Even as a seasoned modder, this is a fantastic refresher course and an amazing guide for installing and using Stardrop as well. Getting back into Stardew after a break and being able to use Stardrop for much easier mod management has been a blessing, and your guide came out at the perfect time for me. Appreciate the hard work!
Since ur a seasoned modder as you said I have a question me and my friend have a co op world and I wanna add some quality of life mods if we both downloaded it would it add it to our world or how would it work?
I've been using Vortex/Nexus to mod for years because all of the modding guides for games went completely over my head and I didn't feel like I could figure it out myself. This guide is super helpful and doesn't make me feel like a luddite.
Oh my gosh! I usually rage quit when I try to do stuff like this on my own, but this video really helped! I messed up a few times, but you made it so easy to go back and find out what I missed. Thanks for the awesome video!!
I had no idea the stardrop mod manager existed and being able to have profiles is very exciting to me. I also did not know you could organize mods into folders so thank you for making this updated mod guide. I love learning new things despite being a seasoned player.
I just recently got into modding stardew and this guide was so informative and helpful, i play so many other games and the amount of extra videos i've had to watch/ending up doing my own research to figure out what to do is substantial, this is BY FAR the BEST educational video/breakdown i have EVER seen for anything. AMAZING work, thanks for making this process so much easier!!!
just got into modding, and while I had figured out how to start I had no idea about the rest of it. I looked for how to disable mods, found this video and I am so happy I did! It's really straight forward and I appreciate it since I know I can trust this video since I trust your channel (as much as one does with people they don't know irl)
Thank you for this!! I was about to “try” and help my sister get started with mods for her Stardew Valley game play and voila, you made this video. So I just sent this to her. Also, love your content and been a long time supporter. Keep doing what you’re doing. ❤
Trying to figure out mods has always been a severe challenge for me, but this video. *chefs kiss* MUAH. Love it. Thank you for basically making stardew mods "for dummies" guide
Thank you so much! 💕 I just got Stardew Valley for PC for the first time not that long ago; since the 1.6 update hasn’t come to console just yet~ I know I know lol 😅 You helped make installing mods a lot less stressful & not as overwhelming as I initially thought. Thank you so much again 💕
This is legitimately the best game related guide I have ever seen in my life. This was an absolutely PERFECT guide that was easy to understand, easy to follow, everything was labelled so I can skip around 1000 out of 10.
I've modded tons of games from minecraft to bg3 to raft and 7dtd, but for some reason have had so much trouble with modding Stardew. This is such a thorough and helpful video, I FINALLY got my mods working, thank you!
I've been trying to find a way to switch between files with different mods and this video is such a godsend. While for some reason I couldn't find Stardrop, the explanation of the .off folder is just the simplicity I needed. The only other answers I could find were basically massive walls of text that were a headache to try to read through. Thank you so much.
ive finally gotten access to a pc that is actually capable of running games without screaming at me so im finally trying to play stardew on pc and of course that means i get to try out some mods. ive literally only ever modded sims so i have absolutely no idea what im doing, but im thrilled to find such a well detailed video to help me figure it out. i am going to add this to my list of things to study when awake enough to give it a try haha
This might sound a little ridiculous but hear me out alr? You're a life saver. Thank you so much as someone who struggles to process information this guide was incredibly helpful and seeing everything step by step was so useful! I've never managed to mod things before (I'm also scared of ruining the og game and not being able to play it) but this helped me get the mods I wanted. Now all I gotta worry about it my storage and lack of control. THANK YOU!
I used Vortex for about a year now, but especially since the Update to 1.6 I've started to get lots of problems, because of missing files, wrong installation etc (maybe because there are so many of them now). So I watched your video to get rid of Vortex without getting mad while trying to keep managed about 200 mods. I think I try Stardrop for once, but will definitely track all of my installed mods on Nexus in case I switch to manual organisation. Your video was very helpful for me,; so thank you! 🙃
Thank you for all the advice on stardew its been massively helpful :) got a challenge for you considering you are a stardew valley legend! Live on the farm for a year without going to the town or the mines and no foraging apart from what's on your farm. You can only go to the town once at the end of the year :) just a fun challenge idea.
I'm so dumb XD. I read the prompt "Where do you want to add or remove SMAPI" and assumed that it was answering itself with the "[1](File Location)" then when I saw "[2] Enter a custom game path" I assumed that was just step 2 and that "Type the number next to you choice, then press enter" meant I needed to find the number of the save file that I wanted to use the mods on. It just so happens that each world file has a seed number on it so I got stuck at that point. Thanks for the super in depth tutorial, very helpful.
