Mods make the gaming world go round. Community-made content for the community. But most games don't directly back up and have a way to manage mods, making information technology circuitous to really do by yourself. If you're one of the many people who get too dislocated and frustrated at trying to manually install mods for video games, specifically your favorite farming game known as Stardew Valley, look no farther.

There are only two minor steps yous need to make before directly downloading mods to ensure the mods work correctly with the game files and are supported. Installing SMAPI and Content Patcher are those get-go two steps.

Installing SMAPI

SMAPI does the work for you one time you install it from here. This is a small program that allows mods to be loaded and managed into Stardew Valley. First you must extract the downloaded SMAPI file into whatsoever location you want that isn't the game's main folder. In one case y'all do that, double-click the file proper name for the operating arrangement yous use.

From there a small, blackness square window will pop upward doing the balance for yous. It will betoken you lot in the management of where to put your hereafter mods inside the game'southward folder. Whenever you run Stardew Valley, SMAPI will check for whatever out of date mods. After y'all set SMAPI up, y'all'll have to redirect Steam to the correct application to boot upwardly. SMAPI creates a "StardewModdingAPI" file inside the game folder. You can either directly click this within the game folder to load upwardly modded Stardew Valley or you can redirect Steam's game launch to that file then that when you press play in Steam it opens the modded version.

To find the modded Stardew Valley application:

  • This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x84) > Steam > steamapps > common > Stardew Valley > StardewModdingAPI

To redirect Steam to the modded version:

  • Right-click the Stardew Valley game in your library
  • Click properties
  • In the General tab at the very bottom will be "Launch Options" with a text box. You must enter the designated location of the API file into here word for discussion.
  • Type this into the text box, including the quotations and percentages: "c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\StardewModdingAPI.exe" %command%

Installing Content Patcher

After installing SMAPI successfully you'll want to download Content Patcher here. This is the thing that will permit your mods to actually work within the game and not break anything.

When yous install the zip file, you'll want to motion it to the Mods folder in your Stardew Valley folder then extract it within the Mods folder. The easiest fashion to move the file there would be to move the window that your Downloads folder is open up in, or wherever you lot downloaded the zero folder, to i side of the screen. So open a new file window on the other side that has your Mods binder open. From in that location, drag the Content Patcher zip folder into the Mods window. Once the zip binder is extracted into the Mods folder, you're washed!

To get to the Mods folder:

  • (c:) > Program Files (x84) > Steam > steamapps > common > Stardew Valley > Mods

Finding Your Files

Now that those two things are out of the way, all you take left to exercise is excerpt any modernistic files you want into your Mods folder and so open the game like you ordinarily would.

When you lot find a modern that you similar online and it's supported with SMAPI and Content Patcher, just put the goose egg file into your Mods folder and extract it at that place. When you open Stardew Valley, all the mods should be loaded in. Just recollect to either open it by clicking the StardewModdingAPI application in the Stardew Valley folder, or past redirecting Steam to the application and so that Steam opens the mods for you.

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