Modding:Migrate to Stardew Valley 1.6

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This page is for mod authors. Players: see Modding:Mod compatibility instead.

This page explains how to update your mods for compatibility with Stardew Valley 1.6, and documents some of the changes and new functionality. See also Migrate to SMAPI 4.0.

FAQs

What's changing?

Stardew Valley 1.6 makes fundamental changes to the game code to make it more extensible for mods.

Is this the modapocalypse?

Maybe. The update includes major changes to fundamental parts of the game, and SMAPI and Content Patcher can't feasibly rewrite every older mod for compatibility with some of the changes. This will break many existing mods until they're updated for the changes. However, per discussion between the game developers and modding community, we've agreed that this short-term pain is more than offset by the huge long-term improvements to modding.

How to update your mod

The rest of this page may seem overwhelming, but fortunately most of it probably doesn't apply to your specific mods. Here's a suggested 'quick start' guide to update a mod for Stardew Valley 1.6.

For C# mods:

1. Update the mod build config NuGet package to the latest version.
2. In each .csproj project file, change <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework> to <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>.
   (Tip: if the second line looks like <Project ToolsVersion=... instead of <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">, you'll need to migrate it to Stardew Valley 1.5.5 first.)
3. Rebuild the solution.
4. Fix any build errors. You can search this page for relevant info as needed.
5. Review all build warnings (particularly obsolete-code warnings), which may indicate code that broke in 1.6.
6. Increment your mod version in manifest.json.
   (Some mods may be added to SMAPI's compatibility blacklist due to runtime errors. Incrementing the mod version will fix that if so.)
7. Test to make sure the mod works.
8. Skim through breaking changes for C# mods and the table of contents, and check any section that might be relevant to the mod.

For Content Patcher packs:

1. Follow the Content Patcher migration guide until your content pack has "Format": "2.0.0".
   Do not skip this step! Content Patcher will assume your content pack is pre-1.6 if you don't, which can cause confusing errors if you already updated it.
2. Review breaking changes for content packs and update the content pack as needed.

For content packs which use another framework:

See the documentation for the framework mod. Often you won't need to update the content pack if the framework mod itself was updated.

What's new architecturally?

.NET 6

See also: .NET 6 under breaking changes.

For C# mod authors, Stardew Valley 1.6 updates from .NET 5 to .NET 6. See What's new in .NET 6 and What's new in C# 10 for more info, but some highlights include...

• improved performance;
• improved hot reload;
• new LINQ methods;
• record structs;
• and support for ARM64 on macOS.

Trigger actions

See the updated docs at Modding:Trigger actions. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

Trigger actions are a new feature which lets content packs perform an action when something happens, with support for a wide range of actions (like sending mail, changing friendship, starting a quest, etc).

For example, it lets you have logic like "When the player arrives in the Farm location, if Leo has moved to the valley, then send a letter and start a conversation topic":

{
    "Trigger": "LocationChanged",
    "Location": "Farm",
    "Condition": "PLAYER_HAS_FLAG Host leoMoved",
    "Actions": [
        "AddMail Current Abigail_LeoMoved Today",
        "AddConversationTopic LeoMoved 5"
    ]
}

Hash set fields

For C# mod authors, the game now uses hash sets for many list fields which expect unique values. That allows much more efficient O(1) read/write, prevents duplicate values, and simplifies common logic.

This affects:

type	fields
Farmer	achievements dialogueQuestionsAnswered eventsSeen mailForTomorrow mailReceived professions secretNotesSeen songsHeard
FarmerTeam	acceptedSpecialOrderTypes broadcastedMail completedSpecialOrders collectedNutTracker
Game1	worldStateIDs
NetWorldState	ActivePassiveFestivals CheckedGarbage FoundBuriedNuts IslandVisitors LocationsWithBuildings

Usage is very similar, and many list methods like Contains work the same way with hash sets. Here are the main differences:

• Hash sets aren't ordered. For example, there's no guarantee that the first value when you enumerate it was the earliest one added.

• Hash sets can't be indexed. For example, you can no longer use list[0] to get the first value. You can still enumerate them or use LINQ methods like set.First(), but in most cases you should use the set methods like Add or Contains instead.

  To remove multiple matching values from the set, you can use RemoveWhere instead:

  // old code
  for (int i = Game1.player.mailReceived.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
  {
      if (Game1.player.mailReceived[i].StartsWith("Example.ModId_"))
          Game1.player.mailReceived.RemoveAt(i);
  }
  
  // new code
  Game1.player.mailReceived.RemoveWhere(id => id.StartsWith("Example.ModId_"));
  

• You no longer need to check before adding a value, since the hash set will ignore duplicates.
• The Add/Remove/RemoveWhere methods return whether a value was added/removed, which lets you check at the same time. For example:

  if (Game1.player.mailReceived.Add("BackpackTip")) // returns true if it wasn't in the set yet
      Game1.addMailForTomorrow("pierreBackpack");
  

DataLoader

DataLoader is a new C# utility which provides strongly-typed methods to load the game's data assets.

This solves an issue where we often needed fragile code like Game1.content.Load<Dictionary<string, PassiveFestivalData>>("Data\\PassiveFestivals"). With that code, it's easy to accidentally misspell the asset name, use different capitalization (which would break on Linux/macOS), or use the wrong return type. If you did, you likely wouldn't notice until the code actually executed at runtime and threw an exception.

In Stardew Valley 1.6, you can now rewrite that code like DataLoader.PassiveFestivals(Game1.content). That's simpler, you can't use the wrong asset name or type, and it's more future-proof in case the game changes them.

Unique string IDs

See the updated docs at Modding:Common data field types#Unique string ID. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

Stardew Valley now uses unique string IDs throughout the code to identify data (like events, locations, items, NPCs, etc). For example, Town is the unique ID for the Pelican Town location; no other location can use that ID. The IDs are used for a wide range of purposes, from internal game logic to content pack edits.

For mods, it's strongly recommended to...

• Use namespaced IDs prefixed with your mod's unique ID for all new content. For example, if your mod ID is Example.PufferchickMod and you're adding a pufferchick plushy, your item ID would look like Example.PufferchickMod_PufferchickPlushy. In a Content Patcher pack, you can use {{ModId}}_PufferchickPlushy to insert your mod ID automatically. This eliminates ID conflicts between mods, and makes it easy (for both troubleshooters and mod code) to identify which mod added a particular content. See the new format docs for the recommended format.
• Only use alphanumeric (a–z, A–Z, 0–9), underscore (_), and dot (.) characters in string IDs. This is important because they're often used in places where some characters have special meaning (like file names or game state queries).

You can optionally migrate pre-1.6 content to use unique string IDs too, without breaking existing players' saves. This is recommended to reduce mod conflicts and simplify troubleshooting going forward. Here's how to migrate for each data type:

migration steps for pre-1.6 content

content type how to change IDs event IDs item IDs mail IDs recipe IDs song IDs for jukebox Content Patcher adds a custom trigger action which can migrate IDs everywhere in the save data. For example, this migrates two crafting recipe IDs: { "Action": "EditData", "Target": "Data/TriggerActions", "Entries": { "{{ModId}}_MigrateToUniqueIds": { "Id": "{{ModId}}_MigrateToUniqueIds", "Trigger": "DayStarted", "Actions": [ // Note: use double-quotes around an argument if it contains spaces. This example has single-quotes for // the action itself, so we don't need to escape the double-quotes inside it. 'Pathoschild.ContentPatcher_MigrateIds CraftingRecipes "Puffer Plush" {{ModId}}_PufferPlush "Puffer Sofa" {{ModId}}_PufferSofa' ], "HostOnly": true } } } See the Content Patcher docs for more info about using the trigger action, including restrictions and valid ID types. location IDs Add the old name to the location's FormerLocationNames field in Data/Locations. NPC internal names Add the old name to the NPC's FormerCharacterNames field in Data/Characters. quest and special order IDs Currently there's no safe way to migrate quest and special order IDs, since removing and readding them will reset any progress the player has made on them.

What's new for items

Custom items

See the updated docs at Modding:Items. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

Overview

Stardew Valley 1.6 makes three major changes to how items work in the game:

1. Each item now has a string ID (ItemId) and a globally unique string ID (QualifiedItemId). The QualifiedItemId is auto-generated by prefixing the ItemId with the item type identifier.

   For legacy reasons, the ItemId for vanilla items may not be globally unique. For example, Pufferfish (object 128) and Mushroom Box (bigcraftable 128) both have ItemId: 128. They can be distinguished by their QualifiedItemId, which are (O)128 and (BC)128 respectively.

2. Each item type now has an item data definition in the game code which tells the game how to handle it. C# mods can add or edit definitions. Each definition has a unique prefix which is used in the qualified item IDs. The vanilla types are bigcraftables ((BC)), boots ((B)), farmhouse flooring ((FL)), furniture ((F)), hats ((H)), objects ((O)), pants ((P)), shirts ((S)), tools ((T)), wallpaper ((WP)), and weapons ((W)).
3. Custom items can now provide their own item texture, specified in a new field in the item data assets (see below). The item's ParentSheetIndex field is the index within that texture.

In other words, the four important fields for items are:

name	type	description
ItemId	string	A unique string ID for this item which should be globally unique (but may not be for existing vanilla items for backwards compatibility). For example, 128 (vanilla item) or Example.ModId_Watermelon (custom item).
QualifiedItemId	string	A globally unique item key, like (O)128 for a vanilla item or (O)Example.ModId_Watermelon for a custom one. This is auto-generated from the TypeDefinitionId and ItemId fields.
ParentSheetIndex	int	The item's sprite index within its spritesheet.
TypeDefinitionId	string	The ID for the data definition which defines the item, like (O) for an object. You can use ItemRegistry.type_* constants with this field: if (item.TypeDefinitionId == ItemRegistry.type_object) ...

Item references

Item references throughout the game code now use the ItemId instead of the ParentSheetIndex. Since the ItemId is identical to the index for existing vanilla items, most data assets are unaffected by this change. For example, here's from Data/NPCGiftTastes with one custom item:

"Universal_Like": "-2 -7 -26 -75 -80 72 395 613 634 635 636 637 638 724 459 Example.ModID_watermelon"

Unless otherwise noted, unqualified item IDs will produce objects. Some assets let you override that by specifying a QualifiedItemId value instead. For example, you can add (O)128 to the gift taste list to explicitly add for an object. Here's a partial list of data assets and their supported item ID formats:

data asset	item ID format
Data/CraftingRecipes Data/CookingRecipes	Ingredients: both supported. Output: set field 2 to the unqualified item ID, and field 3 to one of true (bigcraftable) or false (object).
Data/fruitTrees	Fruit: both supported. Sapling: unqualified only.
Data/NPCGiftTastes	Both supported, but only (O) items can be gifted.

Item types

These are the item types for which custom items can added/edited:

item type	type identifier	data asset
big craftables	(BC)	Data/BigCraftables Each item can set a custom texture name in the Texture field, and sprite index in the SpriteIndex field. The default texture is TileSheets/Craftables.
boots	(B)	Data/Boots Each item can set a custom texture name in fields 9 (item) and 7 (shoe color), and sprite index in fields 8 (item) and 5 (shoe color). The default textures are Maps/springobjects (item) and Characters/Farmer/shoeColors (shoe color).
crops	not technically an item type	Data/Crops Each crop can set a custom texture name and sprite index. The default texture is TileSheets/crops.
fish (in fish tanks)	not technically an item type	Data/AquariumFish Each fish can set a custom aquarium texture name in field 6, and sprite index in field 0. The default texture is LooseSprites/AquariumFish.
furniture	(F)	Data/Furniture Each item can set a custom texture name in field 9, and sprite index in field 8. The default texture is TileSheets/furniture.
fruit trees	not technically an item type	Data/FruitTrees Each fruit tree can set a custom texture name and sprite index. The default texture is TileSheets/fruitTrees.
hats	(H)	Data/Hats Each item can set a custom texture name in field 7, and sprite index in field 6. The default texture is Characters/Farmer/hats.
objects	(O)	Data/Objects Each item can set a custom texture name in the Texture field, and sprite index in the SpriteIndex field. The default texture is Maps/springobjects.
pants	(P)	Data/pantsData Each item can set a custom texture name in the Texture field, and sprite index in the SpriteIndex field. The default texture is Characters/Farmer/pants.
shirts	(S)	Data/shirtData Each item can set a custom texture name in the Texture field, and sprite index in the SpriteIndex field. The default texture is Characters/Farmer/shirts. Shirt textures must be exactly 256 pixels wide, divided into two halves: the left half for the shirt sprites, and the right half for any dye masks. The remaining space can be left blank if needed. sprites dye masks /-----------\ /-----------\ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ ┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐ │ │ │ 0 ││ 1 ││ 2 ││ a ││ b ││ c │ │ │ └───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘ │ │ ┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐┌───┐ │ │ │ 3 ││ 4 ││ 5 ││ d ││ e ││ f │ │ │ └───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘└───┘ │ └────────────────────────────────┘
tools	(T)	Data/Tools Each item can set a custom texture name in the Texture field, and sprite index in the SpriteIndex field. The vanilla tools use the TileSheets/Tools texture.
Wallpaper & floorpaper	(WP) and (FL)	Data/AdditionalWallpaperFlooring See format docs.
weapons	(W)	Data/Weapons Completely overhauled into a data model.

When resolving an unqualified item ID like 128, the game will get the first item type for which it exists in this order: object, big craftable, furniture, weapon, boots, hat, pants, shirt, tool, wallpaper, and floorpaper.

Define a custom item

You can define custom items for most vanilla item types using only Content Patcher or SMAPI's content API.

Most item data assets work just like Data/Objects. See also specific info for custom fruit trees, custom tools, and melee weapons.

Error items

In-game items with no underlying data (e.g. because you removed the mod which adds them) would previously cause issues like invisible items, errors, and crashes. This was partly mitigated by the bundled Error Handler mod.

Stardew Valley 1.6 adds comprehensive handling for such items. They'll be shown with a 🛇 sprite in inventory UIs and in-game, the name Error Item, and a description which indicates the missing item ID for troubleshooting.

For C# mods

Stardew Valley 1.6 added new ways to compare/construct items, define custom item types, and work with item metadata. Please see Modding:Items for the migrated docs.

Custom big craftables

See the updated docs at Modding:Items#Big craftables. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now create/edit big craftables by editing the new Data/BigCraftables asset, which replaces the previous slash-delimited Data/BigCraftablesInformation.

Besides the format change, this adds...

• context tags (moved from the former Data/ObjectContextTags asset);
• custom fields to let framework mods support additional features.

Custom crops

See the updated docs at Modding:Crop data. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

Crops are still stored in Data/Crops, but that asset has been overhauled in Stardew Valley 1.6. The slash-delimited entries are now models to simplify edits and enable new features.

Custom fences

See the updated docs at Modding:Fences. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now add or customize fences by editing the Data/Fences asset.

Custom floors (craftable) & paths

See the updated docs at Modding:Floors and Paths. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now add or customize craftable floors & paths by editing the Data/FloorsAndPaths asset. See the new doc page for formatting information.

Custom machines

See the updated docs at Modding:Machines. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now add/edit machine logic by editing the Data/Machines asset. This supports the full range of vanilla functionality, including calling custom code define in C# mods.

For C# mods, 1.6 also adds a new MachineDataUtility class and various Object to simplify working with machines in code. These are used by the game code itself to implement the base machine logic.

Custom melee weapons

See the updated docs at Modding:Items#Weapons. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

Melee weapons are still stored in Data/Weapons, but that asset has been overhauled in Stardew Valley 1.6. The slash-delimited entries are now models to simplify edits and enable new features (like the new Projectiles feature).

Custom movie concessions

These docs should be merged into Modding:Movie theater data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

See also: custom movies.

You could already add/edit concessions sold in the movie theater, but conflicts were likely since each concession had an incrementing numeric ID which matched its position in the vanilla tilesheet.

Stardew Valley 1.6 addresses that with two changes:

• The Id field is now a unique string ID.
• You can now use a different texture with two new required fields:

  field	effect
  Texture	The asset name for the texture containing the concession's sprite.
  SpriteIndex	The index within the Texture for the concession sprite, where 0 is the top-left sprite.

For example, this content pack adds a new 'Pufferchick Pop' concession with a custom image:

{
    "Format": "2.0.0",
    "Changes": [
        {
            "Action": "EditData",
            "Target": "Data/Concessions",
            "Entries": {
                "{{ModId}}_PufferchickPop": {
                    "Id": "{{ModId}}_PufferchickPop",   // must specify ID again when creating a new entry
                    "Name": "{{ModId}}_PufferchickPop", // best practice to match the ID, since it's sometimes used as an alternate ID
                    "DisplayName": "Pufferchick Pop",
                    "Description": "A cute cake pop shaped like a pufferchick.",
                    "Price": 25,
                    "Texture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/pufferchick-pop.png}}" // an image in your content pack
                    "SpriteIndex": 0
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Custom museum donations & rewards

These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

You can now add/edit the items which the museum gives back in rewards through the new Data/MuseumRewards data asset.

Format

The data asset consists of a string → model lookup, where...

