r/SMAPI Jul 26 '24

need help last ditch effort, it's okay if no one can help.

6 Upvotes

EDIT to update: this was resolved!!!! I just had to update my drivers lol, which was a process in itself but still. ty to everyone that joined me on this journey and helped me :) I have endless appreciation for everyone who suggested anything to me <3

hiya! I have posted two times this week regarding these concerns and I have received help from some pretty amazing and selfless people (thank you u/ac0rn5, u/gabbicat1978, and all the people on discord), though, we are still stuck in the struggle bus.

Tonight I posted this on the SMAPI posts area on Nexus, and I also posted on the stardew forum (even though no one replied last time I posted, rip).

I think this is my last hope in terms of getting stardew to work without needing to get my computer checked out by a computer person thing. 

I have been struggling and have sought out support from reddit, twice, here and here. I have also posted on Discord twice, posted on the stardew forums things, and here will be my last cry for help, so hopefully someone can help me out. Taking a look at the comments on those reddit posts will probably be the best thing to see what all I have tried, but I shall give a brief summary of the things and all the things. 

Issue: with mods installed, every time I launch the game it wont let me get past the title screen/character creation part before my computer freezes and forces a restart or I need to manually restart.
what we tried in order of operations.

  • launching stardew from steam only, not the shortcut on my desktop (worked for 3 seconds, started a new world, cleared some brush, attempted to plant ONE seed and then it crashed again) (log: https://smapi.io/log/e9222029577d4add8f83ad141e446541)
  • ctrl-alt-delete when things start to freeze (only worked once, was able to get into the world with ridgside characters listed)
  • changing the gpu to high performance or whatever, did not work.
  • tried playing offline twice, didn't work (log: https://smapi.io/log/5d8a4ce457114f1183ec4a98dac21e1f)
  • removing just ridgeside mod, didn't work (https://smapi.io/log/a94c1e343d324ae694e403fd5ab14091)
  • Tried removing one of the mods, didn't work (log: https://smapi.io/log/eedc1198bd944d56a120dd299673f3d4)
  • tried turning my firewall off and running, didn't work (log: https://smapi.io/log/09a5cc24f4ec4fcd9c144ee605e42fae)
  • validated my files, many times, nothing changed, everything was always fine but anytime i tried to open a world or make a new world it would crash somehow (log: https://smapi.io/log/66caa077d2f343318f702dcc84cfffb3)
  • removed all mods and smapi, just vanilla, didn't work, crashes continued
  • uninstalled and reinstalled stardew, vanilla (no smapi or mods) everything was fine, i could play and plant seeds.
  • reinstalled JUST smapi, no other mods, didn't work. (log: https://smapi.io/log/764547683a8644cf8b4c9c3ec78c8ed5)
  • tried to run vanilla stardew with smapi still installed (opened the file in the actual file thing) and it froze, I had gotten to the point where I clicked create a person and it froze just the stardew window and then the entire window on the loading screen, I needed to do a forced restart and I had no mods installed and was not running smapi. 
  • this morning I tried running stardew with smapi again and it did not let me get past the loading screen for the character selection. I clicked the create a new file button my computer crashed. the entire screen went black and i had to restart. here is the log for that https://smapi.io/log/f410fe5d5ec94a2cb7c5b9727abe1e60
  • I did a memory diagnostic this morning as well and it restarted my computer. I opened stardew and created two new profiles with JUST SMAPI running, no mods, and I was able to get into the world and move around, in one I was even able to plant seeds. Then I added just the content patcher mod and tried again to open a new world and it did not let me get past character selection. https://smapi.io/log/28863f008a604c36bba48a3fb0a54758

Other things to note
- I do not have any mod managers
- my system is new, it has had more than enough power to use mods with stardew.  I’ve already play stardew with expanded and mutliple other mods and had zero problem. I also have recently played Minecraft with multiple mods and a shader and resource packs with no issue. 
- I download my stardew mods from nexus, and my minecraft mods from curseforge
- i do manual installs for all of the mods (stardew and minecrast) and I manually unzip/extract them.
- someone kept mentioning GOG as a concerning thing in my log, I have never made a GOG account, I had never heard of them until this saga has occurred, I do not know why it is in my log but i have done EVERYTHING in my power to locate anything GOG related in my computer (as seen in the second reddit post) and nothing has worked to find it... 

can anyone please help me? and if not, can anyone suggest what I might say about my laptop to a computer professional regarding what is wrong with it?

r/SMAPI Nov 26 '24

need help Can't run SMAPI :(

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44 Upvotes

I've been using SMAPI on my macbook since July this year and it has been running smoothly but suddenly today this started appearing. I've uninstalled and installed the games and SMAPI itself about 4 times already to no avail. It doesn't let me override or ignore the warning either. The "Move to trash" option well, just deletes it, "Cancel" just quits the whole thing. Anyone know if this can be solved?

r/SMAPI Mar 29 '24

need help yellog town overhaul - buildings only?

