making-mods-general

[tight rivet]

it kinda is

but it's now hooked up, I think: {{i18n:{{ModId}}.MyoldfriendsM13.text}}{{ModId}}.MyoldfriendsM13.text%action AddItem (O)201 1 2 %%%action AddItem (O)205 1 2 %%%action AddItem (O)199 1 2 %%[letterBG Mods/{{ModId}}/backgroundM.png][#]{{ModId}}.MyoldfriendsM13.title

just need to fix the title to properly invoke i18n

it occurs to me I could use re ..

Instead of:

finalString = "{{i18n:"
        finalString += f'{textKey}'
        finalString += "}}"
        finalString += f'{textKey}{textString}'

starts fixing the bugs again. But I can move on to actually modding now that I can batch convert the old json

[tender bloom]

I’m very selfish and mine are delicious

[calm nebula]

I really need to make yours tbh

One day

[next plaza]

Elizabeth has a delicious brownie recipe? First I'm hearing of it

I'd ask for the recipe but I'm too lazy to bake

[calm nebula]

She does!

[next plaza]

@tender bloom By the way, why is your name still spooky.

Even atra changed to AccurateTaxBill instead

[hard fern]

Apparently i was able to replicate the taste of my late aunt's brownies, but in exchange i found out just how allergic to chocolate i am

[calm nebula]

Oh no

[tight rivet]

oof

Victory is mine! {{i18n:{{ModId}}.MyoldfriendsM13.text}}%action AddItem (O)201 1 2 %%%action AddItem (O)205 1 2 %%%action AddItem (O)199 1 2 %%[letterBG Mods/{{ModId}}/backgroundM.png][#]{{i18n:{{ModId}}.MyoldfriendsM13.title}}

If you are ever in python, it happens to dislike {{{{(key}}}}} intesly in f-string literals. >_>

[calm nebula]

Yeah why are you using strings

[next plaza]

More like, why are you using python (/s)

[tight rivet]

I need to emit them?

[calm nebula]

I meant vs %

Sorry

[uncut viper]

i feel like this would also be a good opporunity to remove your modid from your i18n keys as long as you're messin with it

[tight rivet]

.. it doesn't really need to be in the i18n, does it?

I forgot that was mod-scoped

as vs % uh.. I'm excessively used to f'string literals for this kind of thing

(I'm using straight string.replace right now)

goes to do that, while I'm thinking about it

[uncut viper]

yeah theyre mod-scoped already. wont hurt to have them in there but in the spirit of spring cleaning and whatnot

(edge case: sometimes it does hurt bc it makes people think they can also put {{ModId}} in the i18n itself )

[calm nebula]

When I used to do a lot of python metaproframm

[tight rivet]

time to write out the json writing bits and see what it emits for those now.

[brittle pasture]

TIL machine onReadyForHarvest() gets called every time change when the machine has produce

I sure hope no mod is relying on that EMC functionality

@ chu

[lucid iron]

well i guess we can have a baby every 10mins 😌

[hot gale]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/32082

Weapons actually drop off monsters now! Just pushed a new v1.4 update, been a while since my last update been a bit preoccupied 😅

[tender bloom]

I’m just a spooky (read: extremely tired) person

[calm nebula]

Seriously if there is anything I can do for you

[next plaza]

So what you're saying is it's your own personal gas tank that always has the empty light on

[calm nebula]

Meanwhile I have reviewed tax law carefully lol

[tender bloom]

actually mine is doing ok rn, but my brother ran the car down to like,,,, a little past empty recently, hence the inspiration

now my name is accurate

[next plaza]

Still functioning but definitely needs a break and relaxation period some maintenance soon, got it

[calm nebula]

She just needs a pump

[tender bloom]

i think i need new tpms sensors actually

[calm nebula]

Ooh

🫂

[tight rivet]

https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/06c9a99e253149cc999f61a40f551572 victory

[brittle pasture]

second TIL of the day: removeTemporarySprites also yeets Emily's parrot

[quick sand]

anyone know a CP way to make weapons do DOT?

[brittle pasture]

that's most likely c# territory

[calm nebula]

Do department of transportation

[quick sand]

damage over time

guess ill try to ai it

[uncut viper]

if you do, your mod becomes ineligible to be promoted or shown off in this server

[ornate locust]

And you won't even get your answer

[quick sand]

i didnt even know mods were promoted here 😂

[ornate locust]

I mean, also people won't answer any questions they do happen to know the answer to in relation to it, because nobody likes troubleshooting AI's bonkers wrong code

[quick sand]

the intent for using ai is to see what the answer should look like. i did it with health regen succesfully but decided to stick with spacecore since i was already using it for other things

[ornate locust]

Yeah AI doesn't know that

If it worked for one thing, good! You got lucky, 99% of the time we see AI code, it's so wrong you may as well start from scratch

[quick sand]

true i have yet to use anything ai has come up with but it has helped me to understand a little about reading

[ornate locust]

I would be afraid you're learning wrong tbh. Anyway, AI coded stuff isn't allowed in here

[quick sand]

ohh interesting

i'll be sure to avoid it then

is it possible to apply buffs/debuffs to monsters?

[next plaza]

No

A project I worked on at one point was gonna allow that, but I’m not sure it was even worked in 1.5? Much less the 1.6 era.

[inner adder]

anyone know how monster spawn works on the farm? Like how they spawn proportion to existing empty tiles, lighting, pathway, etc?

[urban patrol]

https://smapi.io/log/99a655d542674aeab9e3dd79155e6e33 i'm losing my mind with debug commands here. i just updated SMAPI like an hour ago so?

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19045.0, with 5 C# mods and 1 content packs.

[calm nebula]

I believe that command may have been remkved. In 1.6

There should be a generic building cmd

[urban patrol]

oh wild okay in that case the wiki needs to be updated i think

i also noticed that setupfarm and setupbigfarm didn't build the buildings correctly

[calm nebula]

Run the clear farm command before you run those two iirc

[cosmic gyro]

does anyone know the map name for the mountain lake

[urban patrol]

sorry it took me a hot second but this still resulted in the "couldn't place building" errors

[urban patrol]

Mountain

[calm nebula]

Huh

You on the standard faem?

[urban patrol]

yep

i'm on my laptop instead of my desktop which is why none of this stuff is set up

need another log?

i'm also for some reason unable to use debug commands in the chatbox despite turning the config to true

[calm nebula]

Weird

Welp. I don't have time to look further

[urban patrol]

no worries

https://smapi.io/log/ab99d1cff95840a88c01080a3ffa81b3 if anyone else gets curious this is my latest log and i'm going to go shower

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.19045.0, with 9 C# mods and 1 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[cosmic gyro]

For when you get back do you know the one for the springs,/train station

[urban patrol]

Railroad

[tight rivet]

I use NexusMods for one reason - to make it easier to keep things updated on SDV shakes fist at it failing to detect some updates

[honest jolt]

{
"Action": "EditData",
"Target": "Characters/Dialogue/Alex",
"Entries": {
"dating_Alex": "%Vox gives your arm a squeeze, grinning.",
"Introduction": "Oh, hey. So you're the new guy, huh? Cool im vox. ^Hey, you're the new girl, huh? I think we're going to get along great. I'm Vox.#$e#I'll see you around."
}

Hey im trying to change the name of alex in his dialogue to vox but I can get it to work is this formated correctly?

[tight rivet]

I wonder if I should upload this personal conversion mod. =/

It does fix a few things about the original (missing ZH translation, has SVE detection so you don't get yellow text on load for missing SVE characters, fixes an item issue, corrects some invalid qualities), and properly uses i18n so you only need ot update one file.

on the flipside, though, none of those seem like I should bug the author about it

[mellow laurel]

I tried it twice with the same results as you, left the farm and came back and tried again and suddenly everything built.

[tight rivet]

Hmm.

"helper.Events.GameLoop.OneSecondUpdateTicked += OnOneSecondTicked;"

weird to see in a junk mail mod

[brittle pasture]

maybe it's for midday mail? TimeChanged's probably better

[uncut viper]

are you talking about Junk Mail by Taskmaster2?

[brittle pasture]

yeah that was my thought; it's old and predate widespread CP usage/proper mail triggers so did things manually

[uncut viper]

the author is around and updated it just ~10 days ago. and it has closed permissions, so you cannot upload a personal conversion in the first place

[tight rivet]

oh, this is not the one 'd upload

I'm mostly poking at it to debate if I want to fix it's GMCM invoke

and then send that to the author. :V

(because it's GMCM code is broken)

[haughty charm]

This looks to be the correct format. The best way to check is to test in-game. It also might be helpful for you if you find another mod that does something similar and study how that author makes the edits/changes.

[honest jolt]

Thankyou for the advice my issue was I updated the text in my file copy not the one i had in the mods file. Silly mistake.

[obtuse wigeon]

A mistake we have all done, possibly even multiple times (like me)

[haughty charm]

absolutely have done that so many times

[tight rivet]

Yeah, I had to fix that af ew times.. but it looks like I've got rid of most of my angry red text

[stable grotto]

for vpr, those tiles are handled in mixedbag's tilesheets

I left them blank for two reasons, one of which is now obsolete and the other reason that I see which tiles I have to look up in which mod

[stable grotto]

I don't see how that would cause the overlay in the first picture though

[royal stump]

It's a bit much to explain in full, but when monsters try to spawn on the farm, there's basically a 1/4 chance each one will be a flying type, 3/4 chance for a ground type.