• The key is a unique string ID for the reward group.
• The value is a model with the fields listed below.

field	effect
TargetContextTags	The items that must be donated to complete this reward group. The player must fulfill every entry in the list to unlock the reward. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Tag The context tag for the items to require. Count The minimum number of items matching the context tags that must be donated. For example, an entry with the tag forage_item and count 2 will require donating any two forage items. Special case: an entry with the exact values Tag: "", Count: -1 passes if the museum is complete (i.e. the player has donated the max number of items).
FlagOnCompletion	(Optional if RewardItemIsSpecial is true) Whether to add the ID value to the player's received mail. This is used to track whether the player has collected the reward, and should almost always be true. If this is omitted and RewardItemIsSpecial is false, the player will be able collect the reward infinite times. Default false. After the reward is collected, you can check this value using the HasFlag condition in Content Patcher.
RewardActions	Run one or more trigger action strings. For example, this adds data-sort-value="500">500g to the current player: "RewardActions": [ "AddMoney 500" ]
RewardItemId	(Optional) The qualified item ID for the item given to the player when they donate all required items for this group. There's no reward item if omitted.
RewardItemCount	(Optional) The stack size for the RewardItemId (if the item supports stacking). Default 1.
RewardItemIsSpecial	(Optional) Whether to mark the RewardItemId as a special permanent item, which can't be destroyed/dropped and can only be collected once. Default false.
RewardItemIsRecipe	(Optional) Whether to give the player a cooking/crafting recipe which produces the RewardItemId, instead of the item itself. Ignored if the item type can't be cooked/crafted (i.e. non-object-type items). Default false.
CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

For example, this content pack adds two rewards (one mail and one item):

{
    "Format": "2.0.0",
    "Changes": [
        {
            "Action": "EditData",
            "Target": "Data/MuseumRewards",
            "Entries": {
                // send a letter when a specific item is donated
                "{{ModId}}_ShinyArtifact": {
                    "TargetContextTags": [
                        {
                            "Tag": "id_{{ModId}}_ShinyArtifact", // unique context tag identifying the item by ID
                            "Count": 1
                        },
                    ],
                    "FlagOnCompletion": true,
                    "RewardActions": [ "AddMail Current {{ModId}}_ShinyArtifact" ]
                },

                // give item when 18 minerals are donated
                "{{ModId}}_18MineralItems": {
                    "TargetContextTags": [
                        {
                            "Tag": "item_type_minerals",
                            "Count": 18
                        },
                    ],
                    "RewardItemId": "(BC){{ModId}}_SuperMachine",
                    "RewardItemCount": 1,
                    "FlagOnCompletion": true
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

See also mail data, custom items, and custom machines to add the custom mail and items.

Achievements

The A Complete Collection achievement is automatically adjusted to require any custom donations added too. This is based on the number of donated items though, so removing custom donations later may incorrectly mark the museum complete (since you may have donated enough items to meet the total required).

Custom fruit trees

See the updated docs at Modding:Fruit trees. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now add custom fruit trees by editing the revamped Data/FruitTrees asset.

For C# mods, the fruitsOnTree field (number of fruit on the tree) has been replaced by fruit (list of fruit items).

Custom trees can be added to the game in two ways:

• Spawn them on map tiles when the location is created, using the new SpawnTree: fruit <tree ID> [growth stage on location created] [growth stage on day-update regrowth] tile property. This must be added on the Paths layer, which must also have tile index 34 from the paths tilesheet.
• Or give the player a seed item in the usual ways (e.g. from a shop, mail letter, etc).

Custom objects

See the updated docs at Modding:Items#Objects. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now create/edit objects (the main item type) by editing the new Data/Objects asset, which replaces the previous slash-delimited Data/objectInformation.

Besides the format change, this adds...

• support for custom textures;
• revamped geode drops with support for conditions, probabilities, and item queries;
• expanded food/drink buffs (e.g. set a custom buff ID, add a custom buff icon, etc);
• context tags (moved from the former Data/ObjectContextTags asset);
• custom fields to let framework mods support additional features.

Custom pants

These docs should be merged into Modding:Items. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

You can now create/edit pants by editing the new Data/Pants asset, which replaces Data/clothingInformation. This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

• The key is the unqualified item ID.
• The value is a model with the fields listed below.

Basic pants data

field	purpose
Name	(Optional) The internal name for the item. Default Pants.
DisplayName Description	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the item's in-game display name and description. Defaults to the generic pants text (Pants and A wearable pair of pants).
Price	(Optional) The default price when the item is sold to the player in a shop. Default 50.

Appearance

field	purpose
Texture	The asset name for the texture containing the pants' sprite. Defaults to Characters/Farmer/pants.
SpriteIndex	The pants' sprite index within the Texture, where 0 is the top-left set.
DefaultColor	(Optional) The dye color to apply to the sprite when the player hasn't dyed it yet, if any. See color format. Default 255 235 203 (which matches the color of the cloth item).
CanBeDyed	(Optional) Whether the player can dye these pants. Default false.
IsPrismatic	(Optional) Whether the pants continuously shift colors. This overrides DefaultColor and CanBeDyed if set. Default false.

Other

field	purpose
CanChooseDuringCharacterCustomization	(Optional) Whether these pants can be selected on the character customization screen (e.g. when creating a character). Default false.
CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

Custom shirts

These docs should be merged into Modding:Items. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

You can now create/edit shirts by editing the new Data/Shirts asset, which replaces Data/clothingInformation. This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

• The key is the unqualified item ID.
• The value is a model with the fields listed below.

Basic shirt data

field	purpose
Name	(Optional) The internal name for the item. Default Shirt.
DisplayName Description	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the item's in-game display name and description. Defaults to the generic shirt text (Shirt and A wearable shirt).
Price	(Optional) The default price when the item is sold to the player in a shop. Default 50.

Appearance

field	purpose
Texture	The asset name for the texture containing the shirt's sprite. Defaults to Characters/Farmer/shirts.
SpriteIndex	The shirt's sprite index within the Texture, where 0 is the top-left set.
DefaultColor	(Optional) The dye color to apply to the sprite when the player hasn't dyed it yet, if any. See color format. Default none.
CanBeDyed	(Optional) Whether the player can dye this shirt. Default false.
IsPrismatic	(Optional) Whether the shirt continuously shifts colors. This overrides DefaultColor and CanBeDyed if set. Default false.
HasSleeves	(Optional) Whether to draw shirt sleeves. Default true.

Other

field	purpose
CanChooseDuringCharacterCustomization	(Optional) Whether this shirt can be selected on the character customization screen (e.g. when creating a character). Default false.
CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

Custom tools

See the updated docs at Modding:Items#Tools. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now create/edit tools by editing the new Data/Tools asset. Note that drawing the tool correctly in the world (ie, while the player is trying to use it) probably still needs custom code.

Custom wild trees

See the updated docs at Modding:Wild trees. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now create/edit wild trees by editing the Data/WildTrees asset.

Custom trees can be added to the game in two ways:

• Spawn them on map tiles when the location is created, using the new SpawnTree: wild <tree ID> [growth stage on location created] [growth stage on day-update regrowth] tile property. This must be added on the Paths layer, which must also have tile index 34 from the paths tilesheet.
• Or give the player a seed item in the usual ways (e.g. from a shop, mail letter, etc).

Default recipes

See the updated docs at Modding:Recipe data. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

You can now have crafting and cooking recipes that are learned automatically by setting the condition field to default. Any missing default recipes will be learned on day start.

For example, here's the chest entry from Data/CraftingRecipes:

"Chest": "388 50/Home/130/true/default/"

Global inventories

C# mods can now set a chest.GlobalInventoryId field to make it share a global inventory with every other chest having the same ID. This replaces the equivalent hardcoded logic for Junimo chests, which now just default to a "JunimoChests" global inventory ID. For example, this can be used to have multiple Junimo chest networks or make other containers share inventory.

C# mods can also use this to store items for other mod purposes, by using Game1.player.team.globalInventories or Game1.player.team.GetOrCreateGlobalInventory(id) directly.

Hats on aquarium fish

These docs should be merged into Modding:Fish data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

Custom fish in aquariums can now wear hats, just like vanilla sea urchins. This can be enabled by specifying a new field in Data/AquariumFish:

index	field	purpose
7	hat position	The pixel position of the hat on the sprite, specified as an object with X and Y values.

Context tag changes

These docs should be merged into Modding:Items#Context tags. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

New context tags

1.6 adds several new item context tags:

context tag	effect
campfire_item	Marks the item as a campfire. If the item also has the torch_item context tag, when it's placed in the world and turned on... campfire flames are drawn over it; if the item is big craftable, light is emitted from its center instead of the top.
fish_pond_ignore	Prevents players from adding this fish to fish ponds, even if it would otherwise match an entry in Data/FishPondData.
geode_crusher_ignored	Prevents breaking this item open in a geode crusher, even if the item has geode fields in Data/Objects.
item_type_<type>	For an object-type item, the type value from the 'type and category' field. (Non-object items always have the exact tag item_type_ with nothing after the last underscore.) This is automatic and shouldn't be set manually. The tag is checked in a few places (e.g. the museum to check if an item is an artifact or mineral), but most of the game won't be affected.
museum_donatable not_museum_donatable	Set whether the item can be donated to the museum, overriding the vanilla logic.
not_giftable	Prevents players from gifting this item to NPCs, who'll ignore the item entirely (e.g. as if you were holding a tool). This only affects gift-giving, it doesn't affect non-gift logic like quest goals or special order objectives. If the NPC also has a reject_* dialogue for the item, the dialogue takes priority.
not_placeable placeable	Sets whether the item can be placed on the ground.
prevent_loss_on_death	Indicates the item can't be lost when the player dies.
sign_item	Marks the item as a sign, which lets player display items on it or place it on a fish pond to show the fish count.
torch_item	Marks the item as a torch, which lets the player turn it on/off to emit light. See also campfire_item.

Context tags which affect machine processing:

context tag	effect
crystalarium_banned	When applied to a gem or mineral item, prevents players from placing it in a crystalarium.
keg_juice keg_wine	Allows processing the item in a keg to produce a juice or wine variant.
preserves_jelly preserves_pickle	Allows processing the item in a preserves jar to produce a jelly or pickled variant.
seedmaker_banned	When applied to a seed item, prevents players from placing it in a seed maker.
tapper_item	Marks the item as a tapper or heavy tapper.
tapper_multiplier_<multiplier>	The multiplier applied to the tapper production speed. For example, 2 will make items take half their base time (i.e. each item will finish in base time/speed multiplier). Defaults to 1 if omitted.

And informational tags which have no effect on the game logic:

context tag	effect
fish_legendary fish_legendary_family	Marks the fish as a legendary fish or legendary fish family. These are purely informational; the legendary fish behavior is determined by data fields like CatchLimit or IsBossFish in Data/Locations.
geode	(Added automatically) Marks the item as a geode item, which can be broken open at Clint's blacksmith shop or using a geode crusher. This is added automatically if the geode fields are present in Data/Objects.
id_<item id>	(Added automatically) The qualified item ID, like id_(o)128. This can be used to match or exclude an item by ID using context tags. Any spaces in the ID are replaced with underscores, and single quotes are removed.
is_machine	(Added automatically) Indicates the item has machine logic. This is added automatically based on Data/Machines.
machine_input	(Added automatically) Whether the item is a machine which accepts items from the player. This is added automatically based on the machine's fields in Data/Machines: if HasInput is true; or if any output rules have an ItemPlacedInMachine trigger.
machine_output	(Added automatically) Whether the item is a machine which produces items for the player to collect. This is added automatically based on the machine's fields in Data/Machines: if HasOutput is true; or if it has any output rules.

ItemContextTagManager class

For C# mods, 1.6 adds a new ItemContextTagManager class which simplifies working with item context tags and reduces repeated code.

This provides a few utility methods:

method	effect
GetBaseContextTags(id)	Get the base context tags for an item based on its raw data in Data/Objects or Data/BigCraftables. This doesn't include dynamic tags added that are based on instance info (like quality), which you can get using item.GetContextTags().
DoesTagQueryMatch(query, tags)	Get whether a context tag query matches the given tags. For example, ItemContextTagManager.DoesTagQueryMatch("bone_item, !fossil_item", item.GetContextTags()) returns true if the item is a bone item but not a fossil (like the Bone Flute).
DoAllTagsMatch(requiredTags, actualTags) DoAnyTagsMatch(requiredTags, actualTags)	Get whether every (DoAllTagsMatch) or at least one (DoAnyTagsMatch</samp) required tag matches the actual item tags. This supports negated required tags like "!fossil_item" too.
DoesTagMatch(requiredTag, actualTags)	Get whether a single tag matches the actual item tags. This supports negated required tags like "!fossil_item" too.
SanitizeContextTag(tag)	(Specialized) Replace characters that may appear in item names so they're valid in context tags. For example, SanitizeContextTag("Sam's Boombox") returns sams_boombox.

Other context tag changes

• Context tags are now case-insensitive.

Inventory class

For C# mods, 1.6 adds a new Inventory class to manage a list of items. This is used for the Farmer.items and Chest.items fields. It implements IList<Item>, so most existing code should still work fine.

This has three main benefits:

• It has methods to simplify many common operations. For example:

  method	effect
  HasAny()	Get whether the inventory contains any items (ignoring empty slots).
  CountItemStacks()	Get the number of item stacks in the inventory (ignoring empty slots).
  ContainsId(id)	Get whether the inventory contains any item with the given qualified or unqualified item ID.
  ContainsId(id, minCount)	Get whether the inventory contains items with the given qualified or unqualified item ID, and their combined stack size is at least minCount.
  CountId(id)	Get the combined stack size of all items with the given qualified or unqualified item ID.
  GetById(id)	Get a list of items in the inventory with the given qualified or unqualified item ID.
  ReduceId(id, count)	Remove the given number of items matching the given qualified or unqualified item ID. This reduces the stack size for matching items until a total of count have been removed, and clears any slots which reach a stack size of zero.

• Many common operations have been unified, so previously player-only methods can now be used with chests too.
• It has an internal index by item ID, so operations like items.ContainsId("(O)128") are much more efficient since they no longer iterate the list.

This replaces some previous methods:

game class	old code	migration
Farmer	getItemCount(id) GetTallyOfObject(id) GetTallyOfObject(id, isBigCraftable) hasItemInInventory(id, count) hasItemInList(list, id, count)	To check an item ID, use items.CountId(id) or Items.ContainsId(id, count). To check Golden Walnuts or Qi Gems, use the Game1.netWorldState.Value.GoldenWalnuts and Farmer.QiGems fields. To check category matches or -777 (seasonal wild seeds), the getItemCount and getItemCountInList still exist.
	hasItemInInventoryNamed(name) hasItemWithNameThatContains(name)	In most cases, you should match items by ID instead (see the previous row). If you really need to match items by name, you can replace it like this: // exact name bool hasMatch = Game1.player.Items.Any(item => item?.Name == name); // name contains bool hasMatch = Game1.player.Items.Any(item => item?.Name?.Contains(name) is true);
	areAllItemsNull()	Use !items.HasAny().
	numberOfItemsInInventory()	Use items.CountItemStacks() to count all items, or Items.Count(p => p is Object) to match this method's actual behavior.
	consumeObject(id, count)	Use items.ReduceId(id, count).
	removeItemsFromInventory(id, count)	To remove an item by ID, use items.ReduceId(id, count). To deduct Golden Walnuts or Qi Gems, change the Game1.netWorldState.Value.GoldenWalnuts and Farmer.QiGems fields.
Object	ConsumeInventoryItem(player, id, count)	This was somewhat specialized and shouldn't be called by mod code, but the equivalent would be (Object.autoLoadChest ?? player.items).ReduceId(id, count). See also notes for Farmer.removeItemsFromInventory.
	GetTallyOfObject(player, id)	This was somewhat specialized and shouldn't be called by mod code, but the equivalent would be (Object.autoLoadChest ?? player.items).CountId(id). See also notes for Farmer.getTallyOfObject.

It implements a new IInventory interface, which lets mods pass their own implementations to code which works on inventories.

Furniture changes

These docs should be merged into Modding:Items#Furniture. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

• Data/furniture no longer has language variants. Translations were moved into Strings/Furniture.
• There are a few changes in Data/furniture:
  • Field index 6 is now placement restrictions and field index 7 is now display name. The display name field is no longer omitted in English.
  • Field index 7 (display name) now allows tokenizable strings.
  • Added new fields:

    index	field	effect
    8	sprite index	The sprite index within the spritesheet texture to draw.
    9	texture	(Optional) The asset name of the texture to draw. Defaults to TileSheets/furniture.
    10	off limits for random sale	(Optional) Whether to prevent this furniture from appearing in randomly generated shop stocks and the furniture catalogue. Default false.
    11	context tags	(Optional) A space-delimited list of context tags which apply to this furniture. Default none.

Other item changes for C# mods

• Placed object changes:
  • Every placed object now has a Location property set to the location which contains it. This removes location parameters from many object methods.
  • Setting an object's tile position through obj.TileLocation now recalculcates its collision box automatically. (Setting it through the tileLocation net field directly won't though.)
  • The obj.IsScarecrow() and GetScarecrowRadius() methods now work for non-bigcraftable objects too.
• Clothing changes:
  • Clothes.clothesType is now an enum field.
  • Clothing is no longer gender-specific. This renames indexInTileSheetMale to indexInTileSheet, obsoletes indexInTileSheetFemale, and converts gender-variant clothing into regular items.
  • Removed unused ClothesType.ACCESSORY value.
  • Farmer.pants and Farmer.shirt now store the item ID instead of the sprite index.
  • In Data/TailoringRecipes, added a CraftingIdFeminine field which overrides CraftingId for female characters.
• Crop changes:
  • Added Game1.cropData to read crop info without constantly reloading the Data/Crops asset.
  • Removed most crop fields which only mirror the data (like harvestMethod or seasonsToGrowIn). Mods can get the info through crop.GetData() instead.
  • Partly de-hardcoded fertilizer logic. Almost all fertilizer logic is now centralized into a new patchable set of HoeDirt methods (see list below). The only fertilizer logic that's still embedded elsewhere is the interaction errors in Utility.tryToPlaceItem.
  • HoeDirt.fertilizer.Value is now set to null when there is no fertilizer. Both qualified and unqualified IDs should be expected.
  • Removed crop.InferSeedIndex(). This was used to support old crops, which are now fixed by a save migration instead.
• Tool changes:
  • Fixed various logic not handling custom tool upgrade levels.