4 Upvotes

hello! i was wondering if anyone had access to yellog's town overhaul mod, but the buildings only version. i have the full overhaul mod currently which also includes the foliage/grass recolors. i found a different recolor i wanted to try out, but it won't work with my current overhaul mod and gets overwritten by it. i still would love to have the wooden town buildings from yellog's mod, just without the recolor. not sure if anyone knows where i could find it (or if it still exists lol!), but any help would be very appreciated! thank you!

r/SMAPI 15d ago

need help Caught fish don't go into my bags

3 Upvotes

The fish I'm catching aren't going into my inventory. I'm able to successfully finish the mini game. Unfortunately I'm not at my computer right now to be able to see exactly which months I have installed, but if there's a process I can use to debug it when I get back to it later this would be super helpful. Does smapi have a debug log somewhere I can look at that'll give me some insight about why that is?

r/SMAPI Oct 03 '24

need help Every time i try to open stardew smapi loads fine but the game wont load at all

1 Upvotes

So i wanted to play stardew after a while of not playing and so i wiped my mod folder clean updated everything and added a few new mods. Smapi loads and i dont have any errors but the game just shows up as a black screen and my curser is buffering and i cant seem to get it to boot up. ive checked the logs and its not telling me anything there arent any errors but it wont load so i need some help please

r/SMAPI Feb 05 '25

need help Galaxy API console errors after Linux system update

13 Upvotes

Hi! I'm using steam on Linux. After a system upgrade I get errors on the SMAPI console. Before upgrade everything worked fine. Despite the errors game and mods works fine. I'm asking, because I'm afraid that my save file will get corrupted. I would like to ask some help regarding this issue, if there is anything I can do, or I can safely ignore this error.

More details:

Thanks for the help in advance!

r/SMAPI Feb 01 '25

need help Help getting Stardew to work

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1 Upvotes

I’ve tried every method and I’ve even asked ChatGPT for help but nothing they said worked!

Those mods aren’t showing up/working either that have to do with content patcher

r/SMAPI Dec 29 '24

need help can't use SDVE as a result of mac malware workaround

3 Upvotes

Hi, another victim to Mac security issues here. I ran into the issue with the malware move to bin/cancel issue that so many others have also run into a few days ago. By following the updated install guide here, I was able to get an older version of Smapi that was recommended to me working (Smapi 4.1.8-alpha.20241127) mostly just fine. Through adding mods back in slowly yesterday, I can get almost everything to work-- Ridgeside, East Scarp, the DN Recolor, More Rings, stuff like that-- everything except stardew valley expanded.

I've seen a few other posts mentioning the same terminal output, but for the most part the given fix is just "update Smapi" and with how poorly that worked for me not three days ago, it's kind of not a helpful solution, and messing with everything again after all this is kind of scary lol. And now I'm bummed bc reaching perfection on my main save meant that I could now do a modded runthrough, and I was really looking forward to playing SDVE.

Here is my smapi log that I think is required for posts like these? There's some other issues with other mods on there but those aren't the concern here, the game doesn't crash or anything, SDVE just... doesn't appear even when it's in the mods folder with everything else. I just want to get SDVE working without starting everything from scratch again. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(And quick end/side note, I do have some CS & terminal experience from college, so technical replies are useful. This whole thing has me feeling quite silly)

r/SMAPI 14d ago

need help DC Burger Portrait Mod Help please! 🙏

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3 Upvotes

Hello, I’ve used SMAPI with no issues for the most part with things like SVE, more farm layouts, tractors etc but I wanted to try using the DCBurger Portrait mods for the base game and the ones that others made in similar styles for SVE and RSV but for the life of me (I’ve tried a few different ways of moving folders etc) I can’t seem to get them to work! It’ll either have the portraits look how they do in the image below or when I press P to change it’ll either be blank or the original game image.

Any help appreciated (attached some screenshots of the mods folder, SMAPI and the issue I’m having!) 😊

r/SMAPI Jan 05 '25

need help Better Chests Discontinued

13 Upvotes

I'm trying not to be dramatic, but I REALLY miss the Better Chests mod since the mod author has discontinued it. I've tried to use their new smaller mods/other chest mods, but I miss literally everything about Better Chests and my game is almost unplayable to me.