I have been looking for a way to configure mods for an Ungodly amount of time. and could never find a propper explonation or way. so thank you so much for this :,)
I personally use Mod Organiser 2 as a replacement to vortex, but there are some mods that need specific installation methods (Mainly older mods or not designed for organizers).
thanks for doing this amazing video realise that it's more complicated than i thought haha lol but i having fun learning about the mods for stardew valley
Glad you enjoyed it! The basics are pretty simple once you get the hang of it, but we can always do more if we want, which is something I love about modding.
Its unfortunate that nexus has a limit for non premium people, ive only got 6 so far and i was so excited to get more, and im debating getting premium, but, if i dont pay the nest month ill still get the mods i downloaded right? may be a stupid question, but if anyone can just reassure me that would be great. other than that is this a great video! Thank you
The amount of mods that are available is crazy and I can't wait to try them out. However, I think it is a better idea for me to play to game atleast up to the point I've finished the community centre on vanilla, before I install any of these mods.
THANK YOU THANK YOU I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS!!!!!!! I didn't understand how to work this at all although I did have to google some stuff because I'm stupid and don't know crap about this I am now successfully playing with mods I can't explain how upset and confused I was when I couldn't understand the other tutorial's. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey there, Wickedy! I've been following your tutorial step by step. It's my second time trying to play with the expanded mod, but still nothing works. SMAPI tells me that Stardew Valley Expanded and the Shoptile Framework are outdated... which they're not... help 😢
Im confused, i downloaded Smapi and added to my stardew vally through steam properties. Smapi actives when i enter stardew vally, however i cant find Smapi in my folders. Where can i find it? I am definitely missing something ;-;
Oops SMAPI is missing one of its files. Your antivirus might have deleted it. Missing file: "C:\Users\hange\OneDrive\Desktop\"internal\windows\SMAPI.Installer.dll what can I do?
Im somewhat curious to try out curseforge's mod support for the game but not sure how good it'll be, probably going to try a method you presented here first.
THANK YOU HLIRFVAEGHLJKDBHV i accidentally broke my mods a few days ago and have been mucking about trying to fix it but it was SMAPI that was buggin and this made me realize how to fix it!!!! I LOVE U SM RTYYTYTYYT( sorry i have adhd and am excited this is my current hyperfixation)
I tried to do this and I followed your directions- but smapi keeps giving me the “it’s not a smapi mod” red text. I don’t understand why it won’t work- I’ve tried all I can think of.
I don't understand how you get the folder to put your mods in because in the video at 3:29 a random folder just pops up on your screen but I don't understand how you got that folder because I have tried installing SMAPI multiple times and it has never popped up and I have also searched through all of my files on my computer and I can find it can someone please help me I don't understand this at all and I have wanted mods for awhile help please?
if i may ask a question : when you say everything should work "as long as it's extracted and named properly", do you mean the files themselves, or does that also include the folders they come in? i would like to rename some folders that have been named by their modder, but i don't want the mods to not be recognised! thank you for your time and amazing tutorial xxxx
Just the folder themselves. At times, the folder will be extracted and someone will move the original zip folder over and not the mod folder and that can cause issues. For example, I just downloaded the mod "Like A Duck To Water" and if I extract it, the folder says "Like a Duck to Water-15860-0-2-1-1679151359" but inside it is the regular "LikeADuckToWater" folder. The one without the numbers is the one you want. And the named properly part was also referring to not having a period at the beginning of your folder name for when you manually disable folders.
Can i still get the achievements even if i just add the smapi to steam? Or do I need to use the official stardew valley app and then put launch options?
Such a great video!!! Thank you so much. When you use Stardrop, do you add mods with it or do you still install them manually? Does it matter? Can you sort them into folders inside the Stardrop Installed Mods folder?
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Even as a seasoned modder, this is a fantastic refresher course and an amazing guide for installing and using Stardrop as well. Getting back into Stardew after a break and being able to use Stardrop for much easier mod management has been a blessing, and your guide came out at the perfect time for me. Appreciate the hard work!
Since ur a seasoned modder as you said I have a question me and my friend have a co op world and I wanna add some quality of life mods if we both downloaded it would it add it to our world or how would it work?
@@jimmybilly5330 8:14!
I've been using Vortex/Nexus to mod for years because all of the modding guides for games went completely over my head and I didn't feel like I could figure it out myself. This guide is super helpful and doesn't make me feel like a luddite.
Yay! I wanted to showcase a few different ways to do things as I've had issues with Vortex breaking SVE installs. Glad it helped!