• Flying farm monsters don't care about conditions much; they'll just pick a random tile off the edge of the map and spawn there.
• Ground monsters will pick random tiles (and if they're visible to a player, scoot off to the left until it's not). If that tile is blocked in some way (e.g. if you couldn't place a craftable object on it), they'll try another one, and give up after 15 bad tiles. Light and pathing don't really affect them.
  (Other game mechanics like forage also rely on that "just pick X random tiles and see if they're clean" logic, iirc)

As for the number of monsters, I think it's "one tries to spawn every 10 minutes after 7pm, but it's a 25% chance minus daily luck" or some such

[woeful lintel]

uuuuh... I got a weird bug report for FF: someone is getting a game crash with the new version even though FF didn't start to load.
Here's their log with FF 3.2.3: https://smapi.io/log/251ae85a01d6447f86461dd483865ff1
And here's the one with FF 3.0.5: https://smapi.io/log/152854800ca3480492e666dce7151698
My only guess would be that their computer ran out of memory, but I don't think the new version is this much heavier on memory, especially since it did not start parsing any Furniture Pack according to the log. Not sure how SMAPI handles putting the mods in memory.

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Unix 6.11.11.24, with 173 C# mods and 544 content packs.

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Unix 6.11.11.24, with 173 C# mods and 544 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[elder kite]

That ended up being a seperate issue, but thanks for the lead on mixedbags tilesheet

[obtuse finch]

I'm having a problem. My custom NPC appeared just fine in the summer, but completely disappeared in the fall. I really don't think it's because of its written schedule. Is there a possible explaination why this happened?

Or maybe listing reasons custom NPC may not show up, that help too

[finite ginkgo]

When you say "doesn't show up" does that mean they're invisible but still there or aren't there at all?

[obtuse finch]

I'm not sure how to check if they're invincible, but they didn't show up in the minimap at all (They did before)

[finite ginkgo]

You can do debug where <npc internal name> in your smapi console to check where they're at, if it shows you a location and cords I'd go there and check of you can still interact

If they're there but just invisible, I'd check your spritesheet loads and appearance data if present, make sure there's at least one unconditional load for the textures and that any matching appearance data is correct

If you didn't get a location or when you go there you can't interact with them, I'd check that you have a valid and matching home field entry as well as an unconditional data/characters edit

[obtuse finch]

thank you so much!

[valid folio]

Hi, I have a simple question (although I’m not sure if the answer will be simple, haha).

Alright, to the point:
Is it possible to make a machine output two different items from a single input?
For example: I insert X item and receive both a flower and pods.
If it is possible, I assume it would require a framework.

[calm nebula]

With EMC

[valid folio]

I didn’t expect EMC to have those capabilities. That actually works out well, since I’m already using it in the mod. I just need to figure out how the magic is done

[hallow prism]

There are mods using the feature but no idea if there are simple example

Wildflour atelier goods uses (used?) those

[valid folio]

I’d have to check WAG to see how she implemented it, if it’s still implemented haha. Thanks a lot for the guidance, though honestly I still don’t know if I’ll try to implement it or just let the player have a small “decision mini-game” of choosing to do one thing or another. My intention is to make my mod feel different from the rest.

[drowsy pewter]

Is there a way for a CP mod (with spacecore/betas) to print something to the smapi log? I kinda want to write a message telling the player what "tier" of installation of my mod they have. Since you get different versions based on what dependencies you have installed

I'm gonna guess no

[hallow prism]

Hmm

Someone mentioned something the other day with maybe betas

I dont remember context

[drowsy pewter]

I as the debugger can tell from mailflags in trace but its not player visible

Let me see

Oh yes!

It has it

Log a Message to the SMAPI console using your mod name when given the UniqueId for your mod. LogLevel (default Info) must be one of Trace, Debug, Info, Warning, Error, or Alert. If your Message has spaces in it, it must be wrapped in quotes.

Thats so cool!

[hallow prism]

Glad you found it thanks to my super detailled explanation

[drowsy pewter]

I guess I would need to figure out how to make it play each time you load a save, but not every day ?

[hallow prism]

(I appreciate the efforts put in documentation)

Hmm this one may be tricky

[calm nebula]

(I think a single line logged per day is fine.)

[sullen jewel]

Quick Gauge of Interest

Hello, everyone. I'm thinking of making a mod that introduces plant breeding, starting with flower colors using a system similar to how things work in Animal Crossing. With updates, I hope to expand it so that other hybrid crops can be made, as well as add quests associated with the mod's mechanics, but that'll be quite a bit further down the line. What are people's thoughts?

[drowsy pewter]

Might have to do that. I'll have a config option to let you turn it off anyways

[elfin kindle]

It sounds REALLY cool, but I also know I personally never took any interest in the crossbreeding part of acnh and doubt i'd do much with such a mod but on the level of "do I think it should exist" im like hell yeah, thats a really cool idea

[sullen jewel]

Fair enough. I'll be incentivizing the production of hybrids beyond aesthetics through them and products made from them selling for more (the hybrids will not be available for purchase as seeds), so that might help with your lack of interest, haha.

[calm nebula]

(Try asking #modded-stardew .)

Mod developers have a bad habit of not playing the game

[sullen jewel]

Roger, thank you for pointing that channel out! (I'm new here, obviously, lmao.)

[calm nebula]

(No worries! And your question isnt in the wrong place, but it might get more useful answers over there.)

[obtuse wigeon]

Consider me interested for sure, I do like cross breading plants, especially if they have stats / a goal to get to through cross breeding

[ocean sail]

@obtuse wigeon You leveled up to Shepherd. Wow, you've been talking a lot! Have a prettier, slightly more brag worthy, shade of blue.

[obtuse wigeon]

Oh lovely, shame I can't see the blue in messages

[drowsy pewter]

well this is adorable

[obtuse wigeon]

If you do figure it out, would you mind sharing by chance? It's an idea I've been thinking about for sometime but wasn't sure how to actually implement it to occur only once on save load (only logged to debug but that's easy with BETAS)

[drowsy pewter]

I didnt bother

[obtuse wigeon]

I love that, little messages like that are so fun to read when I have the log open all the time

Ahh fair enough

[sullen jewel]

I've got you, probably. What about making a boolean isFirstDayOfLoad that is set to true when the game is launched that you can check, and set to false when the day starts, so all subsequent days whatever you want to do wouldn't trigger....

[tender bloom]

6480 isn’t using C# here

[sullen jewel]

Ah, whoops

[tender bloom]

So booleans are trickier

[sullen jewel]

Apologies, I didn't catch that.

[tender bloom]

This is a content pack thing (BETAS) that Lumi mentioned earlier

No worries

Easy to not know all these acronyms

[drowsy pewter]

Heh

[gentle rose]

betas MenuChanged trigger with input item set to the save menu?

[brittle pasture]

if you're in C# land you can just use SaveLoaded

[gentle rose]

I can't remember what the c# class for the save menu is

[drowsy pewter]

do triggers even work when you're not in a save?

[gentle rose]

I don't see why not

[drowsy pewter]

I should go to sleep but I need to try

[finite ginkgo]

you go to sleep i can test it out for you

[drowsy pewter]

is the id SaveMenu?

Naaurrr

[gentle rose]

SaveGameMenu

[livid kite]

Oooooo?! I might use this also, if BETAS is installed

[drowsy pewter]

it didnt send the message on ITEM_ID Target SaveGameMenu

oh well! it was worth a try

[gentle rose]

input! not target!

[drowsy pewter]

Hm, I used the example as template

Ah I see

[gentle rose]

yeah it can do both, but I think Input (the menu just closed) makes more sense here

[drowsy pewter]

Lemme try again

also no

[gentle rose]

sad

scope creep button to add an equivalent of the harmony triggers for smapi events

[obtuse wigeon]

I was gonna mention harmony through BETAS but wasn't sure if it would work for this (evendently not)

[drowsy pewter]

Now why in the hell did my mod inform me that it can't patch any of the More New Fish items when it was working fine on the exact previous time I started the game

[brittle pasture]

is there a false dep

[drowsy pewter]

yup

classic mod id MoreFish

[rare orbit]

for mod authors? will regular versions of frameworks like smapi and content patcher work or should i download the developer versions?

like for making mods n such?

[drowsy pewter]

Oh wait, there isnt a false dependency

I guess for some reason, Cooking Recipes has a false dependency on SVE, and More New Fish has a false dependency on SVE, so when SVE is installed the load order somehow worked out

[vernal crest]

Regular versions work

[rare orbit]

cool! thank u!

[left nova]

Esca's EMP has a trigger for OnSaveLoad.

[drowsy pewter]

Interesting

[left nova]

If you don't mind another mod dependency.

[drowsy pewter]

I do, but good to know for the future

[elfin kindle]

I love using random 2 tile high sprites just to plan out events, like yes this makes total sense i swear

[uneven spindle]

hello! does anyone know if the Season global token takes into account the SeasonOverride of certain locations like Ginger Island and the Desert?

