff that temporarily increases the friendship points aquired

[rigid oriole]

also if ur using the tutorial on the modding wiki, let me know if anything is unclear so i can update it :)

[opaque field]

I am! So far it has been incredibly helpful - speaking as someone who is a super bby at C# in general this has been great

[clear bough]

I hope someone can help. I'm reviewing the Pathoschild guide for tourists, and I have the assets for the new tourists. However, I'm confused about what step 2 is telling me. Additionally, can I use Visual Studio Code?

[opaque field]

ok so something like this? public override void Entry(IModHelper modHelper) { Harmony harmony = new(ModManifest.UniqueID); harmony.Patch( original: grantConversationFriendship.Method(typeof(NPC), nameof(NPC.grantConversationFriendship)), prefix: new HarmonyMethod(typeof(ModEntry), nameof(grantConversationFriendship_Prefix)) ); }

[rigid oriole]

I think you want AccessTools.Method instead of grantConversationFriendship.Method but otherwise this portion seems ok to me

[ivory plume]

Hi! That step assumes you have a Content Patcher content pack; do you have one already? (And yep, you can use Visual Studio Code for this.)

[clear bough]

Hi, and yes, I do have that.

[opaque field]

now I'm hitting The type or namespace name 'HarmonyLib' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) but I have the package referenced

[ivory plume]

You can copy the code below that step into your content.json file (in the Changes section), then just edit it to match your map and tourists. Then in theory the tourist should appear in Central Station.

(The tourists are randomized each day, but you can run debug day <number> and then patch reload Pathoschild.CentralStation.Content in the SMAPI console window to reset the tourists for each day while you're in the station until it appears.)

[opaque field]

wait do I not need to say using HarmonyLib because SMAPI comes with it?

[midnight sand]

Extra question with dialogue as Child Menu. I have this:

Game1.afterDialogues = () => this.SetChildMenu(null);```
it works perfectly with mouse, but with controller, when it comes back the game stops drawing the cursor for some reason... How can I force the cursor to show again?

[ivory plume]

The NuGet package doesn't add Harmony by default; see Harmony on the wiki for how to enable it (and some caveats to be aware of first).

[opaque field]

ok it's working now I just had it in the wrong place

[rigid oriole]

friends does anyone have any idea why, when i launch split-screen co-op, the Warped event fires twice for player 2 on warp? i walked both characters through the same door, one after another. Chell is player one

it seems like player 2 is getting the event raised for the old and the new location

[calm nebula]

Just to confirm

You're logging e.NewLocation on both

[rigid oriole]

i'm about to acquire some more verbose logging

[calm nebula]

Can you log both e.NewLocation and e.OldLocation

My vague exhausted too old impression is that that event does fire twice on farmhands, but e.NewLocation is null the first time and e.OldLocation is null the second

Ie

In host: fires once. e.OldLocation is the old location. e.NewLocation is the new location

[rigid oriole]

hrm

i guess i just check if old and new location are the same and ignore?

[calm nebula]

Can you try a normal ie non volcano map

[rigid oriole]

yeah

i'm fighting cjb cheats menu on controller with my life rn

[calm nebula]

Tbh iirc it is possible to warp from one map to the same map

(Ie, using a farm totem on farm)

So you'll see a lot of my mods do a quick little reference equals

And bail if it was a same map warp

[rigid oriole]

yeah it does the double warp outside the volcano

[calm nebula]

Interesting!!!!

Nice to know

[rigid oriole]

i'm about to hit a quick little reference equals too i think lol

[calm nebula]

if (!e.IsLocalPlayer || ReferenceEquals(e.NewLocation, e.OldLocation))

Don't ask me why i do some things but I do this

[rigid oriole]

i trust ur 8th grade physics knowledge

[calm nebula]

Please don't I'm. Very dumb

[rigid oriole]

do we think this is intended behavior

ok that was bad timing for my messaage

i mean the warps

[calm nebula]

No idea but I think pathos is lurking so you might as well ask him

[half tangle]

the wiki says "Currently these events are only raised for the current player. That will likely change in a future version, so make sure to check e.IsLocalPlayer if you only want to handle the current player."
So I'm guessing that change may have happened at least in part?

[rigid oriole]

Hey @ivory plume I'm using the Warped SMAPI event in split-screen co-op. Here's a quick logging method I'm using:

private static void OnWarped(object? sender, WarpedEventArgs e)
{
    _staticMonitor.Log("Warp event for " + e.Player.Name + " from " + e.OldLocation.Name + " to " + e.NewLocation.Name, LogLevel.Debug);
}

Warps from player 1 log as expected, but warps from player 2 seem to fire twice. If player 2 warps from A to B, I get a log printed that says they warped from A to A and then from A to B. Is this expected behavior due to a vanilla quirk?

