making-mods-general

[void aspen]

What does your tiledata action property contain

[void aspen]

Hm

Is there any errors or warns in console

[bold dune]

Hello, I recently downloaded a mod and wanted to add an extra recipe to it, but I don’t know how to do that :c could someone help me, please?

The recipe I’m currently using in the mod is this:

{
  "Name": "Advanced Charcoal Kiln",
  "TranslationKey": "item.advanced-charcoal-kiln",
  "Price": 0,
  "ProvidesLight": false,
  "ReserveExtraIndexCount": 5,
  "Recipe": {
    "ResultCount": 1,
    "Ingredients": [
      {
        "Object": 709,
        "Count": 8
      },
      {
        "Object": 335,
        "Count": 3
      }
    ],
    "SkillUnlockName": "Foraging",
    "SkillUnlockLevel": 8
  }
}

I would like to add a charcoal kiln as one of the ingredients in this recipe, I tried looking it up in the JsonAssets documentation, but I couldn’t understand anything :/

[toxic topaz]

nope, no errors

[latent mauve]

StringsFromMaps is what it is looking for, you need that s on the end

[lucid iron]

is this json assets

[void aspen]

Lily got it first

[toxic topaz]

ohhhh lol, i was missing the s

[void aspen]

I was almost there

[toxic topaz]

ill try that again thanks

[latent mauve]

LOL, I needed a break from this insanity:

(foliage hurts)

[lucid iron]

slimed

[void aspen]

It's hard to troubleshoot on mobile I'm so eepy

[void aspen]

Looks cute

[bold dune]

I believe so, it’s a dependency of the mod

[latent mauve]

It's gonna be the Junimo-style farmhouse eventually

[lucid iron]

well my best guess is add another entry to "Ingredients" list

[toxic topaz]

yay

[void aspen]

What's translation key

Doesn't look like i18n

If that's the case

[void aspen]

Ggs

Now add i18n 🔥

Joking

[latent mauve]

tbh, adding i18n to that now would be really easy

[toxic topaz]

thats something i might do after i actually finish everything in this mod lol

[bold dune]

My question is about the item ID format

The charcoal kiln is considered a BC, but I don’t know how to add BCs as ingredients

[void aspen]

It would be better to do early tho

Just prepare a i18n folder and default.json in it

It's gonna help a lot and everything else is simple to do

[toxic topaz]

ill do that before i start working on dialogue

originally this was just going to be a character mod, but im doing a crap ton of content that links with the new character lol too many ideas

[void aspen]

Have you checked some vanilla recipes? I think it has some with bc ingredients

Like that elite super cool something furnace

[lucid iron]

hm im honestly not sure if json assets supports this

[bold dune]

I have no idea how to do this, it’s my first time trying anything related to Stardew Valley modding and I just wanted to modify a recipe of an existing mod

[bold dune]

bruh

that would be a real downer

[lucid iron]

the thing is that in 1.6 you can definitely do this in vanilla

since its how the deluxe worm bin works

so u could try making ur own content patcher mod instead

[torpid sparrow]

are JA mods still being made?

[void aspen]

What's ja

[torpid sparrow]

json assets

[void aspen]

Oh

[bold dune]

The thing is, someone already made a mod that acts as an 'update' for this one for 1.6, but it’s buggy and the last sign of activity from the developer was in 2024. I went looking for the original mod and found out it actually works fine in 1.6, but I wanted to change the recipe to be similar to the abandoned port (since I think it makes more sense)

[lucid iron]

well u can make it but non buggy perhaps

[worn turret]

You know how we can make seasonal skins for things by making the game load a sprite sheet depending on what season it is? Can we do that but for year instead? Like, if it's year 1 or 2 load this sheet, but if it's year 3 or beyond load this one? (With Contant Patcher)

[calm nebula]

Yes

[void aspen]

When Year?

[eager tree]

"Year": "1, 2" I think

[void aspen]

I forgot how to do queries ugh

For 3+

[eager tree]

You can load one for year one and year two and then have a default one that is being applied when these two aren't

[void aspen]

Neat

[bold dune]

I’ve never had any contact with anything like this, this crafting modification is literally my first experience in the area. I wouldn’t even know where to start

[calm nebula]

(Just do the reverse)

[worn turret]

That's perfect! So, if I go:

"When": {"Year": "1"} that will set it for a sheet of my choosing, a second like:

"When": {"Year": "2"}

And then a third one that doesn't have the "When" and that will load anytime it's not year one or two?

[strong kite]

hm.. what do I use as the target for the EditData in dialogue.json for this new NPC?

[calm nebula]

"Year|contains=1,2": false

In particular if you can avoid a query don't use a query lol

[void aspen]

I always forget about contains

🏴‍☠️

[eager tree]

captains

[worn turret]

Awesome! Thanks so much! 🙂

[eager tree]

where is Claude with their list of typos when you need her

[lucid iron]

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

the big chest is a decent example where it uses a big craftable as ingredient

[bold dune]

That’s surprisingly convenient

[toxic topaz]

if this wall were blown open in some way, could it be reasonable to assume that in a map above this there could be a cliff similar to the perfection cliff overlooking a landscape with a enormous pyramid in the distance?

[void aspen]

Can spacecore allow me to change coords of the horse head tile it uses to overlay

[lucid iron]

i dont think so

[void aspen]

That's something id really love cuz I hate how it works rn

[long jungle]

Hey guys, is it possible to change the description of professions with CP or is it hard-coded?

By description, I mean the details you see when picking a new profession after you sleep.

[void aspen]

Strings

[worn turret]

And this is a dumb question, but if it was year 11, 12, 21, 22, etc it would display during those even though they contain a 1 and a 2, right? It understands that "1" and "2" are the entire year, not just a potential part of a larger numbered year?

[void aspen]

No

It uses a number value thingy

So 1 means one

As a whole

Integers ig

[tiny zealot]

CP's contains is set theory, not regex

so Year |contains=1 means "the Year token (a set of values) includes the specific value 1"

[void aspen]

there's a way to detect if year number is odd or even as well

I don't remember how to tho

[scenic ferry]

Is there a way to give the player a buff on waking up the day after an action? Like, interact with statue, buff next morning?
I want to theme the buff around Dreams, so sleep being a part of that cycle makes sense to me

I suspect not but worth asking

[void aspen]

Only halloween and ice festival use that

Iirc

[tiny zealot]

{{Query: {{Year}} % 2 = 1}} will be true on odd years and false on even ones

[void aspen]

Right the % thing

Query does wonders

[strong kite]

Where do I actually like.. connect the NPC's portraits and sprites to the game? What json am I supposed to put those in?

[tiny zealot]

yes. if you can set a flag or a stat or something of that sort when interacting with the statue, then you can use a trigger action on DayStarted to check for that value and apply the buff

[void aspen]

Everything usually goes in content

Manifest is something you touch twice usually

[uncut viper]

("Year": "{{Range: 1, 1000 |step=2}}" would also be a good, non-Query odd year detection.)

[strong kite]

hm... I do have them in content..

[scenic ferry]

I straight up forgot DayStarted was a thing tysm!!

[void aspen]

I forgot why exactly query isn't always safe for conditions

[uncut viper]

It's always safe. It's just not performant.

[void aspen]

Oh

[lucid iron]

it has less error checking

[tiny zealot]

query turns off multiple kinds of validation so it can be wacky if you fuck it up

[lucid iron]

sometimes might be silently doing not what you want

[void aspen]

So it has its own personality

How cute

[uncut viper]

(Depends on your definition of "safe" I guess)

[lucid iron]

just gotta be careful about using it basically

and usually if u dont need maffs i'd avoid it

[tiny zealot]

i do prefer the modulus query to button's range on principle, even though it's ridiculous to support years > 1000

[strong kite]

Right. the errors are telling me the game is looking for .xnb's of my NPC in the Stardew directory

[calm nebula]

What if my save gets to the year 2026m...

[uncut viper]

You can go up to 10,000 if you want.

[marsh reef]

Chat my npc will not work at all, is there any mods someone knows of that adds a really really simple npc I can just Frankenstein stuff off of easily?

[uncut viper]

If you really want, you could make multiple queries each with their own 10,000 Range that continues from the last one, and check each of them.

Then you can support up to the integer limit of years.

And by multiple queries I mean multiple dynamic tokens

[strong kite]

I do not know why it's tryna do alla this

[tiny zealot]

most likely it means you either typoed your asset name when referencing it, or forgot to load it

[marsh reef]

Couldn’t find file 🤓

[tiny zealot]

complaining about xnbs is just because that's the last fallback the game has to try to find the asset, and when that one fails it barfs and that's the message you see

[strong kite]

Ah

Loading it would be in the content file right?

oh wait a damned second

Well I just got the rare screen from clicking the ConcernedApe logo that I had 0 clue existed

I guess I didn't do it right? Maybe it's just getting a little too late in the day. Def not the best idea to do the most complicated thing I've never done in stardew modding thus far while I'm already tired

[urban patrol]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/42825 but also https://stardewmodding.wiki.gg/wiki/Troubleshooting:_NPCs

[strong kite]

I could also really use that ty

just to get my bearings

[stoic chasm]

I require assistance once more (for the house stuff, I'm going to do that other stuff later. I just wanna see if I can get this house to work first) https://smapi.io/log/3c16f07338614fe7b1e4a580ea479a9b

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.5.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Windows 11 (10.0.26100.0), with 110 C# mods and 151 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[urban patrol]

1. i recommend testing your mod on a minimal setup at all times (your mod, its dependencies, and any QOL C# testing mods you need) unless you're specifically testing for compatibility with other mods. this ensures you (and us) can narrow down the cause of errors more easily.

oops sent too soon

2. to use tilesheets outside of the maps folder, you have to use the relative path. open up your tmx in a text editor like notepad++, find "furniture.png", and edit it to be "../TileSheets/furniture.png"

[marsh reef]

tyty

[urban patrol]

also note that this requires SMAPI version... i think 4.4.x? which i'm sure won't be an issue, but just to let you know that this is actually a new exciting thing we can do now as of january!

before we had to either use button's ATA mod or load it ourselves (bad)

[strong kite]

Okay well that wasn't right but this is progress

[tiny zealot]

you probably want to increase your Format from 2.0.0 to your current Content Patcher version (probably 2.9.0)

[strong kite]

Ah. Tbh I had no idea what the Format thing actually was

[urban patrol]

you can find the most recent format on the CP docs always

2.8.0 is the last version compatible with android, though

[tiny zealot]

it actually affects how CP parses your json

[strong kite]

Good to know.. maybe that'll magically be what's causing this particular issue? that's major cope but I'm tired lmao

[lucid iron]

just use cinderbox

[urban patrol]

TRUE i forgor that's a thing

[tiny zealot]

if your format is old, you can't use new features introduced in later versions, and CP applies automatic migrations to convert your data from older formats into what it expects now

[urban patrol]

idk if it is, but this error is saying you are trying to load something to the same target 2 or more times

[strong kite]

Oh.. okay yeah I can see the problem

[tiny zealot]

updating your format won't fix multiple exclusive loads, that's true

[strong kite]

I did the thing that Portrait Mod did with having every portrait be its own PNG so I different EditData actions for each portrait.
I'm assuming it has to be individual to use the upscaled portraits function?