[shut edge]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/37866 updated this with hopefully a fix for issues some were having

[brittle pasture]

I don't believe they will, and Season is always the global season

most people have manual overrides for location context Desert or Island, or use the vanilla GSQ if at all possible

[uneven spindle]

yes i thought about those manual overrides but then any new locations from other mods will need to be added manually right?

like the crimson badlands from sve for example

[narrow owl]

if i wanna target the objects.json of stardew valley expanded how would I do that

like instead of data/objects what would I do

[brittle pasture]

it's also Data/Objects

SVE adds new entries to it, and it's up to you to edit those entries

if you need a reference, load a save with SVE, run the console command patch export Data/Objects and read the file it generates (the same way you'd read the unpacked vanilla Objects.json)

[tiny zealot]

if you can drive your thing with GSQ instead of When, there's LOCATION_SEASON which checks the season at the active location automatically, so that's the best solution if you want to honor all such overrides

[uneven spindle]

thanks! i'll see how if I can use that in my dynamic token

[calm nebula]

Is there not a map for season...

[tired relic]

Im now in the process of making willy into a goat person....

Why ? Cause I can

[narrow owl]

why aint this working then ???

[gentle rose]

either the three numeric ids need an (O) or the last long id doesn’t

[autumn tide]

oh also adding "$schema": "https://smapi.io/schemas/content-patcher.json", right under the first bracket of your code will make VS code shut up about comments

[narrow owl]

k

the first three work so maybe last one?

[narrow owl]

omg ty

[narrow owl]

with or without coma

wait nvm

fuck json

[finite ginkgo]

Data/Objects doesn't include the qualifier ( the (O)) in the keys

[narrow owl]

k

[latent mauve]

Unsure if it's true, but I have always acted under the assumption that the entry existing in Data/Objects at all is what determines the (O) in the qualified ID used everywhere else that isn't there.

Which to my brain means "don't put the (O) there unless you want (O)(O)"

[uneven spindle]

you can also change the language mode to jsonc for that!

[uncut viper]

(kind of. its more so that the game typically assumes it must be from Data/Objects if you didnt specify, but it doesnt check if it does actually exist there)

[narrow owl]

well now dulse seaweed just dont exist...

https://smapi.io/json/none/2407dd5c11084e9e9fce62c71a34b83d

[quick sand]

youre trying to change just the category of dulse seaweed so that it is fish?

[narrow owl]

yes

[gentle rose]

what did you check to determine this? can we see your log?

[narrow owl]

cjb item spawner

i used it earlier and it appeared

but now it dont

[uncut viper]

here you go.
also, trigger actions do work outside of saves... unless they specifically check that the world is ready, like MenuChanged was previously, but ive also changed that.
also also, the Log action now has an optional argument to log something only once, which means no matter how many times you try to log that same message, it will only ever appear in the console once per game session. so, basically, you have three options now in BETAS to achieve this.

[narrow owl]

sure ill get the smapi log

[oblique meadow]

-# Phrasing

[narrow owl]

https://smapi.io/log/3ed9dab019b140bfb9db82ea70d4ec36

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0, with 7 C# mods and 3 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[narrow owl]

content patcher isnt the problem i think

did content patcher format change in 2.8.1

cuz i dont wanna break my code

[tiny zealot]

no, pathos is good about semantic versioning, so don't expect any breaking changes until format 3.0

and even then, there will probably be rewriters and migrations to make old packs continue to work

[narrow owl]

k

[narrow owl]

thank goodness

lol

[narrow owl]

lol

https://smapi.io/log/a6534956d69340d58fa7297df8a35dfe whoah what happened here

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0, with 7 C# mods and 3 content packs.

[late gull]

i need a break from the monotony of coding pinball for arcadium. Might look into throwing a bare bones battle pet system together or somethin

[narrow owl]

?

[late gull]

follower pet that will attack enemies alongside you and level up

[narrow owl]

ooh

[urban patrol]

it looks like an issue with your context tags but i’m not sure

[brittle pasture]

can you post your object code again

nvm found the link above

looks correct, hmm
my guess is try adding a false dependency to SVE in your manifest

[narrow owl]

i have no idea how i woul to that

[urban patrol]

just set it false instead of true https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/APIs/Manifest

[narrow owl]

how would i fix that

shoot sorry

my internet bugged and I thought i didnt reply

im sorry

[narrow owl]

wait how do you set dependencies

[urban patrol]

scroll down to the section marked dependencies

[narrow owl]

nvm im sorry

[urban patrol]

all good, just want to give you the resources to learn

[narrow owl]

what unique id for sve?

[urban patrol]

you can find a mod's unique ID inside their manifest

[narrow owl]

FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP this for sve?

[urban patrol]

looks right

[narrow owl]

ty

[narrow owl]

https://smapi.io/log/e2e2653390e947e6b48ca49e0bc231d8
https://smapi.io/json/none/a3980a0ddc314678ba3e566433993548

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0, with 7 C# mods and 3 content packs.

[narrow owl]

still not loading

[swift belfry]

Hi! Has anyone used the "LightWhileWorking" attribute in the Machines config? The Color field makes no sense to me. Vanilla Furnace has "DarkCyan" color and makes red light. Any other color I specify (other color names, hexadecimal values, decimal values) produce a bright green light. Do you know if there is a way to make an other color work?

[urban patrol]

do me a favor and try this instead in case the order of the patches is somehow an issue https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/d0dee3d6e355411fbb6a430fa2951f8c

also you'll notice i condensed several patches to Data/FishPondData into one patch

[urban patrol]

so lighting is actually subtractive (i think that's the term) and you'll have to use the complementary color to what you want

have you seen the list of accepted colors on the wiki?

[royal stump]

I don't know the proper terminology, but SDV's light color system is subtractive: whatever color's RGB you choose is removed from the default light, which is probably white or yellowish
so specifying a color like DarkCyan results in logic like this, basically

[swift belfry]

Oh...

[royal stump]

it generally results in darker and greenish results if you're just poking around, so wiki examples will probably help if those exist, re: nic

[urban patrol]

oh also, i'm not familiar with fish pond data, but it's not uncommon for an item's ID field to have to match its key in Entries, so you might have to make your IDs match your {{ModId}}_algae format. another note, are you aware that the token {{ModId}} resolves to your Mod ID? it's super useful

[urban patrol]

i thiiiink this is it? https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Common_data_field_types#Color

[swift belfry]

I tried inverting the color I want and it gives a bright green... So you're probably right!

Yep! It's working. Thank you!

[narrow owl]

k

did u remove the tags

[urban patrol]

no i just reordered things

[narrow owl]

oh thats it?

k'

trying it now

[urban patrol]

i'm not even sure i'm reading your log correctly, so i didn't change anything data-wise

[narrow owl]

k

[narrow owl]

yeah its giving the exact same errors

[urban patrol]

ok yeah you'll either need to wait for someone more experienced or try to figure out if it's the context tags yourself, because i'm not experienced with this sort of thing

[narrow owl]

k

ty

[quick sand]

anyone know where to find info on modding enchantments? i cant seem to find anything on either wiki

[calm nebula]

You're not going to find info tbh

What are you trying ro do

[quick sand]

ultimately my goal is an enchantment that applies dot

[royal stump]

an enchantment asset will exist to some degree in the upcoming SDV 1.7, but for now it's basically just "look at the decompile and make it", C# guides are pretty sparse

(https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Migrate_to_Stardew_Valley_1.7#Enchantment_data)

that and Spacecore has something about custom forge recipes
https://github.com/spacechase0/StardewValleyMods/tree/develop/framework/SpaceCore

[quick sand]

Oof.

[urban patrol]

could what you want be applied using a Buff instead? i'm not sure what dot is

[royal stump]

damage over time, e.g. being on fire

[quick sand]

damage over time

[urban patrol]

ah got it

[mystic skiff]

Animal Husbandry Mod 2.8.0 released

• Adding a new Softermode that let you take meat from animals without removing them from the game.
• Fix error that freezes the game when using participant ribbon without owing a pet.
• Fix formula for the adjust over meat limit.

Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1538

[lucid iron]

I have implemented DoT as timed delayed actions that each just hit the monster again

That's for trinkets instead of enchantments tho

[brittle pasture]

whoa, softer mode sounds great to get people to actually engage with the meat part

I love AHM, and I feel like everywhere I go I see ppl use every feature of AHM but the meat part lol

[mystic skiff]

I had that implemented for months. I was just not sure I tested it enough before releasing it. Than I got overwhelmed with a lot of personal stuff and couldn't finish testing to release it.

[urban patrol]

i have a mod that adds a butcher shop that sells/buys meat if AHM is installed, so i really hope that more people get interested in these new features!

[next plaza]

That softermode has some horrifying implications if you think about it a little too long

[quick sand]

honestly i really just need a trigger action that does "

addbuff to monsters

[next plaza]

The game does not support buffs on monsters whatsoever. A mod would have to add that capability to begin with, for that to be possible for a trigger action

[mystic skiff]

It's still a magic wand that take meat from another dimension. Now instead of sending the animals, it harvest their love for you.