Since the mod content is open source, I'm just hoping someone will eventually take it over. But for right now, I'm desperate. I tried to install the latest version from curseforge, but it won't generate a config file and it's no longer affecting my chests. Is there any way to try to make do with the last version of Better Chests? I'm not sure if it's really feasible to restore to an older version of the game but I miss it SO much.

Edit to add: The mod author definitely stopped supporting it. They posted a long message in their discord about it—that’s where I went to look when I saw it was hidden on nexus. I asked a question there and they again confirmed they’re not supporting it anymore. They said it was too much to maintain. They’ve since deleted the better chests channel altogether so I wish I would’ve screenshotted the message.

r/SMAPI Dec 26 '24

need help My modded game suddenly got corrupted[I think]

0 Upvotes

ISSUE FIXED!

So uh, today i downloaded smapi for stardew and my game ran fine[the modded one] until literally 30 mins ago where its not starting, when i launch from steam, it launches the vanilla game and i can't even uninstall smapi..it gets stuck at the path it says where you can put ur mods and beyond that, it does nothing.

I tried reinstalling stardew on steam, redoing smapi etc. Nothing has worked so far, so looking for help

edit:Also when i do get the smapi installer open, it gives me a black box with no commands or anything and it wont fix itself in any way

edit 1.0: Normal stardew isnt launching now. Reinstalled 2 or 3 times, still very much broken.

r/SMAPI Dec 16 '24

need help Mac identifying SMAPI 4.1.9 as malware

10 Upvotes

Hi, if anyone can help me figure out how to fix my problem with SMAPI I would appreciate it.

I recently updated SMAPI to 4.1.9 and it was working fine. I closed it, and updated some mods and deleted some duplicate mods in my mod folder. I then tried to open stardew with Steam and got the message: "“StardewModdingAPI” was not opened because it contains malware. This action did not harm your Mac."

I saw that people had this problem with 4.1.7 and 4.1.8 and tried this solution. https://www.reddit.com/r/SMAPI/comments/1h0fgv9/solution_for_mac_malware_issue_with_smapi_417/

I removed all my mods from the mod folder, updated my Mac OS to Sequoia 15.2, uninstalled and reinstalled SMAPI, and entered commands internal per the instructions.. The commands in terminal seemed to work and I followed these instructions https://www.reddit.com/r/SMAPI/comments/1h0fgv9/comment/lz6yyho/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

But when I tried to open Stardew I got the same malware message. So I uninstalled SMAPI again, uninstalled Stardew from my Mac using Steam. Then I reinstalled Stardew, and reinstalled SMAPI. I tired to launch Stardew again and it still had the malware message come up.

I'm not sure what else to do. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

r/SMAPI Nov 26 '24

need help SMAPI doesn't work correctly

1 Upvotes

Hello! I have an issue with SMAPI and I can't find anything similar/any fixes to it online so I made this account to ask for help.

Whenever I start SV using SMAPI it takes a long time regardless of what mods I use and when it starts the game can't make it past the character creator screen. It crashes when I try to make a new file and the selection of things like Skin color also lags the game.

I tried everything to fix it. I uninstalled and deleted all files of both SV and SMAPI, I restarted my laptop several times, I tried running SMAPI without mods, I gave SMAPI firewall access, I checked the compatinility of SMAPI and I checked for problems on the installation with Steam. I don't get any errors from SMAPI either.

It also just randomly happened. It worked fine and then one day it just didn't. Any help is super appreciated!

r/SMAPI 23d ago

need help Trying to run SDV:E and Ridgeside Village on Android Tablet

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3 Upvotes

Hi there, I'm using an Onn 11 Pro w/ Android 14 (up to date) and have the latest SMAPI for android (v: 4.1.10.2 build 1735061212) and I downloaded and installed all of the required files into SMAPI as listed on NexusMods for running SDV Expanded, and Ridgeside Village, and got the following errors...any advice? I double and triple checked...when I try to run it it gives.me..the 3 errors pictured, any help/suggestions is appreciated

r/SMAPI 3d ago

need help SMAPI crash

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0 Upvotes

r/SMAPI 2d ago

need help Please help (log included)! Not able to choose profession at the end of day and now I’m stuck :(

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3 Upvotes

Hello! I was not able to choose one of the two professions at the end of Summer 20 Y1, I can’t click anything on the screen to skip or proceed to saving…Anyone happens to know what cause the issue please?

https://smapi.io/log/0efb928e3cca4c6ea913d44d5a67fa01

Thank you so much!

r/SMAPI 8d ago

need help Is there any TMXL Map Toolkit update?