[urban patrol]

loads are special in that they're exclusive by default. you can editdata the same thing 63821736 times but can only load once

[strong kite]

Is that why all the loads are in Content usually?

[urban patrol]

no, where you decide to put patches is entirely up to you

is this for an npc?

[strong kite]

Yes

Okay, for testing purposes I've loaded only the Default Portrait and got no errors

[tiny zealot]

is each of these pngs one 64x64 portrait? i'm a bit confused about the structure

[urban patrol]

are these all different expressions? you can and should put them on one sheet

[empty owl]

didnt work 💔

[strong kite]

They're 80x80 cuz I'm using portraits from PMD which are normally 40x40. Someone sent a Mod as reference that has upscaled portraits using SpaceCore so I followed that structure

[lucid iron]

try patch export Data/Shops

[strong kite]

Wasn't sure how that would interact with the SpaceCore upscaling thing

[empty owl]

wdym?

[urban patrol]

unfortunately i'm not experienced with upscaled portraits or PMD :(

usually people use Portraiture for that

[strong kite]

Here's what was sent for reference

[lucid iron]

put "patch export Data/Shops" in your smapi console

[tiny zealot]

the only thing i can really tell you is that 80x80 is likely to look pretty bad when stretched to 256x256 (the screen size of the portrait box)

[lucid iron]

wait it's only 80x80?

id just crop that down to 64x64 and not use spacecore here

you really wanna be at multiples otherwise ur pixels r angy

[toxic topaz]

yooo its the zoologist from terraria

[urban patrol]

welcome to stardew we have the power of squares

[empty owl]

okay now what?

[strong kite]

Well- okay, again, the portraits are 40x40 which is too small for 64x64, and I was told it was impossible to make it smaller, so I thought I could make it bigger to a size I could easily upscale 40x40 to, being 80x80. Cuz then it still looks the same and now fits.

I made all of these choices without actually knowing how the game works ftr

[modest dagger]

square is love, square is life

[lucid iron]

now you can check the exported tile to see whether your edit worked

[urban patrol]

if the portraits are 40 x 40, maybe just make them 64 x 64? not by upscaling, but by cropping it bigger

[bold dune]

I did it!!! I just kept trying a bit longer and ended up figuring it out by trial and error:

{
  "Name": "Advanced Charcoal Kiln",
  "TranslationKey": "item.advanced-charcoal-kiln",
  "Price": 0,
  "ProvidesLight": false,
  "ReserveExtraIndexCount": 5,
  "Recipe": {
    "ResultCount": 1,
    "Ingredients": [
      {
        "Object": "(BC)114",
        "Count": 1
      },
      {
        "Object": 709,
        "Count": 8
      },
      {
        "Object": 335,
        "Count": 3
      }
    ],
    "SkillUnlockName": "Foraging",
    "SkillUnlockLevel": 8
  }
}

In the end, it was actually pretty easy

[urban patrol]

not judging you for your choices btw just wanting to know what your wants vs needs are

[strong kite]

If I'm understanding you right.. that's not a bad idea

[empty owl]

uhhh

[urban patrol]

i'm impressed you got any level of detail at 40 x 40 haha good job

[strong kite]

I mean that's not my praise to take

[tiny zealot]

i believe that was the native size in the game they were ripped from

[lucid iron]

yep it didnt work r u sure u loaded ur mod

[empty owl]

think so

oh wait

...

🤦

it ISNT THE RIGHT ID

BRUH

[marsh reef]

chat what is this

[eager tree]

lmao

[strong kite]

Darkrai Portraits from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

[marsh reef]

I see

they're like, really inconveniently sized my bro

[strong kite]

I am painfully aware of this

[lucid iron]

hm i guess if u dont mind that his portraits have a border around them it'd be fine

they r already not really sdv style whatever

[strong kite]

They are still significantly better than trying to draw this sort of thing myself

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️ that's what i had to do for my portraits, clean up an image then work off that

[marsh reef]

what do you use for pixel art?

[strong kite]

Aseprite

[marsh reef]

🤔 ive never heard of it

[strong kite]

It's a paid software that you can get on Steam

[marsh reef]

ahhh i see

[strong kite]

I got it cuz I got REALLY into making sprites for Pokemon Infinite Fusions

[marsh reef]

see i use paint.net bc :3333 yay

[marsh reef]

I see I see

[marsh reef]

oooo im seeing it's rotation abilities and it's much more convenient 🙂‍↕️

[toxic topaz]

how do you make it nighttime in an event?

[strong kite]

If you can't afford it, you can also try Libresprite on GitHub. It's a fork of Aseprite and it's free, though you might have to compile it yourself. Not sure how any of this works https://libresprite.github.io/#!/

[marsh reef]

oo i see i see

[marsh reef]

blow up sun

[toxic topaz]

i see

[tiny zealot]

aseprite you do have to compile yourself if you want to not pay for it. libresprite i believe you can simply download/install

[urban patrol]

event preconditions to only let it happen from 1700 to 2600 (or whatever hours you desire)

[strong kite]

Oh, alright! Good to know!

[toxic topaz]

well its like a junimo event. where it happens after you go to bed

[urban patrol]

you need a framework for night events

i misunderstood

[tiny zealot]

oh that's C# land (or More Nightly Events)

[strong kite]

Also was this your idea? If not then this is how I'm doing it anyway because omg I'm not touching up 10 whole sprites 😭

[sleek flint]

hey @urban patrol How is your dungeon mod update going?

Is it done? I wanna play it.

[urban patrol]

i can't tell how big that grid is but if it's 128 px wide total then yes

[marsh reef]

you only neeed 6

[urban patrol]

sort of! it's in beta right now but i'm also waiting on casey to resolve some issues with spacecore and spawning

[marsh reef]

mine are very very similar to eachother bc im lazy 🤩

[strong kite]

Ayy wait I just noticed you have sledding game in profile pic?

[sleek flint]

Ah ok, I hope everything goes smoothly for you

[marsh reef]

yessir, so hyped for the release

[toxic topaz]

ill check that mod out, all these events are so complex to do

[urban patrol]

thanks! i'm happy to hear you're excited for it <3

[strong kite]

Same here!
Also yea, I guess I do only need 6 but with this I can do all 10 relatively easily

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️ mine, save for one, are literally only a difference in the eyes

🤣 also we're both crossing over a nintendo character

[strong kite]

I guess I just have the luxury of way better artists than me already doing the work and so I just get to pick my favs

[marsh reef]

:o oh wait did you grab a 32x32 and double scale it?

[strong kite]

Ah no. I've grabbed 40x40, double scaled it, and then am cropping off the edges to make that double scaled version 64x64

[marsh reef]

😎 okay so anti my thought process, real real

for mine it was already a 64x64 from the wiki but smoothed so i had to sharpen the whole thing (the wiki picture btw)

[strong kite]

If there were 32x32 portraits I would 100% be doin that

Also Sterling yooo

Always gotta appreciate Animal Crossing rep

[marsh reef]

You know him? 🥹🥹

[marsh reef]

I’m making a whole new leaf thing rn

[strong kite]

In all fairness I did have to take a good few moments to remember his name, but I didn't need to look it up!

[marsh reef]

Better than me, I just remembered he was my favorite, couldn’t remember his name at all 😅

[strong kite]

I feel that

[marsh reef]

But yea I’m making a farm, farmhouse and AT for that, npcs that will live in their respective houses on the farm, andddd I think that’s it

[strong kite]

Oooo sounds pretty cool!

Honestly this blushing portrait alone has me considering making Darkrai romanceable even though I know that's a terrible idea that will just lead to even more work I need to do

[marsh reef]

Spent like 2 days setting up an effect over the grass to make it look like wind is blowing over it 😭

[marsh reef]

☠️☠️

[stoic chasm]

Okay I did what someone (I'm really sorry whoever it was but I forgot your name ) suggested, and this happened. https://smapi.io/log/8f73a6ae65dc421596c7e845b077efa0 The house is also not showing up in the right spot, so I'm confused-

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.5.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Windows 11 (10.0.26100.0), with 22 C# mods and 9 content packs.
Suggested fixes: One or more mods are out of date, consider updating them

[strong kite]

just now really considering that this is a mod about being able to grow pokemon berries. GOD I have lost the plot 😭

[marsh reef]

HAH

[acoustic summit]

I would 100% romance darkrai. it wouldnt' be tooo much work... right?

[strong kite]

I don't want to give him a schedule around the farmhouse 😭

or it- Its gender is undefined

[marsh reef]

Only liked items: star drop tea, all other items are hated

[marsh reef]

🤣 but

:)

just dont lowkey

make bro just exist ominously in a corner

[strong kite]

I've got the portraits made now. And now.. I need to delete all the code that tries upscaling it

do I even need portraits.json actually..?