[oblique meadow]

What if the monster hit the gym? Got really buff

[next plaza]

I've done similar stuff before for original Moon Misadventures and for S&S, but nothing fully generic has ever been released as far as I know. (The only thing I can think of is the MCN stuff, but MCN was stopped a while ago)

[quick sand]

interesting.. makes me wonder how magicstardew's poison works

[oblique meadow]

carefully

[brittle pasture]

well there's vanilla rabbit feet

[urban patrol]

something something "rabbit feet" is just the colloquial name for when rabbit fluff collects into a ball you can pick up

[next plaza]

something something except actual feet have been used for good luck IRL too, so it's hard to say for sure

[oblique meadow]

Nic. Everyone knows Rabbits constantly shed their feet and grow new ones. Geez. /s

[urban patrol]

(oh yeah i was making something up sorry )

should have /j

[next plaza]

brb making a mod where rabbits have a slight sprite change for a day or two after dropping that forage item

[grizzled crescent]

Is it possible to have a mod scale down a asset?
Like the asset itself is (random numbers) 64 px but you want it to be scaled down to 32 px in game. Is there a code you can put that tells the mod to load the asset at 50% it size?

[brittle pasture]

what's the use case?

[grizzled crescent]

I want a 42 px to be used as a futan bear size

Because I accidently drew it too tall D;

[brittle pasture]

is it also 42px wide

[grizzled crescent]

yeah

[lucid iron]

Just make a new furniture then

[brittle pasture]

there are frameworks that allow for HD sprites but tbh I'd just make it a new 3x3 furniture

[grizzled crescent]

I was hoping there was a easier way because furniture framework confuses me xD

[lucid iron]

Naw u can make vanilla furni

Basically go look at Data/furniture find futon bear copy that to a EditData via content patcher and then change the dimensions

[grizzled crescent]

But the main issue is at 42px it shows up huge in the game instead of plushie sized

[brave fable]

you can just copy LG. Futan Bear

[lucid iron]

If u don't need anything fancy that's what i recommend

[brave fable]

I think larger sprite and small collision box might not centre align

I forget

[lucid iron]

Now as for actually doing a "1 tile tall but higher resolution texture", u can use spacecore for that

[grizzled crescent]

So even if I do figure out how to use the vanilla code and stuff, it will still be too tall in game

[lucid iron]

I don't think there is a "too tall" in game mechanic terms, since u may have furniture that's 1x1 footprint and 1x5 texture if u want

[grizzled crescent]

Right now it's bigger than me in game

[lucid iron]

If it is too tall in artistic vision terms then you gotta consider if you actually want a super detailed tiny thing

It can look very jarring

Vs a actual 16x16 plushie

[grizzled crescent]

It's not very detailed lolo

[uncut viper]

if you take a furniture meant for a 64x64 pixel space (2 tiles) and shrink it down to a one tile space it will look twice as detailed as everything else around it

[lucid iron]

Yeah like it's up to u if u wanna take that and redraw it at 1 tile (16px 16px) size

This u should do in the art program bc pixel art do not scale well

[grizzled crescent]

I know, thats why I don't want to redraw it 😂 That's why I was wondering if I can have the mod load it as a percentage

[lucid iron]

Spacecore has feature that would let you render a 48x48 thing as a 16x16 texture, but it will appear HD

[brittle pasture]

yeah tbh I'd just like redraw this to be 16x32

[uncut viper]

what you want cannot be done with vanilla alone and doing it with a dependency like spacecore is possible but chu is just warning you that it will look potentially strange

[brittle pasture]

instead of dealing with HD textures and whatnot

[lucid iron]

The pixel art scaling problem is something u should solve by hand if you want any control over what it looks like

No one has a framework that "load it as a percentage" because it doesn't look bery good

[brittle pasture]

(though if this actually just the outline instead of the finished product then I suppose it would be difficult )

[grizzled crescent]

By hand means redrawing it because photoshop destroys everything when you Smart Object / Rasterize and then resize it lolo

[uncut viper]

(also you couldnt make a framework do that anyway bc its up to each individual C# mod how they wanna draw it)

[lucid iron]

Megu what if u make this like

[brittle pasture]

I don't know about Photoshop but many art programs have "use nearest pixel" for resizing instead of extrapolating

[lucid iron]

A rug

[grizzled crescent]

Can you put rugs on tables?

[lucid iron]

I think it's cute

Draw a plush version separately

[grizzled crescent]

It's a ghost from The Coffin of Andy and Leyley :D

[brittle pasture]

iirc you can only put 16x16 objects on tables
you can make a separate furniture that's just that object on the table

[lucid iron]

You can put anything with footprint of 1 tile on a table

[grizzled crescent]

Okaii, thank you guys. I'll look into the footprint and see how to work spacecore! ♥

[honest jolt]

Hey, I have two mods one changes the apperance of all charactors and one changes just one charactor. How can I change the priority of the second on to render last so it uses its sprites?

I tryed changing its name to start with a z and no luck

[brittle pasture]

!loadorder folder name is unreliable and doesn't work most of the time

[ocean sail]

When two mods edit the same dialogue or images, whichever edit is applied last "wins" and is the one you see in the game.

If the mods don't set edit priorities (which most don't), that order is mainly determined by the order the mods were loaded by SMAPI. You can change that mod load order to influence the edit order.

To use this command, type !loadorder.

[quick sand]

guys for weapondata > projectiles.. is it possible to use a texture other than tilesheets/projectiles?

oh shit i could just make a patch that adds sprites to that tilesheet nvm

[oblique meadow]

Why would you want to shoot anything but rocks and explosive ammo from a slingshot? /jk

[ornate trellis]

never wanted to shoot bagged milk, husky?

[oblique meadow]

Nope. Never

[ornate trellis]

egg sword, get egged

srsly tho i do know you can have your weapon shoot any item

not sure bout custom projectiles, havent tried that yet

[autumn tide]

helloo is there a dialog key for specifc dates when not spouses/roommates?

[autumn tide]

...i have ideas now-

[ornate trellis]

wym

[autumn tide]

like <season>_<day> but for when not spouses/roommates

[tight rivet]

"It's done! I'm free!"

"Oh." 😐

[ornate trellis]

oh yeah you can go wild. heres a template with everything https://stardewmodding.wiki.gg/wiki/Npc_template

a bit further down theres the dialogue stuff

[autumn tide]

oh?

[tight rivet]

I know what cuased that but aaargh

[autumn tide]

thanks!

wait, so does <season>_<day> work for non spouses?

[ornate trellis]

shore

[autumn tide]

oh shit it does? had no clue lol

[ornate trellis]

i personally only added the festival days and the first day of the season as dialogue key for the fishmonger and then jsut went with Mon, Mon2 etc aka the weekdays and weekdaays heart levels

[autumn tide]

thanks so much!!!

[ornate trellis]

believe me when i say that if you really wanna do all the keys you gonna be miserable if writing isnt your thing

[narrow owl]

did you make it?

[autumn tide]

you saved from so much when and GSQ shenanigans omg

[ornate trellis]

so a fair bit of warning there to maybe start with standard mon tue wed etc and then see how you progress maybe

[autumn tide]

not doing ALL of them haha

..yet

[ornate trellis]

(you can see in the fishmonger i18n dialogue file how i changed from Constance to the others on how to write lol)

cuz instead of going crazy with all the keys you can also jsut go pretty simple and add several dialogues to one key if you use i18n and randomize them

with that said im off to sleep im late again oops

[tight rivet]

It's a conversion mod of someone else's stuff, but what i did is I forgot to merge the i18n from the other file

[autumn tide]

gn

[narrow owl]

congrats

people, I am adding the fishing jellies to my mod but seaweed jelly algae fish ponds sounds like too much how should I paraphrase this or how do you think I should go about making the name, especially if I add more stuff in the future

also whats the item tag for the jellies, like for most stuff its item_[item] but I tried it for sea jelly and it doesnt work, is it case sensitive or do you use underscores or what

or can you use spaces

[hard fern]

For the mod name? Call it non-fish fish ponds or something

[narrow owl]

k ty

[shut edge]

fish ponds plus plus

Stuff ponds

[narrow owl]

how would i replicate what i did with the seaweed with the sea jelly because idk if it needs space or case sensitive or what but i tested item_Sea Jelly and item_seajelly and both failed to idk what I should do

[shut edge]

i think that's a nested quotes thing maybe

"fish_nonfish" seems to be a thing

[brittle pasture]

just use the id_o_ format

every item in game has an autogenerated context tag corresponding to its item ID that identifies it exactly

in this case it would be id_o_seajelly

[shut edge]

"fish_nonfish" is in fact only used in vanilla for seaweed, the two algae, and the three jellies (seems to be anyway, looking at objects.json)

so maybe that's perfect for you?

Nonfish Ponds

[narrow owl]

i did it item_sea_jelly and it worked but ty

[narrow owl]

ohh actually eah

[lucid mulch]

there is also a context tag for item_<internal name after sanitization>

[brittle pasture]

I don't like it as much as id_o because authors can give their items whatever internal name, while the id is exact

[lucid mulch]

I personally prefer the explicit one using the id as its unique, and for coloured stuff that doesn't stack, they would still have the same id, but different internal names

[brittle pasture]

item_ use the internal name from data actually

[lucid mulch]

ah yeah as it populates base context tags off itemid only and doesnt know the item instance

[brittle pasture]

(you prob already know)

[opal hull]

Question about custom NPC sprites: Is it possible for there to be a base body used for all sprites and then different clothing overlays for different conditions, or is it only possible (or just better/easier) to have the clothing and body be part of the same image? I was looking at the modding wiki page regarding Appearances and didn't immediately see anything about it.

