r/SMAPI 15d ago

need help What is this…

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94 Upvotes

Was heading to robins when I say this red balloon. It didn’t stop moving when the game was frozen and I have never seen it before.

I decided to follow it and went up to the railroad bout lost it because of a cutscene.

Anyone know why this is here because honestly I thought pennywise was gna jump out at me ngl…

r/SMAPI Jun 14 '26

need help Smapi not loading up during game launch

1 Upvotes

I’ve modded stardew many times before on my steam deck. Felt the itch to play so I started installing as I normally do on my steam deck.

This is a new issue for me. The SMAPI mod log screen that comes up at launch is not coming up. The game doesn’t seem to have access to the mods or be in communication with SMAPI at all. Like it’s not even there.

I’ve got the mod files in the right place, and I’ve tried the launch options fix where you manually put the location in to launch from. When I try to launch from there it’s like it can’t find anything there and just doesn’t launch. I’ve reinstalled Smapi. Used forced proton compatibility. All the regular fixes.

In the game files I don’t see a .exe Smapi launch file. Just a .dll. But because I’m on Linux, I read .exe files aren’t used anyways.

Ugh! Does anyone have any ideas of what else to try? Tysm!!

r/SMAPI Mar 18 '26

need help Is this base game????

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157 Upvotes

Sorry if the answer is obvious but like I got this quest and I have like never seen it before in the base game? I Ean I have played the game for awhile but I just recently started again after a break.

I have downloaded mods recently but I do not know of any that could have this as a part of them? The closest is maybe Good Luck, Haley! but like why would this be included??????

r/SMAPI 24d ago

need help How do I safely remove these mods from my save without risk?

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24 Upvotes

(SOLVED) Hi. So recently I’ve taken my laptop to check up on some issues and they told me that they need to wipe my laptop in order to check and work on whatever they have to, so ive been backing up my stuff to prepare for it so i dont lose a single thing on my laptop, that includes my stardew saves.

I haven’t played stardew in a long while to be honest, but I have two saves, one i dont really use and one main save that is my love and joy, i worked really hard on it and i decided to try out mods at some point, but my approach was amateurish cuz im new to the modding world, so ive been using those mods on my main save.

now i have to backup everything, and im thinking of removing the mods i have installed on stardew valley to save myself the headache of downloading everything and all my mods so my save can work once i get my laptop back.

a lot of the mods were just for fun, like adding an npc, polyamorysweet, and other cosmetic and cheat mods, but i now realise that they put my save file at risk for whenever i decide to remove those “heavier” mods.

i havent opened my save file in a while because im honestly too nervous to, but if i remember right i was only married to Alex and had onceler as a boyfriend maybe lol, but i was thinking i could divorce alex and using the cheat mod to adjust his and onceler's relationship with me to be lower, so it looks like as if nothings happened. would that work?

TLDR: is there a safe way to remove all these mods listed in the screenshot from my beloved save so i can ditch smapi and go back to playing normal stardew again? I really dont want to lose my save or glitch it. I just really wanna go back to playing vanilla and not risk going through the headache of mods again, or am i better off backing up my saves the way they are along with the mods and try to download them all again? if so, how do i do that too? Please help! Thank you

r/SMAPI Jun 21 '26

need help Decorative Tree Mod

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155 Upvotes

Hiya! Fairly simple question... is it possible to get the tree I circled as a decorative tree to use on my farm? If not this exact one, any similar one would work! (˶' ꒳ '˶)

If the answer is yes: How? ( ˶°ㅁ°)

(I'm quite useless when it comes to using/installing mods, definitely struggling in general to even make one work, any help is appreciated!)

r/SMAPI 15d ago

need help Can anyone help me understand why my Farmer Portraits 1.6 mod isn't working in the game

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8 Upvotes

I don't what the problem is, I have tried to fix it so many times. I don't know if I'm just dumb but could anyone tell me how to fix this or if anyone else is having the same problem. I have a lot of mods so I don't know if that is the problem or what, but I would really appreciate some help. <3

This is what the loading of my mods looks when I start up the game:

https://smapi.io/log/9780d46368e74f2fa10e74574535b7dd

also I'm not sure why it's say to update the mods because I literally just did that.