[urban patrol]

i've personally never used other people's tilesheets, but this error is saying it can't find the tilesheet

z.luan extras or whatever

[stoic chasm]

Ohh okay

How do I fix that? Hm...

[urban patrol]

did that mod have instructions for how to use it for mod authors?

[stoic chasm]

I cannot remember-

[marsh reef]

Depending on the way your content is set up, maybe

[urban patrol]

do you use tilesheetinator?

[stoic chasm]

I think so

[urban patrol]

can you show me how you added the luan extra furniture 2 tilesheet to your map

[stoic chasm]

How do I do that?

[urban patrol]

screenshots or just a typed summary will do

[stoic chasm]

Oh oki

[brave fable]

pokemon rse really was the gateway to farming crops in sdv with its silly little berries in soft, loamy soil

[empty owl]

what u doing 👀

[strong kite]

YOOO THERE HE IS!!!!
half of him- BUT THERE HE ISSSS

[empty owl]

u are adding darkrai to the game 👀

[strong kite]

Barebones but yea basically

[empty owl]

barebones?

[stoic chasm]

Okay so I think I just pressed the add new tile button in Tiled. I'm going to guess that wasn't how I should've done that?

[strong kite]

He's not like a fully scheduled NPC or anything, just gonna stand in one place with a bit of dialogue and can be given gifts and will probably send recipes in the mail

[empty owl]

wait just noticed concernedape is in the server-

[empty owl]

oh tbf making a fully scheduled NPC is hard

[marsh reef]

why he wide

[urban patrol]

yeah, when using tilesheetinator, you have to use its capabilities to add tilesheets, so that it knows how to navigate basically

[empty owl]

maybe making him a special zone for him?

[urban patrol]

there should be instructions on the TSI page

[strong kite]

bcuz the sprite from the PMD was too wide by default

[strong kite]

Oh yeah. Nothing impressive, though

[brave fable]

it'd be cool for his events to only happen while you sleep

doable btw

[empty owl]

just noticed i said "him" two times 😭

[strong kite]

Very very tempting. But.. sounds like a lot of work 😭

[brave fable]

you can absolutely make wide/large npcs, they just have pathing issues

[marsh reef]

oh blueberry idk if you saw but i finished the effect i was asking you if i should try the other day

[strong kite]

That's fine cuz I don't need him pathing

[brave fable]

oh it's no work at all, just add the events to Data/Events/FarmHouse and use a Time 600 610 precondition so it happens before you wake up

[strong kite]

This was basically just a test to make sure his sprite CAN actually show up in game. Tomorrow I'm gonna figure out how to actually make it function how it's supposed to

[stoic chasm]

Alrighty, thank you! Does that mean I need to remake the map from scratch?

[strong kite]

ohhhh okay I'll give that a try

[acoustic summit]

Imagine darkrai invading and watching you have a nightmare where they reject you

[urban patrol]

definitely not from scratch--worst case scenario, you just delete that tilesheet and re-add it. that might not even be required though, i've just found that easiest compared to more fiddly things

you can also try opening your map in N++ and looking at the image source there

[strong kite]

I'm gonna use this event I'm currently setting up still, but having another event before you wake up sounds great!

[brave fable]

in my dreams/nightmares mod i didn't use a time precondition at all so technically if you slept in a tent or on the island you could probably have a nightmare when you walk in the door

should fix that sometime

[strong kite]

Probably wont be anything impressive but I def want to like.. get these made and then add onto them

[stoic chasm]

Thank you for your assistance! I really appreciate it I'm gonna go try that now

[urban patrol]

np! feel free to keep @ing me, i'm alt tabbed

[brave fable]

suppose you'd also have to add the event to every location to account for tents and other houses. hmmm

[strong kite]

Remembering that NONE of this is actually working towards my goal for making this mod ready to update 😭
Not gonna deter me tho this is incredibly cool

[urban patrol]

if you have other questions i mean

[stoic chasm]

Aww, thank you! If I do I will

[strong kite]

my browser and notepad++ are such a mess 😭

[bold dune]

Does anyone know how to add an alternative recipe to a recipe using JsonAssets?

[acoustic summit]

5 windows of 20 tabs is how I live. What if 2 months from now I still want that one website? I will definitely just make a new tab and look it up again anyway - but what if I don't?

[strong kite]

For tabs like that I use bookmarks and then proceed to not use said bookmarks

[warm relic]

hello! how do i make a character walk towards one direction while looking at another in an event?

[devout otter]

There's no straight-forward, single-command way to do it. However, you could still have the same effect by using some animation and offset shenanigans.

[royal rover]

I am having the hardest time figuring out where the code is that activates when you interact with the ladder or elevator on the very top layer of the mine shaft. I know it's not MineShaft.checkAction, and I know the Game1.player.currentLocation is set to a Mine object, but there's no check action in that object.

[warm relic]

could you do an example?

[devout otter]

/animate Abigail false true 210 5 6 7 4/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/pause 5/positionOffset Abigail -2 0/stopAnimation Abigail/warp Abigail 20 6/ This is Abigail facing right, walking backwards one tile to the left.

[brittle pasture]

if you open the map you can see the MineElevator tile action

[devout otter]

The warp at the end is to the tile she ends on.

[brittle pasture]

you can search for references to that string in the code

alternatively references to the MineElevatorMenu class

[royal rover]

How do I open the map? I've never done that

[brittle pasture]

!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.

[brittle pasture]

then look at Maps/Mines.tmx in your map editor of choice

and by that I mean mostly Tiled

(but any text editor is fine too lol)

[royal rover]

ty 🙂

[warm relic]

wow. this will take a while haha. thanks for the help!

[brittle pasture]

late but we don't really recommend using JSON Assets nowadays (it's deprecated now). Content Patcher is more recommended

[[Modding:Recipe_data]] and this is how recipe data is formatted in game/CP

[empty radish]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Recipe_data

[marsh reef]

ceighlph

[empty owl]

OH YEA YEA

[bold dune]

Yeah, I know, but it’s not my mod, I’m just tweaking the recipe it adds for my modpack

Do you know how I can add an alternative crafting recipe for the same item?

[brittle pasture]

doesn't seem like that's supported in JA

object data only has one recipe object

it is possible if you grab the item IDs and is willing to make a quick CP content pack

unfortunate that this is not as quick as we hope lol

[bold dune]

bruh :c

ok, ty

[stoic chasm]

Hello, I am terribly sorry for bothering you, but could you maybe explain this to me? I had to go do something, so didn't get a chance to try this out. I am now confused because I forgot how to do this-

[faint ingot]

Suppose I have a token in CP like {{Random: A,B,C,D}} and the result is 'B', is there now a way for me to select from the remaining members (equivalent to {{Random: A,C,D}})?

[stoic chasm]

Okay was fidgeting around with stuff and this is the log now https://smapi.io/log/4d2cbed134c746d0a238d10812c98de1 I am still confused-

[ocean sail]

Log Info: SMAPI 4.5.2 with SDV 1.6.15 build 24356 on Windows 11 (10.0.26100.0), with 22 C# mods and 8 content packs.

[marsh reef]

guys help

nvm

[marsh reef]

'Kan Kansprites.png' isnt found, and your map of their house interior was saved with something wrong at the time, it says invalid tile, idk if you saved it with the x's visable, but it seems to not like the setup you have with the tilesets if not the previous assumption

[stoic chasm]

hm- I see- Thank youu

[marsh reef]

there's another thing but im not smart enough to know if thats caused by issue 2

[stoic chasm]

Sorry, I have trouble reading the logs. That's alright

[marsh reef]

dwdw

[brittle pasture]

is it fine if the second value is deterministic (ie. if the first token is B the second token is C)

[faint ingot]

that's not ideal

[brittle pasture]

in that case, it's a bit of manual work, but you can define another dynamic token that's {{Random: A,C,D}} when the first token is B, {{Random: B,C,D}} when the first token is A, and so on

that's one block for each possible values

maybe some token wizards can chime in with a better solution

[gentle rose]

can't you do a synced random

there's an example for using synced random to get different results in the content patcher docs iirc

but I could be misremembering

[brittle pasture]

that's what my "is it fine if the second value is deterministic" question was about

if the answer was yes I'd suggest that yeah

[gentle rose]

yeah I was remembering it being non deterministic but then I realised that can't be right

I'm sure there's a very cursed string operation you could do

[marsh reef]

why cant i talk to him :( I dont see any errors

gifting dialogue works though :3

[faint ingot]

Thank you, do you think you can give me an example of creating a conditional token I've gone over the tokens guide on github and don't see it

alternatively I'm assuming there's a way to pass variables C# to be CP tokens. maybe there's a guide on this somewhere... for some reason I have been slow on the uptake on the c# modding side even though I have a bit of c# experience

[brittle pasture]

https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/blob/stable/ContentPatcher/docs/author-guide/tokens.md#dynamic-tokens

you can define the same token any number of times and assign a When condition to each block

defining custom tokens in C# is at https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/blob/stable/ContentPatcher/docs/extensibility.md

[faint ingot]

Okay didn't know you could put when conditions on tokens. Good to know

Thanks

[worn turret]

I think I need some syntax help. I'm trying to make a different sprite sheet show up for Marnie in the first three years than in year four and after, but it keeps just defaulting to the year 4+ sprite sheet, even on a year 1-3 file.

I've tried many iterations as well. I've done "Year", "WhenYear", I've tried with and without that little line separating "Year" and "contains", I've tried with and without parentheses around "false", I've tried adding the same condition to the code for her normal sheet but changing it to "true", etc. No matter what I do it displays the year 4+ sheet. Any help is much appreciated.

[marsh reef]

Have you done it with just “1” in the contains?

[worn turret]

Actually, no. I didn't try doing it for just one year by itself. I can try that.

Do you think I need parentheses around "false"?