[gentle rose]

you could always make a base body and then use it to make the combined body+clothing sprites yourself rather than having the game do it

[hard fern]

I always draw in layers

[drowsy pewter]

I mean yeah its possible but not ideal and what if you mess up and make your character naked ingame lol

Imagine those bug reports

[opal hull]

Heh yeah naked NPC was my main worry, too

Guess I'll just have the layers combined into the same images to use in the code. Thanks y'all!

[wispy jolt]

is there a mod for pausing time progressing in multiplayer when any player enters a cutscene?

friend and I are constantly having to pick between participating in a cutscene and losing X amount of hours in the day or just skipping it

[gentle rose]

you should ask #modded-stardew

[wispy jolt]

will do

[ornate locust]

I am having an... odd problem

I keep having NPCs I patch for festivals get stuck looking straight forward until I talk to them, then they turn and face the way they are supposed to

[indigo yoke]

is there an issue with writing modData to players who are not the local player? Trying to rewrite the old netcode to a more simple form of just using moddata to sync, but despite writing to all player's modData, only the local gets it.

(also sorry)

[ornate locust]

I thought it was something weird with removing the wizard's animation for the luau, but now Sandy did it when I patched her to move her slightly to overwrite a different mod's positioning

[calm nebula]

Yes

[indigo yoke]

Well there goes that idea

just checking: is there an easy access modData similar to player.modData that I can write the information to instead?

[ornate locust]

Both NPCs started out facing forward, so maybe that's it? But I swear it worked last year, why doesn't it work now, why did it stop working after the luau, what is going on. why is this so janky

[lucid iron]

maybe if u write shit to the master player? its wacky

this is something that casey community service may fix

in the meantime can you explain the usecase more?

[indigo yoke]

I'm actually trying to move away from spacecore networking. It seems to crash if too many messages are sent at once.

[devout otter]

How are you patching it?

[lucid iron]

casey community service = mp sync improvements in 1.6.16 mayhaps

or in new smapi, unknown

[indigo yoke]

Ooooooooo

[lucid iron]

but yea in the past when i just had some infrequently updating data

i use smapi mp mod message

is your data infrequently updating is my question

[calm nebula]

Write to farms moddata

Game1.getfarm

Unless you absolutely need per player

[ornate locust]

bbbasically the only way I know, which is appending them onto the list late. It moves them fine, just the turn takes talking to them before it'll update. If there's a better way, I'm all ears.

[indigo yoke]

yesn't? players can spam spells which send out a ton of messages.

[indigo yoke]

Ooooooo tyvm. I just need to encode onto the string all the famrers longs and then delete it once all farmers have read it. Ty

[devout otter]

Since they are characters who are already there, try editing their entry in the set-up instead.

[lucid iron]

if the spell's effect is already mp sync'd then there's no need to send your own message

for example, you won't need to message about projectile

[ornate locust]

Ah, I'll give that a shot, thanks

[lucid iron]

also don't need to message about forage collected etc

[indigo yoke]

yeah there are a few that already is synced but other's aren't like the summons that follow players around

[lucid iron]

companions are mp sync'd

use that instead of old thing

[indigo yoke]

they aren't companions

[lucid iron]

you can make them be companions

although vanilla uses those specifically for trinkets, they are not coupled

you get a netposition for free

if u arent going through trinkets i think u do need to yeet them before saving for safety

but besides that it's fine to subclass

[calm nebula]

Yeah, parsing in and out of strings would be expensive

[indigo yoke]

maybe eventually. for now I want to tune up the old system before moving new ways

[lucid iron]

i think this is the optimal way to implement a summoned entity as of 1.6

[calm nebula]

Yeah

[lucid iron]

a lot better than using string modData and doing all the serializing stuff

[indigo yoke]

the string modData is just read once. It then attaches a Temp sprite to the summoner.

[lucid iron]

in that case it is infrequent then

well ultimately up to you

im just throwing out suggestions here

[autumn tide]

just checking, dynamic tokens work in keys right?

[urban patrol]

not i18n keys, but yes

[autumn tide]

gotcha!

[autumn tide]

thanks!

[lucid iron]

what do u mean by this

[autumn tide]

like if I make a dynamic token of with values that might show up in a non-i18n key, will the key work as though that specific value itself had been in the key?

lil tired rn so sorry if I put that wrong

[calm nebula]

Yes

[lucid iron]

i think the key is what i find ambiguous here

if you look at content patcher's documentation, it says whether a particular place accepts tokens

for example Entries of EditData accepts tokens, and you may use them as desired there

[autumn tide]

ooh okay, I'll check :)

[lucid iron]

Priority does not accept tokens

you can have {{i18n: {{anothertoken}} }} if you want

but the value of an i18n does not resolve tokens

[autumn tide]

huh, alr!

[urban patrol]

but the entry in default.json cannot be a token, correct?

[lucid iron]

entry in default.json = value of an i18n eys

[urban patrol]

rephrasing, the i18n key cannot contain a token, correct?

[lucid iron]

you may not use tokens in i18n translation json yes

[autumn tide]

thanks :)

this can be so confusing at times lol

[gaunt orbit]

congrats on ornj claude

[inner adder]

When you say “if they’re visible to the player”, can I zoom all the way in to make them less “visible” which in return increases monster spawns? Or is there a predetermined range of “visible”?

[uncut viper]

you can use SMAPI tokens whose value is a CP token passed into it tho in i18n

theyre still technically called tokens there

[autumn tide]

i'm a fellow cheeto now lol

[inner adder]

Huh, where did you obtain this info? Where can I find it?

[calm nebula]

!decompile

[ocean sail]

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

To use this command, type !decompile.

[autumn tide]

should this work to have a random chance of season-based dialog?

sorry if I'm not making sense, really exhausted rn lol

[urban patrol]

the random token updates once per day at the beginning of the day, so i'm not sure how often it would coincide with the day of week it is and thus display to the player

[autumn tide]

gotcha, i only have a few seasonal dialog things anyways

[meager basin]

Hi all! Hope your days are going well. 🙂 I'm just dipping my toes in to modding with C# (very beginner level). I've decompiled the game code in ILSpy, but what is the best way to find a specific item to see how it works? Sorry if this is in a guide somewhere!

[autumn tide]

have you unpacked the game yet?

[urban patrol]

claude that's for assets

[autumn tide]

ohh, thought you were looking for assets lol

[urban patrol]

anyway i'm not great at C# but you can search using ctrl-F in the decompile--if it's an object i'd start in the Objects folder, maybe (things like Boots.cs, Furniture.cs, etc)

[obtuse wigeon]

What I did when I was first looking through the code was search for something vague that still related to the thing I wanted, i.e. If I wanted to see what happens when a player interacts with a chest, I would first search for "player" or "farmer", or even just "chest", that helped me figure out how the naming convention used works, once you get a decent idea via combing through the code you eventually figure out the best thing to search to find what you want.

It's very much a scavenger hunt at the start, but you get more familiar with it eventually, I do recommend opening the decomp folder in something like vscode, and using Ctrl + Shift + F over the left panel, it lets you search through all files in the folder rather than one by one

[meager basin]

Okay, so it is a case of just trawling through until you find what you're looking for - thanks 🙂

[urban patrol]

yep pretty much

[obtuse wigeon]

if you're struggling to find something after looking, feel free to ask others here, they may have a better idea of where things are and can give you a better place to start from or search into

[lucid iron]

what are you looking for

which specific item?

[meager basin]

Ahh I just was interested in making an item like a wild tree seed (drops when a tree is shaken) but when right clicked does something else

[autumn tide]

unpacking might still be useful there!

have you unpacked the game yet?

!unpack

[ocean sail]

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

To use this command, type !unpack.

[meager basin]

Oh I haven't! I have just used ILSpy on the .dll and opened it in VS, I'll try unpacking as well 🙂

[autumn tide]

good luck with your mod :)

[meager basin]

Thanks for your help!

[urban patrol]

TerrainFeatures>Tree.cs has the code for wild trees, i just checked

depending on what you want your tree to do

[somber hinge]

hi y'all ^_^ I want to make a mod that prevents the adoption approval letter from being sent, but I'm not sure how I'd go about it. I looked around the modding wiki sections regarding mail but I didn't find anything relevant

[urban patrol]

do you want to replace it with another letter, or just stop it entirely?

[drowsy pewter]

If you're not attached to using C# to make your mod, you can also do this using the game's data system to create a custom item, and use spacecore as a framework to make the item trigger almost anything you want when used

[somber hinge]

stop it entirely

[urban patrol]

if it's a trigger action that sends it, you should be able to redirect it to not do any actions, but i'm not sure it is so let me see

[somber hinge]

thanks for looking into it !

[meager basin]

Oh so UseForTriggerAction?

[urban patrol]

no sorry i was talking to jas

[meager basin]

Oh lol, ignore me

[urban patrol]

although i do think you're correct that that's the spacecore function that 6480 mentioned

[meager basin]

Orange name confused me, you're different people lmao

Thanks all

[urban patrol]

there are many cheetos (orange color mod authors) in this channel to keep track of lol

i genuinely cannot find how the adoption letter is sent. it's not in Data/TriggerActions but searching the decompile for AddMail("adoptionLetter didn't result in anything either

[somber hinge]

the elusive adoptionLetter

[urban patrol]

hopefully someone more knowledgable than me logs on and can help you out

it might require C#

[somber hinge]

thanks for giving it a shot! <3

[tiny zealot]

are we certain this letter is actually sent and isn't cut content?