• Other item logic:
  • Simplified the constructors for many item types, particularly Object.
  • Honey items now have their preserve field set to a new Honey type (instead of null).
  • The Object.performObjectDropInAction method now applies the probe argument much more consistently. This only affects method calls with probe: true.
  • The Item.salePrice() method now has option to get the price without profit margins.
  • Added new fields & methods:

    type	field/method	effect
    Chest	GetItemsForPlayer()	Shortcut for chest.GetItemsForPlayer(Game1.player.UniqueMultiplayerID).
    Crop	GetHarvestMethod()	Get the method used to harvest the crop (one of HarvestMethod.Grab or HarvestMethod.Scythe).
    	IsInSeason(location)	Whether the crop can grow in the location's current season (or true if crops ignore seasons in the location, like the greenhouse).
    HoeDirt	HasFertilizer()	Get whether the dirt has any fertilizer applied.
    	CanApplyFertilizer(itemId)	Get whether a player can apply the given fertilizer to this dirt.
    	CheckApplyFertilizerRules(itemId)	Get whether a player can apply the given fertilizer to this dirt, and the reason they can't if applicable.
    	GetFertilizerSpeedBoost()	Get the crop growth speed boost from fertilizers applied to this dirt.
    	GetFertilizerWaterRetentionChance()	Get the water retention chance from fertilizers applied to this dirt, as a value between 0 (no change) and 1 (100% chance of staying watered).
    	GetFertilizerQualityBoostLevel()	Get the quality boost level from fertilizers applied to this dirt, which influences the chance of producing a higher-quality crop.
    	GetFertilizerSourceRect()	Get the pixel area within the dirt spritesheet to draw for any fertilizer applied to this dirt. (This method existed before, but no longer requires the fertilizer ID argument.)
    	isWatered()	Get whether the dirt is currently watered.
    Item	IsRecipe Quality Stack sellToStorePrice(…)	Equivalent to the previous Object fields/methods, to simplify common code and avoid needing to special-case Object items.
    	appliesProfitMargins()	Get whether this item should apply profit margins to shop prices.
    	CanBeLostOnDeath()	Get whether this item can be lost when the player dies, so it can be recovered from the item recovery service.
    	HasTypeId(id) HasTypeObject() HasTypeBigCraftable()	Get whether the item has the given type definition ID. These are null-safe and double as a null check: if (item.HasTypeId(ItemRegistry.type_object)) { // item is non-null and has type (O) } HasTypeObject() and HasTypeBigCraftable() are shortcuts for passing ItemRegistry.type_object and ItemRegistry.type_bigCraftable respectively.
    	TryGetTempData SetTempData	Get or set temporary item info that's not synchronized in multiplayer or written to the save file. For example, the game uses this to pass spawn options to the fishing minigame: if (spawn.IsBossFish) fish.SetTempData(nameof(spawn.IsBossFish), true); ... fish.TryGetTempData(nameof(SpawnFishData.IsBossFish), out bool bossFish);
    FishingRod	CanUseBait() CanUseTackle() GetBait() GetTackle() HasMagicBait() HasCuriosityLure()	Simplifies working with the fishing rod's bait and tackle.
    Furniture	SetPlacement SetHeldObject	Set the furniture's position and rotation (SetPlacement) or held object (SetHeldObject). The latter will initialize the held object's tile position to match the furniture instance. These are used by the game to initialize furniture in one go. For example: // oak table holding decorative bowl Furniture table = ItemRegistry .Create<Furniture>("(F)1120") .SetPlacement(5, 4, 0) .SetHeldObject(ItemRegistry.Create<Furniture>("(F)1364"));
    	IsTable()	Get whether this furniture is a table.
    FruitTree	GetQuality()	Get the quality of fruit currently being produced by the fruit tree.
    	TryAddFruit()	Add a fruit item to the tree based on its data.
    IndoorPot	Water()	Simplifies watering dirt in the garden pot.
    Object	GetBoundingBox() GetBoundingBoxAt(x, y)	Get the pixel collision area for the item placed in the world. These replace the former getBoundingBox(position) method.
    Tool	isScythe()	Equivalent to the previous MeleeWeapon method, to simplify common code and avoid needing to special-case MeleeWeapon items.
    Tree	CheckForNewTexture()	Reset the tree's texture if it would change based on its data.
    	GetMaxSizeHere	Get the maximum size the tree can grow in its current position (e.g. accounting for nearby trees blocking growth).
    	IsGrowthBlockedByNearbyTree	Get whether growth is blocked because it's too close to another fully-grown tree.

  • Modularized Object.CheckForAction to simplify mod patches.
  • Reworked Item.getOne() implementation to avoid common pitfalls. (This only affects mods with custom item classes, or which patch Item.getOne or Item._GetOneFrom.)
  • Fixed fruit trees forgetting the growth stage set in their constructor when they're updated overnight.

  Other item changes

  • Added per-object display names (e.g. for custom flavored items). See the ObjectDisplayName item spawn field, or object.displayNameFormat in C#.
  • Item pedestals are now normal item, so you can spawn them using a mod like CJB Item Spawner to display items.
  • Added optional Condition game state query field to Data/SpecialOrders.
  • Item data changes:
    • The display name field now exists in English too for Data/Boots, Data/Bundles, Data/CookingRecipes, Data/CraftingRecipes, Data/Furniture, Data/Hats, and Data/Weapons.
    • The randomly spawned stones, twigs, and weeds have been formalized into litter. They all now have object type Litter, category -999 (StardewValley.Object.litterCategory), a relevant display name/description (like Gold Stone & Break apart to obtain gold ore instead of Stone & ...), a price of 0 (not sellable), and edibility of -300 (inedible). This also adds all mine ore nodes to Data/Objects, so the game no longer creates invalid items to show their sprite. (Doing so in 1.6 will now show an Error Item sprite instead.)
    • Honey items now have the honey_item context tag.
    • Shirts no longer have a dynamic numeric ID range; every valid shirt is now listed in Data/Shirts.
    • You can now apply a custom buff ID when the item is eaten, via Data/Objects's Buff field.
    • The type field in Data/Objects is no longer checked using substring matching (e.g. the game now uses data.Type == "Fish" instead of typeAndCategory.Contains("Fish")), which may impact mods which depended on that undocumented behavior.
  • Crop changes:
    • Paddy crops now recheck for nearby water each day, so they'll update if you add/remove a building with water or change the map layout.
    • In Data/Crops, each harvest option is now self-contained. For example, you can set HarvestMinStack without ExtraHarvestChance.
  • Fish changes:
    • Data/Fish is no longer translated, so there's only one Data/Fish.xnb field. Fish display names are now taken from Data/Objects.
    • Added a new field (index 13) in Data/Fish, which sets whether the fish can be selected for the first-catch tutorial.
  • Recipe changes in Data/CookingRecipes and Data/CraftingRecipes:
    • These assets no longer have language variants.
    • The display name now supports tokenizable strings.
    • The display name can now be left blank to get it from the first item in the output list.
  • Other item logic:
    • Missing recipes that should already be unlocked are now added to the player automatically on save load.
    • Data/Bundles is now loaded later, so content packs can edit it reliably.
    • Chests with fridge: true are now treated as mini-fridges for the cooking menu.
    • Gift boxes can now contain multiple items.
    • Fixed furniture drawn over sitting players if it has no front texture.
    • Fixed tool being upgraded by Clint not affected by recursive item search logic.
    • Fixed tool.getOne() not copying the tool name.
    • Fixed cooking menu constantly creating hovered item if the item/recipe names don't match.

  What's new for locations & weather

  Custom locations

  See the updated docs at Modding:Location data. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  You can now add/edit locations by editing the revamped Data/Locations asset. This makes nearly everything in the location configurable — display name, default warp arrival tile, how the location is created, artifact spots / fish / forage / weeds, music, etc.

  See Modding:Location data for docs on the new data format.

  Custom location contexts

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Location data or a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Vanilla contexts

  • The game previously had two hardcoded location context enums: Default (for the valley) and Island (for Ginger Island). These have been replaced with data models which define the location context settings, loaded from the Data/LocationContexts asset.
  • The desert is now part of a new Desert context (instead of Default). Some of the previously hardcoded desert logic (like always sunny weather) is now just part of the context data in Data/LocationContexts.

  Format

  Custom contexts can be created by editing the new Data/LocationContexts asset, and setting the context name in the location's LocationContext map property.

  The data asset consists of a string → model lookup, where the key matches the Name field and the value is a model with these fields:

  Required fields:

  field	effect
  Name	The unique string ID for the location context.

  Player actions:

  field	effect
  AllowRainTotem	(Optional) Whether a rain totem can be used to force rain in this context tomorrow. If false, using a rain totem here will show a "this item can't be used here" message instead.
  RainTotemAffectsContext	(Optional) If set, using a rain totem here will change the weather in the given context ID. For example, rain totems in the desert change weather in the valley.
  MaxPassOutCost	(Optional) When the player passes out (due to exhaustion or at 2am) in this context, the maximum amount of gold lost. If omitted or set to -1, uses the same value as the Default context (data-sort-value="1000">1,000g by default).
  PassOutMail	(Optional) When the player passes out (due to exhaustion or at 2am) in this context, the possible letter IDs to add to their mailbox (if they haven't received it before). If multiple letters are valid, one will be chosen randomly (unless one specifies SkipRandomSelection). This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry in the list. Mail The letter ID to add. The game will look for an existing letter ID in Data/mail in this order (where <billed> is Billed if they lost gold or NotBilled otherwise, and <gender> is Female or Male): <letter id>_<billed>_<gender> <letter id>_<billed> <letter id> If no match is found in Data/mail, the game will send passedOut2 instead. If the mail ID starts with passedOut, {0} in the letter text will be replaced with the gold amount lost, and it won't appear in the collections page. MaxPassOutCost (Optional) The maximum amount of gold lost. This is applied after the context's MaxPassOutCost (i.e. the context's value is used to calculate the random amount, then this field caps the result). Defaults to unlimited. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry is active. Defaults to always true. SkipRandomSelection (Optional) If true, send this mail if the Condition matches instead of choosing a random valid mail. Default false.
  PassOutLocations	(Optional) When the player passes out (due to exhaustion or at 2am) in this context and they started the day in a different location context, the locations where they'll wake up. (If the player started the day in the same context, they'll wake up in the last bed they slept in instead.) If the selected location doesn't contain a bed and doesn't have the AllowWakeUpWithoutBed map property, the player will wake up in the farmhouse instead. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry in the list. Location The internal location name. Position The default tile position within the location, specified as an object with X and Y fields. If the location has any bed furniture, they'll be placed in the first bed found instead. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry is active. Defaults to always applied. If no locations are specified or none match, the player will wake up in their bed at home.
  ReviveLocations	(Optional) If the player just got knocked out in combat, the location names where they'll wake up. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry in the list. Location The internal location name. Position The tile position within the location, specified as an object with X and Y fields. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry is active. Defaults to always applied. If the selected location has a standard event with the exact key PlayerKilled (with no / or preconditions in the key), that event will play when the player wakes up and the game will apply the lost items or gold logic. The game won't track this event, so it'll repeat each time the player is revived. If there's no such event, the player will wake up without an event, and no items or gold will be lost. If no locations are specified or none match, the player will wake up at Harvey's clinic.

  Season:

  field	effect
  SeasonOverride	(Optional) The season which is always active for locations within this context (one of spring, summer, fall, or winter). For example, setting summer will make it always summer there regardless of the calendar season. If not set, the calendar season applies.

  Weather:

  field	effect
  WeatherConditions	(Optional) The weather logic to apply for locations in this context (ignored if CopyWeatherFromLocation is set). Defaults to always sunny. If multiple are specified, the first matching weather is applied. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry in the list. Weather The weather ID to set. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether to apply the weather. Defaults to always applied.
  CopyWeatherFromLocation	(Optional) The Name (i.e. unique ID) of the location context from which to inherit weather.

  If a passive festival is active in any location within this context, the weather is sunny for the entire context regardless of these fields.

  Music:

  field	effect
  DefaultMusic	(Optional) The cue ID for the music to play when the player is in the location, unless overridden by a Music map property. Despite the name, this has a higher priority than the seasonal music fields below. Ignored if omitted.
  DefaultMusicCondition	(Optional) A game state query which returns whether the DefaultMusic field should be applied (if more specific music isn't playing). Defaults to always true.
  DefaultMusicDelayOneScreen	(Optional) When the player warps and the music changes, whether to silence the music and play the ambience (if any) until the next warp (similar to the default valley locations). Default false.
  Music	(Optional) A list of cue IDs to play before noon in this location unless it's raining, there's a Music map property, or the context has a DefaultMusic value. If multiple values are specified, the game will play one per day in sequence. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id (Optional) A unique string ID which identifies this entry within the list. Defaults to the Track value. Track The audio track ID to play. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry applies. Default true.
  DayAmbience NightAmbience	(Optional) The cue ID for the background ambience to play when there's no music active, depending on the time of day. Both default to none.
  PlayRandomAmbientSounds	(Optional) Whether to play random outdoor ambience sounds depending on factors like the season and time of day (e.g. birds, crickets, and mysterious groan sounds in the rain). This is unrelated to the DayAmbience and NightAmbience fields. Default true.

  Advanced:

  field	effect
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Custom garbage cans

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Format

  You can now add or edit garbage cans on any map by editing the new Data/GarbageCans asset (see examples below).

  The asset consists of a data model with these fields:

  field	effect
  DefaultBaseChance	The probability that an item will be found when searching garbage cans, as a value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). If the probability check fails, only items that set IgnoreBaseChance can spawn. This can be overridden by the per-garbage-can BaseChance field. Default 0.2.
  BeforeAll AfterAll	The items to prepend (BeforeAll) or append (AfterAll) to the GarbageCans → Items field for all garbage cans. These work exactly like the items in that field (e.g. subject to the garbage can's base chance).
  GarbageCans	The data for individual garbage cans. This consists of a string → model lookup with these fields: field effect entry key The unique string ID for this garbage can. BaseChance (Optional) If set, overrides the root DefaultBaseChance field for this garbage can. Defaults to DefaultBaseChance. Items (Optional) The items to try spawning when the player searches the garbage can. The first matching item in BeforeAll + Items + AfterAll will be spawned, and any further items will be ignored. Defaults to none. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect common fields See item spawn fields for the generic item fields supported by garbage cans. If set to an item query which returns multiple items, one of them will be selected at random. IgnoreBaseChance (Optional) Whether this item can spawn even if the BaseChance probability check didn't pass. Default false. IsMegaSuccess (Optional) Whether to treat this item as a 'mega success' if it's selected, which plays a special crit sound and bigger animation. Default false. IsDoubleMegaSuccess (Optional) Whether to treat this item as an 'double mega success' if it's selected, which plays an explosion sound and dramatic animation. Default false. AddToInventoryDirectly (Optional) Whether to add the item to the player's inventory directly, opening an item grab menu if they don't have room in their inventory. If false, the item will be dropped on the ground next to the garbage can instead. Default false. CreateMultipleDebris (Optional) Whether to split the spawned item into multiple stacks which each have a stack size of one. This has no effect if AddToInventoryDirectly is enabled. Default false. If the garbage can being searched doesn't have its own entry under GarbageCans, the game will just use the BeforeAll and AfterAll fields.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Example new garbage can

  You can add garbage cans using only Content Patcher or SMAPI's content API. For example, this content pack adds a new garbage can entry with the ID Example.ModId_Carpenter:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/GarbageCans",
              "TargetField": [ "GarbageCans" ],
              "Entries": {
                  "{{ModId}}_Carpenter": {
                      "Items": [
                          // 25% chance of pufferfish
                          {
                              "ID": "{{ModId}}_Pufferfish",
                              "Condition": "RANDOM 0.25",
                              "ItemId": "(O)128"
                          },
  
                          // else guaranteed random House Plant item
                          {
                              "ID": "{{ModId}}_RandomHousePlant",
                              "ItemID": "RANDOM_ITEMS (F) 1376 1390"
                          }
                      ]
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Then you'd place an Action: Garbage Example.ModId_Carpenter map tile property to mark a tile as a garbage can using this data.

  Example change for existing garbage can

  You can edit an existing garbage cans using only Content Patcher or SMAPI's content API. For example, this content pack adds pufferfish to the Saloon garbage can, and moves it above the dish of the day.

  Note that this uses TargetField to 'move into' the item list for the saloon, and then treat those items as the entry list being edited. Specifying an ID which isn't in the list will add a new entry, just like when editing a regular list asset.

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/GarbageCans",
              "TargetField": [ "GarbageCans", "Saloon", "Items" ],
              "Entries": {
                  // 25% chance of pufferfish
                  
                  "{{ModId}}_Pufferfish":{
                      "ID": "{{ModId}}_Pufferfish",
                      "Condition": "RANDOM 0.25",
                      "ItemId": "(O)128"
                  }
              },
              "MoveEntries": [
                  { "ID": "{{ModId}}_Pufferfish", "BeforeId": "Base_DishOfTheDay" }
              ]
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Changes for C# mods

  Previously garbage cans were tracked by Town.garbageChecked, an array of boolean fields. That approach doesn't work in Stardew Valley 1.6, since we're no longer limited to a specific set of garbage cans in the town map. This has been replaced by Game1.netWorldState.Value.CheckedGarbage, which is a hash set of garbage can IDs.

  To migrate code:

  action	code in 1.5.6	code in 1.6
  check if a garbage can was searched	Town town = (Town)Game1.getLocationFromName("Town"); if (town.garbageChecked[5]) ...	if (Game1.netWorldState.Value.CheckedGarbage.Contains("Saloon")) ...
  mark a garbage can searched	Town town = (Town)Game1.getLocationFromName("Town"); town.garbageChecked[5] = true;	Game1.netWorldState.Value.CheckedGarbage.Add("Saloon");

  To migrate former vanilla trash can IDs:

  position	ID in 1.5.6	ID in 1.6
  Near Jodi and Kent's house	0	JodiAndKent
  Near Emily and Haley's house	1	EmilyAndHaley
  Near Lewis' house	2	Mayor
  Near Museum	3	Museum
  Near Clint's blacksmith	4	Blacksmith
  Near the Saloon	5	Saloon
  Near Evelyn and George's house	6	Evelyn
  Near JojaMart	7	JojaMart

  Custom map actions

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  C# mods can now handle custom Action & TouchAction map properties by calling GameLocation.RegisterTileAction & RegisterTouchAction, and passing a callback which receives the location, map property arguments, player who activated it, and tile position.