[rigid oriole]

I am checking for local player is the thing. If i just warp player 1, the popup message only shows on player 1's screen as intended. If I just warp player 2, the message only shows on player 2's screen. But they get 2 messages from their old and their new location

[calm nebula]

Hang on can you quickly log game1.game1.screenid

Or smth like that

[rigid oriole]

suresiess

[half tangle]

ah, yeah, so it might be a split screen thing

[rigid oriole]

i would simply ignore split screen if i didn't play it more thana singleplayer lol

[half tangle]

One of my current projects is specifically to learn multiplayer and split screen compatibility like networking and tracking per screen stuff when it's specifically relevant... it'll release eventually

[rigid oriole]

there's a Game1.game1.screen.Name (?)

[calm nebula]

There should be an instance id or index or something

Or maybe Context.ScreenID

[rigid oriole]

the second one is real

ok please hold

screen ID seems to be fine? (Chell player 1, qq player 2)

[ivory plume]

Nope, that's not a known issue. It could be due to the way split-screen data gets synced which causes the location to change twice somehow; I would need to look into it.

[calm nebula]

Does this happen for non split screen multiplayer

[rigid oriole]

is it possible to test that with only one steam account?

(I have no idea what happens in remote multiplayer)

[calm nebula]

Yeah

Launch game twice. Use lan

Use "localhost" as your ip

[rigid oriole]

truly never occurred to me that there could be more than one instance of stardew valley open on my pc at once

[ivory plume]

(You can also just leave the IP box blank, it defaults to localhost.)

[clear bough]

Do you mean like this?

[ivory plume]

You're missing a comma on line 21, but otherwise that looks fine (assuming the indexes are correct).

[rigid oriole]

player 2's smapi console output

so i think yes it happens even when not splitscreen

(player 1 is still normal)

dang now i have no excuse to not test all the multiplayer types in future mods

[clear bough]

For the indexes, I wasn't sure. I don't want either of the guys to overlap with the existing tourists.

[ivory plume]

The indexes are just their position in your map file; it won't affect how the tourists are placed in the station or anything.

[calm nebula]

Next you have to inject latency and dropped packefs

[rigid oriole]

hey now, the fun part of hobby coding is getting to ignore those details sometimes

[clear bough]

What can I use for a map asset? I think I misunderstood that step.

[ivory plume]

You'll need to create your own .tmx map file (see Modding:Maps) which has the tiles to treat as tourists. Each tourist is just a 1x2 tile area which gets patched into the station (including any tile animations if applicable).

[opaque field]

I put up my mod 3 days ago and have almost 300 unique downloads - ty times a million for all the help in this server and incredible patience I didn't think the response would be anywhere near this positive

[lucid mulch]

PlayerTracker.GetcurrentLocation will return this.LastValidLocation when this.Player.currentLocation is null (i.e. during a warp request), and in multiplayer for non-active locations it would be a fresh version of a location every time
though I would have somewhat expected comparing the previous value with the cached 'LastValidLocation' to be equal and thus not trigger the change event

[slow basin]

if im making a sprite sheet and is it ok to have the dance sprites and the wedding sprites be on different sprite locations then the regular ones because i need more room on my sprite sheet >.>

[hard fern]

I believe those are hard coded?

You can just put them on other empty spots though

[slow basin]

hm ok lol ig ill ahve to cut my sprites into different sections then XD

darn

this is my first time doing awhole sprite sheet last time i messed with trying to add a character i only did walking anims XD

[hard fern]

My next step is to do the walking animation for my NPCs, then finish their map (or just one fourth of it i guess.)

[pine elbow]

Hi, in Data/Weapons.json there is no example of using Projectiles, does anyone have an example of how to use it?

[latent cape]

In making an event, is there a command that can make an NPC walk together with, let's say farmer, next to each other at the same time?

[royal stump]

I'm not familiar with any mods that use it, but the format info is here:
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Weapons#Advanced
So instead of "Projectiles": null, in your weapon data, it should be something like this:

"Projectiles": {
    "Id": "{{ModId}}_Projectile1",
    "Damage": 10,
    "Explodes": false,
    /* etc */
},```

[hallow prism]

advanced move is used for this kind of thing but still requires you to set the moves

[latent cape]

Does it work with two actors doing it at the same time? Assuming the moves is already set

[pine elbow]

@royal stump I have doubts about the following variables: FireSound, Bounce Sound, Collision Sound, MinAngleOffset, MaxAngleOffset, SpriteIndex, Item

What are the types of these variables?

FireSound is str?

SpriteIndex is int or str?

MinAngleOffset and MaxAngleOffset What are they?

Does the item have all the types present in common fields? Is the item a dictionary? Or a list of dictionaries?