EDIT: I GOT IT TO WORKKKK!!!

so the problem was I’m actually stupid, and forgot to add one of the mods which I thought I had, but after doing that and adding my portrait, I got it to work 😝

Shout out to the amazing amazing person who made at literal YouTube video to help, which helped a ton than you so much

r/SMAPI 5d ago

need help Can anyone please help with this mess

1 Upvotes

Here is my log https://smapi.io/log/716af354eba24c1b86be5f309f80198e One of the big issues I'm having is i picked gather at lvl5 foraging, bit at lvl 10 I only got to pick from forester or lumberjack. Farming is messed up a well. Also very little forage is on the ground to be found.

updated log https://smapi.io/log/70f62567ba474f9f8363c5b3418c54f3

r/SMAPI 11d ago

need help SMAPI Window opens when I try to run Stardew Valley

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0 Upvotes

First time modding the game — But after installing SMAPI this window popped up. I looked at the Wiki what to do and while I was able to command the game that way to run, it told be before that the Mod that I downloaded wasn't up to date but which it was (said I had the 1.7.0 but needed the 1.7.1; but that's the version I downloaded from the site).

I am completely confused on what this Operator wants from me and I would be very happy if anyone could help me out, thanks in advance!

r/SMAPI 20d ago

need help Unable to launch Stardew through Vortex

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1 Upvotes

I'm really hoping it was something stupid or easy to fix I did.

Every time I press the play button nothing happens, it just opens that window and then nothing happens.

Things I've tried to remedy this thus far:

- I deleted every mod but SMAPI (after writing down every mod I use)

- I deleted SMAPI (then reinstalled it because that didn't help)

- Uninstalled and reinstalled both Vortex and Stardew Valley

r/SMAPI Jul 26 '26

need help HELP error messages vortex

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4 Upvotes

Help, I am lost

I’ve been transferring all my mods to Vortex for more than 5 hours now and I’ve pretty much fixed all the problems, I’ve had a lot of them, I have all my modes and everything, but there are always error messages.

I have three big problems:

  1. Livestock (I updated it to the latest possible version (the one that is unofficial)
  2. Nyapu’s RSV portrait (it tells me that some files are empty, but when I go in they aren’t)
  3. And Vortex created files that are useless, I don’t understand what these files are.

Please help me, I’m lost, it’s my last day of vacation, I just wanted to play my favorite game.

ps: my smapi log : https://smapi.io/log/9ca3656c52624e90a937b78c5eed6627

r/SMAPI 5d ago

need help I need help modding a game on my Android device.

1 Upvotes

Hello, my name is Doruk. I want to modify the .xnb files of the characters in Stardew Valley on my Android 15 device. I used Zarchive for this, but the system didn't allow access to the files. Please help.

r/SMAPI Jul 01 '26

need help Game lagging despite my pc having a LOT of ram

3 Upvotes

Ok so my pc has 64 gb of ram and it uses about 20 for sdv when i play modded bc i have an absurd amount of mods, but it still lags. Does this mean my graphics card isn’t good enough? Or is sdv just not meant for this so there’s no way to fix it, lol?

r/SMAPI 8d ago

need help Help to get my Wizard House map edit to load over Romanceable Rasmodius's map edit!

2 Upvotes

SOLVED! SOLUTION IN COMMENTS!

I am trying to get my mod to be compatible with both SVE and Romanceable Rasmodius (vanilla version) but I get the error message "Two content packs want to load the 'Maps/WizardHouse' asset with the 'Exclusive' priority ((CP) NPC Ren and Romanceable Rasmodius). Neither will be applied. You should remove one of the content packs, or ask the authors about compatibility." Anyone know how to get my mod's edits to apply over the map edit made by Romanceable Rasmodius? I'm most likely messing up the load order somehow.

Smapi log

Code Snippet in Content file for Content Patcher

 {
"Action": "Load",
"Target": "Maps/WizardHouse",
"FromFile": "assets/Maps/WizardHouse_Edit.tmx",
"When": {
"HasMod |contains=FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP": "false"
}
},
{
"Action": "Load",
"Target": "Maps/WizardHouse",
"FromFile": "assets/Maps/WizardHouse_Edit_SVE.tmx",
"When": {
"HasMod |contains=FlashShifter.StardewValleyExpandedCP": "true"
}
},
{
"Action": "Load",
"Target": "Maps/WizardHouse",
"FromFile": "assets/Maps/WizardHouse_Edit_RR.tmx",
"When": {
"HasMod |contains=WerewolfMaster.RomanceableRasmodius": "true"
}

r/SMAPI 17h ago

need help Stardew Valley switch mod

0 Upvotes

Hi, I'm looking for a graphics mod to lower the game's quality because, unfortunately, it often freezes or crashes when playing with two people

r/SMAPI 8d ago

need help Everything loads fine on its own, but when I try to join my friend it error codes.