  For example, let's say you want a locked gate which needs a custom key item. You can add a regular TouchAction Example.ModId_UnlockGate map property (e.g. by adding it directly in the map file, or using Content Patcher's EditMap, or using the content API). Then you can just handle the logic from your C# mod:

  internal class ModEntry : Mod
  {
      /// <inheritdoc />
      public override void Entry(IModHelper helper)
      {
          GameLocation.RegisterTouchAction("Example.ModId_UnlockGate", this.HandleUnlockGate);
      }
  
      private void HandleUnlockGate(GameLocation location, string[] args, Farmer player, Vector2 tile)
      {
          const string mailFlag = "Example.ModId_GateUnlocked";
          const string keyId = "Example.ModId_GateKey";
  
          // unlock gate if locked
          if (!player.mailReceived.Contains(mailFlag))
          {
              if (!Game1.player.Items.ContainsId(id, count))
              {
                  Game1.activeClickableMenu = new DialogueBox("This gate is locked. I wonder where the key is?");
                  return;
              }
  
              player.removeFirstOfThisItemFromInventory(keyId);
              player.mailReceived.Add(mailFlag);
          }
  
          // apply open-gate map edit
          // NOTE: this is a quick example which changes the location's current map. If another mod reloads the map
          // (e.g. a content pack editing it), the change will be lost. For persistent changes, you should use the
          // AssetRequested event to apply the change when the map is reloaded.
          IAssetDataForMap mapHelper = this.Helper.GameContent.GetPatchHelper(location.map).AsMap();
          mapHelper.PatchMap(
              this.Helper.Content.Load<Map>("assets/unlocked-gate.tmx"),
              targetArea: new Rectangle((int)tile.X - 1, (int)tile.Y - 1, 2, 2)
          );
      }
  }
  

  As another example, let's say you want the gate to unlock when the player presses the action key. You can add a regular Action Example.ModId_UnlockGate map property (e.g. by adding it directly in the map file, or using Content Patcher's EditMap, or using the content API). Then you can just handle the logic from your C# mod:

  internal class ModEntry : Mod
  {
      /// <inheritdoc />
      public override void Entry(IModHelper helper)
      {
          GameLocation.RegisterTileAction("Example.ModId_UnlockGate", this.HandleUnlockGate);
      }
  
      private bool HandleUnlockGate(GameLocation location, string[] args, Farmer player, Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Point point)
      {
          const string mailFlag = "Example.ModId_GateUnlocked";
          const string keyId = "Example.ModId_GateKey";
  
          // unlock gate if locked
          if (!player.mailReceived.Contains(mailFlag))
          {
              if (!Game1.player.Items.ContainsId(id, count))
              {
                  Game1.activeClickableMenu = new DialogueBox("This gate is locked. I wonder where the key is?");
                  return false;
              }
  
              player.removeFirstOfThisItemFromInventory(keyId);
              player.mailReceived.Add(mailFlag);
          }
  
          // apply open-gate map edit
          // NOTE: this is a quick example which changes the location's current map. If another mod reloads the map
          // (e.g. a content pack editing it), the change will be lost. For persistent changes, you should use the
          // AssetRequested event to apply the change when the map is reloaded.
          IAssetDataForMap mapHelper = this.Helper.GameContent.GetPatchHelper(location.map).AsMap();
          mapHelper.PatchMap(
              this.Helper.Content.Load<Map>("assets/unlocked-gate.tmx"),
              targetArea: new Rectangle((int)point.X - 1, (int)point.Y - 1, 2, 2)
          );
  
          return true;
      }
  }
  

  Custom map layers

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now add any number of map layers by suffixing a vanilla layer name (i.e. Back, Buildings, Front, or AlwaysFront) with an offset. For example, Back-1 will be drawn before/under Back, and Back2 will be drawn after/over it. You can increment the number to add more layers.

  This only affects layer rendering. Tile properties must still be set on the original layers.

  Custom minecarts

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now extend minecarts by editing the Data\Minecarts data asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the minecart network. When you interact with a minecart, the destinations listed for its network are shown.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	effect
  Destinations	The destinations which the player can travel to from minecarts in this network. This consists of a list of model with these fields: field effect Id A unique string ID for this destination within the network. DisplayName A tokenizable string for the destination name shown in the minecart menu. You can use the location's display name with the LocationName token (like [LocationName Desert] for the desert). TargetLocation The location ID for the destination. TargetTile The destination tile position within the location, specified as a model with X and Y fields. TargetDirection The direction the player should face after arrival (one of down, left, right, or up). Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this minecart destination is available. Defaults to always available. Price (Optional) The gold price that must be paid each time to use this destination. Default none. BuyTicketMessage (Optional) If the destination costs money to use, a tokenizable string for the purchase confirmation message shown. If present, {0} is replaced with the purchase price. Defaults to the network's BuyTicketMessage field. CustomFields (Optional) The custom fields for this entry.
  UnlockCondition	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this minecart network is unlocked. Default always enabled.
  LockedMessage	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the message shown when interacting with a minecart when the UnlockCondition false. Defaults to an "Out of order" translation.
  ChooseDestinationMessage	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the message shown when listing destinations to choose from. Defaults to a "Choose destination:" translation.
  BuyTicketMessage	(Optional) When a destination costs money to use, a tokenizable string for the purchase confirmation message shown. If present, {0} is replaced with the purchase price. Defaults to a "Buy a ticket for {0}g?" translation.

  Open a minecart menu

  You can use an Action: MinecartTransport [network ID] [exclude destination ID] map property to open the minecart menu. When the player interacts with the tile, it'll open the menu for the [network ID] network (default Default). if [exclude destination ID] is specified, the matching destination will be hidden from the list (usually because you're at that minecart). For example, the bus stop minecart uses Action: MinecartTransport Default Bus.

  From a C# mod, you can call Game1.currentLocation.ShowMineCartMenu(networkId, excludeDestinationId) which works the same way (except that networkId is required).

  Example

  This Content Patcher content pack adds the Railroad as a minecart destination, complete with a map edit adding a decorative minecart. It is available after the Earthquake has occurred and minecarts have been unlocked.

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          // add minecart destination
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/Minecarts",
              "TargetField": [ "Default", "Destinations" ], // for the "Default" network, edit the "Destinations" field
              "Entries": {
                  "Railroad": {
                      "Id": "Railroad",
                      "DisplayName": "[LocationName Railroad]",
                      "Condition": "LOCATION_ACCESSIBLE Railroad",
  
                      "TargetLocation": "Railroad",
                      "TargetTile": { "X": 16, "Y": 39 },
                      "TargetDirection": "down",
                  }
              }
          },
  
          // add decorative minecart
          {
              "Action": "EditMap",
              "Target": "Maps/Railroad",
              "FromFile": "assets/Custom_Railroad_Minecart.tmx",
              "ToArea": { "X": 15, "Y": 35, "Width": 4, "Height": 5 }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Custom passive festivals

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Festival data or a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now add or modify passive festivals by editing the Data/PassiveFestivals asset.

  (A passive festival is a festival like the Night Market. They replace a location for a period of time, the player can enter/leave them anytime, and time continues passing while at the festival.)

  Data format

  The Data/PassiveFestivals asset consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the festival.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	effect
  DisplayName	A tokenizable string for the display name shown on the calendar.
  Season	The season when the festival becomes active.
  StartDay EndDay	The days of month when the festival becomes active.
  StartTime	The time of day when the festival opens each day.
  StartMessage	A tokenizable string for the in-game toast notification shown when the festival begins each day.
  MapReplacements	The locations to swap for the duration of the festival. Despite the field name, this swaps locations (e.g. as added by CustomLocations using Content Patcher), and not the location's map asset. This is specified as a string → string lookup, where the key is the original location to replace and the value is the new location. Both use the internal location name, as shown by the Debug Mode mod. For example, this swaps the Beach location with BeachNightMarket during the Night Market: "MapReplacements": { "Beach": "BeachNightMarket" }
  Condition	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the festival is enabled (subject to the other fields like StartDay and EndDay). Defaults to always enabled.
  ShowOnCalendar	(Optional) Whether the festival appears on the calendar, using the same iridium-star icon as the Night Market. Default true.
  DailySetupMethod CleanupMethod	(Optional) A C# method which applies custom logic when the day starts (DailySetupMethod) and/or overnight after the last day of the festival (CleanupMethod). These must be specified in the form <full type name>: <method name> (like ExampleMod.Namespace.Type, ExampleMod: MethodName). The methods must be static, take zero arguments, and return void.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  NPC schedules

  When a passive festival is active, NPCs will check for a schedule entry in this order:

  syntax	summary
  <festival ID>_<festival day>	Applies on the given date. The <festival day> is relative, so 1 matches the festival StartDay. Example: NightMarket_3 or marriage_NightMarket_3
  <festival ID>	Applies if there's no date-specific entry. Example: NightMarket or marriage_NightMarket

  If the NPC is married to a player, they'll add a marriage_ prefix to the keys (like marriage_<festival ID>_<festival day>) and ignore any entry without the prefix.

  Custom weather

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Weather data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now change the weather algorithm by editing location context data, and (with a C# mod) implement custom weathers.

  Fields like Game1.weather and Game1.weatherForTomorrow are now strings to support custom mod weather IDs. The change for vanilla weather has no effect on Content Patcher packs, since the new weather IDs match the ones Content Patcher was using before (i.e. Sun, Rain, Snow, Storm, and Wind). C# mods may also see a Festival weather, while Content Patcher packs will see Sun for it. The constants like Game1.weather_sunny have the new string values (with new constants like Game1.legacy_weather_sunny for the legacy values).

  The base game will treat an invalid weather as sunny. C# mods can implement custom weather effects using normal SMAPI events like UpdateTicked, or by patching methods like Game1.ApplyWeatherForNewDay and Game1.populateDebrisWeatherArray.

  Custom world maps

  See the updated docs at Modding:World map. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.
  

  The default world map, with the farm map area highlighted.

  You can now change the world map shown in the game menu by editing the Data/WorldMap asset. This lets you...

  • add custom maps for certain locations;
  • apply texture overlays;
  • add/edit tooltips;
  • set real-time player marker positioning;
  • etc.

  The game's default map is fully defined in Data/WorldMap, including all the display text and conditional changes.

  New map properties

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  1.6 adds several new map properties.

  Building construction

  property	explanation
  CanBuildHere T (valid in any outdoor location)	Whether to allow constructing buildings in this location. The game will adjust automatically to account for it (e.g. Robin will let you choose where to build). See build anywhere in what's new.
  BuildConditions <query> (valid in any outdoor location)	If CanBuildHere is set, an optional game state query which indicates whether building is allowed currently.
  LooserBuildRestrictions T (valid in any outdoor location)	If set, tiles don't need to be marked Buildable T or Diggable T in their properties. Tiles can be blocked with Buildable F instead. The other restrictions still apply.
  ValidBuildRect <x> <y> <width> <height> (valid in any outdoor location)	The tile area within the map where buildings may be placed. If omitted, buildings may be placed in any open space in the map.

  Crops

  property	explanation
  AllowGiantCrops T	If set with any non-blank value, giant crops can grow in this location (if crops are also allowed per the crop data or PlantableLocations context field).
  DirtDecayChance <chance>	The probability that each dirt tile will disappear overnight if it doesn't contain a crop, as a value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). Defaults to 0 (greenhouses), 0.1 (farms), and 1 (anywhere else).

  Farmhouse interior

  property

  explanation

  FarmHouseStarterGift [<id> [count]]+

  The items that should appear in the initial gift box placed in the farmhouse when the save is created. This consists of one or more pairs of item ID (which can be qualified or unqualified) and count. The count is optional on the last entry. For example, this will add 10 pufferfish (object 128) and a blobfish mask (hat 56): FarmHouseStarterGift (O)128 10 (H)56 1 If omitted, the default items (usually a 15 parsnip seeds) are added instead.

  Warps & map positions

  property	explanation
  AllowWakeUpWithoutBed <allow>	Whether the player can wake up in this location without a bed, similar to the island farmhouse. This is typically used with PassOutLocations in Data/LocationContexts.
  DefaultWarpLocation <x> <y> (valid in any location)	The default arrival tile, used when a player or NPC is added to the location without a target tile (e.g. using debug commands like debug warp or debug eventbyid).
  PetBowlLocation <x> <y> (valid in the farm)	The default position of the pet bowl
  SpouseRoomPosition <x> <y> (valid in farmhouse)	The top-left position at which to place the spouse room.
  TravelingCartPosition <x> <y> (valid in the forest)	The top-left position at which to place the Traveling Cart. This is the top-left corner of the collision box, so the roof will extend two tiles above this tile.

  Other map property changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  map property	changes
  Arch asdf Debris Fish	Removed (these were unused).
  FarmHouseFlooring FarmHouseFurniture FarmHouseStarterSeedsPosition FarmHouseWallpaper	These now work independently. For example, you can now use FarmHouseFlooring without needing to set FarmHouseFurniture too.
  Music	Deprecated; use the music fields in Data/Locations instead. This property is only applied if the location has no music in Data/Locations. This was removed from all vanilla maps.
  NPCWarp Warp	Now fault-tolerant. They'll automatically ignore extra spaces, log an informative warning if parsing still fails, and continue with the next warp if possible.
  Stumps	Now works in all locations.
  UniquePortrait UniqueSprite	Deprecated; use custom NPC appearances instead. These properties will override NPC appearances. This was removed from all vanilla maps.

  Tile property changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • You can now override a tile index property by setting it as a tile property.
  • Added new tile properties:

    layer	property	explanation
    Paths	SpawnTree <category> <ID> <Growth stage> <Regrowth stage>	Spawns a tree when the map is created. <category> may be either wild or fruit. wild will spawn a wild tree, while fruit will spawn a fruit tree.

  • Added new Action tile properties:

    layer	property	explanation
    Buildings	Action BuildingSilo	If a building covers this tile, enables silo interactions on this tile subject to the building's HayCapacity field in Data/Buildings.
    Buildings	Action BuildingToggleAnimalDoor	If a building covers this tile, opens or closes its animal door.
    Buildings	Action Dialogue	The message can now be a tokenizable string. Fixed the cursor not changing to the inspection icon when hovering on an Action Dialogue tile.
    Buildings	Action Forge	Opens the Forge menu.
    Buildings	Action None	Does nothing. This is used to mark the tile interactive if the click will be handled separately.
    Buildings	Action ObeliskWarp <location name> <x> <y> [whether to dismount]	Warps the player to the specified location name and position with the Obelisk animation/sound effects.
    Buildings	Action OpenShop <shop id> [from direction] [open time] [close time] [owner tile area]	Open the shop with the given <shop id>. All arguments besides the ID are optional: [from direction]: if specified, the player must be standing in this direction relative to the shop (one of down, up, left, right, or none). Setting this to none disables the requirement. The default for most vanilla shops is down. [open time] and [close time]: the start & end times in 26-hour format when the shop is available. Interacting with the tile outside those times does nothing. [owner tile area]: if specified, the tile area which must contain one of the shop owners for the shop to be available. For a custom shop, these are defined by its Owners field. This can be specified in two forms: <x> <y> for a single tile, or <x> <y> <width> <height> for a multi-tile area.
    Buildings	Action PlayEvent <event id> [check preconditions] [skip if seen] [fallback action]	Immediately start an event, subject to the conditions: [check preconditions]: whether to ignore the action if the event's preconditions don't match (one of true or false). Default true. [skip if seen]: whether to ignore the action if the player has already seen the given event. Default true. If the event doesn't start for any reason (including the preceding conditions): If [fallback action] is specified, it'll be run as an action. This can be any Action tile property (without the "Action " prefix), like Action PlayEvent 60367 true true PlayEvent 520702 false false to play a different event. Otherwise the action is silently ignored. For example, Action PlayEvent 60367 false false will replay the bus arrival event from the start of the game.

  • Added new TouchAction tile properties:

    layer	property	explanation
    Back	TouchAction PlayEvent <event id> [check preconditions] [skip if seen] [fallback action]	Equivalent to Action PlayEvent, but activated on touch. Note that [fallback action] is an Action tile property, not a TouchAction tile property.

  • Changed existing tile properties:

    layer	property	reason
    Back	NoSpawn	Added NoSpawn false form, which disables any previous NoSpawn property on the tile. For example, this can be used to enable spawning on a tile which has a NoSpawn tile index property.
    	TouchAction Bus	Removed. This wasn't used by the game or mods.
    	TouchAction Emote	Fixed error if the specified NPC isn't found.
    	Treasure	Added Treasure Item <item ID> form which accepts a qualified or unqualified item ID.
    Buildings	Action ItemChest Action Minecart Action RemoveChest	Removed. These weren't used by the game or mods.
    	Action Kitchen	Now works in any location (including those without a fridge).