It honestly helps that this game is so easy to mod. Most are frameworks or copy/paste folders
@@Wickedy are there any no-code options for web-based mid making?
Oh my gosh! I usually rage quit when I try to do stuff like this on my own, but this video really helped! I messed up a few times, but you made it so easy to go back and find out what I missed. Thanks for the awesome video!!
I had no idea the stardrop mod manager existed and being able to have profiles is very exciting to me. I also did not know you could organize mods into folders so thank you for making this updated mod guide. I love learning new things despite being a seasoned player.
Same here! I like my vanilla farm but want to mod other ones, trying different mods on each without having to study code lol
Hey, good playing to ya!
I just recently got into modding stardew and this guide was so informative and helpful, i play so many other games and the amount of extra videos i've had to watch/ending up doing my own research to figure out what to do is substantial, this is BY FAR the BEST educational video/breakdown i have EVER seen for anything. AMAZING work, thanks for making this process so much easier!!!
Love how much you actually explained what everything does and showed it. Hands down one of the best tutorials I've ever seen!
Thank you so much.
Been wanting to mod Stardew for ages. Finally got round to it. Watched a few videos and this was the most helpful.
Again thank you.
just got into modding, and while I had figured out how to start I had no idea about the rest of it. I looked for how to disable mods, found this video and I am so happy I did! It's really straight forward and I appreciate it since I know I can trust this video since I trust your channel (as much as one does with people they don't know irl)
Thank you for this!! I was about to “try” and help my sister get started with mods for her Stardew Valley game play and voila, you made this video. So I just sent this to her. Also, love your content and been a long time supporter. Keep doing what you’re doing. ❤
Glad I could help! Have fun with the mods
Trying to figure out mods has always been a severe challenge for me, but this video. *chefs kiss* MUAH. Love it. Thank you for basically making stardew mods "for dummies" guide
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much! 💕 I just got Stardew Valley for PC for the first time not that long ago; since the 1.6 update hasn’t come to console just yet~ I know I know lol 😅
You helped make installing mods a lot less stressful & not as overwhelming as I initially thought. Thank you so much again 💕
I was having trouble starting the game and now I fixed it. It runs great.
It took me hours to install smapi properly and I was losing my mind, thankfully I found your vid it help me a lot! it was so easy!
You can also have a mod folder for each save if you provide the '--mods-path' parameter to the shortcuts.
This is legitimately the best game related guide I have ever seen in my life. This was an absolutely PERFECT guide that was easy to understand, easy to follow, everything was labelled so I can skip around 1000 out of 10.
Thank you very much for this! I've been very curious about mods as of late, so this is an excellently timed video for my needs.
I've modded tons of games from minecraft to bg3 to raft and 7dtd, but for some reason have had so much trouble with modding Stardew. This is such a thorough and helpful video, I FINALLY got my mods working, thank you!
Yay! That's what I want to hear! Glad to help out
Thanks!
I've played Stardew Valley for years but finally decided to shake things up with mods recently. Great video, having a lot of fun finding mods now!
im not even 2 minutes in and this has already helped so much, this is going to make the game so much better for me and my girl THANK YOUUU
Your a life savor I had so much trouble learning how to do this stuff and how you explained really help so much ❤
I cannot tell you how often i come back to reference this video! So insanely helpful, thank you so much
i LOVE YOU YOU HELPED ME SO MUCH thiS is SUCH A GOOD TUT but for real this is such a good tut this makes me so happy now i know how to get mod :3
I've been trying to find a way to switch between files with different mods and this video is such a godsend. While for some reason I couldn't find Stardrop, the explanation of the .off folder is just the simplicity I needed. The only other answers I could find were basically massive walls of text that were a headache to try to read through. Thank you so much.
:0 why have I never thought to add smapi to my toolbar, I’ve opened this game like a million times
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Thank you so much for the help! I was completely lost until you explained the process :)
This was ssoooo helpful i will be liking!
Thank you! I gace up modding a few years ago, but after finding this video i have 20+ mods on my computer now 😅
ive finally gotten access to a pc that is actually capable of running games without screaming at me so im finally trying to play stardew on pc and of course that means i get to try out some mods. ive literally only ever modded sims so i have absolutely no idea what im doing, but im thrilled to find such a well detailed video to help me figure it out. i am going to add this to my list of things to study when awake enough to give it a try haha
Thank you so much!! I had some struggles, but your video was really helpful and very easy to understand ❤️
This might sound a little ridiculous but hear me out alr? You're a life saver. Thank you so much as someone who struggles to process information this guide was incredibly helpful and seeing everything step by step was so useful! I've never managed to mod things before (I'm also scared of ruining the og game and not being able to play it) but this helped me get the mods I wanted.