[brittle pasture]

yeah I checked the files myself and I'm almost 98% sure I have never read it anywhere, even pre-1.6

[somber hinge]

I remember receiving it in the past but that was pre-1.6 so idk for sure

[urban patrol]

huh it might be. it exists as an entry in Data/mail here:
"adoptionLetter": "Dear @ and spouse,^Congratulations! Your adoption application has been approved.^We're working hard to choose the perfect baby to match your profile.^Your new family member will arrive in 2 weeks.^^-Ferngill Adoption Agency[#]Adoption Notice",

lmao then problem already solved

[tiny zealot]

yeah but there's no reference to it in the code

and i'm fairly sure i've never received it in a save

[urban patrol]

(i'm not crazy, yay!)

[somber hinge]

awesome thanks guys ^_^ easiest mod ive ever made

[drowsy pewter]

Someone get this person an orange name

[somber hinge]

LOL

[lucid iron]

howcome Lexicon.capitalize does nothing for not english

[indigo yoke]

oh don't get me wrong. I am eventually going to switch to the companions (thanks for the information!). Just atm I want to work with what I have and improve that, then move to learning newer stuff.

would it count as a bug to report to Pathos if Context.IsPlayerFree includes night events?
Like I have this code line

            if (Game1.activeClickableMenu != null || Game1.eventUp || !LearnedMagic || !Context.IsPlayerFree)
                return;

to only render the hud when the player can move around and outside of events. it doesn't show up during most of the night menu, but does during night events right before the night menu.

[lucid iron]

night events usually set Game1.player.CanMove to false i thought

[indigo yoke]

let me get a gif just so I dont seem like a crazy person still a crazy person tho

it could just be this one night event

[quick sand]

if a mod on the nexus says its an api does that mean its only for C# or is there a way for CP to utilize them

?

[lucid iron]

usually it's for another C# mod, but you can name mod to make sure

[lucid iron]

i meant that night events generally do Game1.player.CanMove = false

somewhere in the setUp method

[quick sand]

i just stumbled upon spacechase's manabar mod which states its an api

[uncut viper]

isplayerfree doesnt even check that chu

[quick sand]

i didnt necessarily have a plan to use it but wondered if i could with CP

[lucid iron]

C# mods usually expose things to CP via things like GSQ

[quick sand]

🤯

[lucid iron]

so i guess the answer is like

• when a C# mod says API it most likely refers to the C# facing API that ppl grab with GetApi
• they may have stuff for content mods to use, details vary on this one

[quick sand]

that makes sense. i really gotta finish learning c#

anyone understand how areaofeffect field on weapons work? i saw it on lava katana and a few others but I cant find an explanation

[brittle pasture]

according to the code it increases the width/height of the hitbox by those number of pixels

a single in game tile is 64x64 so the lava katana's 2 pixel increase is probably imperceptible

[quick sand]

crazy....

so the 2 would be 2x2 of 64x64?

[calm nebula]

Tbh you think it doesnt do much but it feels like more than the numbers would say tbh

[narrow owl]

Guys my life kinda sucks right now and I just wanna say im really thankful for you guys interacting with me and not making me feel like a useless burden

[hard fern]

😔 boo'd out of modded farmers for my unpopular ketchup opinions

Anyways this means i should make a mod with ketchup

[ivory plume]

(Ketchup chips are great. I don't think there's a mod for that yet.)

[hard fern]

Hmm, maybe i would have to make a "ingredient core" mod

[drowsy pewter]

there are now 15 competing standards

[ornate locust]

oh no

The butter

[hard fern]

actually butter is not on my list thank goodness

So far what is on my list is ketchup and sweet green bean paste

[ornate locust]

I don't actually know any mod that does those at least? I think people usually just extrapolate Tomato to Ketchup

[drowsy pewter]

there will be one in ten days

[ornate locust]

butter problem POTENTIALLY avoided

Is this a prediction or

[drowsy pewter]

a threat

[ornate locust]

[hard fern]

My ketchup will be packaged in a little bow

For your viewing pleasure

[indigo yoke]

okay, so most likely a bug with context.player if it's not working or reading it correctly then.

[royal stump]

• Yes, zooming in would give them more places to spawn. By visible, I mean any tiles within the bounds of the player's current screen when the time changes. (It might only count the host's screen in multiplayer, I'm not sure if it checks everyone.)
• The info's just from me reading the code of the game (specifically searching for "monster" code in the Farm.cs file). It probably won't help much if you're unfamiliar with C# programming, but there're instructions for decompiling the game here:
  https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/Get_Started#How_do_I_decompile_the_game_code.3F

[meager basin]

I worked out how to add an item that drops from trees! If I make a C# mod to add complex behaviour to it, is there anything in particular that I need to add to either the CP or the C# mod? A dependency etc.? Or if I reference the item in the CP will the C# mod already have access to it? (Sorry, super beginner lol)

[drowsy pewter]

Yes it will have access, once you add via cp its basically the same as using a vanilla item

but one should have a dependency on the other so players dont accidentally install them separately

I think usually people put the cp component as dependent on the C# component but it probably depends on what you're doing

[obtuse wigeon]

Also make sure not to list a dependancy for the other in each mod, It doesn't handle cyclical dependancies well and you will get errors and your mods might not load

[meager basin]

Oooh okay, thanks for the advice

[meager basin]

That's good to know! Thanks

[drowsy pewter]

Can I ask what you're making? I'm just curious

[meager basin]

Basically trying to make the falling leaf item from Animal Crossing haha

[drowsy pewter]

So you use the item and it turns into a furniture?

[meager basin]

Yeah!

[drowsy pewter]

That's cute

[meager basin]

Felt like it would make me have to learn a nice amount for a first mod

[drowsy pewter]

It does seem like a manageable start

[meager basin]

I'm just starting from 0 basically, only have done a tiny bit of python

[woeful lintel]

Zunda mentioned?

[drowsy pewter]

@mystic skiff Congrats on an AH update! Also I had to laugh at the idea of taking meat from a living animal

[toxic hemlock]

Hey, does anyone know what could be the reason why my game cannot find events loaded on my custom map? I checked the code of them and it seems fine, I loaded the same event on 2 vanilla maps and the game found it. The custom map also loads without any issues. Kinda losing my mind right now

[woeful lintel]

I don't know much about events, but maybe you mistyped the ID of your custom map in the event (or the opposite)

[obtuse finch]

It's me again, quick question...
If I wanted: each day the NPC chooses a random line out off 1,2,3,4,5 whenever you interact with it, what code do I use?

Been scrolling through the wiki for a while and none matched my intent

[lucid mulch]

patch summary <modid>

but if its a custom map, is there a blank Load for the events asset for that map for your EditData's to work

you can only edit an asset that has something loading it, either being a vanilla xnb or a mod loading it via other means

[toxic hemlock]

I still don't get what's wrong...

[lucid mulch]

so there isn't a Load for Data/Events/<MapId>

[toxic hemlock]

How should I add it?

[lucid mulch]

have a load patch targetting Data/Events/<MapId> pointing to a json file that just contains {}

generally called blank.json but can technically be called anything

[hallow prism]

look at content patcher random tokens (this is a mod, with a lot of documentation)

[obtuse finch]

I did, though there's still a lot I don't get, like implement the tokens in dialogue

[hallow prism]

ok! you can try looking at other mods to see how they do that, there's a few different approachs

[royal stump]

there's a guide here with a pretty relevant example in the "starting out" part:
https://stardewmodding.wiki.gg/wiki/Tips:_Using_i18n_for_Easy_Dialogue_Randomisation
you'd want to add an i18n folder with default.json in your pack, put the random dialogue lines in that, and use the normal dialogue keys + token example there

[obtuse finch]

tysm for answering!
I once failed trying to follow this, but I'll give it a try again

[royal stump]

in case it helps, the first part of each example goes in content.json (the one with "Changes") and the second goes in i18n/default.json (the part with just "NewDialogueMod" keys)

[vernal crest]

If you get stuck at specific parts of this you can ask for help understanding it here :)

[obtuse finch]

will do! Taking a break atm

I'm more of a artist than coder so these stuffs really out of my comfort zone

Really thankful for this server!

[vernal crag]

How can I edit this description?

[vernal crest]

Strings\UI

LevelUp_ProfessionDescription_Artisan

[vernal crag]

Omg tysm

[obtuse finch]

the most confusing thing happened to me
So my NPC's pathfinding collided with the red train's transportation and got teleported to Grampleton farm (SVE)

There's no applying set pathfinding as far as I know?

[hard fern]

huh? red train?

[obtuse finch]

Uh I dont know what it called one sec

This thing

[vernal crest]

What's that for?

Oh, presumably an SVE warp point

[obtuse finch]

It's from SVE

Which is troubling I dont know NPC can do that

[vernal crest]

Are there any warp points in Grampleton farm to other places?

[hard fern]

npcs take like, the "META" path so, weird pathfinding things can happen. like demetrius deciding he wants to walk behind the community center after some map changes

[obtuse finch]

The same red box, but after warping the NPC froze

[vernal crest]

Is the box a TouchAction, as in you have to walk over it to warp? Or do you have to click on it to warp?

[obtuse finch]

Click on and warp

[vernal crest]

I don't think an NPC can accidentally trigger that then. The pathfinder intentionally sent your NPC to Grampleton farm, I think.