  Other location/map changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Maps and other pages as needed. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Farm data:
    • Added SpawnMonstersByDefault field to Data/AdditionalFarms to set the default value of the 'spawn monsters at night' advanced save option.
    • Fixed crash on new-save screen if the farm type's tooltip has no description.
  • General location data:
    • All locations can now have animals. The IAnimalLocation is now obsolete and implemented by GameLocation.
    • Added new fishing areas to simplify compatibility between fish & map mods (specifically for hilltop farm, wilderness farm, town, and desert).
    • Added a descriptive error when a required location or layer isn't found. Mods can use map.RequireLayer and Game1.RequireLocation to get a location with similar error-checking.
    • Added WarpPathfindingCache for C# mods, which modularizes the NPC warp route logic. You can edit its IgnoreLocationNames, OverrideTargetNames, and GenderRestrictions fields if needed for custom locations.
    • Game logic which checks tile indexes is now more fault-tolerant, so it won't crash if an expected tile was edited.
    • Finished migrating DecoratableLocation flooring/wallpaper areas to string IDs (started in Stardew Valley 1.5.5).
  • General map changes:
    • Added validation for map properties and tile properties. If the format is invalid, the game will now log a detailed error and skip it.
    • Removed unused path tiles in Maps/paths and all map files.
  • Location context data:
    • Building interiors now inherit their parent's location context by default.
    • Added Game1.locationContextData to cache the data from Data/LocationContexts.
    • Added constants for the vanilla context IDs like LocationContexts.IslandId.
    • Added validation for required location context IDs (and LocationContexts.Require(id) for mod logic).
    • Removed the Name field in Data/LocationContexts, which duplicated the ID.
  • Added methods to simplify common operations:

    type	method	effect
    Building	GetParentLocation	Get the location which contains this building.
    	IsInCurrentLocation	Get whether the building is in the same location as the current player.
    	HasIndoors	Get whether the building has an interior location.
    	GetIndoors	Get the location within this building, if applicable.
    	HasIndoorsName	Get whether the building has an interior location and its unique name matches the given value (like building.HasIndoorsName("FarmHouse")).
    	GetIndoorsName	Get the unique name of the location within this building, if applicable.
    	...	see also other building changes for non-location methods.
    Cabin FarmHouse	GetCellar	Get the cellar location linked to this cabin, if any.
    	CanAssignFarmhand AssignFarmhand	(Cabin only) Check whether the cabin is available to assign to a farmhand, or perform the assignment.
    	HasOwner	Get whether the home has an assigned player, regardless of whether they've finished creating their character.
    	OwnerId	Get the unique ID of the player who owns this home, if any.
    	IsOwnedByCurrentPlayer	Get whether the cabin belongs to the current player.
    	IsOwnerActivated	Get whether the home has an assigned player and they've finished creating their character.
    	HasNpcSpouse	Get whether the player who owns this home is married to any NPC (when used like HasNpcSpouse()) or a specific NPC (like HasNpcSpouse(name)). This also replaces shouldShowSpouseRoom().
    Farm	GetStarterFarmhouseLocation	Get the default tile position for the farmhouse. (See also farm.GetMainFarmHouseEntry().)
    	GetStarterPetBowlLocation	Get the default tile position for the pet bowl.
    GameLocation	AddDefaultBuildings	Can be overridden to add custom buildings when the location is created and/or loaded. These can either be re-added whenever they're missing (like the vanilla farmhouse), or only built once on save creation (like the vanilla pre-built cabins). This replaces the former farm.AddModularShippingBin() method.
    	GetFridge GetFridgePosition	Get the fridge's chest or tile position, if the location has one.
    	GetSeason GetSeasonIndex GetSeasonKey	Get the local season that applies within the location as an enum, number (like 0 for spring), or string (like spring) respectively. For example, it's always summer on Ginger Island.
    	GetWeather IsDebrisWeatherHere IsLightningHere IsRainingHere IsSnowingHere	Get the current weather in this location's context, regardless of whether the player is indoors and sheltered from it.
    	InDesertContext InIslandContext InValleyContext	Get whether this location is within the Island or Default location context respectively.
    	IsActiveLocation	Get whether this location is actively synced to the current player (see farmhand shadow world).
    	IsTemporary	Get whether this is a temporary location for a festival or minigame. This is cached based on the location name (e.g. locations starting with Temp or some other specific names).
    	GetLocationContextId	Get the ID of the location context in Data/LocationContexts which contains this building.
    	GetContainingBuilding	Get the building instance which contains this location (like the cabin for a cabin interior), if applicable.
    	GetParentLocation	Get the parent location which contains this one (like the farm for a cabin interior), or null if it has no parent.
    	GetRootLocation	Get the parent location which contains this one (like the farm for a cabin interior), or the location itself if it has no parent.
    	GetInstancedBuildingInteriors	Get all building interiors within this location which are instanced to the building (i.e. not in Game1.locations separately).
    	GetMapPropertySplitBySpaces GetTilePropertySplitBySpaces	Get the value of a map/tile property and split it into individual words. If the map/tile property isn't defined, returns an empty array. For example: string[] fields = Game1.currentLocation.GetMapPropertySplitBySpaces("ScreenshotRegion");
    	HasMapPropertyWithValue	Get whether a map property is defined and has a non-empty value. For example: bool canUseCasks = Game1.currentLocation.HasMapPropertyWithValue("CanCaskHere");
    	StoreHayInAnySilo	Add hay to any silo with free space (preferring silos in the current location, then the farm, then anywhere).
    	TryGetMapProperty	Get a map property value as a string, if it's defined. For example: if (this.TryGetMapProperty("Warps", out string warps)) { // ... }
    	TryGetMapPropertyAs	Get a map property and parse it into into a bool, double, Point, Rectangle, or Vector2 value. For example: if (!this.TryGetMapPropertyAs("MailboxLocation", out Point position)) { position = new Point(68, 16); // default value }
    	removeObjectsAndSpawned	Remove all objects, bushes, resource clumps, and terrain features within a tile area.
    	OnBuildingConstructed OnBuildingMoved OnBuildingDemolished	These methods are called for all players when any player constructs, moves, or demolishes a building.
    LibraryMuseum	HasDonatedArtifacts()	Get whether any items have been donated to the museum.
    	HasDonatedArtifactAt(tile)	Get whether any donated item is currently placed at the given tile position within the museum.
    	HasDonatedArtifact(itemId)	Get whether an artifact with the given qualified or unqualified item ID has been donated to the museum.
    MineShaft	GetLevelName	Get the location name for a generated mine or Skull Cavern level. For example: string locationName = MineShaft.GetLevelName(10); // returns "UndergroundMine10" Game1.warpFarmer(locationName, 0, 0, false);
    	IsGeneratedLevel	Get whether a location or location name is a generated mine or Skull Cavern level. For example: string locationName = "UndergroundMine10"; bool isMine = MineShaft.IsGeneratedLevel(locationName, out int level); // returns true, 10
    VolcanoDungeon	GetLevelName IsGeneratedLevel	Equivalent to the matching MineShaft methods, but for the Volcano Dungeon.

  • Added map/tile property TryAdd/TryGetValue extensions in StardewValley.Extensions for string property values. For example, this lets you do map.Properties.TryGetValue(key, out string value).
  • MineShaft.tryToAddMonster now returns whether a monster was added.
  • Game1.GetNumberBuildingsConstructed and location.getNumberBuildingsConstructed now have overloads to count all building types and/or specify whether to count under-construction buildings.
  • Fixed location.refurbishMapPortion copying Back source properties to the Building target layer.
  • Fixed door warps in custom indoor locations not consistently detected by the game.

  What's new for buildings

  Custom buildings

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Blueprint data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now add custom buildings by editing the Data/Buildings asset. This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the building type.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  Required fields

  field	effect
  Name Description	A tokenizable string for the display name and description (e.g. shown in the construction menu).
  Texture	The asset name for the texture under the game's Content folder.

  Construction

  field	effect
  Builder	(Optional) The NPC from whom you can request construction. The vanilla values are Robin and Wizard, but you can specify a different name if a C# mod opens a construction menu for them. Defaults to Robin. If omitted, it won't appear in any menu.
  BuildCost	(Optional) The gold cost to construct the building. Defaults to data-sort-value="0">0g.
  BuildMaterials	(Optional) The materials you must provide to start construction, as a list of models with these fields: field effect Id (Optional) The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Defaults to the ItemId if not specified. ItemId The required item ID (qualified or unqualified). Amount The number of the item required.
  BuildDays	(Optional) The number of days needed to complete construction (e.g. 1 for a building completed the next day). If set to 0, construction finishes instantly. Defaults to 0.
  BuildCondition	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the building should be available in the construction menu. Defaults to always available.
  BuildMenuDrawOffset	(Optional) A pixel offset to apply to the building sprite when drawn in the construction menu. Default none.
  AdditionalPlacementTiles	(Optional) The extra tiles to treat as part of the building when placing it through the construction menu. For example, the farmhouse uses this to make sure the stairs are clear. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect TileArea The tile area relative to the top-left corner of the building, specified as an object with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. OnlyNeedsToBePassable (Optional) Whether this area allows tiles that would normally not be buildable, so long as they are passable. For example, this is used to ensure that an entrance is accessible. Default false.
  IndoorItems	(Optional) The items to place in the building interior when it's constructed or upgraded. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. ItemId The qualified item ID for the item to place. Tile The tile position at which to place the item, specified as an object with X and Y fields. Indestructible (Optional) Whether to prevent the player from destroying, picking up, or moving the item. Default false.
  MagicalConstruction	(Optional) Whether the building is magical. This changes the carpenter menu to a mystic theme while this building's blueprint is selected, and completes the construction instantly when placed.
  AddMailOnBuild	(Optional) A list of letter IDs to send to all players when the building is constructed for the first time.

  Upgrades

  field	effect
  BuildingToUpgrade	(Optional) The ID of the building for which this is an upgrade, or omit to allow constructing it as a new building. For example, the Big Coop sets this to "Coop". Any numbers of buildings can be an upgrade for the same building, in which case the player can choose one upgrade path.
  IndoorItemMoves	(Optional) When applied as an upgrade to an existing building, the placed items in its interior to move when transitioning to the new map. This is a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Source The tile position on which any item will be moved. Destination The tile position to which to move the item. Size (Optional) The tile size of the area to move, specified as a model with X and Y fields. Defaults to a 1×1 area. If this is multiple tiles, the Source and Destination specify the top-left coordinate of the area.
  UpgradeSignTile	(Optional) The tile position relative to the top-left corner of the building where the upgrade sign will be placed when Robin is building an upgrade, in the form "<x>, <y>". Defaults to approximately "5, 1" if the building interior type is Shed, else "0, 0".
  UpgradeSignHeight	(Optional) The pixel height of the upgrade sign when Robin is building an upgrade. Defaults to 0.

  Exterior behavior

  field	effect
  Size	(Optional) The building's width and height when constructed, measured in tiles. Defaults to a 1 x 1 area.
  CollisionMap	(Optional) An ASCII text block which indicates which of the building's tiles the players can walk onto, where each character can be X (blocked) or O (passable). Defaults to all tiles blocked. For example, a stable covers a 2x4 tile area with the front two tiles passable: XXXX XOOX When the collision map is parsed, leading/trailing whitespace is trimmed (both for the entire map and for each line). In JSON, you can specify it in two forms: // single line with \n line breaks "CollisionMap": "XXXX\nXOOX" // multi-line with optional indentation "CollisionMap": " XXXX XOOX "
  HumanDoor	(Optional) The position of the door that can be clicked to warp into the building interior. This is measured in tiles relative to the top-left corner tile. Defaults to disabled.
  AnimalDoor	(Optional) The position and size of the door that animals use to enter/exit the building, if the building interior is an animal location, specified as an object with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. This is measured in tiles relative to the top-left corner tile. Defaults to disabled.
  AnimalDoorOpenDuration AnimalDoorCloseDuration	(Optional) The duration of the open/close animation for the animal door, measured in milliseconds. If omitted, the door switches to the open/closed state instantly.
  AnimalDoorOpenSound AnimalDoorCloseSound	(Optional) The sound which is played once each time the animal door is opened/closed. Disabled by default.

  Exterior appearance

  field	effect
  SourceRect	(Optional) The building's pixel area within the Texture, specified as an object with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. Defaults to the entire texture.
  Skins	(Optional) The appearances which can be selected from Robin's menu (like stone/plank/log cabins), in addition to the default appearance based on Texture. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for the skin. Name Description Tokenizable strings for the skin's display name and description. Texture The asset name for the texture under the game's Content folder. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this skin should be available to apply. This doesn't change buildings which already have it applied. Defaults to always true. BuildDays BuildCost BuildMaterials (Optional) If set, overrides the equivalent field in the building data. ShowAsSeparateConstructionEntry (Optional) Whether this skin should be shown as a separate building option in the construction menu (like cabins). Default false. Metadata (Optional) Equivalent to the Metadata field on the building. Properties defined in this field are added to the building's metadata when this skin is active, overwriting the previous property with the same name if applicable. Default none.
  FadeWhenBehind	(Optional) Whether the building should become semi-transparent when the player is behind it. Default true.
  DrawOffset	(Optional) A pixel offset applied to the building sprite's placement in the world. Default 0.
  SeasonOffset	(Optional) A pixel offset to apply each season. This is applied to the SourceRect position by multiplying the offset by 0 (spring), 1 (summer), 2 (fall), or 3 (winter). Default 0, so all seasons use the same source rect.
  SortTileOffset	(Optional) A Y tile offset applied when figuring out render layering. For example, a value of 2.5 will treat the building as if it was 2.5 tiles further up the screen for the purposes of layering. Default 0.
  DrawLayers	(Optional) A list of textures to draw over or behind the building, with support for conditions and animations. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. SourceRect The pixel area within the texture to draw, formatted like "<x> <y> <width> <height>". If the overlay is animated via FrameCount, this is the area of the first frame. DrawPosition The tile position at which to draw the top-left corner of the texture, relative to the building's top-left corner tile. Texture (Optional) The asset name of the texture to draw. Defaults to the building's default Texture field. DrawInBackground (Optional) Whether to draw the texture behind the building sprite (i.e. underlay) instead of over it. SortTileOffset (Optional) A Y tile offset applied when figuring out render layering. For example, a value of 2.5 will treat the texture as if it was 2.5 tiles further up the screen for the purposes of layering. Default 0. OnlyDrawIfChestHasContents (Optional) The ID of a chest defined in the Chests field which must contain items. If it's empty, this overlay won't be rendered. Default none. FrameCount FramesPerRow FrameDuration (Optional) If FrameCount is more than one, the building overlay will be animated automatically. For each frame, the SourceRect will be offset by its Width to the right up to FramesPerRow - 1 times, and then down by its Height. Each frame will be rendered on-screen for FrameDuration milliseconds before switching to the next frame. For example, if you set FrameCount to 6 and FramesPerRow to 3, the building will expect the frames to be laid out like this in the spritesheet (where frame 1 matches SourceRect): ┌───┬───┬───┐ │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ ├───┼───┼───┤ │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │ └───┴───┴───┘ AnimalDoorOffset (Optional) A pixel offset applied to the draw layer when the animal door is open. While the door is opening, the percentage open is applied to the offset (e.g. 50% open = 50% offset).
  DrawShadow	(Optional) Whether to draw an automatic shadow along the bottom edge of the building's sprite. Default true.

  Interior

  field	effect
  IndoorMap	(Optional) The name of the map asset under Maps to load for the building interior. For example, "Shed" will load the shed's Maps/Shed map.
  IndoorMapType	(Optional) The full name of the C# location class which will manage the building's interior location. This must be one of the vanilla types to avoid a crash when saving. There are too many to list here, but the most useful types are likely... StardewValley.AnimalHouse; StardewValley.Locations.Cabin; StardewValley.Locations.Cellar; StardewValley.Locations.DecoratableLocation; StardewValley.Locations.FarmCave; StardewValley.Locations.FarmHouse; StardewValley.Shed; and StardewValley.SlimeHutch. Defaults to the generic StardewValley.GameLocation class.
  NonInstancedIndoorLocation	(Optional) The name of the existing global location to treat as the building's interior, like FarmHouse and Greenhouse for their buildings. Each location can only be used by one building. If the location is already in use (e.g. because the player has two of this building), each subsequent building will use the IndoorMap and IndoorMapType instead. For example, the first greenhouse will use the global Greenhouse location, and any subsequent greenhouse will use a separate instanced location.
  MaxOccupants	(Optional) The maximum number of animals who can live in this building.
  AllowAnimalPregnancy	(Optional) Whether animals can get pregnant and produce offspring in this building. Default false.
  ValidOccupantTypes	(Optional) A list of building IDs whose animals to allow in this building too. For example, [ "Barn", "Coop" ] will allow barn and coop animals in this building. Default none.

  Item processing

  field	effect
  HayCapacity	(Optional) The amount of hay that can be stored in this building. If built on the farm, this works just like silos and contributes to the farm's available hay.
  ItemConversions	(Optional) The item processing rules which take input items and convert them into output items using the inventories defined by Chests. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this rule within the current list. RequiredTags A list of context tags to match against an input item. An item must have all of these tags to be accepted. SourceChest The ID of the inventory defined in Chests from which to take input items. DestinationChest The ID of the inventory defined in Chests in which to store output items. ProducedItems The output items produced when an input item is converted. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect common fields See item spawn fields for the generic item fields supported by machine output. If set to an item query which returns multiple items, one of them will be selected at random. Chance (Optional) The probability that the item will be produced, as a value between 0 (never drops) and 1 (always drops). Default 1 (100% chance). RequiredCount (Optional) The number of the input item to consume. Default 1. MaxDailyConversions (Optional) The maximum number of the input item which can be processed each day. Each conversion rule has its own separate maximum (e.g. if you have two rules each with a max of 1, then you can convert one of each daily). Set to -1 to allow unlimited conversions. Default 1.
  Chests	(Optional) The input/output inventories that can be accessed from a tile on the building exterior. The allowed items are defined by the separate ItemConversions field. This is a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this chest within the current list. This is referenced from the ItemConversions field. Type The inventory type. This must be one of: Chest: show a normal chest UI on click. Collect: provides items for the player to collect. Clicking the tile will do nothing (if empty), grab the item directly (if it only contains one item), else show a grab-only inventory UI. Load: lets the player add items for the building to process. Sound (Optional) The sound to play once when the player clicks the chest. InvalidItemMessage InvalidCountMessage ChestFullMessage (Optional) A tokenizable string to show when the player tries to add an item to the chest when... it isn't a supported item; it's supported but they don't have enough in their inventory; the chest has no more room to accept it. If omitted, the player interaction is ignored with no message shown. InvalidItemMessageCondition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether InvalidItemMessage should be shown. This can use item-related queries like ITEM_TYPE. Defaults to always true. DisplayTile (Optional) The chest's position on the building exterior, measured in tiles from the top-left corner of the building, specified in the form "<x>, <y>". This affects the position of the 'item ready to collect' bubble. If omitted, the bubble is disabled. DisplayHeight (Optional) If DisplayTile is set, the chest's tile height like 1.5.