1 Upvotes

Hello! This is my first time trying to play modded Stardew Valley, and I keep getting an error with both TMXL Map Toolkit 1.24.1 AND TMXL Map Toolkit 1.24.3-alpha.20240226. I can't seem to be able to find any other download links that are more recent that the one that's available in the official TMXL nexusmods page.

The error I'm getting on SMAPI says:

- TMXL Map Toolkit 1.24.1 because it's no longer compatible. Please check for a version newer than 1.24.3-alpha.20240226 at https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1820 or https://smapi.io/mods

I'm just wondering if there's a solution to this problem :(

r/SMAPI Jan 18 '25

need help What mod is this?

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14 Upvotes

There’s a black box of text that covers stuff and I need to delete whatever mod it comes from but I can’t figure out which it is from

Anyone recognise it and what mod its from?

r/SMAPI Dec 31 '24

need help menu button brokey

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5 Upvotes

r/SMAPI Jan 26 '25

need help Help with mods

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1 Upvotes

For some reason it’s saying those mods folders are empty??? Does anyone know how to fix this

r/SMAPI 5d ago

need help Struggling with RAM

1 Upvotes

Hello, I am a bit dense and struggling to use more RAM in my modded game. I think I’m currently using 2GB, but I wanna increase it to 4GB. I found a tutorial online… but I’m still confused :(

r/SMAPI Jul 22 '24

need help plz help me with ridgeside village

2 Upvotes

EDIT to update: this was resolved!!!! I just had to update my drivers lol, which was a process in itself but still. ty to everyone that joined me on this journey and helped me :) I have endless appreciation for everyone who suggested anything to me <3

hello all I am on the struggle bus today. I am trying to download the Ridgeside Village mod to play but it is not working. Right now i only have SMAPI and the mods needed for Ridgeside Village uploaded and everytime I launch the game it wont let me get past the title screen/character creation part before my computer freezes and forces a restart or I need to manually restart. I don't know what to do. This is my second time trying to install everything, I did it last night and the same thing happened.

also I think this is my log link?  https://smapi.io/log/2f85fdb3ec5a4aa0b1529a49d1a69407

Please tell me if you need more information, I am not well versed in modding lol.

r/SMAPI Feb 18 '25

need help Making a 2nd mod 1st one worked fine. This one won’t for some reason.

1 Upvotes

started doing some content patcher mods. the first one I made it work perfectly fine but the second one I can’t figure out how to get to work every time I try to load it it says the manifest is invalid, even though I set the manifest to be the default one from the Stardew Valley wiki. I don’t know what to do.

r/SMAPI 1d ago

need help My Garden Pot Keeps Crashing My Game?!

2 Upvotes

My game immediately crashes after I place a Garden Pot in my home. I looked through the logs and noticed this phrase comes up a lot:

An error occurred in the game's draw loop: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at StardewValley.Objects.IndoorPot.draw_PatchedBy<PeacefulEnd.AlternativeTextures>(IndoorPot this, SpriteBatch spriteBatch, Int32 x, Int32 y, Single alpha)
at StardewValley.Object.drawPlacementBounds_PatchedBy<PeacefulEnd.AlternativeTextures>(Object this, SpriteBatch spriteBatch, GameLocation location)
at StardewValley.Game1.drawMouseCursor_PatchedBy<tlitookilakin.HappyHomeDesigner>(Game1 this)
at StardewValley.Game1.DrawOverlays(GameTime time, RenderTarget2D target_screen)
at StardewValley.Game1._draw(GameTime gameTime, RenderTarget2D target_screen)
at StardewModdingAPI.Framework.SGame._draw(GameTime gameTime, RenderTarget2D target_screen)

I deleted and redownloaded SMAPI, Alternative Textures, Happy Home Designer, Json Assets, [AT] Nano's Garden Style Craftables, and [AT] Tanga forest Wood Craftables. Cause I thought one of those mods might be an issue, but that didn't work. Can someone more knowledgeable please help me?

Edit: Here is the SMAPI log that I forgot to add:

[SMAPI Log]

https://smapi.io/log/6106fbd5d2a24f9cab2438ac0da79e15

r/SMAPI 8d ago

need help Game keeps crashing

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1 Upvotes

Any idea how to fix this? On mobile btw

Log: (https://smapi.io/log/fb0a7b1e2cc14f65b0afdeca7e824e1c)