Now all I gotta worry about it my storage and lack of control. THANK YOU!
Finally an up to date guide
I used Vortex for about a year now, but especially since the Update to 1.6 I've started to get lots of problems, because of missing files, wrong installation etc (maybe because there are so many of them now). So I watched your video to get rid of Vortex without getting mad while trying to keep managed about 200 mods. I think I try Stardrop for once, but will definitely track all of my installed mods on Nexus in case I switch to manual organisation. Your video was very helpful for me,; so thank you! 🙃
I appreciate you making this video so much. This video has helped me in modding my Stardew Valley gaming experience.
Your content is amazing! This is the perfect guide for modding and is quite detailed! Keep up the great work!
Stardrop looks fabulous! Thank you so much for this helpful guide!
Thank you for all the advice on stardew its been massively helpful :) got a challenge for you considering you are a stardew valley legend! Live on the farm for a year without going to the town or the mines and no foraging apart from what's on your farm. You can only go to the town once at the end of the year :) just a fun challenge idea.
Thank you so much. I had some troubles with the expanded mod. After watching your video I found the problem and fixed it 😁
I'm so dumb XD. I read the prompt "Where do you want to add or remove SMAPI" and assumed that it was answering itself with the "[1](File Location)" then when I saw "[2] Enter a custom game path" I assumed that was just step 2 and that "Type the number next to you choice, then press enter" meant I needed to find the number of the save file that I wanted to use the mods on. It just so happens that each world file has a seed number on it so I got stuck at that point. Thanks for the super in depth tutorial, very helpful.
Most Informative Modding Stardew Valley Video of ALL TIME! ❤ Thankyou Wickedy!
This guide still holds up 🤙🏻 I can pause the time and I’ve never been more happy lol
So helpful for decorating
which mod did you install for this?
I have been looking for a way to configure mods for an Ungodly amount of time. and could never find a propper explonation or way. so thank you so much for this :,)
I'm so incompetent when it comes to this kind of stuff but you explained it and made it so easy!
Thanks to you and Salmence my game is now modded perfection!
Thank you so much, this was the only tutorial i could understand! The process was quick and easy!!
Thanks for posting this I was so lost about configuration and what that even meant haha
Even after such a long time this has been very helpful! >
I wish I had a pc so I could mod stardew :((
You can also mod on mobile
There is an Android smapi but the list of mods are limited compared to pc.
@@itsneil8581 since 1.5 just released the smapi/mods don't work anymore
@@itsneil8581 waiting for mobile 1.5 smapi
u could play the mod but not 1.5 maybe later on if they updated to be compatible with 1.5
hey just want to say thanks you, you made this easy to understand for me iv been wanting to play with mods for the longest time
I tried adding mods by myself just today actually, I wish I saw this earlier
I'd LOVE to see a top ten witchy mods, or your recomendations, also the video is so helpfull, thank you very much✨
100% ! I want to do a lot of mod showcases and figured I'd get my own how to mod video out first
@@Wickedy that would be awesome, looking forward to it☺️
@@Wickedy excellent! Yeah, I am very glad you began with this, but I'd love to see mod showcases in the future, too. Thank you very much.
Simple, sweet and enjoyable thank you so much for your help 🙏
This is SUCH a helpful guide! Thank you so much!!!
thank you so so much, this is the kind of explanation videos i need to understand!!! :’)
I personally use Mod Organiser 2 as a replacement to vortex, but there are some mods that need specific installation methods (Mainly older mods or not designed for organizers).
This was extremely helpful, thank you!
thanks for doing this amazing video
realise that it's more complicated than i thought haha lol but i having fun learning about the mods for stardew valley
Glad you enjoyed it! The basics are pretty simple once you get the hang of it, but we can always do more if we want, which is something I love about modding.
Its unfortunate that nexus has a limit for non premium people, ive only got 6 so far and i was so excited to get more, and im debating getting premium, but, if i dont pay the nest month ill still get the mods i downloaded right? may be a stupid question, but if anyone can just reassure me that would be great. other than that is this a great video! Thank you
New to the modding side of stardew and this is am amazing guide! thank you for this!
The amount of mods that are available is crazy and I can't wait to try them out. However, I think it is a better idea for me to play to game atleast up to the point I've finished the community centre on vanilla, before I install any of these mods.
This was sooo helpful thank youuuuuuuuuu!❤
thqnks a lot for the video !!! the game got 100% more exciting thanks to mods!!