[marsh reef]

No I don’t think so

[worn turret]

Ok, I'll try it for just year one. Please hold.

[marsh reef]

Some things don’t work right with checking for a list of things, might need to just put 1-3 on their own 🙂‍↕️ 🤔

Though I think at that point you don’t need contains you just need to check the year

Wait what

🤔 shouldn’t it end up being ”When”: “Year | Contains=1,2,3” or som variation?

Bc year contains isn’t a like, thingy

[fossil osprey]

Was checking it, and it seems so
https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/blob/develop/ContentPatcher/docs/author-guide/tokens.md#conditions

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️

Yea

[fossil osprey]

example

[worn turret]

Ok, let me try that.

[marsh reef]

But that would change it on all other years no? 🤔

[fossil osprey]

and you can add a list of comma-separated values for multiple years

[marsh reef]

I think they had the wrong true false 🤔

Oh, no wait they’re

I see

[worn turret]

That's what I want, isn't it? If I want it to kick in on year 4 and forever after it should be false?

[fossil osprey]

yeah

I mean, you can try, but that should be it ^^

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ I was thinking you had it the other way around

[worn turret]

Ok, does this look like it's formatted correctly?

Ok, gonna boot it up. 🤞

Nope, it's still loading the year 4+ sheet. 🙁

[marsh reef]

Anything in the log at all? 🤔

[worn turret]

I'll look.

Nope. No errors.

I have one other mod that acts on the Marnie characer sheet, but that's definitely not the one it's defaulting to, but just in case it's conflicting somehow I'll take it out and try one more time.

[marsh reef]

Chat are we sure you hit save

[worn turret]

I’ll double check once I exit out.

[marsh reef]

Okok

[worn turret]

I actually might not have…😳

One sec.

[marsh reef]

HAHAHAH

[worn turret]

I genuinely appreciate the super basic checks like that. I get nervous when I break my game and overlook really obvious things like that.

So thanks for the callout. ❤️

[marsh reef]

😂 ofc bro

I forgot to save my thing literally 3x today

[worn turret]

We’re all pros here. 😂

Oh my gosh I think that fixed it. 🤣

Yeah one is good. Now, since I only have year 1 specified let’s switch to year 2 and see if it switches as it should.

[marsh reef]

Yesyes add ,2 and see if year two is fine

[sly path]

I’ve been keeping an eye on it, and it looks really interesting. I hope everything works out smoothly.

[worn turret]

Yessssssss……

I’m gonna set it for the full list now and see if we can go 3 years with version one and then switch.

[marsh reef]

Vas

[marsh reef]

Bueno? Did it explode?

[worn turret]

Did a little too much time skipping and locked my game. Starting over….

[marsh reef]

😂 😭 broo how

[worn turret]

Tried to warp back to my house from a festival. It didn’t like that. 😂

[marsh reef]

Oh, whats the mod are you working on btw? 🤔

[marsh reef]

Oh 😭 yea that’s, that, no bueno

[worn turret]

It doesn’t really have a name/isn’t going to be released or anything. I saw a mod on nexus that changes the luau soup to look nicer, and they made a bunch of different versions, and I wanted to have more than just one of them work.

[marsh reef]

Ahhh I see

[worn turret]

So, it’s just a personal use thing.

Yeah.

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️

[worn turret]

Ok, year one is good. Going to year 2.

[marsh reef]

Ive made like 3 small personal use ones then lost the plot so hard on my custom farm im adding npcs and custom farmhouses and what not so im gonna post it once its done and i figure what mod creators i gotta put in the description bc I Frankensteined some of their work

[worn turret]

The scope creep is so real. 🤣 That’s amazing you’re adding entire NPCs and everything! I hope it all turns out exactly like you want!

Year 2 is good. Moving to year 3.

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️ once I figure out the schedule for the npc I’ll be able to just copy paste and do all the artwork for their houses and themselves and I’m almost done after that

[worn turret]

That’s awesome! So close!

What kind of an NPC is it (if you don’t mind my asking)?

[sly path]

wow

interesting

[marsh reef]

I’m making ACNL villagers, so they serve no genuine purpose other than making the farm better, making artwork for them still as if they were, but

[marsh reef]

Bro I’m missing like 90% of whatever conversation you’re in

[sly path]

umm..?

[marsh reef]

If you scroll up a bit to the last images I sent, there’s me tryna get my guy to talk to me and gifting him a stick

[worn turret]

Ok, year 3 is good! Moving to year 4! 🤞

[sly path]

acnl is one of my favorite games too. But there are so many villagers—are you really planning to add all of them? I’m still getting used to how this server works, so I’m trying not to overstep. If I ever come across as rude, please feel free to let me know.

[worn turret]

Oh, I see! The eagle guy! Very cool. So, a Stardew x Animal Crossing crossover?

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️ for rn I’m doing sterling, felyne, freckle, chrissy, and lolly, as chosen by me and company, I’m thinking about making some others as possible villagers, but we’ll see how easy the other villagers are to add, and dw bro not overstepping you’re just not discord replying to what you’re talking as a reply to so it’s confusing 🙂‍↕️

[marsh reef]

Yesyes, I’ve made the acnh house for the farmhouse 1-3.. on accident mind you, then 2/4 of the acnl maxed house options, and I just finished making almost all of the custom farm, added an animation over the grass to make it look like wind is blowing, if you look up my messages with images/videos they’re there somewhere :3

I actually say “Yesyes” bc freaking tom

[worn turret]

Year 4 is good! Thanks so much for the help @fossil osprey and @marsh reef 😁

[sly path]

Ah, I understand now. Thanks for the feedback. I’ll try to get used to replying properly in replies from now on!

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Alr I’m gonna head to bed guys, gn yall take care!

[worn turret]

Sleep well! 🙂

[fierce vault]

Aww, Lolly’s such a cute cat!

Great villager

[sly path]

i agree so cute

[worn turret]

Does anyone know if buyable clothes mods are a thing anymore? I know back in the days before FF that's how the clothing mods worked generally (the clothes were actual items), but after FF that doesn't seem to be a thing so much anymore. I like to actually find/buy my clothes in the store. Is there a currently accepted way to do this, or is it pretty much all just FF now?

[fierce vault]

I don’t think nearly as many people do it due to FS, but it should be possible with content patcher

Sandy sells stuff in vanilla doesn’t she?

[worn turret]

I'd have to check, but probably?

[faint ingot]

I sell a couple of clothing items in mine

[fierce vault]

So content patcher should be able to do it too

[brave fable]

yes, you can simply add new clothing just as the base game does, without FS, using CP

[sly path]

yap. cp available now

[brave fable]

you can also register some CP clothing with FS to appear as both an item and an entry in the FS menu, but this only includes shirts for the moment

[fierce vault]

You can even add clothes that can only be obtained in certain conditions. I did this with my snowman’s hat

[worn turret]

The art on that hat is really good. Beautiful shading. ❤️

[sly path]

Personally, I think adding them through just Content Patcher would probably be the simplest and most convenient option.

[brave fable]

FS has the advantage of letting you create clothing of virtually any sprite size as well as layering multiple additional slots, but it has its disadvantages as well

[fierce vault]

Oh, thank you!

I think there are definitely mods still making non FS clothes, there just aren’t as many standalone ones

[sly path]

What kind of clothing items are you planning to add?

[worn turret]

Yeah, I've definitely donwloaded some super intricate clothes off of Nexus that make me look way taller because they extend way past the body. 😂

[brave fable]

there's plenty of mods that add clothing via CP, but these are mine for reference
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4154
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/10378

[worn turret]

Oh wow! You made Sailor Styles? I love Sailor Moon! You did a great job on all of those! So many little tiny things.

[fierce vault]

Oh, what I meant was that I added the hat that is on my snowman’s sprite as a wearable item to my mod already. You unlock it by getting 4 friendship hearts before he melts away

[brave fable]

haha thank you! it's definitely living proof that you can make clothing with CP and still get downloads, even if half the comments are 'fs where'

and one day they will have a fs version, when peaceful's ready with the update

[worn turret]

Aw, don't listen to them! There are some of us that actually really love the CP way.

It feels too easy to just scroll through and pick anything I want on minute one of the game. I like to actually find the actual item in-game.

[sly path]

oh i see now

[fierce vault]

I do like the idea of special clothing items too

[brave fable]

oh yeah i like collecting clothes and building a wardrobe, much more engaging than just whipping up an outfit imo lol

[fossil osprey]

If you're using VScode, you can toggle a settings so your file save as soon as you lose focus on the window

[worn turret]

I've never actually seen this mod before: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/10378
Is it actually a full new minigame? The description was hilarious. 😂 There's 360 miles to the Calico Desert, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of parsnip seeds, it's hot out, and Pam's driving.

[worn turret]

I'm just using Notepad++. Thanks so much for the tip though. ❤️

[fierce vault]

Strongly recommend VS code

It’s great

[brave fable]

i mean it's a minigame in the sense that it's playable in SDV and it's not SDV itself, but you really are driving 360 miles at about 50mph with a bus that veers slightly to the right

[sly path]

Come to think of it, I remember seeing that snowman NPC mod before. I thought it was funny because the NPC has the same name as the one in my mod. I’d like to try installing it someday, but I’m a little worried they might conflict because of the shared name.🥹

[fierce vault]

oh, it wont!

[worn turret]

Is there a machine in the saloon for it, or how do you access it? Or is it like, and event in the game where you have to help Pam drive to Calico Desert?

[fierce vault]

My snowman has a unique internal name

So other characters can be named jack as well

[brave fable]

there's config options, you can make it replace JOTPK, replace the bus transition to the desert, or abigail's JOTPK event only

but it is specifically designed to be miserable and pointless

[sly path]

Oh, that’s great to hear. I can download it with peace of mind now. Thanks for the guidance! :3

[brave fable]

you get an arcade machine after you drive 1,000 miles and it lets you drive about 250mph

[worn turret]

It sounds like a hoot. I'll give it a shot. I imagine if it reaplces either of the events it's a one time thing, but if it's replacing JOTPK you can play over and over?