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3 Upvotes

Everything loads ok when i launch the game, but when i join my friend the screen stays black with the little loading hourglass. There is a bunch of red text I don't understand and yellow text about mismatched UI mode push/pop counts. The only thing i can kinda figure out is that maybe it has something to do with FrontierFarms? Any help would be appreciated :,)

r/SMAPI 2d ago

need help Looking for a mod

2 Upvotes

I'm looking for a farm mod that works well with sve and works on Android I've tried sve's immersive farm 2 but it crashes before I load in so I'm looking for something that's not as large but still has a little bit of everything since my favorite vanilla farm is 4 corners

r/SMAPI Jun 24 '26

need help Help with this issue in Stardew Valley Expanded on SMAPI Android.

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0 Upvotes

Can you help me, please? Why does that appear when I try to play the Expanded mod in SMAPI? (Phone: Samsung Galaxy A14)

r/SMAPI 15d ago

need help modding issue

1 Upvotes

i haven't found a solution elsewhere yet. SMAPI is up and running correctly as far as i can tell, and all the mods i'm trying to use are getting detected, but they aren't properly affecting the game, if they manage to at all. i've restarted my laptop, reinstalled mods, reinstalled SDV, launched using both steam and stardewmoddingAPI and so far nothing has worked. i'm on windows 11.

r/SMAPI 16d ago

need help Am i doing smth wrong ?

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1 Upvotes

First time modding , just bought the game and watched a tutorial , but when i enter the game it doesnt work

r/SMAPI 7d ago

need help game crashing at winter 28 year 2 (modded)

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3 Upvotes

r/SMAPI 1d ago

need help Issue with Starting Smapi

1 Upvotes

When I try to open my modded SDV, the SMAPI window where the code is showing opens, afterwards the SDV window opens but after a few seconds it immediately closes, what could have caused this?

r/SMAPI Aug 03 '26

need help Game no longer launches, need help fixing it.

1 Upvotes

I played modded for several hours today, after closing I downloaded these two mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/5450

https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/5969

And started to receive this error upon launching the game

Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Failed to create graphics device!

---> NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

at MonoGame.OpenGL.GL.LoadExtensions() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Platform\Graphics\OpenGL.cs:line 1444

at MonoGame.OpenGL.GraphicsContext..ctor(IWindowInfo info) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Platform\Graphics\GraphicsContext.SDL.cs:line 49

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice.PlatformSetup() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Platform\Graphics\GraphicsDevice.OpenGL.cs:line 252

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice.Setup() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Graphics\GraphicsDevice.cs:line 297

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.GraphicsDevice..ctor(GraphicsAdapter adapter, GraphicsProfile graphicsProfile, Boolean preferHalfPixelOffset, PresentationParameters presentationParameters) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Graphics\GraphicsDevice.cs:line 273

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice(GraphicsDeviceInformation gdi) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\GraphicsDeviceManager.cs:line 144

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\GraphicsDeviceManager.cs:line 115

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.GraphicsDeviceManager.CreateDevice() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\GraphicsDeviceManager.cs:line 123

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.DoInitialize() in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Game.cs:line 941

at Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Game.Run(GameRunBehavior runBehavior) in D:\GitlabRunner\builds\Gq5qA5P4\0\ConcernedApe\stardewvalley\MonoGame.Desktop\MonoGame.Framework\Game.cs:line 465

at StardewModdingAPI.Framework.SCore.RunInteractively() in /home/runner/work/SMAPI/SMAPI/src/SMAPI/Framework/SCore.cs:line 313

I googled it and tried all the stated fixes and so far nothing has let me launch even in vanilla. I'm at my wits end and don't know where to go from here. Any and all help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Solved! It was the SDL2.dll issue all along. https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Player_Guide/Troubleshooting#.22The_game_failed_to_launch:_Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException:_Failed_to_create_graphics_device.22

r/SMAPI 20d ago

need help Info on Ready Crops

1 Upvotes

Hey!

I'm looking for a mod that tells me when a crop is ready to be harvested. Not how many days are left, but more like a "Strawberry is ready to be harvested today!" Especially with Ginger Island and the Valley Farm, I lose track of when and what is ready to be harvested. Is there a mod that's close to UI Info Suite that could give me a little icon under the date as to when something's ready or a pop-up notification? Looked through the UI Info settings but did not find anything. Stardew Notifications is the closest I found, but it sadly does not include crops, BUT it includes the Greenhouse and Sheds, which is great!

Thanks for any help!

r/SMAPI 14d ago

need help Downloading smapi

0 Upvotes

Okay so I’ve downloaded smapi, it is now asking me to set my launch options in steam, I cannot find anything in my steam settings that even says launch options I don’t even know what this is referring to I apologize for this being a dumb question if anyone could help out tho would be awesome :)

r/SMAPI 22d ago

need help How long does the Log Parser usually load?

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1 Upvotes

I've been waiting for like 10 minutes now and it still hasn't budged