  Tile interactions

  field	effect
  ActionTiles	(Optional) A list of tiles which the player can click to trigger an Action map tile property. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Tile The tile position, relative to the building's top-left corner tile. Action The tokenizable string for the action to perform, excluding the Action prefix. For example, "Dialogue Hi there @!" to show a messagebox like "Hi there <player name>!". The tokenizable string is expected before the action is raised. See the list of tile properties for useful Action values.
  DefaultAction	(Optional) The default tile action if the clicked tile isn't in ActionTiles. Default none.
  TileProperties	(Optional) The map tile properties to set. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Name The tile property name to set. Value (Optional) The tile property value to set, or omit to set a null value. Layer The name of the map layer whose tiles to change. TileArea The tiles to which to add the property, relative to the top-left corner of the building's collision box. This is specified as an object with X, Y, Width, and Height fields.
  AdditionalTilePropertyRadius	(Optional) When checking whether the player clicked on a TileProperties tile, an added distance around the building at which tile locations may be placed. Default 0, so only tile properties within the normal building bounds will work.

  Advanced

  field	effect
  Metadata	(Optional) A list of custom properties applied to the building, which can optionally be overridden per-skin in the Skins field. Default none. The base game recognizes these properties: property description ChimneyPosition: <x> <y> (Optional) The pixel position at which to place a chimney on the building exterior, relative to the top-left corner of the sprite. This will apply the same logic as the farmhouse chimney (e.g. producing smoke if there's a lit fireplace inside the building). ChimneyPosition[upgrade level]: <x> <y> (Optional, for farmhouses/cabins only) Override ChimneyPosition for the given upgrade level, starting from 0 for the initial farmhouse/cabin. If there's no override for the current upgrade level, the highest override for a lower upgrade level is used (if any). For example, ChimneyPosition3 would be used for the third house upgrade (and the fourth if there's no ChimneyPosition4). This can also contain arbitrary custom properties, which C# mods can read using building.GetMetadata(key).
  BuildingType	(Optional) The full name of the C# type to instantiate for the building instance. Defaults to a generic Building instance. ⚠ Caution: this is meant to support vanilla building types like StardewValley.Shed. Setting this to a non-vanilla type will cause a crash when it's written to the save file, and may cause crashes in multiplayer. If you need custom behavior, consider handling it in C# based on the building type instead of creating a custom subclass; otherwise you'll need a framework mod like SpaceCore to handle serialization and multiplayer sync.
  ModData	(Optional) A string → string lookup of arbitrary modData values to attach to the building when it's constructed.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Build anywhere

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Blueprint data and Modding:Maps. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • You can now allow building construction for any location using the new CanBuildHere and related map properties. The game will adjust accordingly (e.g. Robin will let you choose where to construct the building).
  • Buildings and animals are no longer hardcoded to the farm location (except cabins and the farmhouse which still are).
  • Scything hay will now add hay to silos in any location, and animals will be auto-fed from hay in any location.

  Other building changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Blueprint data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: other location changes for location-related building changes.

  General building changes

  • Building display names & descriptions are now in Strings/Buildings for reuse.
  • Removed Data/Blueprints. This has been replaced by Data/Buildings (building data) and Strings/Buildings (display names & descriptions).
  • Added methods to simplify common operations:

    type	method	effect
    Building	CreateInstanceFromId	Create a building instance from its type ID in Data/Buildings. For example: Building shippingBin = Building.CreateInstanceFromId("Shipping Bin", Vector2.Zero); // creates an instance of StardewValley.Buildings.ShippingBin
    	GetData TryGetData	Get the data for the building's type from Data/Building.
    	GetMetadata	Get a value from the Metadata field in Data/Buildings for this building.
    	GetPaintDataKey	Get the key in Data/PaintData for this building, if it has any.
    	ReloadBuildingData	Apply the latest data in Data/Buildings to this building.
    	FinishConstruction	If the building is being constructed or upgrade, instantly finish doing so.
    	UpdateTransparency	Update the building transparency on tick for the local player's position. This method mainly exists to let mods override/patch the transparency logic.
    Farm	GetMainFarmHouse	Get the main farmhouse building.
    GameLocation	OnParentBuildingUpgraded	Called when the building containing this location is upgraded, if applicable.

  • Added building id field, which uniquely identifies each building in the world.

  Junimo hut changes

  • The JunimoHut.cropHarvestRange field is now per-building and editable.

  Fish pond changes

  • In Data/FishPondData, added a Precedence field which sets the order in which entries are checked for a match (with lower values checked first). This ensures that the fallback entries are checked after specific fish. For consistency, vanilla entries use these values:

    precedence	used for
    0 (default value)	specific fish
    100	custom groups (e.g. desert fish)
    500	broad fish type (e.g. ocean fish)
    1000	fallback (e.g. fish category)

  • In Data/FishPondData, the reward ItemId can now be an item query.
  • Legendary fish can now be added to fish ponds if they have an entry in Data/FishPondData.

  What's new for NPCs

  Custom NPCs

  These docs should be merged into Modding:NPC data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Custom NPC data has been overhauled in 1.6. The new Data/Characters asset (which replaces Data/NPCDispositions + Data/spousePatios + Data/spouseRooms) uses a data model format that's easier to edit and understand, and has a lot of fields to customize previously-hardcoded data.

  Format

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the NPC like Example.ModId_NpcName, which will be used as the internal Name (not DisplayName).
  • The value is a model with the following fields.

  Basic info:

  field	effect
  DisplayName	A tokenizable string for the NPC's display name.
  Language	(Optional) The language spoken by the NPC. One of Default (the default language understood by the player) or Dwarvish (which the player can only understand after finding the Dwarvish translation guide). Default Default.
  Gender	(Optional) The NPC's gender identity. One of Female, Male, or Undefined. Default Undefined.
  Age	(Optional) The general age of the NPC. One of Child, Teen, or Adult. Default Adult. This affects generated dialogue lines (e.g. a child might say "stupid" and an adult might say "depressing"), generic dialogue (e.g. a child might respond to dumpster diving with "Eww... What are you doing?" and a teen would say "Um... Why are you digging in the trash?"), and the gift they choose as Feast of the Winter Star gift-giver. Children are also excluded from item delivery quests.
  Manner	(Optional) A measure of the character's general politeness, which affects some generic dialogue lines. One of Neutral, Polite, or Rude. Default Neutral.
  SocialAnxiety	(Optional) A measure of the character's comfort with social situations, which affects some generic dialogue lines. One of Neutral, Outgoing, or Shy. Default Neutral.
  Optimism	(Optional) A measure of the character's overall optimism. One of Neutral, Negative, or Positive. Default Neutral.
  BirthSeason	(Optional if non-social) The season name (case-sensitive) for the NPC's birthday. One of spring, summer, fall, or winter. Default none.
  BirthDay	(Optional if non-social) The day number for the NPC's birthday. Default 0.
  HomeRegion	(Optional) The region of the world in which the NPC lives (one of Desert, Town, or Other). For example, only Town NPCs are counted for the introductions quest, can be selected as a secret santa for the Feast of the Winter Star, or get a friendship boost from the Luau. Default Other.
  IsDarkSkinned	(Optional) Whether the NPC has dark skin, which affects the chance of children with the player having dark skin too. Default false.

  Social features:

  field	effect
  CanSocialize	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether to enable social features (like birthdays, gift giving, friendship, and an entry in the social tab). Default true.
  CanBeRomanced	(Optional) Whether the NPC can be dated and romanced. This enables romance features for this NPC (like a 'single' label in the social menu, bouquet gifting, and marriage). Default false.
  CanReceiveGifts	(Optional) Whether players can give gifts to this NPC. Default true. The NPC must also be social per CanSocialize and have an entry in Data/NPCGiftTastes to be giftable, regardless of this value.
  CanCommentOnPurchasedShopItems	(Optional) Whether this NPC can comment on items that a player sold to a shop which then resold it to them. If null (or omitted), this will default to true if their HomeRegion is set to Town. The NPC must also be social per CanSocialize to allow it, regardless of this value.
  CanGreetNearbyCharacters	(Optional) Whether this NPC can show a speech bubble greeting nearby players or NPCs, and or be greeted by other NPCs. Default true.
  CanVisitIsland	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the NPC can visit the Ginger Island resort once it's unlocked. Default true. The NPC must also be social per CanSocialize to visit the island, regardless of this value.
  LoveInterest	(Optional) Unused.
  Calendar	(Optional) Determines when the NPC's birthday is shown in the calendar. Possible values: value effect HiddenAlways They never appear in the calendar. HiddenUntilMet Until the player meets them, they don't appear in the calendar. AlwaysShown They always appear in the calendar. Defaults to AlwaysShown.
  SocialTab	(Optional) Determines how the NPC is shown on the social tab when unlocked. Possible values: value effect HiddenAlways They never appear in the social tab. HiddenUntilMet Until the player meets them, they don't appear on the social tab. UnknownUntilMet Until the player meets them, their name on the social tab is replaced with "???". AlwaysShown They always appear in the social tab (including their name). Defaults to UnknownUntilMet.
  SpouseAdopts	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the player will need to adopt children with this spouse, instead of either the player or NPC giving birth. If null, defaults to true for same-gender and false for opposite-gender spouses. The Target player is the one they're married to.
  SpouseWantsChildren	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the spouse will ask to have children. Defaults to true. The Target player is the one they're married to.
  SpouseGiftJealousy	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the spouse will get jealous of gifts to other NPCs. Defaults to true. The Target player is the one they're married to, and the Target item is the one that was gifted.
  SpouseGiftJealousyFriendshipChange	(Optional) The friendship point effect when the SpouseGiftJealously is triggered. Default -30.
  SpouseRoom	(Optional) The NPC's spouse room in the farmhouse when the player marries them, if applicable. If this is omitted for a marriageable NPC, they'll use Abigail's spouse room by default. This consists of a model with these fields: field effect MapAsset (Optional) The asset name for the spouse room map. The Map/ prefix is added automatically and shouldn't be included. Defaults to spouseRooms. MapSourceRect (Optional) The tile area within the MapAsset containing the spouse's room. This should usually be a 6x9 tile area, though the game will try to adjust to a different size. Specified as a model with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. Defaults to (0, 0, 6, 9).
  SpousePatio	(Optional) The NPC's patio area on the farm when the player marries them, if any. Default none. This consists of a model with these fields: field effect MapAsset (Optional) The asset name for the patio area. The Map/ prefix is added automatically and shouldn't be included. Defaults to spousePatios. MapSourceRect (Optional) The tile area within the MapAsset containing the spouse's patio area. This must be a 4x4 tile area. Specified as a model with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. Defaults to (0, 0, 4, 4). SpriteAnimationFrames (Optional) The spouse's animation frames when they're in the patio. Each frame is an array containing [0] the sprite index in their spritesheet, and [1] the optional duration in milliseconds (default 100). If omitted or empty, the NPC won't be animated. For example, here is Abigail playing the flute: "SpriteAnimationFrames": [ [16, 500], // show index 16 for 500ms [17, 500], [18, 500], [19] // if duration is omitted, defaults to 100ms ] SpriteAnimationPixelOffset (Optional) The pixel offset to apply to the NPC's sprite when they're animated in the patio, specified as a model with X and Y fields. This is ignored if the NPC isn't animated via SpriteAnimationFrames. Default none.
  SpouseFloors SpouseWallpapers	(Optional) The floors and wallpapers which the NPC may randomly apply to the farmhouse when married to the player. If omitted or empty, the NPC will randomly choose a base floor (0–39) or wallpaper (0–111).
  IntroductionsQuest	(Optional) Whether to include this NPC in the introductions quest. If null (or omitted), this will default to true if the HomeRegion field is set to Town.
  ItemDeliveryQuests	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this NPC can give item delivery quests. If null (or omitted), this will default to true if the HomeRegion field is set to Town. The NPC must also be social per CanSocialize to allow it, regardless of this value.
  PerfectionScore	(Optional) Whether to include this NPC when checking whether the player has max friendships with every NPC for the perfection score. Default true. The NPC must also be social per CanSocialize to be counted, regardless of this value.
  EndSlideShow	(Optional) How the NPC appears in the end-game perfection slide show. Possible values: value effect Hidden The NPC doesn't appear in the slide show. MainGroup The NPC is added to the main group of NPCs which walk across the screen. TrailingGroup The NPC is added to the trailing group of NPCs which follow the main group. Defaults to MainGroup.
  FriendsAndFamily	(Optional) The NPC's closest friends and family, as a dictionary where the key is the other NPC's internal name and the value is an optional tokenizable string for the name to use in dialogue text (like 'mom'). Default none. This affects generic dialogue for revealing likes and dislikes to family members, and may affect inlaw_<NPC> dialogues. This isn't necessarily comprehensive.

  Dumpster diving:

  field	effect
  DumpsterDiveEmote	(Optional) The emote ID to show above the NPC's head when they see a player rummaging through trash. See emote IDs. If omitted or null, the default depends on the NPC's age: a child will show sad (28), a teen will show a question mark (8), and an adult will show angry (12).
  DumpsterDiveFriendshipEffect	(Optional) The friendship point change if this NPC sees a player rummaging through trash. Default -25.

  Festivals:

  field	effect
  FlowerDanceCanDance	(Optional) Whether players can ask the NPC to dance at the Flower Dance festival. The possible values are true (can always ask), false (can never ask), or null (can ask if they're romanceable). Default null. If the NPC can dance, you should also add the dance sprite frames and FlowerDance_Decline dialogue text. You can optionally set the FlowerDance_Accept dialogue too (though NPCs have a default accept dialogue if not).
  WinterStarParticipant	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this NPC can give and receive gifts at the Feast of the Winter Star. If null (or omitted), this will default to true if the HomeRegion field is set to Town.
  WinterStarGifts	At the Feast of the Winter Star, the possible gifts this NPC can give to players. A matching entry is selected at random. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect common fields See item spawn fields for the generic item fields. If set to an item query which returns multiple items, one of them will be selected at random.

  Spawn rules:

  field	effect
  UnlockConditions	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the NPC should be added to the world, checked when loading a save and when ending each day. This only affects whether the NPC is added when missing; returning false won't remove an NPC that's already been added. Defaults to true.
  SpawnIfMissing	(Optional) Whether to add this NPC to the world if they're missing (if the UnlockConditions match and HomeLocation is valid). Default true.
  Home	(Optional) The default place where this NPC spawns and returns each day. If there are multiple entries, the first matching one is used. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect ID The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Location (Optional) The internal name for the home location where this NPC spawns and returns each day. Default none. Tile (Optional) The tile position within the home location where this NPC spawns and returns each day. Specified as a model with X and Y fields. Defaults to (0, 0). Direction (Optional) The default direction the NPC faces when they start each day. The possible values are down, left, right, and up. Defaults to up. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry can be selected. Default true.

  Appearance & sprite:

  field	effect
  TextureName	(Optional) The last segment of the NPC's portrait and sprite asset names. For example, set to Abigail to use Portraits/Abigail and Characters/Abigail respectively. Defaults to the internal NPC name.
  Appearance	(Optional) The portrait/sprite textures to use. This can list any number of appearance options. They'll be sorted by Precedence value (with lower values taking priority), then filtered to those whose fields match. If multiple matching appearances have precedence, one entry is randomly chosen based on their relative weight. This randomization is stable per day, so the NPC always makes the same choice until the next day. If a portrait/sprite can't be loaded (or no appearances match), the NPC will use the default asset based on TextureName. The NPC rechecks this field each time they change location. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the current list. Season (Optional) The season in which this appearance should be used (one of spring, summer, fall, or winter), or omit for any season. Defaults to any season. Indoors Outdoors (Optional) Whether this appearance should be used when indoors and/or outdoors. Both default to true. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this entry can be selected. Default true. Portrait Sprite (Optional) The asset name for the portraits and/or sprites texture to load. If omitted or it can't be loaded, it will default to the default asset per the Texture field. IsIslandAttire (Optional) Whether this is island beach attire worn at the resort. Default false. This is mutually exclusive: NPCs will never wear it in other contexts if it's true, and will never wear it as island attire if it's false. Precedence (Optional) The order in which this entry should be checked, where lower values are checked first. This can be a negative value. Default 0. Weight (Optional) If multiple entries with the same Precedence match, the relative weight to use when randomly choosing one. Default 1. For example, let's say two appearance entries match: one has a weight of 2, and the other has a weight of 1. Their probability of being chosen is 2/3 and 1/3 respectively. Note: the default textures based on TextureName must still exist, even if you use this field to override them.
  MugShotSourceRect	(Optional) The 16x24-pixel area in the character's sprite texture to show as their mug shot icon in the calendar, social menu, and other contexts. Defaults to part of their first sprite.
  Size	(Optional) The pixel size of the individual sprites in their overworld sprite spritesheet. Specified as a model with X and Y fields. Defaults to (16, 32). Note: sizes bigger than 16×32 will cause issues like broken spawning, pathfinding, misalignment in the perfection end-game slide show, etc.
  Breather	(Optional) Whether the chest on the NPC's overworld sprite puffs in and out as they breathe. Default true.
  BreathChestRect	(Optional) A rectangle pixel area within the spritesheet which expands and contracts to simulate breathing, relative to the top-left corner of the source rectangle for their current sprite. Omit to calculate it automatically. This should be omitted for most NPCs, unless they have a non-standard size.
  BreathChestPosition	(Optional) A point pixel offset to apply to the NPC's BreathChestPosition when drawn over the NPC. Omit to calculate it automatically. This should be omitted for most NPCs, unless they have a non-standard size.
  Shadow	(Optional) The options for the shadow to draw under the NPC, or omit to apply the default shadow behavior. This consists of a model with these fields: field effect Visible (Optional) Whether the shadow should be drawn. Default true. Offset (Optional) A point pixel offset applied to the shadow position. Default zero. Scale (Optional) The scale at which to draw the shadow. Default 1. This is a multiplier applied to the default shadow scale, which can change based on factors like whether the NPC is jumping. For example, 0.5 means half the size it'd be drawn if you didn't specify a scale.
  EmoteOffset	(Optional) A point pixel offset applied to emote drawn over the NPC. Default zero.
  ShakePortraits	(Optional) The portrait indexes which should shake when displayed. Default none.
  KissSpriteIndex	(Optional) If the NPC can be married, the sprite index within their Texture to use when kissing a player. Default 28.
  KissSpriteFacingDirection	(Optional) Whether the character is facing right (true) or left (false) in their KissSpriteIndex. The sprite will be flipped as needed to face the player. Default true.