[fierce vault]

I hope you like it then!

[brave fable]

yep! you can just enable and disable it as you like, it takes about 8 hours to finish the drive so it's a long haul lmfao

[worn turret]

Do you happen to have a safe link to download it? I'm kind of a nervous person in general, so you'll have to forgive me. Notepad++ is all I've ever known. Is this one majorly different?

[worn turret]

8 real life hours, or in-game hours? 😳
I'm assuming in-game because I don't imagine you could save in the middle of something like that.

[dire kestrel]

there was some sort of stardew plugin for vsc, wasn't there

[fierce vault]

It’s a product from microsoft I think, so you can download it from the official source

I’ve never used notepad ++, so I can’t say how different they are

[dire kestrel]

i can't seem to find the mmg dev thread. maybe i'm blind

[fierce vault]

Shouldn’t be that huge a leap though

[worn turret]

What all makes it so cool?

I'd love to hear about the nice features.

[fierce vault]

There’s better plugins, and probably other things too, but like I said, I haven’t used the alternative. I think Abagaianye likes alternating between both, but I believe VS code is generally recommended over notepad ++

That said, you don’t have to change right away just because many people like it. Notepad ++ works

[worn turret]

Regardless of what happens, I appreciate the suggestion.

I have one other general question. Is there a way to know what sprite sheet is dictating the sprites in any given scene? For instance, there are junimos on the title screen if you click the leaves. Those are controlled by the TitleButtons sheet in the Minigames folder, and there is also a Junimo sheet in the Characters folder, and those coorespond with the Juniomos in the Community Center at the very least. And I also ran across some Junimos on the cursors sheet, but I'm not sure where those populate (maybe when the rocks are cleared and panning is unlocked?). Anyway, even if I change all the aforementioned junimos visually, I still see vanilla junimos wandering around in the secret woods. Can someone teach me how to figure out where they are coming from?

Is there any kind of a listing anywhere for this kind of information, or is this all just people remembering stuff?

[brave fable]

real life, of course

the game pauses during minigames 🙂‍↕️

[worn turret]

This is gonna be quite the experience. I'm excited now. 😉

I think I'll really feel like I've accomplished something when I finally get there. 🤣

[latent mauve]

Because I saw talk of FS / CP clothing earlier as I was catching up: This is your reminder that pants are cursed. Have fun! ❤️

[worn turret]

I pretty much just wanted to add a shirt, so hopefully I'll be good. I appreciate the warning about the pants though.

[latent mauve]

I have a template posted somewhere in the depths of this chat probably for pants specifically because it was near impossible to draw them without some kind of reference for where the arms go xD

(CP template, not FS)

[worn turret]

Where the arms go...in the pants...yeah, that is not an eventuality I'd have thought would need to be considered. I can see why a guide is needed. Why are the arms involved at all? Because the hands hang down to the pants level a little bit? If you can find it somehow I'll squirrel it away for the day that I'm inevetibly stricken with the desire to make some pants.

[latent mauve]

Specifically where the shadows are, yeah.

[worn turret]

Ah, I see.

[latent mauve]

Found it, it's actually in the art channel: #making-mods-art message

[worn turret]

That makes sense actually since it's an art thing. 🙂

[latent mauve]

Someone converted it to PSD and Asesprite as well, but that'll be a different search if needed

[worn turret]

What program can open this? I've never seen the .kra file type before. I typically use Paint.net

[sly path]

krita!

this is free drawing tool

[sly path]

I happen to have Krita, so if you'd like, I could probably convert it into a different file format for you. Would you need that?

[worn turret]

I appreciate the kind offer. I can probably take care of it though. ❤️

[sly path]

hmm png or pdn..?

[dire kestrel]

current pdn needs plugins to open kra and psd iirc

[sly path]

Ah, that’s great. I’m glad to hear it. I hope everything goes well!

[dire kestrel]

i cannot confirm that an aseprite one exists

[royal stump]

In general, there's no simple way to know what assets are being used on a given screen (even on the C# end). There's kind of an overview here about how SDV gets its assets: https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Modder_Guide/APIs/Content

Most individual in-game entities have a text field like "texture" attached to them, and when they need to be drawn, SDV asks the content system for an image with that texture ID. Sometimes it's not clear or consistent where those are, e.g. a junimo could be a bespoke animated sprite in some event, a not-quite-NPC attached to junimo huts, or a temporary NPC, etc, and not share the same images or folders.

All that said, a few things are used consistently, like the Characters and Portraits folders for NPC stuff. Vanilla .json assets that control game mechanics are in Data, a lot of text is in Strings, etc. But other sprites aren't consistent, and the running half- joke is that if you can't find a sprite, it's in the LooseSprites/Cursors sheet.

[sly path]

It might also be worth double-checking which mods you have installed.

[worn turret]

I appreciate the thorough explanation. I know someone posted a guide on unpacking the entire game at once (like xnbcli but it just make an entire unpacked folder for you with everything in it). I'm thinking that might be the way to go. I can just click through all of the images looking for whatever it is until I find it on one of those. Do you have that link handy by any chance? Someone posted it before but I was so overwhelmed at the time I couldn't really deal with it right then.

[royal stump]

yep, the instructions are here; currently, StardewXnbHack should output everything the game has into a Content/* folder set https://www.stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Editing_XNB_files#Unpack_game_files

[worn turret]

Thanks very much. I'll give it a try. 🙂

[worn turret]

So, the instructions say to extract it to the same folder as where Stardewvalley.exe is. I'm not sure where that is though. Everything I do is here:

Is the .exe in the program files x86 place or something? Because this location just has a bunch of folders with the game files and stuff, but no executable (that I know of, unless it's hidden in a subfolder)

[royal stump]

that should be the correct place, but I'm not sure offhand; if you're using Windows Explorer without file extensions on, for example, it might just say "Stardew Valley" instead of "Stardew Valley.exe"

it should also be wherever SMAPI installed itself, afaik, though I haven't used it outside windows myself

[worn turret]

Ok, I'll check there. Thank you for the picture. Visuals help so much. ❤️

I found it. Thank you. ❤️

And, all done!

Oh wow, it didn't even include all the json files and stuff. Just the .pngs. This is really nice.

[latent mauve]

#making-mods-art message

Someone tried

[latent mauve]

And of course the addendum: if it's not in Cursors, it's in springobjects

[worn turret]

It's so true. I think I pretty much know cursors like the back of my hand at this point, but springobjects has gotten me a few times now.

(Because something will be on cursors, but then it turns out the one that matters is on springobjects)

[dire kestrel]

(i was specifically referring to paint.net filetype plugins there, but thank you for linking regardless! )

[royal stump]

I forgot that one gets tricky, probably due to documenting the whole thing by "whether this can be picked up" a few times

[dire kestrel]

(correction; there is .ora support in krita's case)

[latent mauve]

Ah, you said asesprite in the message, so I thought you were looking for the asesprite version, my apologies

[dire kestrel]

nw at all

[worn turret]

What controls what "underwear" your character wears? My character always wear red boxer shorts and some kind of a black shirt (that is admittedly probably to do with me tampering with stuff) but I don't know why the boxers. Does everyone wear those when they have nothing on in the pants slot?

[latent mauve]

Usually the underwear color is determined by your pants color

[worn turret]

Weird, because I always slide the slider to black...

Can it be changed or are you locked in once you choose at the beginning of the game?

[latent mauve]

If you have messed with stuff that changes the base farmer sprite, or otherwise have a mod that changes it, the normal dyeable underwear might have been replaced

The underwear's appearance is set on the farmer_base files IIRC

[worn turret]

I don't have any mods that mess with the underwear to my knowledge. I do have the Anime Eyes mod that changes the farmer base though. I can look on there and see if the red boxers are there.

All I see in terms of clothes is the swimsuit.

[latent mauve]

The wizard has a shrine in his basement that you can pay 500g at to change some of the basic customization options, but I do not know if the pants color is one of them

[worn turret]

And that's white.

[worn turret]

I'll try it just in case. Thank you. ❤️

[latent mauve]

Yeah, I might be getting confused with the swimsuit

[worn turret]

No worries. There are so many sprites.

[strong kite]

Alright It's a new day, time to get this NPC actually working. How do I get the full 32x32 sprite to show up? I don't need this NPC walking around so pathing isn't an issue, I just need both halves of the sprite to show up beside eachother

[verbal glacier]

In Data/Characters, you can do"Size": {"X": 32, "Y": 32 }

[strong kite]

TY!

[verbal glacier]

no problem (and if you ever want them to walk around ForceOneTileWide is coming in 1.6.16)

[strong kite]

Oooo exciting!

If they walk around it'll probably be in a very small area
Although I was also hoping to have them moving around in scripted events

I guess I kind of assumed events wouldn't be an issue since the pathing would be scripted but I don't actually know how it works

[verbal glacier]

I'm not certain how they'll behave without any pathing correction, i believe something like poohcore iirc also has something for larger sprites

[strong kite]

Ooo this is exciting!

[ornate trellis]

I mean, you can use temp sprites maybe if its for events? Im not on my computer rn but id check that section out on the events page

[hard fern]

Darkrai

[strong kite]

I should also probably set up an incredibly basic map for the character. Like my plan is a completely black void that is accessed through a teleport in the Wizard Tower (that would be unlocked via event)

Could I theoretically just use the data for a different map and change some of the code to change the name while also recoloring it?

hm... Darkrai is still cut in half during the event scene..

[verbal glacier]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Event_data#Event_scripts like void said with temp sprites that shouldn't be an issue

[verbal glacier]

You should always use an existing map as a base, and you could create a new location entry with it's own name

[strong kite]

Awesome!

Glad to see my laziness is justified

[verbal glacier]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Maps do make sure to read through this

[iron ridge]

Server is back alive but the specific page it was calling is still dead thankfully

[hard fern]

[strong kite]

Do the commands have to be done after character initialization in the event? Or can I have this temporary actor in there from the beginning?