[undone kelp]

  "Changes":[
      {
        "Action": "Load",
        "Priority": "Medium",
        "Target": "Portraits/DolphINaF.Jinu",
        "FromFile": "assets/portraits/{{TargetWithoutPath}}.png"
      },
      {
          "Action": "EditData",
          "Target": "{{Platonymous.ScaleUp/Assets}}",
          "Entries": {
              "{{ModId}}.Jinu": {
                  "Asset": "Mods/Zylis.talkohJinu/Jinu",
                  "Scale": 4
              }```

no clue if any of these is correct but

fuck it we ball

idek if im gonna stick with a scale up vers bc i heard it drops fps fsr but idk if thats fixed now so

[royal stump]

• the sounds are strings, the names of each sound effect listed here:
  https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Audio#Sound
• the angle offsets are int (numbers), and they're the degrees (as in 0-360) by which each projectile can randomly change direction
• sprite index is an int (number) for the sprite's position inside its image, which is TileSheets/Projectiles; they go in order like this, with the default being 11, for example

Item would override the sprite and be an object with all the fields in that "item spawn fields" link, though most of them probably aren't helpful, e.g.

"Item": {
  "ItemId": "(O)16"
}```

[hallow prism]

yes, it is the recommanded approach for simultaneous move

[pine elbow]

@royal stump Thanks

[pine elbow]

Is No Data/WildTrees ShakeItems a dictionary or a list of dictionaries?

[brave fable]

it's a list of item entries, the same as ChopItems, TapItems, and SeedDropItems

not exactly the same, since those have some unique fields available, but the same format at least

[opaque field]

is anyone here familiar with the anime "Made in Abyss"? I had an idea to add the city of Orth and then maybe set up some kind of 'mines' structure to replicate the different levels of said abyss - on a scale of 1-10 how hard would that be?

[brave fable]

i'll be perfectly open in saying that adding a city is about the most work you could conceivably do

consider that stardew valley is 3 things: farming, some kind of 'mines', and a small town

you'd be tasked with making that, but shifting all the workload from farming to the town haha

[calm nebula]

My aquaphonics lab believes

[opaque field]

Ok so I will put it on the “when you have more how to do knowledge “ list 😂😂

Today is making an event and event trigger list and also how to make a dll for my magiceggbuff mod

[undone kelp]

alright lads ive just spent the past nearly two hours packing for my trip and zero progress on patching up expressions with spacecore so how do i do that

[tribal ember]

does someone see why this content patcher code isnt working
im struggling

[spice inlet]

the targets seem a bit odd

[vernal crest]

Are you sure those are the right Targets? It looks to me that SVE Loads their Premium Barn as "Target": "Buildings/SVE_PremiumBarn" for example, not what you have.

[tribal ember]

totally could be the wrong targets!

im not....... good at code LOL

let me try what yall are saying

[vernal crest]

You have to make your Target the same as what is in SVE's Buildings.json file Targets.

[tribal ember]

should i still include the "Mods\FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP"

[vernal crest]

Because you're trying to edit the thing that is in the game already, not the thing that is in SVE's mod folder.

[tribal ember]

in the target?

[vernal crest]

No, it literally has to be exactly as I had it.

[tribal ember]

ohhhhh

OHHHHH

[vernal crest]

If you want to check your understanding you could try to fix the Target for the coop and I can check it for you

[brave fable]

i'd start by building a premium barn and then running a patch summary to find the actual loaded target asset name

sending a screenshot of a json doesn't help a lot without a summary, log, or json parser link

[vernal crest]

I just looked in SVE's files

[tribal ember]

{
"Action": "EditImage",
"Priority": "Late",
"Target": "Buildings/PremiumBarn",
"FromFile": "assets/{{season}}_PremiumBarn.png",
"PatchMode": "Replace",
"When": {
"HasMod: |contains=FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP": true
}
},

[vernal crest]

Nope

[tribal ember]

oh gosh im so sorry

[vernal crest]

Exactly as it is in my message

[tribal ember]

{
"Action": "EditImage",
"Priority": "Late",
"Target": "Buildings/SVE_PremiumBarn",
"FromFile": "assets/{{season}}_PremiumBarn.png",
"PatchMode": "Replace",
"When": {
"HasMod: |contains=FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP": true
}
},

trying now thank you so much everyone

[harsh bobcat]

@ivory plume I just hit lvl 50 can I have repo access

[vernal crest]

(In future, I agree with blueberry that it's most helpful to send a link to your log and json rather than sending screenshots. In this situation it was easy enough to spot that the Targets were wrong but it's not always that easy xD)

[tribal ember]

totally understand @brave fable how do i run a patch summary so i can avoid making this mistake again in the future?

IT WORKED

AHHH THANK YOU