  Hidden gift log emote:

  field	effect
  HiddenProfileEmoteSound	(Optional) For the hidden gift log emote, the cue ID for the sound played when clicking the sprite. Defaults to drumkit6.
  HiddenProfileEmoteDuration	(Optional) For the hidden gift log emote, how long the animation plays measured in milliseconds. Defaults to 4000 (4 seconds).
  HiddenProfileEmoteStartFrame	(Optional) For the hidden gift log emote, the index within the NPC's overworld sprite spritesheet at which the animation starts. If omitted for a vanilla NPC, the game plays a default animation specific to that NPC; if omitted for a custom NPC, the game just shows them walking while facing down.
  HiddenProfileEmoteFrameCount	(Optional) For the hidden gift log emote, the number of frames in the animation. The first frame corresponds to HiddenProfileEmoteStartFrame, and each subsequent frame will use the next sprite in the spritesheet. Default 1. This has no effect if HiddenProfileEmoteStartFrame isn't set.
  HiddenProfileEmoteFrameDuration	(Optional) For the hidden gift log emote, how long each animation frame is shown on-screen before switching to the next one, measured in milliseconds. Default 200. This has no effect if HiddenProfileEmoteStartFrame isn't set.

  Advanced:

  field	effect
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.
  FormerCharacterNames	(Optional) The former NPC names which may appear in save data. If matched, the game will rename the NPC and update related data (e.g. friendship). A former name is only applied if: it doesn't match a current ID in Data/Characters; the save has an NPC with the former name; the save doesn't already have an NPC with the new name. For example: "FormerCharacterNames": [ "SomeOldName" ] Former names can have any format, but they must be globally unique. They can't match the ID or FormerCharacterNames of any other NPC in Data/Characters (whether vanilla or custom).
  FestivalVanillaActorIndex	(Optional, Specialized) The NPC's index in the Maps/characterSheet tilesheet, if applicable. This is used for placing vanilla NPCs in festivals from the map; custom NPCs should use the <layer>_additionalCharacters field in the festival data instead.

  Examples

  For example, this content pack adds a new Amabel NPC with full social features:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/Characters",
              "Entries": {
                  "{{ModId}}_Amabel": {
                      "DisplayName": "Amabel", // this would normally use {{i18n:}} to support translations
                      "BirthSeason": "Fall",
                      "BirthDay": 14,
                      "HomeRegion": "Town",
                      "Gender": "Female",
                      "Age": "Teen",
                      "Manner": "Rude",
                      "SocialAnxiety": "Outgoing",
                      "Optimism": "Neutral",
  
                      "CanBeRomanced": true,
                      "LoveInterest": "Abigail",
  
                      "Home": [
                          {
                              "Id": "Default",
                              "Location": "SeedShop",
                              "Tile": { "X": 1, "Y": 9 },
                              "Direction": "Left"
                          }
                      ]
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  You can also add non-social NPCs which don't have birthdays or friendship points, accept gifts, give quests, etc:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/Characters",
              "Entries": {
                  "{{ModId}}_Belwick": {
                      "DisplayName": "Belwick", // this would normally use {{i18n:}} to support translations
  
                      "SocialTab": "HiddenAlways",
                      "CanSocialize": "FALSE",
                      "IntroductionsQuest": false,
                      "PerfectionScore": false,
                      "EndSlideShow": true
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Custom NPC appearance

  These docs should be merged into Modding:NPC data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Each NPC can now have any number of custom portraits/sprites in Data/Characters with arbitrary conditions. This lets mods add features like indoor/outdoor outfits without the performance impact of reloading textures. If multiple outfits apply, the game will choose between them with a day-stable randomization.

  For example, you can load indoor/outdoor outfits for a custom NPC to swap between automatically:

  // add base indoor/outdoor sprites
  {
      "Action": "Load",
      "Target": "Characters/Johnny_Indoor, Characters/Johnny_Outdoor, Portraits/Johnny_Indoor, Portraits/Johnny_Outdoor",
      "FromFile": "assets/{{Target}}.png"
  },
  
  // apply any overlays needed
  {
      "Action": "EditImage",
      "Target": "Characters/Johnny_Indoor, Portraits/Johnny_Indoor",
      "FromFile": "assets/overlays/{{Target}}_married.png",
      "When": {
          "Spouse": "Johnny"
      }
  },
  
  // add NPC
  {
      "Action": "EditData",
      "Target": "Data/Characters",
      "Entries": {
          "SomeMod.Id_Johnny": {
              ...,
              "Appearance": [
                  {
                      "Id": "Outdoors",
                      "Indoors": false,
                      "Portrait": "Portraits/Johnny_Outdoor",
                      "Sprite": "Characters/Johnny_Outdoor"
                  },
                  {
                      "Id": "Default",
                      "Portrait": "Portraits/Johnny_Indoor",
                      "Sprite": "Characters/Johnny_Indoor"
                  }
              ]
          }
      }
  }
  

  See the Appearance field in custom NPC data for more info.

  Custom farm animals

  See the updated docs at Modding:Animal data. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  You can now create and edit farm animals by editing the revamped Data/FarmAnimals asset. This changes to a data model, adds built-in support for custom animals, and allows far more customizability per animal (like its size, growth, produce, appearance and sounds, etc).

  Custom pets

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Format

  You can now create and customize pets & pet breeds by editing the new Data/Pets asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the pet (not the pet breed). The vanilla IDs are Cat and Dog.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  Basic info

  field	effect
  DisplayName	A tokenizable string for the pet type's display name (e.g. "cat" or "dog"). For example, the vanilla adoption events show this when Marnie asks if you want to adopt the cat/dog.

  Audio & sprites

  field	effect
  BarkSound	The cue ID for the pet's occasional 'bark' sound.
  ContentSound	The cue ID for the sound which the pet makes when you pet it.
  RepeatContentSoundAfter	(Optional) The number of milliseconds until the ContentSound is repeated once. This is used by the dog, who pants twice when pet. Defaults to -1 (disabled).
  EmoteOffset	(Optional) A pixel offset for the emote drawn above the pet sprite, specified as an object with X and Y fields. For example, this affects the heart emote shown after petting it. Default none.

  Events

  field	effect
  EventOffset	(Optional) The pixel offset for the pet when shown in events like Marnie's adoption event, specified as an object with X and Y fields. Default none.
  AdoptionEventLocation AdoptionEventId	(Optional) If both fields are set, the location and event ID which lets the player adopt this pet. This forces the event to play after 20 days if its preconditions haven't been met yet. Default Farm and none respectively.
  SummitPerfectionEvent	(Optional) How to render the pet during the summit perfection slideshow. If this isn't set, the pet won't be shown in the slideshow. This consists of a model with these fields: field effect SourceRect The source rectangle within the pet's texture to draw. AnimationLength The number of frames to show starting from the SourceRect. Motion The motion to apply to the pet sprite. Flipped (Optional) Whether to flip the pet sprite left-to-right. Default false. PingPong (Optional) Whether to apply the 'ping pong' effect to the pet sprite animation. Default false.

  Gifts

  field	effect
  GiftChance	(Optional) The random probability each day that the pet will give the player a gift from the Gifts list when they interact with the pet. Specified as a value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). Default .2 (20% chance).
  Gifts	(Optional) The list of gifts that this pet can give if the GiftChance is successful. Default none. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Id The unique string ID for this entry within the list. QualifiedItemID The qualified item ID for the gift item to create. Stack (Optional) The stack size of the gift item to produce. Default 1. MinimumFriendshipThreshold (Optional) The friendship level that this pet must be at before it can give this gift. Defaults to 1000 (max friendship). Weight (Optional) The option's weight when randomly choosing a gift, relative to other gifts in the list (e.g. 2 is twice as likely as 1). Default 1.

  Behavior

  field	effect
  Id	The unique string ID for this entry within the list.
  MoveSpeed	(Optional) How quickly the pet can move. Default 2.
  SleepOnBedChance SleepNearBedChance SleepOnRugChance	(Optional) The percentage chances for the locations where the pet will sleep each night, as a decimal value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). Each value is checked in the order listed at left until a match is found. If none of them match, the pet will choose a random empty spot in the farmhouse; if none was found, it'll sleep next to its pet bowl outside.
  Behaviors	The pet's possible actions and behaviors, defined as the states in a state machine. Essentially the pet will be in one state at any given time, which also determines which state they can transition to next. For example, a cat can transition from Walk to BeginSitDown, but it can't skip instantly from Walk to SitDownLick. This consists of a list of models with these fields: Required fields: field effect Id A unique ID for the state. This only needs to be unique within the pet type (e.g. Cat and Dog can have different behaviors with the same ID). Direction: field effect Direction (Optional) The specific direction to face at the start of this state (one of left, right, up, or down), unless overridden by RandomizeDirection. RandomizeDirection (Optional) Whether to point the pet in a random direction at the start of this state (overriding the Direction if specified). Default false. IsSideBehavior (Optional) Whether to constrain the pet's facing direction to left and right while the state is active. Default false. Movement: field effect WalkInDirection (Optional) Whether to walk in the pet's facing direction. Default false. MoveSpeed (Optional) Overrides the pet's MoveSpeed field while this state is active. Default -1 (which uses the pet's MoveSpeed value). Audio: field effect SoundOnStart (Optional) The audio cue ID for the sound to play when the state starts. If set to BARK, the pet's BarkSound (or breed's BarkOverride) field is used. Defaults to none. SoundRange SoundRangeFromBorder (Optional) When set, the SoundOnStart is only audible if the pet is within this many tiles away from the player (SoundRange) or past the border of the screen (SoundRangeFromBorder). Default -1 (no distance check). SoundIsVoice (Optional) Whether to mute the SoundOnStart when the 'mute animal sounds' option is set. Default false. Behavior transitions: field effect AnimationEndBehaviorChanges TimeoutBehaviorChanges PlayerNearbyBehaviorChanges RandomBehaviorChanges JumpLandBehaviorChanges (Optional) A list of possible behavior transitions to start when the criteria are achieved. If multiple transitions are listed, a random one will be selected. If omitted, it won't affect behavior transitions. These are triggered when this behavior's animation finishes (AnimationEndBehaviorChanges), when the set duration ends (TimeoutBehaviorChanges), when the player is within 2 tiles of the pet (PlayerNearbyBehaviorChanges), randomly at the start of each frame based on the RandomBehaviorChangeChance field (RandomBehaviorChanges), and when the pet finishes a jump (JumpLandBehaviorChanges). These consist of a list of models with these fields: field effect Behavior LeftBehavior RightBehavior UpBehavior DownBehavior The ID of the behavior to start. The pet will check for a behavior field matching its current facing direction first, then try the Behavior. If none are specified, the current behavior will continue unchanged. OutsideOnly (Optional) Whether the transition can only happen if the pet is outside. Default false. Weight (Optional) The option's weight when randomly choosing a behavior, relative to other behaviors in the list (e.g. 2 is twice as likely as 1). Default 1. Duration MinimumDuration MaximumDuration (Optional) The millisecond duration until the pet transitions to a behavior in the TimeoutBehaviorChanges field, if set. You must specify either a specific duration, or an inclusive minimum-to-maximum range in which the game will choose a random duration. If omitted, the behavior won't have a duration limit. RandomBehaviorChangeChance (Optional) The random probability at the start of each frame that the pet will transition to a behavior in the RandomBehaviorChanges field, if set. Specified as a value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). Default 0. Animation and per-frame sounds: field effect Animation (Optional) The animation frames to play while this state is active. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect Frame The frame index in the animation. This should be an incremental number starting at 0. Duration The millisecond duration for which the frame should be kept on-screen before continuing to the next frame. HitGround (Optional) Whether to play the footstep sound for the tile under the pet when the frame starts. Default false. Jump (Optional) Whether the pet should perform a small hop when the frame starts, including a 'dwop' sound. Default false. Sound (Optional) The audio cue ID for the sound to play when the animation starts or loops. If set to BARK, the pet's BarkSound (or breed's BarkOverride) field is used. Defaults to none. SoundRange SoundRangeFromBorder SoundIsVoice See description for the equivalent behavior fields, but applies to the frame's Sound field instead. Shake (Optional) The millisecond duration for which to shake the pet when the state starts. Default 0. LoopMode (Optional) What to do when the last animation frame is reached while the behavior is still active. The possible values are Hold (keep the last frame visible until the animation ends), Loop (restart from the first frame), or None (equivalent to Loop). Default None. AnimationMinimumLoops AnimationMaximumLoops (Optional) The minimum and maximum number of times to play the animation. Both must be specified to have any effect. The game will choose an inclusive random value between them. Both default to -1 (don't repeat animation).

  Breeds

  field

  effect

  Breeds

  The cosmetic breeds which can be selected in the character customization menu when creating a save. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect ID The unique ID for the breed within the pet type. Texture The asset name for the breed spritesheet for the pet's in-game sprite. This should be 128 pixels wide, and 256 (cat) or 288 (dog) pixels high. IconTexture The asset name for the breed icon texture, shown on the character customization screen and in-game menu. This should be a 16x16 pixel icon. IconSourceRect The icon's pixel area within the IconTexture, specified as an object with X, Y, Width, and Height fields. BarkOverride (Optional) Override the pet's BarkSound field for this breed, if set. VoicePitch (Optional) The pitch applied to the pet's bark sound, measured as a decimal value relative to 1. Defaults to 1.

  Advanced

  field	effect
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Other changes

  • The pet bowl is now a building which can be constructed or moved. Each pet is assigned to an available pet bowl. For C# mods, each pet now has a guid field populated with a unique ID, and each pet bowl has a petGuid field which tracks its owner (see the PetBowl::HasPet() and PetBowl::FindPet() methods).
  • In the event character setup, you can now use pet to add a pet of the player's selected type. Its actor name will be PetActor in other event commands. This supersedes cat (with name Cat) and dog (with name Dog), though those still work too.
  • For C# mods:
    • All pets now use a generic Pet class, instead of Cat or Dog. The pet type is tracked by the pet's petType field.
    • The player's preferred pet type is tracked by Game1.player.whichPetType. The former catPerson field is now readonly and checks that field.
    • Added Pet.type_cat and Pet.type_dog constants for the default pet types.

  Custom monster eradication goals

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: Monster eradication goal flag changes.

  You can now add/edit Adventurer's Guild monster eradication goals by editing the new Data/MonsterSlayerQuests data asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the monster eradication goal.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	effect
  DisplayName	A tokenizable string for the goal's display name, shown on the board in the Adventurer's Guild.
  Targets	A list of monster IDs that are counted towards the Count.
  Count	The total number of monsters (matching the Targets) which must be defeated to complete this goal.
  RewardItemId	(Optional) The qualified ID for the item that can be collected from Gil when this goal is completed. Default none.
  RewardItemPrice	(Optional) The price of the RewardItemId in Marlon's shop after the goal is completed, or -1 to disable buying it from Marlon. Default -1.
  RewardDialogue RewardDialogueFlag	(Optional) A tokenizable string for custom Gil dialogue shown when talking to him after completing the goal, and an optional mail flag to set when the player has seen the dialogue. Both default to none. If there are reward items, they're shown after this dialogue. If RewardDialogue is used without RewardDialogueFlag, then this dialogue will be shown each time the reward menu is opened after completing the goal, until the player collects the reward items. If the RewardItems isn't set, this can safely be omitted since the goal will be marked collected immediately. This doesn't send a letter; see RewardMail or RewardMailAll for that.
  RewardFlag RewardFlagAll	(Optional) The mail flag ID to set for the current player (RewardFlag) or all players (RewardFlagAll) when talking to Gil after completing the goal. Default none. Note that RewardFlag is usually not needed, since the game will also set a Gil_<goal ID> flag regardless. This doesn't send a letter; see RewardMail or RewardMailAll for that.
  RewardMail RewardMailAll	(Optional) The mail letter ID to add to the mailbox tomorrow for the current player (RewardMail) or all players (RewardMailAll). Default none.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Custom phone calls

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  Mods can now extend the telephone with custom calls (both incoming calls, and phone numbers which the player can call).

  Incoming calls

  You can add or customize incoming calls by editing the Data/IncomingPhoneCalls asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the incoming call data.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	effect
  Dialogue	The dialogue text to show when the player answers the phone. This can use the full dialogue format (including questions and different dialogue based on the selected answer).
  FromNpc	(Optional) The internal name of the NPC making the call. If specified, that NPC's name and portrait will be shown.
  FromPortrait	(Optional) The asset name for the portrait spritesheet to display (like Portraits/Abigail). If FromNpc is specified too, this overrides the portrait from that NPC. If both FromNpc and FromDisplayName are null, this portrait will be shown with the display name "???".
  FromDisplayName	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the calling NPC's display name. If FromNpc is specified too, this overrides the display name from that NPC.
  MaxCalls	(Optional) The maximum number of times a player can receive this phone call, or -1 for no limit. Default 1.
  TriggerCondition RingCondition	(Optional) If set, a game state query which indicates whether to trigger this phone call (TriggerCondition) or whether the phone rings when this call is received (RingCondition). Whether a player receives this call depends on both fields: TriggerCondition is checked on the main player before sending the call to all players, then RingCondition is checked on each player to determine whether the phone rings for them.
  IgnoreBaseChance	(Optional) Whether to ignore the 1% base chance when checking whether to trigger an incoming call. If true, the game will check if this call can be received regardless of the base chance. Default false.
  SimpleDialogueSplitBy	(Optional, specialized) If set, marks the call as having a simple dialogue string without an NPC name and portrait, with lines split into multiple boxes by this substring. For example, "SimpleDialogueSplitBy": "#" will split Box A#Box B#Box C into three consecutive dialogue boxes. You should omit this in most cases, and use the regular dialogue format in Dialogue to split lines if needed. This is mainly intended to support some older vanilla phone calls.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Custom handlers in C#

  C# mods can implement StardewValley.PhoneCalls.IPhoneHandler and add it to Phone.PhoneHandlers for full control over both incoming and outgoing calls:

  /// <summary>The mod entry point.</summary>
  internal sealed class ModEntry : Mod
  {
      /// <inheritdoc />
      public override void Entry(IModHelper helper)
      {
          Phone.PhoneHandlers.Add(new CustomPhoneHandler());
      }
  }
  
  /// <summary>A custom phone handler.</summary>
  internal sealed class CustomPhoneHandler : IPhoneHandler
  {
      ...
  }
  

  See StardewValley.PhoneCalls.DefaultPhoneHandler in the decompiled game code for an example implementation.