[toxic topaz]

do you guys think its reasonable for there to by a gigantic pyramid in the desert as somewhat of a counterpart to skull cavern?

with like a sandstorm transition area from the normal desert toward it?

[rain inlet]

certainly

[nova gale]

do I think it's reasonable for a world with a wizard and witch in cannon to have a pyramid in it? yeah sure

[rain inlet]

smh pyramids aren't canon, this is breaking my immersion /j

[verbal glacier]

I mean the pyramid decal is right there

[hard fern]

Youd have to extend the desert quite a but but there's real pyramids in real deserts already lol

[rain inlet]

worst case you could add a transition somewhere

i think it'd certainly be something i'd be interested in

just gotta account for the sve changes lol

[hard fern]

Oh god

Long desert XD

[toxic topaz]

yea im planning on having a "cliff" area accessed from above the galaxy sword shrine, and that overlooks the pyramid similar to the perfection cliff

[rain inlet]

desert the loong way

[toxic topaz]

hmm... ive never seen the sve desert

[rain inlet]

it's quite different

[toxic topaz]

omg idk how i can account for that

[nova gale]

just don't imo

[verbal glacier]

you can do music id, initial camera, characters, and then addTemporaryActor before anything happens

[brave fable]

make your mod first, handle compatibility later

[rain inlet]

my guess would be having a screen transition entrance that changes location based on if sve is installed

[toxic topaz]

true...

[nova gale]

we really need to take the Rimworld/Combat Extended stance on giant game breaking mods

[brave fable]

as someone smarter than me said, working out compatibility when you haven't started the mod is putting the cart before the horse

[toxic topaz]

i guess i could put a staircase leading up to there and have the transition there? idk. ill think about it when my mod is done

[nova gale]

"Is this CE compatabile? Dunno, go ask them, they're the ones who gutted the game"

[toxic topaz]

i also gotta make a soundtrack for the sandstorm area and make sandsharks

[nova gale]

naturally

also: youa sked if a pyramid is reasonable then jumped to sandsharks? 😛

[rain inlet]

oh fuck yeah

[strong kite]

I just realized, I'm gonna have to make all of the dialogue in the i18n file aren't I?

[toxic topaz]

well worldbuilding is different than funky sharks swimming in sand lol

[rain inlet]

i mean, look at it this way, pyramids are an extremely stable shape, it's completely reasonable for a society to have independently come up with pyramids

[nova gale]

we had like 5 civilizations do it

[toxic topaz]

true, triangles are the strongest shape

[rain inlet]

it's far from a stretch to say that this civilisation that we know almost nothing about could've come up with pyramids

[verbal glacier]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Pyramid_Decal

[rain inlet]

oh true

[verbal glacier]

stardew has pyramids

[toxic topaz]

oh yea, pyramids are real

[rain inlet]

i forgor about that one

even tho i fished up like 7 in a row that one time

[strong kite]

I just realized for this tempActor thing to work I'm gonna have to properly format my asset files arent i?

Nope

Yayyyyy!

[nova gale]

you should probably consider properly formating your files anyway 😛

[toxic topaz]

yoooooo, dryad wizard

[strong kite]

i mean.. yeahhh I should. Since there's only the one character I've just got them in the general assets folder rather than Portrait and Character subfolders

I do kinda wish these events were easier to read in the files. Then again I guess I can just manually linebreak them for the purposes of reading through it

[nova gale]

I thought in 1.6 you could line-break them now for readability?

[strong kite]

Well I'm looking at pre 1.6 vanilla events for reference

So I get one single long line take it or leave it

[nova gale]

oh gotcha

[strong kite]

Is there an easy way to view these events in game? Like a debug tool or command that instantly plays the event, just so I can better get a frame of reference for what everything does

[nova gale]

not that I've ever seen, although because many of them are time, heart and location based you can debug yourself to the right day/year and heart level to see many of them

that won't work for every event though

[strong kite]

True..

Few things: One, looks like I'm making another bug report related to SpaceCore's Health Regeneration stat 😭

Two, This is kind of concerning, the first time I eat "Borage Raviolis" from a mod (quite possibly Cornucopia More Foods) that I get through the mail, it gives me one of the custom debuffs from my mod when it absolutely shouldn't be

[lucid iron]

Why r u reading pre 1.6 events

[strong kite]

For reference! Cuz I'm already working with the wizard in the wizard tower and it goes over things that I'm gonna want to do

[strong kite]

Okay. So nvm. For some ungodly reason, these Borage Raviolis just give the debuff from my mod??

[lucid iron]

Why not read post 1.6 events then

[strong kite]

why does it matter?

[nova gale]

does your buff share a name with their buff?

[lucid iron]

It does for certain changes in event commands

In general if you are going to reference vanilla for anything use the latest unpack

[strong kite]

I mean.. it could?? BadDreamsDebuff feels a little.. strange for the other mod to be using, but I can just add my mod prefix to my buffs

[torpid sparrow]

Oh I should unpack again

[lucid iron]

As for viewing events quickly you can do debug ebi <event>

[strong kite]

Same here, I never even considered that I'd have an outdated unpack of the game

I- do not remember how to do that

[lucid iron]

!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.

[fallow musk]

ive heard there is a nexus to curseforge mod upload feature, does anyone where the feature is on curseforge?

[nova gale]

is your Id {{ModId}}_BadDreamsDeBuff?

[strong kite]

Well now it is so I'ma test it now

[nova gale]

(the {{ModId}}_ prefix on everything your mod adds is suggested for a reason, there are lots of mods out there, and nobody is all that original in their naming)

not saying that's the cause, it's just the first thing I would check given the symtoms you're seeing

[strong kite]

Well it's fixed now so.. honestly I'm just extremely curious now

[nova gale]

you've got the mod, crack open their json and see

unless they added allt heir recipes via c# for some reason /shrug

[brave fable]

add {{ModId}}_ to the start of all of your ID fields. this is not a suggestion. this is a threat

[strong kite]

Yes, however, I'm not 100% sure which mod it is (though I've got a very good idea) and if it's the mod I'm thinking it is there is a TON of stuff in it and idk where to start looking

[hard fern]

If you don't do it at least 5 mod authors in here will get you

[strong kite]

I've been using PBB_ as a distinguisher in most places, but I guess I forgot in a few

[brave fable]

there is no reason to use anything but ModId 🙂‍↕️

except for console commands where apparently we don't care enough

[strong kite]

I first made this mod 2 years ago now I'm just kinda following what past me started 😭

Alright guess I'll go through every single file, find PBB_ and replace it with {{ModId}}_

[nova gale]

if you're using vs code or something similar you can find/replace at a folder level

(y)

[strong kite]

Oh that's an incredibly good point

[torpid sparrow]

Typing out my mod id in console makes me grr

[calm nebula]

Typing

[strong kite]

Alright, done and dusted

And here's hoping that didn't end up breaking anything. Just in case I should probably load the game

it will definitely break pre-existing saves though wont it 😭

[nova gale]

yes

unless you go edit the save as well

that won't work for your users if you've released

[strong kite]

Well rip to the 4k people who downloaded the mod already

[nova gale]

but it'll work for you

I'd suggest a major version update (1.0 -> 2.0) when you release it if you change your prefixes for sure

[strong kite]

Oh yea I was already planning to use 2.0

Cuz this is adding SSOOOO much

[nova gale]

and obviously let them know not to update mid-game

[lucid iron]

Buff id don't need migration cus they don't get saved

And you can migrate item ids

[nova gale]

oh you can?

[strong kite]

that would be fantastic if so

[lucid iron]

Yeah content patcher migrate id trigger action

[nova gale]

oh, neat, well there ya be

[strong kite]

Wait so how do I implement that?

[nova gale]

https://github.com/Pathoschild/StardewMods/blob/develop/ContentPatcher/docs/author-guide/trigger-actions.md

looks like a command with item id pairs

so check your version control, should give you old/new id's on each side that way to make the pairs easily

obviously anything newly added doesn't require to be in there since your users don't have those items, just the ones in the currently released version

[strong kite]

OH RIGHT- I was in the process of unpacking the game again

I'll do the unpacking after I get this figured out

Is there like.. a fast way to do this or am I gonna have to put in all of the items one by one?

[nova gale]

you could copy/paste the old ones into a spreadsheet column, new ones in the next column over, then use concat down the row to build the big long string you need for CP

probably only faster because you wouldn't mess up quotes and such as easily that way though

[strong kite]

this sounds so painful

[ornate trellis]

Sandstorm...shark...is sharnado finally coming to sdv?

[tender bloom]

If these are items doesn’t cp have MigrateIds or something

Ah someone beat me to mentioning

[whole prism]

When i think of sand sharks, I think of terrarias

[brave fable]

incidentally using the wrapped Game1.sounds.PlayLocal() does give you an out ICue cue param to use, which is given as _ when using localSound()

it's also surprisingly hard to test the sound of jingling bells ingame when there's orthodox church bells ringing at midnight outside the window

very rare debug issues

[calm nebula]

Christmas mod

Starting early i see

[brave fable]

easter actually, just a little late apparently

[calm nebula]

You're early for next year

[strong kite]

This is especially annoying cuz my mouse is kind of broken and has a bit of trouble holding down the mouse button so clicking and dragging to select and delete things is.. inconsistent 😭

[brave fable]

ah i had to deal with that on my last mouse. logitech g703. drove me nuts

[nova gale]

you should be able to double click on a word to highlight the whole thing for copy/pasting unless you have hypens in your names

underscores will be treated as part of the word typically though

[calm nebula]

What are you trying to do?