[obtuse wigeon]

That's not a vanilla thing? That makes a lot more sense now

[vernal crest]

There are no other warps to any other location? It's a dead end?

[obtuse wigeon]

There's warps to town

And Shearwater bridge

[obtuse finch]

Oh wait
I reloaded and the NPC's pathfinding is fine

[obtuse wigeon]

So from train station to town, it's the "same" distance, going through 2 warps

[vernal crest]

Did you change their schedule in the middle of the day or anything?

[obtuse finch]

My theory being because I was in it's way, it took the other way around, bump into the warp and got whooshed

[obtuse finch]

I reloaded by exiting to tilte and join save

title*

[vernal crest]

I meant before it started happening. Or if you did a patch reload, that can make them do really straight things

I don't think it can accidentally bump into the warp

Because the tile has collision so they can't walk on it (I am assuming, it'd be weird if it didn't), even if NPCs do get automatically warped by non-TouchAction warps

[obtuse finch]

The first time it happened, I didn't do anything, I play until the next day and went to check up on it, and saw it literally disappeared

Went I warp to Grampleton, I found the NPC stood frozen

[obtuse wigeon]

(SVEs warps are really weird, map patches on top of them often entirely break them leading to very strange behaviours)

Do you also have East Scarp installed? (Specifically pre version 3.0, might still occur with 3.0 but I havent tested it)

[obtuse finch]

I don't

[obtuse wigeon]

Okay there goes that idea XD

Final question, is it by chance a festival day?

[gentle rose]

if you have lookup anything, can you enable debug/dump data and send a screenshot of what it shows as your npc’s schedule?

[obtuse finch]

normal day

[obtuse finch]

alright one sec

[obtuse wigeon]

I am out of ideas as to why they froze specifically

[obtuse finch]

sorry can you tell me the process to this?

[hard fern]

it should be a config in lookup anything to enable it

and the next time you use it to search information it'll show you the debug info

[obtuse finch]

I did activated the debug and typed in /dump data in chat, it didn't do anything?

[hard fern]

it's not a chat command

[obtuse finch]

ohh

where should I type it then?

(I've never use the Lookup function)

[hard fern]

you dont type anything

you might want to figure out how lookup anything works first

[obtuse finch]

ah alright

[obtuse wigeon]

Iirc you press the Lookup button while hovering over the NPC then there should be a "Schedule" section? It may be in a submenu if I'm remembering wrong

[obtuse finch]

Like this?

[vernal crest]

Yup

I think the most likely thing is that for some reason the pathfinder decided that the way through Grampleton farm was the best way to get to their next destination

If it doesn't happen again I wouldn't stress too much about investigating it

[calm nebula]

Shoulder checking an npc into a warp is funny ngl

[frosty hull]

Hello World, can anybody tell me how SinZ optimize this?

• Improved performance when mods edit maps (thanks to SinZ!).
  https://github.com/Pathoschild/SMAPI/blob/develop/docs/release-notes.md#release-notes

[brittle pasture]

this is the code change: https://github.com/Pathoschild/SMAPI/pull/981

[inner adder]

Thanks, you save me from insanity

[mystic skiff]

People had actually asked for that and that was in my todo list since forever. But that IS the main reason a lot of people don't use the meat feature, they don't want to "spent" their animals to obtain the meat.
So since modding is about playing whatever way you want, why not?

[brittle pasture]

I feel like the outlier with how much I enjoy sending animals to the shadow realm

well it's more that I like the extra gameplay loop of incubating eggs/inseminating animals

[rough lintel]

yeah let me just cut off ONE cow leg and leave the other three for next time lmao

ive never sent an animal to the shadow realm bc i get attached to my sillies

[elder kite]

Having trouble locating a few places on the vanilla tilesheets, I'm probably just burnt from working on this for so long lol

If anyone does know where these tiles are called from specifically that would be an immense help :p

[hard fern]

should just be springoutdoors

[quick sand]

anyone familiar with spacecore sourcesizeoverride?

[ocean sail]

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

[quick sand]

its just making my weapon invisible

[coral kite]

🤨

[quick sand]

hola

[woeful lintel]

do you have something in the data that you can use as a reference? It's possible that you're using the wrong unit.

[quick sand]

its added by spacecore so i doubt it. im trying to find a mod on the nexus that used it thats also CP 😞

i did it! kinda..

[quick sand]

is it possible to offset this so it fits where it should?

[narrow owl]

when im making an item I target data/objects right? is there anything that goes after that

[quick sand]

if its an object, yes

im making weapons so im targeting data/weapons

[narrow owl]

k

ty

[narrow owl]

gl

[narrow owl]

when making the item what do I do after this? do I use the fields on the wiki, is there an example I can use?

[narrow owl]

tysm

[narrow owl]

does the mods/modid/candy still work if their mods folder is named something different like what if their mods folder is named modded

[uncut viper]

its not a file path

it is an asset name

the mod author decides what the asset name is

and it has no required relevance to their mod folder at all

nor the folder of the person installing the mod

[narrow owl]

so no matter what it will work?

wait but then how do you organize the assets

[uncut viper]

assuming it matches whatever you loaded your texture to

[narrow owl]

k

how do you structure your mod folder then

[uncut viper]

however you want

it doesnt matter

[narrow owl]

oh

[uncut viper]

you are not using a file path for the texture

so again the folder structure literally does not matter

whatsoever

you will want to look at the Content Patcher documentation for EditImage

[narrow owl]

k

[narrow owl]

but wait im not editing im creating a new one

im sorry im just lost

[uncut viper]

nah dont apologize thats my mistake

Load then, not EditImage

[narrow owl]

k

[uncut viper]

you Load a file to some Target that you define

the Target can be whatever you want. its made up

[narrow owl]

so if I have my mod like this and then I put the asset in the folder and its named candy.png

how do I load that

[uncut viper]

you can Load a png file in your mod folder to a Target called Mods/{{ModId}}/MyObjectTextures and that is what you write down as the texture in Data/Objects

[narrow owl]

.

[uncut viper]

you look at the documentation for Load instead

[narrow owl]

k

[narrow owl]

mod id is the folder name right?

[uncut viper]

no.

[uncut viper]

again, you need to stop thinking of it like a file path

it is not a file path

has no relevance to any folder on your computer at all

the only time you will be using a filepath is in the FromFile field of your Load patch

[quick sand]

i eventually learned also that its not a path

[urban patrol]

also, labyrinth, as i mentioned yesterday, {{ModId}} is a token that you don’t need to replace with anything when writing JSON. content patcher knows to replace it with your mod id from your manifest automatically

[quick sand]

do you all know a way to fix this? used spacecore to use a larger image but now it fits weird

[autumn tide]

hey! is there a way to determine exactly what things like {0}, {1}, {2}, etc might mean in specific strings, or should I just try to infer them? example:

[uncut viper]

no real way unless its written down on a wiki somewhere or someone tells you, otherwise its in the decompile

[autumn tide]

gotcha, alr!

[uncut viper]

in that one, {0} is the player name (or the players gender i guess, if the friendship isnt high enough?)
{1} is a particle in the grammatical sense which i think is choosing just "a" or "an"
{2} is the display name of the item they bought
{3} is a random negative food adjective

[autumn tide]

i assumed so, thanks for clarifying :)

[narrow owl]

oh cool, i didnt know that ty

maybe im just bad remember

[narrow owl]

wait what is the target field for then

[quick sand]

i guess in the context of "Load" its giving it a name

[narrow owl]

oh

so you just say {{modid}}/[nameofitem]?

[brittle pasture]

did you specify the source size override

[quick sand]

i dont think it matters as long as you use that in the texture field

[brittle pasture]

Target is whatever name you pick for the game to know your png by

[autumn tide]

hey! so this is under the mod-author-role-benefit-things, uhhh how might I ask for the link?

[narrow owl]

oh

[brittle pasture]

doesnt matter what you pick as long as that name is what you use in the data field

[narrow owl]

so modid/internalname

[narrow owl]

k

[uncut viper]

you ping Pathos and ask for it and provide your GitHub username

[brittle pasture]

people usually use some variations of {{ModId}}/Name yes

[narrow owl]

k ty

i think I understand now

[quick sand]

i believe so.

"SourceTexture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/supersledgebig.png}}",
"SourceSizeOverride": { "X": 64, "Y": 64 },

[brittle pasture]

can you post the full code just in case

using smapi.io/json

[quick sand]

https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/6b2e2f3ed7f3466fac93d107e1421062

[inner harbor]

The ? Code doesnt work in festival positions, does it? If it did, it would make progressive npcs much easier to add.

[uncut viper]

festivals are just fancy events so id assume theyd work, but ive never tried or looked into it

[urban patrol]

no, i had to have conditional patches :(

[brittle pasture]

hmm that looks fine to me
usually SC should have shrunk that texture into the 16x16 square

[urban patrol]

you’d think they would but oh well

[inner harbor]

Yeah, i tried it to Nic. If they could at some future point it would make my festival.json file much tidier.

[urban patrol]

idk how the code works but it sounds like a good feature request for 1.7 if possible

[uncut viper]

did you try adding them to the set-up script instead of just _additionalCharacters

[inner harbor]

Or a content patcher update?

I did not, no

[urban patrol]

me neither

[inner harbor]

Would that potentially break other things?