This was super helpful thank you!!
What if our computer/laptop isn't letting us do this part? 2:38
thank you so much!! This helped me a lot
Ohhh can’t wait to get off of work to go home and try this!
How do I open the file at 3:31?
THANK YOU THANK YOU I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS!!!!!!! I didn't understand how to work this at all although I did have to google some stuff because I'm stupid and don't know crap about this I am now successfully playing with mods I can't explain how upset and confused I was when I couldn't understand the other tutorial's. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
now we have to update the mods ::(
@@Delocalised_ that's pretty easy depending on what your using
This is very helpful. Thanks 😊❤
Hey there, Wickedy!
I've been following your tutorial step by step. It's my second time trying to play with the expanded mod, but still nothing works.
SMAPI tells me that Stardew Valley Expanded and the Shoptile Framework are outdated... which they're not... help 😢
great and complete video, thank you for your trouble!
Im confused, i downloaded Smapi and added to my stardew vally through steam properties. Smapi actives when i enter stardew vally, however i cant find Smapi in my folders. Where can i find it? I am definitely missing something ;-;
THANK YOU my computer shut down and I lost all my progress and I forgot how to run stardew with small so thank you so much
it was always hard for me to mod, as i am very bad a listening, but this helped me so much
I can't use it still since idk how to get the mod folder and that stuff set up
Oops SMAPI is missing one of its files. Your antivirus might have deleted it.
Missing file: "C:\Users\hange\OneDrive\Desktop\"internal\windows\SMAPI.Installer.dll
what can I do?
this is so helpful tysm 💜
One hundred and fifty two days of time right there... That's really stinking cool honestly
Im somewhat curious to try out curseforge's mod support for the game but not sure how good it'll be, probably going to try a method you presented here first.
I need this dumbed down by a million, please
this helped so much thank you
THANK YOU HLIRFVAEGHLJKDBHV i accidentally broke my mods a few days ago and have been mucking about trying to fix it but it was SMAPI that was buggin and this made me realize how to fix it!!!! I LOVE U SM RTYYTYTYYT( sorry i have adhd and am excited this is my current hyperfixation)
ty for this video also i love your voice so mucchh
I tried to do this and I followed your directions- but smapi keeps giving me the “it’s not a smapi mod” red text. I don’t understand why it won’t work- I’ve tried all I can think of.
thanks lady! very cool guide!
thank you so much, you are a lifesaver
How did you get your UI purple at 7:20? Which mod I mean
great video thank you so much!
I'm so confused. I don't have a game folder. My screen doesn't even look the same as it does on 3:30
Woah! Dot off folder is important!!
I don't understand how you get the folder to put your mods in because in the video at 3:29 a random folder just pops up on your screen but I don't understand how you got that folder because I have tried installing SMAPI multiple times and it has never popped up and I have also searched through all of my files on my computer and I can find it can someone please help me I don't understand this at all and I have wanted mods for awhile help please?
Ah thank you for this!
It's worth noting that Smapi hasn't been updated for 1.5.6 for Android. The dev is working on it.
Has it still not been updated?
Mind doing a tutorial for mod loadout specific to coop without having to delete or move the mod folder itself?
thank you for the great guide made it so easy thank you
I'm glad I found this video, But just too make if I get a mod Mod Manager would be able to have a RSV save and a SDV expanded save at the same time?
if i may ask a question : when you say everything should work "as long as it's extracted and named properly", do you mean the files themselves, or does that also include the folders they come in? i would like to rename some folders that have been named by their modder, but i don't want the mods to not be recognised! thank you for your time and amazing tutorial xxxx
Just the folder themselves. At times, the folder will be extracted and someone will move the original zip folder over and not the mod folder and that can cause issues. For example, I just downloaded the mod "Like A Duck To Water" and if I extract it, the folder says "Like a Duck to Water-15860-0-2-1-1679151359" but inside it is the regular "LikeADuckToWater" folder. The one without the numbers is the one you want. And the named properly part was also referring to not having a period at the beginning of your folder name for when you manually disable folders.
@@Wickedy thank you! that really helped ^v^
Can i still get the achievements even if i just add the smapi to steam? Or do I need to use the official stardew valley app and then put launch options?
can we use mods on ninteno switch ?
Nope, sadly switch users can’t use mods
@@NessiiBear switch games can be modded tho, but that probably needs some advanced tech work
You would need a modern switch
Such a great video!!! Thank you so much. When you use Stardrop, do you add mods with it or do you still install them manually? Does it matter? Can you sort them into folders inside the Stardrop Installed Mods folder?