It sounds like a nice copy and replace will do it

[brave fable]

i don't think it can be fixed unless you're able to clean or replace the contacts under the mouse button

[nova gale]

they are getting the names of their items extracted so they can do a migrateitems trigger in CP

[strong kite]

Well this was caused cuz originally I had an issue where my mouse wasn't registering clicks half the time. So I put electrical tape under the button so it triggers easier. Well the clicks register, but now it sometimes clicks twice in succession or has trouble staying held down

I was SUPPOSED to get a new mouse yesterday but Amazon didn't even TRY shipping it even though it was supposed to be delivered yesterday

[brave fable]

oh yeah i don't even bother with amazon. awful company. better off just going out and buying the mouse you want

[strong kite]

I don't think it's sold anywhere near me

[nova gale]

hmm, the gap between the easiest foods to make in my mod and the 3rd easiest food to make in terms of energy recovery is...vast

might need to rebalance that

[hard fern]

My old mouse was also cursed

[strong kite]

Anyhoo, yeah to get the list of IDs I pasted the objects file into a spreadsheet and am deleting everything that isn't the item Ids, then I'll format it better from there

[hard fern]

Had the same problem you're having

[nova gale]

although I guess the other one is made with real food items I could eat raw, vs the easiest one which is made from garbage monster parts, so nm, it's probably fine

[strong kite]

if there is an easier solution than this PLEASE tell me

[nova gale]

vs code can regex search/copy I think (if not I'm confident notepad++ can do it). Typically I'm reluctant to suggest regex to folks though since it's not exactly simple

it's easy, but it's not simple 😛

[strong kite]

wait a minute I think i'm picking up what you're putting down

damnit does it only work for file types?

[nova gale]

no, when you search in vs code, the search bar has a little .* button

[buoyant moon]

what do you mean ^\{\{i18n:(?P<token>(?:\w|\.|\{\{(?:\w|.)+}})+)}}$ isn't simple

[strong kite]

I mean in NotePad++ cuz that's what I'm currently using

[nova gale]

in notepad++ you can enable something called mark for your search, which basically marks all the found items, which you can then copy all the marked items, I don't have the commands at hand (and frankly it might be faster to just copy, but if you find value in learning the skill generally even if it takes a bit longer then doing this particular job by hand, then it's worth knowing how to do)

[iron ridge]

theres a regex option in notepad++ find and replace

[nova gale]

yeah, I know notepad++ has the regex option, I just can't find what the button looks like, I don't have it installed atm

[strong kite]

I've found the options, I just need it to also select the things AFTER the prefix too

which the internet is failing me on how to do

[nova gale]

yeah, that's where the regex comes in

so you want to search everything from {{ModId}}_ to the following "

[strong kite]

You say that like it's as simple as toggling an option

[nova gale]

I do believe I specifically said I don't normally suggest regex because it isn't simple 😛

[strong kite]

but I'm not grasping from your message how to actually do that 😭 (I can be incredibly dense at times)

[whole raptor]

Regex is fun /(?:(?:\/|\\\\|\r?\n|\s)speak|question|message|end dialogue|splitSpeak|textAboveHead|\(break\)speak)[^"]*"([^"]+)\\|(?:quickQuestion\s+|#)([^#()]+)/

*He lied as easily as he breathed*

[nova gale]

so, regex has patterns for things like "any character", so you have a pattern here: strings that start with {{ModId}}_ and then end with a "

between those 2 parts, can be any number of characters, underscores, hyphens, periods, etc

usually the "just pick up anything" in regex is denoted with .* (although some regex implements have slight alterations, I don't know Notepad++'s specifically

so then you end up with something like "{{ModId}}_".*" as the search (dunno if { or } are special, if so they would need \ before them as well

[strong kite]

I think I got it

[nova gale]

https://regex101.com/ this is a helpful sight for testing out regex

[strong kite]

I have a list of all of the IDs. Granted, all of the IDs are listed twice each but I have them without all the other fluff

[barren tapir]

@brittle pasture I see what you mean by crab pots being a hard coded nightmare. I'm grasping at straws trying to fix something (I'll probably post details about the problem after I take care of some IRL stuff

[stoic chasm]

Helloo people. I have a quick question (hopefully-) Does the message tile property work on Front layers?

[calm nebula]

No

[stoic chasm]

Damn, ok. Thank youu

[brave fable]

what're you trying to do? if you're placing a message on the upper part of a wall, for example, the player won't even be able to reach that tile, and it'd be better placed on the lower buildings tile

[stoic chasm]

It might be easier to send an image to explain- Can I send a photo of the map I'm working on here?

[strong kite]

Alright so I have a spreadsheet with all the objects file IDs, one column with the old prefix and one with the new

[strong kite]

I'm not sure what concat is

[stoic chasm]

This is kinda what I'm trying to do. I wanna have the flags looking like they're hanging from that beam-looking thingy. And I wanted to have some flags over the stairs too

[nova gale]

it's a function command in excel or google sheets (whatever you're using) it's short for concatenate which basically means "mash 2 strings together"

[brave fable]

so where does the message tile property come in

[nova gale]

so you can do =CONCAT(A1," ",A2) to make a new string that contains the value in spreadsheet cell A1 and A2 with a space between them

then, in the next cell down you can do =CONCAT(B3," ",B1," ",B2)

[stoic chasm]

Oooh right- Well, I want to make it so that when you interact with the flag, the definition of the flag comes up (like what gender identity it is or something)

Sorry forgot to say that

[nova gale]

after that you copy the formula down and it will just say "take the string above me, and mash the values from this row on the end"

[brave fable]

the player can only interact with adjacent tiles, so you can't inspect things on the ceiling

[stoic chasm]

Ooooh okay

[brave fable]

you'll have to place some (possibly invisible) buildings tiles at a reasonable spot below them

[hard fern]

Maybe make a plaque

[stoic chasm]

I'm really sorry, but what is a plaque-?

[nova gale]

like a sign

[hard fern]

Ah, you know museums?

They have little signs under the exhibition

[nova gale]

but usually metal, and engraved instead of printed

[stoic chasm]

Haha, I've never been to a real museum-

[hard fern]

O..

[stoic chasm]

That's cool though

[hard fern]

But yeah, basically those little signs are there to tell you about the piece

[stoic chasm]

Right, okay. I might try make a plaque thingy then! Back to my art program I go-

Thank you all for the assistance! I really appreciate it

[toxic topaz]

does anyone know why in my event, my junimo might be walking like this? i have it animated to only use 4 specific frames for all walking. yet it keeps doing this

[nova gale]

I assume you messed up your facing in the move action?

[toxic topaz]

no i have it set to down like it should be afaik

[strong kite]

i'm not gonna lie I am so confused. You've got these quotes in there, and then 3 cells here, but Concat only takes 2 arguments so this isn't doing anything

This is the way my IDs have ended up btw

[nova gale]

what spreadsheet program are you using?

[strong kite]

Google Sheets

[nova gale]

excel can take more then 2

kk, one sec

let me check google sheets

this just means you have to do it in slightly more cells

one sec

oh, google sheets has a "Concatenate" that takes more then 2

[strong kite]

I'm also wondering what the end goal of this is?
Does this basically put them all into one line? that all goes in front of one "Pathoschild.ContentPatcher_MigrateIds Items" field?

[nova gale]

yup

well, after one, yes

[strong kite]

Alright ye that's what I meant

[nova gale]

so C1 has: =CONCATENATE(A1," ",B1)

(my examplea bove had them rotated the wrong way)

C2 then has: =CONCATENATE(C1," ",A2," ",B2)

after that it's just this, but with the numbers increasing

so C3 would have =CONCATENATE(C2," ",A3," ",B3)

etc

to say "thing above me, plus stuff on current line"

and what you end up with is the big long string you need

(you may need to add some quotes in there and such as needed)

[strong kite]

Alright, so It's still a bunch of copy/pasting and tweaking the numbers each time?

[nova gale]

once you make the formula in C2 you can just click the little round thing in the corner of the cell and drag down

and that will automatically copy the formula and adjust the numbers relatively

[strong kite]

ohhhh that's nice

Thank you!

[nova gale]

like that

(which I did while typing that advise to you, for a sense of how long it takes 😛

does the CP command require quotes around the item id's?

[strong kite]

I think it only requires quotes if the thing you're referencing has spaces in it

[nova gale]

ah, hopefully not in your case (spaces in IDs are a sin against god and nature)

[strong kite]

although the line as a whole in the example uses single quotes to contain the string

[nova gale]

yeah, that's easy enough to add by hand after

[strong kite]

Yee the only spaces are basically purely within the i18n file

[strong kite]

Yee, it just shows up with red highlighting in Notepad++ so I wasn't sure if it was wrong or something

maybe I should've listened to it

oh my- AAUAGHGH

THEY NEED TO BE QUALIFIED 😭

[nova gale]

I assume they are different types?

or are they 90% objects with a few other things

(if they're mostly objects this is a fairly easy problem to handle by just adding the qualifiers in your concat and moving on)

[strong kite]

Well this string right here is just everything in the Object file, only from the Objecy file

[strong kite]

oh good point!

[nova gale]

oh, then yeah just add the (O) to the concats

[strong kite]

At this point I'm gonna forget what I was doin before all this 😭

[nova gale]

but think of all the new mass data manipulation and searching skills you've gained

[strong kite]

I suppose that's true to an extent

Yippee it worked!

[nova gale]

https://tenor.com/view/huzzah-reaction-gif-19786047

[strong kite]

Now how many other things do I need to do this for? Judging by the available types in MigrateIds, seems like CookingRecipes and that's it?

cuz I didnt have buildings, craftingrecipes, events, farmanimals, mail, or songs

Alright and so I think I'm done with that! The recipes were infinitely quicker (who'd have guessed, It was a shorter list and I now knew what I needed to do )

Now... is there a way to do this for crops or giant crops? If not, I'm not too worried about it but i guess it might be nice?

I ask knowing full well I dont want to spend more time on migration

[nova gale]

no idea, I didnt' know you could migrate them until this conversation, check that CP page I linked and see maybe? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[toxic topaz]

i got a video of my attempted nightly event

i have no clue why my junimo doesnt have an animation the first time... but the second time he does

[barren tapir]

Is this not how you do harmony prefix postfix pairs?