[uncut viper]

id be 50% surprised and 50% not surprised

[urban patrol]

i think as long as you use text operations and not override it

[uncut viper]

yeah itd have to be an append

[urban patrol]

i’m not at my computer but if you do get it working lemurkat lmk

[uncut viper]

on the bright side, its a known and guaranteed field number

though looking at the code i dont see why the optional stuff shouldnt just work in the _additionalCharacters field either

[urban patrol]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

idk why for my custom festival i had to put them in additional characters instead of using setup but i just assume festivals are weird

[uncut viper]

well its generally recommended that you put them in the _additionalCharacters field yes
but that field should still respect optionality

[urban patrol]

oh it is? i need to add that to the tutorial i wrote then

i only recommended that people not bake them into the map

[uncut viper]

as far as i know its always been said to use additionalCharacters and definitely not the layer in the map

(obviously with the disclaimer of "always as long as that option has been available" i mean)

[urban patrol]

i might be misremembering my code actually lol

for some reason i thought there were three options: map, setup field, additions characters field

[uncut viper]

well, there are, but the last one is the recommended in like all situations

nothing is stopping someone from editing the set-up script for a festival

[quick sand]

RotationVelocity (Optional) The rotation velocity. Default 32.

is it possible to disable rotation on projectiles from melee weapons?

0 didnt work...

[merry river]

hello, i need help with some coding again. smapi tells me that there's something wrong with my content.json. VS says something about an "expected comma" and the json validator mentions an "unexpected character". i am not sure what i have to fix though! (this is the first time I'm trying my hand at modding and i've been following the wiki mostly)

https://smapi.io/json/content-patcher/3ce8d446c19e418e97c9e93068c53742

[uncut viper]

you dont have a comma after the last brace closing your patch on line 64

i would think VS should tell you exactly where its expecting the comma? (i dont use VS)

[fast plaza]

have you tried just setting it to 0?

rotationvelocity I mean

[merry river]

it mentioned line 67, which is why i was very confused! the error is gone now, thanks. let's see if i can get this mod to load now

[uncut viper]

usually i would expect some sort of red squiggly on the brace causing the error, but i dont know

the reason it says line 67 is because thats where it first failed

not having a comma on line 64 is only incorrect if there's stuff after it

therefore, it didnt know it was broken until it reached line 67

[quick sand]

maaaaaaan... i wrote "rotationalvelocity" so it ignored it

[uncut viper]

so you typically need to look a line or few before the error

[fast plaza]

hahah classic

oh wait im way too tired

i didn't see your 0 didnt work line

sorry about that

[quick sand]

all good. it confirmed that it shouldve worked

[fast plaza]

noice

Assuming that everyones issues are fixed up now, I had a kinda discussion topic I was curious about

how much stardew valley do you think someone should have played before they try and make a mod?

specifically a content mod

[merry river]

great, the next json is throwing errors and i bet it's because i missed yet another comma or bracket

[quick sand]

i think it depends on what they intend to make and past gaming experience

[fast plaza]

the json validator should tell you exactly where the issue is. if its another comma error message you should look around there

[quick sand]

it would be pointless to create a mod for content that comes later in the game because you havent played enough to know yet.

[urban patrol]

ideally a good chunk, because having knowledge of the game will answer questions you may have while modding. i've already run into a few instances where i had a question about 1.6 content because i hadn't played the new update

however it's definitely still possible, just harder

[fast plaza]

I got a user issue the other day by someone saying they were experiencing a fatal crash when attempting to launch the game in split screen mode. This was when I learned stardew has a split screen mode.

400 hours in and I'd never seen that feature in my life

[quick sand]

its also worthwhile to play a game to completion before "cheating" if the mod is going to create significant advantage

[brittle pasture]

imo at the very least reach the island and complete a good chunk of it

[autumn tide]

helloo! anyone know where i can find that google sheet with the locations of all NPCs during festivals?

[urban patrol]

i'll do you one better https://festivals.pillow.rocks/

[autumn tide]

eee ty

[urban patrol]

just a heads up that i did find an issue yesterday, where for the ice festival y1 SVE setup gus and harvey were not where the tool says they are (some other mod must move them, but i/the tool creators don't know which mod)

[quick sand]

lol the projectile is horizontal when fired up/down

[autumn tide]

eugh now i have a mod idea to expand the spirit's eve festival
why must my brain be like this

i just wanna focus on one thing cmon 😭

[ornate trellis]

get scope creeped

[urban patrol]

that sounds cool! what's your idea?

[autumn tide]

like maybe making a more complex maze, larger area, making NPC movement more detailed and vary the dialog more

and more yearly variation

[urban patrol]

that sounds like hell to me but best of luck

[ornate trellis]

also headshup that some placements might be diff by now since a few mod authors(like me) tried finding a new spot after seeing their npcs overlap with others

[autumn tide]

i'm not doing it 😭

but it's free if anyone wants

and I'll contribute lol

[urban patrol]

i really wish there was some way for mod authors to edit/add their NPCs, or some way for it to automatically update, but even still it's a great resource

[ornate trellis]

we used to have that with a sheet from hime but it got too messy

[urban patrol]

yeah that's what i used before this

i didn't love it lol

[ornate trellis]

scarlett had a sheet where she was adding things too tho but with no editing permissions

[autumn tide]

huh

[ornate trellis]

i say had but its have, it still exists lol

[urban patrol]

scarlett is the compatibility GOAT

[autumn tide]

good to know ig, but the site is still cool :)

[ornate trellis]

yeah i like the site. would be cool if there was some sorta thingie where you can submit your updated placements or something but idk how active pillow plans to work on it(or continue working on it)

[autumn tide]

....might just make a expanded sprit's eve map, and then dump it here and on nexus if anyone wants to mess with it further

...why must i be sidetracked so

prolly the neurodivergence

that'll do it

[ornate trellis]

scope creep is natural in this place shoves my hundreds of ideas and WIPs under the bed

[autumn tide]

i hath been cursed by scope creep 💔

[narrow owl]

lmao

[urban patrol]

am i misremembering, or is the wizard's cauldron smoking green during the event where you learn to understand the junimos? i can't find anything in the event script that adds it, nor can i find the smoke on any tilesheets i've looked at (cursors, animations)

[uncut viper]

wizard cauldron always smokes

doesnt it?

its hardcoded into the location

[hallow prism]

and it's an animation based on several of the same animation i believe

[uncut viper]

it is on cursors i believe but its a mostly transparent white puff

so, good luck

[hallow prism]

it's done in code

not reproductible without a C# mod

[uncut viper]

i believe MMAP can do it?

theres some mod out there that made cauldron bubbling available to CP authors but i cant recall it

[urban patrol]

interesting, thanks!

at least i know i'm not crazy lol

[royal stump]

MMAP has some kind of TAS generation, yeah

[uncut viper]

the puff is on cursors at x372 y1956

[urban patrol]

i have been considering adding MMAP as a hard dependency instead of optional, so maybe i just bite the bullet and do it for this + a few other cool things

no wonder i didn't recognize it as the green smoke lol

[uncut viper]

if you plan on making your own green cauldron smoke and want it to look exactly the same, it uses the colour of Lime which is just straight up #00FF00 to multiply on top of it

[urban patrol]

good to know!

[uncut viper]

techncially #00FF00FF i guess which may be relevant if MMAP supports transparency in colours

[quick sand]

is there somewhere to quickly listen to all the sound files (not music) so i can know which id to use?

[lucid iron]

https://github.com/Mushymato/MiscMapActionsProperties/blob/main/[CP] MMAP Examples/tas_spot.json#L114

These numbers r based on the wizard cauldron smoke yep

I have never tried doing it but u should be able to spawn this via traction in event

[brittle pasture]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/34968

[quick sand]

beautiful. i was just about to make a config option so i could change it mid game/test

[urban patrol]

oh excellent

[shut edge]

there is also a plugin for foobar that can load the soundbank

not perfect but that's what i've been usin

WavPack Decoder aka foo_input_std

[quaint portal]

hi ! i'm a new modder and i'm making my first mod (adding my favorite fish to the game :p) and I think I did everything right but every time I run sv, smapi says CP couldn't load content packs and that there is no content.json. i've attempted a lot of troubleshooting but i'm kinda stuck as to why that's the case if anyone has thoughts lmk it would be greatly appreciated!!!

[urban patrol]

!log can you share your log using this site so that we can see the exact error you’re getting? i suspect it’s related to your file names or organization, but the log will make it clear

[ocean sail]

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

Please share your SMAPI log file. To do so:

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

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

To use this command, type !log.

[devout otter]

Also, if you actually have content.json in your mod's folder, make sure it's actually content.json and not secretly content.json.txt.

(In other words, make sure you actually saved it as a json file.)

[quaint portal]

https://smapi.io/log/12cb56d253e84d1bb4cadce00f7c374d

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.3.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0, with 9 C# mods and 1 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[urban patrol]

enabling file extensions will definitely help with that if that’s your issue

[quaint portal]

i double checked and content.json is a json!

[urban patrol]

can we see a screenshot of your mod folder?

[quick sand]

please shift+windows+s to screenshot your mod folder like this

[uncut viper]

there is no content.json in there, and why do you have a .dll file?

[quaint portal]

i have no idea. none of my other mods have a content.json but instead have a .dll and work perfectly fine so i thought it was just something that gets extracted or converted somehow?

[uncut viper]

no. a .dll file is a compiled C# mod.