I'm getting a NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. before the methods even run.

Both methods are patching CrabPot.DayUpdate

[calm nebula]

Add the [HarmonyPrefix] and [HarmonyPostfix] attributes

(Most people actually use magic naming iirc)

[strong kite]

Alright good thing I unpacked the game again, was def missing a few things

[lucid iron]

You need ref for __state

[calm nebula]

Nah, what i showed was the less common method

[nova gale]

sigh I should make a community bundle set for my mod, some of these are really tough to complete in a mining focused game 😛

[small kindle]

Hey y'all so I need some help because idk if its just not possible or I am missing the forest for the trees. So I am making a mod for shops and I want users to be able to mix and match various portrait mods with GMCM. My mod appears in GMCM when first loading into game however in the drop down for shops the only option that appears is "Vanilla" its not until i load into game that GMCM populates the drop downs with the options. I am using a registery system to look in /packs to populate but I seem to not be able to get it to do it at the title screen. Can I use like gmcm.Register() to rebuild it at the title screen after CP and everything loads? Worried that could affect other mods

[strong kite]

Where can I find a list of variables like @ having text use the farmer's name? More specifically right now I'm looking for using the FARM's name, but a list of all variables like that would be excellent

[torpid sparrow]

Dialogue page

[[Modding:Dialogue]]

[empty radish]

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Dialogue

[strong kite]

Ah shoot I shoulda figured that

[faint ingot]

I am trying to get started with CP extensibility and am getting an assembly reference error on the IContentPatcherAPI.cs file. Any ideas?

[lucid iron]

Can you explain this registry system

Or this look in /packs thing

[marsh reef]

🤔 how do I structure the schedule json portion if I want an npc to have a certain schedule every Monday Tuesday etc individually by day but the same every week?

[small kindle]

Yeah so I kinda used a mod Scaleup Unofficial as a guide but basically I am using CP Token called {{Dakota.ShopPortraitOverhaul/Packs}} so that way other people can use that token to let my mod, its meant to be like a framework, can find any mods wanted to add portraits and auto populate them in a drop down.

[lucid iron]

I'm not sure if you need to do it like this since vanilla already allows multiple shop owners

[torpid sparrow]

Just make one for mon, tue, etc?

[lucid iron]

But anyways the problem you encounter is indeed solved by Unregister and Register GMCM
You can use AssetInvalidated to detect when you need to do this

[torpid sparrow]

If you have one entry for mon and it’ll be the same Mon every week

[marsh reef]

Right, the schedule tutorial didn’t make any sense and the game told me I had it wrong :(

[torpid sparrow]

What’s wrong with the tutorial

It just breaks down the keys

[marsh reef]

:3 didn’t make sense

[torpid sparrow]

If you want something for Mon, you put Mon. If you want a different schedule for a more specific day, you can make it more specific

spring_8 for example would only be for Mon 8 of Spring

[marsh reef]

I have “Mon”: “blah blah blee blah” but it said that it didn’t recognize Mon :/

[lucid iron]

The other approach would be making ur own menu I suppose

[torpid sparrow]

We’d need to see a json and/or log

[verbal glacier]

!json

[ocean sail]

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

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

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

To use this command, type !json.

[torpid sparrow]

You need a default and/or spring schedule key I think

But I’ve functioned without it before bc all my other keys worked

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️ I don’t have access to my pc rn, was just wanting to know if someone could type out or paste a quick start to finish of a really simple Monday schedule json

[marsh reef]

🤔 what

[torpid sparrow]

“Mon”: “900 Town 58 94 1/1800 bed”,

[small kindle]

Does it? My worry was they would like conflict or override each other so assumed I needed a way to keep them seperate, my issue is timing CP right to make it read the directoy. So should I be using the vanilla owners system to detect which npc is running the shop or is there a better way to have GMCM populate at title screen? Did I massively overcomplicate it? lol

[marsh reef]

:/ mmmm that is what I have yea, I’ll see later then

[lucid iron]

Well if you are just making a shop that hs multiple shop keepers depending on the day then the vanilla system works yeah, owner is a list

[torpid sparrow]

You need a default schedule to be a fallback

The wiki page says that somewhere I can’t remember where

[lucid iron]

I don't really know your usecase is yet so i dunno what is best for you

[torpid sparrow]

But I’m really just throwing pasta at the wall bc idk any of ur specifics

[verbal glacier]

Under normal schedules

[small kindle]

Oh thats fair lol. Basically its a framework to remove/change the vanilla interface to load a full sized portrait. So it shifts the shop menu over, removes the vanilla portrait window and greeting, and loads a portrait like off in the left corner

[severe cairn]

How slow do npcs move? Is it even slower than farmer walk or faster or the same? Would check myself but am eepy sleepy

[marsh reef]

The pasta is my specifics idk bro, I have literally like one line of stuff in the schedules thing bc I just wanted to see if I could get my guy to move and it was sad at me

[torpid sparrow]

Yeah that’s just not enough info

[small kindle]

Idk if I can post pictures so or I would

[verbal glacier]

the game has an auto run, you can turn that off or press shift to match their speed more closely

[torpid sparrow]

If there’s an error that be helpful otherwise I’d say try sleeping a day

[buoyant moon]

Is there any standard around how to treat multi-part dialogues as far as i18n goes? e.g. for:
"You look like you've been doing a lot of hard work.#$b#Why don't you take the rest of the day off?"
Does it make much of a difference if the whole string is one i18n token or two with #$b# in the middle since that doesn't change between languages?

[torpid sparrow]

Or sleeping until the next Monday or whatever

[severe cairn]

Ya I know I meant that if the farmer walks (no run) how is their speed compared to an npc haha

[toxic topaz]

does anyone know why this could be? ive updated my script since, and the event is pretty much 100% done, but this one problem is the only thing stopping me from moving on.... and i have no clue why its happening

[marsh reef]

OH, nvm i do have a thing of the error, how would i call on a modded map in the schedule?

[torpid sparrow]

Whatever the internal name is

[marsh reef]

Mmmm :/ that’s what I had yes

[torpid sparrow]

If there’s an error about that then there’s a typo or something

[marsh reef]

🤔 it’s the modid name then the name right?

[torpid sparrow]

I don’t know what ur location is

Theoretically yes but I don’t know it

[barren tapir]

Im trying to follow this tutorial (specifically the Prefix-postfix pairs section). I believe that ref cannot be used in conjunction with out, and when I change the prefix method signature to CrabPot __instance, ref bool __state, I still get the same error

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

[torpid sparrow]

That’s best practice but the name could really be anything

[verbal glacier]

you can just put the dialogue with #$b# in the i18n, I have never seen anyone split that but you could do something with adding items and have that be separate

[marsh reef]

🙂‍↕️ I’m pretty sure that’s the exact same thing I have the warp set to so idk why the warp works but the schedule doesn’t like it, I’ll check later ig

[buoyant moon]

Right, it's less a question of what's possible and more about what the best practice is. Seems like most people don't bother splitting at a glance?

[torpid sparrow]

There could be something wrong with ur location

[verbal glacier]

yup

[torpid sparrow]

And not necessarily with the schedule

[marsh reef]

How so

[torpid sparrow]

Maybe the game can’t find the location bc it’s set up wrong

Idk

Pasta, wall

[void aspen]

game has around 1000 png files

interesting

[torpid sparrow]

Things to keep in mind though

[marsh reef]

Yes but how can I spawn him there and go there myself :(

[verbal glacier]

most would only split up questions/answers otherwise you would be splitting up hundreds of dialogues into even smaller parts

[marsh reef]

😭 you say this like I’m gonna hold you accountable for not being perfectly accurate 😂

[lucid iron]

Your NRE could be part of your own prefix or something you did that borked another patch tbh, we'd have to see logs

[torpid sparrow]

Well I just don’t want to present it like I know exactly what’s wrong

[buoyant moon]

Yeah, I'm working on automating the tokenization part so it's not about how much work I'd have but what makes sense for a translator to work with

[barren tapir]

It gets stuck in infinite loop, but here is the error message (censored to remove my name)

[12:52:58 ERROR game] An error occurred in the base update loop: System.Exception: Error on new day: 
---------------
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Money_Sinks.CropQuality.CrabPot_DayUpdate_prefix(CrabPot __instance, Nullable`1& __state) in C:\Users\_____\source\repos\Money Sinks\Money Sinks\CropQuality.cs:line 139
   at StardewValley.Objects.CrabPot.DayUpdate_PatchedBy<Nullnnow.MS-OfferringsCode>(CrabPot this)
   at StardewValley.GameLocation.DayUpdate(Int32 dayOfMonth)
   at StardewValley.Farm.DayUpdate(Int32 dayOfMonth)
   at StardewValley.Game1._newDayAfterFade()+MoveNext()
   at StardewValley.Game1.<>c.<newDayAfterFade>b__782_2()
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvoke()
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.<>c.<.cctor>b__272_0(Object obj)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
--- End of stack trace from previous location ---
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)
---------------

[strong kite]

So, setting up emotes in an event, how do I specify [continue] cuz the intuitive ways don't seem to work and the wiki just says what happens if you specify continue

[lucid iron]

yeah that definitely looks like NRE from vanilla types being null unaware

[buoyant moon]

it's a boolean, so emote Abigail 12 true

IIRC by default it's false and you don't need to add anything if you want it to block

[brittle pasture]

delete the line importing the ModConvention in the API file

as well as every API function you're not using

[barren tapir]

So how do I resolve this? I think the error is that __instance is null, but I tried setting it to CrabPot? instance and checked to make sure instance isn't null before continuing the prefix function

[round dock]

Seconding this. If it’s just #$b# or even #$e#, don’t split

[lucid iron]

You have to inspect everything you are using and make sure you aren't accidentally dereferencing a null

[strong kite]

I wanted it to be true so that's why I needed to know lol, ty

[lucid iron]

I don't think __instance can be null but fields on it can be