  Custom shops

  See the updated docs at Modding:Shops. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  You can now create and edit shops via the new Data/Shops asset. See Modding:Shops for documentation and examples.

  Dialogue changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Dialogue. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Added new dialogue keys:

    asset	key format	description
    Characters/Dialogue/<name>
    	AcceptBirthdayGift_<id> AcceptBirthdayGift_<tag> AcceptBirthdayGift_<taste> AcceptBirthdayGift_Negative AcceptBirthdayGift_Positive AcceptBirthdayGift	Shown when receiving a birthday gift from the player. If omitted, defaults to the generic translations for all NPCs. The first matching dialogue is used in this order: by item ID (like AcceptBirthdayGift_(O)128); by context tag (like AcceptBirthdayGift_category_fish); by gift taste (one of AcceptBirthdayGift_Loved, AcceptBirthdayGift_Liked, AcceptBirthdayGift_Neutral, AcceptBirthdayGift_Disliked, or AcceptBirthdayGift_Hated); AcceptBirthdayGift_Negative (hated or disliked gift) or AcceptBirthdayGift_Positive (neutral, liked, or loved gift); for all items (via AcceptBirthdayGift).
    	AcceptBouquet	Shown when the NPC accepts a bouquet from the player. Defaults to a generic dialogue.
    	AcceptGift_<id> AcceptGift_<tag>	Shown when receiving a non-birthday gift from the player. This can be by item ID (like AcceptGift_(O)128) or context tag (like AcceptGift_category_fish). If omitted, defaults to the dialogue in Data/NPCGiftTastes.
    	DumpsterDiveComment	Shown when the NPC catches the player digging through a trash can. Defaults to a generic dialogue based on the NPC's age.
    	HitBySlingshot	Shown when the player shoots them with a slingshot. Defaults to a generic dialogue.
    	RejectBouquet_Divorced RejectBouquet_NotDatable RejectBouquet_NpcAlreadyMarried RejectBouquet_VeryLowHearts RejectBouquet_LowHearts RejectBouquet	Shown when the NPC rejects a bouquet. A specific dialogue is shown if possible: RejectBouquet_Divorced: the NPC won't accept this bouquet because you divorced them. RejectBouquet_NotDatable: the NPC isn't romanceable. RejectBouquet_NpcAlreadyMarried: the NPC is already married to another player. You can use {0} in the dialogue for the other player's name. RejectBouquet_VeryLowHearts: you have less than 4 hearts with the NPC. RejectBouquet_LowHearts: you have less than 8 hearts with the NPC. If the specific dialogue isn't set, the game will use the RejectBouquet dialogue (if set), else it'll default to generic dialogue for each case.
    	RejectGift_Divorced	Shown when the NPC rejects a gift because you divorced them.
    	RejectItem_<id> RejectItem_<tag>	If set, the NPC will refuse to accept any matching item and show this dialogue instead. This can be by item ID (like RejectItem_(O)128) or context tag (like RejectItem_category_fish). This can prevent gifting, movie tickets, bouquets, mermaid pendants, etc. However it won't prevent accepting an item for an active quest or special order.
    	RejectMermaidPendant_Divorced RejectMermaidPendant_NeedHouseUpgrade RejectMermaidPendant_NotDatable RejectMermaidPendant_NpcWithSomeoneElse RejectMermaidPendant_PlayerWithSomeoneElse RejectMermaidPendant_Under8Hearts RejectMermaidPendant_Under10Hearts RejectMermaidPendant_Under10Hearts_AskedAgain RejectMermaidPendant	Shown when the NPC rejects a mermaid's pendant. A specific dialogue is shown if possible. The cases are checked in this order: RejectMermaidPendant_PlayerWithSomeoneElse: the player is already engaged or married to someone else. You can use {0} in the dialogue for the player's spouse name. RejectMermaidPendant_NotDatable: the NPC isn't romanceable. RejectMermaidPendant_Divorced: you divorced them, so they won't accept gifts or proposals from you. RejectMermaidPendant_NpcWithSomeoneElse: the NPC is already engaged or married to someone else. You can use {0} in the dialogue for the other player's name. RejectMermaidPendant_Under8Hearts: you have under 8 hearts with the NPC. RejectMermaidPendant_Under10Hearts: you have under 10 hearts with the NPC. RejectMermaidPendant_Under10Hearts_AskedAgain: you have under 10 hearts with the NPC, and asked again after they already said no. (Defaults to the previous dialogue if not set.) RejectMermaidPendant_NeedHouseUpgrade: you need to upgrade your house before they can accept. If the specific dialogue isn't set, the game will use the RejectMermaidPendant dialogue (if set), else it'll default to generic dialogue for each case.
    	RejectMovieTicket_AlreadyInvitedBySomeoneElse RejectMovieTicket_AlreadyWatchedThisWeek RejectMovieTicket_Divorced RejectMovieTicket_DontWantToSeeThatMovie RejectMovieTicket	Show when the NPC rejects a movie ticket. A specific dialogue is shown if possible: RejectMovieTicket_AlreadyInvitedBySomeoneElse: someone else already invited the NPC to a movie. You can use {0} in the dialogue for the other player's name. RejectMovieTicket_AlreadyWatchedThisWeek: the NPC already watched a movie this week. RejectMovieTicket_Divorced: you divorced the NPC, so they won't accept gifts from you. RejectMovieTicket_DontWantToSeeThatMovie: the movie data marks that NPC as unwilling to watch it (e.g. kids for horror movies). If the specific dialogue isn't set, the game will use the RejectMovieTicket dialogue (if set), else it'll default to generic dialogue for each case.
    	SpouseFarmhouseClutter	Shown by an NPC spouse when they couldn't pathfind to their kitchen standing spot in the farmhouse.
    	SpouseGiftJealous	Shown by an NPC spouse when you gave a gift to another eligible NPC of the same gender as your spouse (unless it's their birthday). You can use {0} in the dialogue for the other NPC's name, and {1} for the gifted item name.
    	Spouse_MonstersInHouse	Shown by an NPC spouse when they're in the farmhouse and there's a monster close to them.
    	SpouseStardrop	Shown when receiving the stardrop from your spouse.
    	Fair_Judging	Shown at the Stardew Valley Fair while Lewis is judging the grange displays. If omitted, the NPC will keep their normal festival dialogue. If this is set without Fair_Judged*, the NPC will keep this dialogue after judging is done. This replaces the previously hardcoded translations in Strings/StringsFromCSFiles: Event.cs.1602 (Marnie), Event.cs.1604 (Pierre), and Event.cs.1606 (Willy).
    	Fair_Judged_PlayerLost_PurpleShorts Fair_Judged_PlayerLost_Skipped Fair_Judged_PlayerLost Fair_Judged_PlayerWon Fair_Judged	Shown at the Stardew Valley Fair after Lewis finishes judging the grange displays. The first matching dialogue is used in this order: Fair_Judged_PlayerLost_PurpleShorts: the player put the lucky purple shorts in their display (which is an automatic loss). Defaults to Fair_Judged_PlayerLost if omitted. Fair_Judged_PlayerLost_Skipped: the player didn't put anything in their display. Defaults to Fair_Judged_PlayerLost if omitted. Fair_Judged_PlayerLost or Fair_Judged_PlayerWon: the player didn't/did win first place. Defaults to Fair_Judged if omitted. Fair_Judged: shown if a more specific dialogue didn't match. If omitted, the NPC will keep their current dialogue. These replace the previously hardcoded translations in Strings/StringsFromCSFiles: Event.cs.1591 (Pierre when he won), Event.cs.1593 (Pierre when the player won), Event.cs.1595 (Marnie), Event.cs.1597 (Willy), and Event.cs.1600 (Marnie for the purple shorts).
    	FlowerDance_Accept_Roommate FlowerDance_Accept_Spouse FlowerDance_Accept	Shown at the Flower Dance when the NPC agrees to dance. The game will prefer the _Roommate (if roommates) or _Spouse (if married) variant if applicable, else it'll check for the normal key. If omitted, defaults to a generic accept dialogue. This replaces the previously hardcoded translations in Strings/StringsFromCSFiles (Event.cs.1613, Event.cs.1615, Event.cs.1617, Event.cs.1619, Event.cs.1621, Event.cs.1623, Event.cs.1625, Event.cs.1627, Event.cs.1629, and Event.cs.1631).
    	FlowerDance_Decline	Shown at the Flower Dance when the NPC declines to dance. This replaces the former danceRejection key (which still works as a fallback).
    	WinterStar_GiveGift_Before_Roommate WinterStar_GiveGift_Before_Spouse WinterStar_GiveGift_Before WinterStar_GiveGift_After_Roommate WinterStar_GiveGift_After_Spouse WinterStar_GiveGift_After	Shown at the Feast of the Winter Star when the NPC gives the player their gift (before and after the player opens it). The game will prefer the _Roommate (if roommates) or _Spouse (if married) variant if applicable, else it'll check for the normal key. If omitted, the before/after dialogues each separately default to a generic translation for all NPCs.
    	WinterStar_ReceiveGift_<id> WinterStar_ReceiveGift_<tag> WinterStar_ReceiveGift	Shown at the Feast of the Winter Star when receiving their gift from the player. This can be by item ID (like WinterStar_ReceiveGift_(O)128), context tag (like WinterStar_ReceiveGift_category_fish), or for any item (like WinterStar_ReceiveGift). If omitted, defaults to the generic translation for all NPCs.
    	WipedMemory	Shown the first time you talk to the NPC after erasing their memory using the Dark Shrine of Memory.

  • Added new dialogue commands:

    command	description
    ${male^female}$ ${male^female^non-binary}$	Change text depending on the player's gender. This largely supersedes the ^ dialogue token (which still works), and is supported in many more places than that token. This is applied before most other commands or parsing, so it can safely be used in cases where ^ might have a different meaning (e.g. mail text). For example: Ahoy there ${lad^lass}$! or Ahoy there ${lad^lass^matey}$!. You can optionally use ¦ instead of ^, in which case any ^ characters are left as-is. Note that the non-binary value is only used if a mod overrides the player's gender, since the in-game UI only allows male or female.
    $action <action>	Run a trigger action string, like $action AddMoney 500 to add data-sort-value="500">500g to the current player.
    $query <query>#<if true>|<if false>	Show different dialogue text depending on the game state query in <query>. For example: "Mon": "$query !PLAYER_VISITED_LOCATION Current Mine#Did you know there's an old abandoned mine up in the mountain? Apparently it's crawling with monsters!|I heard you went into the old mines up in the mountain!#Did you find anything tasty?$h"
    $t <topic ID> [day length]	Add a conversation topic for the next [day length] days (default 4 days).
    $v <event id> [check preconditions] [skip if seen]	Immediately start an event and end the current dialogue, subject to the conditions: [check preconditions]: whether to ignore the command if the event's preconditions don't match (one of true or false). Default true. [skip if seen]: whether to ignore the command if the player has already seen the given event. Default true. If the event is not played, the dialogue continues to the next line instead. For example, $v 60367 false false will replay the bus arrival event from the start of the game. $v SomeMod.Test true false#$b#Wow! Good timing!$1 will play the event "SomeMod.Test" if the player meets the precondition requirements. If they do not, the dialogue "Wow! Good timing!$1" will play instead. Note: The command will only work if it is at the very start of the dialogue. Adding any dialogue or other commands before it will cause it not to trigger the event and display the event commands as dialogue instead.

  • Improved dialogue commands:

    command	changes
    $p	You can now check multiple answer IDs. For example, this will show the first dialogue if the player chose dialogue answer 17, 18, or 19: $p 17|18|19#I guess you think nothing would happen, right?$u|Maybe a wicked ghost would appear!

  • Dialogue response IDs are now unique string IDs.
  • Item spawn codes now use string item IDs. That means you can spawn any item using its qualified item ID (like [(F)1664] for a Mystic Rug), but can no longer prepend zeros (e.g. [128] is a pufferfish but [0128] is an error item).
  • For C# mods, Dialogue now tracks the translation key used to build it (when applicable). For example, you can detect when the player is rejected at the Flower Dance (derived from Three-Heart Dance Partner):

    private void OnMenuChanged(object sender, MenuChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        bool isDanceRejection =
            Game1.currentLocation?.currentEvent?.FestivalName == "Flower Dance"
            && e.NewMenu is DialogueBox dialogueBox
            && dialogueBox.characterDialogue is {} dialogue
            && dialogue.TranslationKey == $"Characters\\Dialogue\\{dialogue.speaker?.Name}:danceRejection";
    }
    

    For C# mods that create Dialogue instances directly, there's a few ways to do it now:

    // from a translation key
    var dialogue = new Dialogue(npc, "Strings\\StringsFromCSFiles:Utility.cs.5360");
    
    // from custom text (with or without a translation key)
    var dialogue = new Dialogue(npc, null, "Some arbitrary text to show as-is");
    
    // from a translation with tokens
    var dialogue = Dialogue.FromTranslation(npc, "Data\\ExtraDialogue:PurchasedItem_2_QualityLow_Willy", whatToCallPlayer, particle, i.DisplayName);
    

    You can also easily add fallback logic using Dialogue.TryGetDialogue or npc.TryGetDialogue. For example:

    Dialogue dialogue =
        npc.TryGetDialogue($"rejection_{itemId}_{locationName}_{x}_{y}")
        ?? npc.TryGetDialogue($"rejection_{itemId}_{locationName}")
        ?? npc.TryGetDialogue($"rejection_{itemId}")
        ?? new Dialogue(npc, "Strings\\StringsFromCSFiles:NPC.cs.3971");
    

  • For C# mods, added a dialogue.sideEffects field to run code when the dialogue is displayed.
  • The 'reveal taste' dialogue command now uses the format %revealtaste:<npc name>:<item ID> to support item IDs. (The previous %revealtaste<npc name><item index> format still works to support old content packs, but the item index can only be a number.)
  • NPCs no longer override the portrait for a gift taste dialogue that uses a portrait command explicitly.
  • Fixed unknown dialogue commands starting with $ being parsed as a portrait number when not numeric.
  • Fixed NPCs only using a {day name}{hearts}_{year} dialogue if they also have a {day name}{hearts} one.
  • Fixed NPCs only using the MovieInvitation dialogue key in English.

  Schedule changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Schedule data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Schedule keys are now case-insensitive.
  • Added a new <day of week>_<min hearts> schedule key.
  • Added an NPC.ScheduleKey field which always matches their loaded schedule.
  • Schedule commands now trim surrounding whitespace, so they can be multilined for readability. For example:

    "Wed": "
        1000 ArchaeologyHouse 11 9 0/
        1800 Town 47 87 0/
        2200 SeedShop 1 9 3 abigail_sleep
    "
    

  • Removed an unintended schedule fallback to a {season}_spring_{hearts} key. It'll skip to the spring default instead.
  • Schedules are now fault-tolerant:
    • Fixed crash if a selected schedule can't be parsed. The NPC now logs an error and continues with the next fallback instead.
    • Fixed crash if certain hardcoded schedules aren't present (like Penny's marriageJob or Pam's bus).
    • Fixed error if a schedule command is empty.

  Other NPC changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:NPC data as needed. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Added Game1.characterData and Game1.farmAnimalData to read NPC/animal info without constantly reloading the Data/Characters or Data/FarmAnimals asset.
  • All translated NPC names are now in Strings/NPCNames.
  • Added new fields & methods for C# mods:

    type	field/method	effect
    AdventureGuild	IsComplete(data)	Get whether an Adventurer's Guild monster eradication goal has been completed, regardless of whether the player collected its rewards yet.
    	HasCollectedReward(player, id)	Get whether a given player has completed an Adventurer's Guild monster eradication goal and collected its rewards. For example: bool isPhoneUnlocked = AdventureGuild.HasCollectedReward(Game1.player, "Gil_FlameSpirits");
    AnimalHouse	adoptAnimal	Add an animal to this location and set the location as the animal's home.
    AnimatedSprite	Owner	The NPC which owns the sprite.
    Character	IsVillager	Whether this is an NPC-type villager (i.e. not a monster, horse, pet, player's child, etc). In other words, this checks whether the NPC would use data from Data/Characters (regardless of whether they currently have an entry in the asset).
    	StandingPixel	The character's cached pixel position within the current location, based on the center pixel of their bounding box.
    	Tile TilePoint	The character's cached tile position within their current location. Tile is their exact non-integer position, and TilePoint is their integer tile position.
    FarmAnimal	isAdult	Get whether the farm animal is fully grown (opposite of isBaby()).
    	CanGetProduceWithTool	Get whether the farm animal's produce can be collected with a given tool (e.g. milk pail for a cow).
    	CanLiveIn	Get whether the animal can be added to a building.
    	GetDisplayName GetShopDescription	Get the translated display name or shop description for this animal.
    	GetHarvestType	Get whether the animal's produce is dropped or collected with a tool.
    	growFully	Instantly age the animal to adulthood if it's still a baby.
    	ReloadTextureIfNeeded	Update the animal sprite based on the current state + data.
    Farmer	GetDisplayPants GetDisplayShirt	Get the texture and sprite index to draw for the player's pants or shirt. This accounts for override clothing, worn clothing, and the default clothing drawn when the farmer isn't wearing anything. For example: Game1.player.GetDisplayShirt(out Texture2D texture, out int spriteIndex);
    	CanDyePants CanDyeShirt	Get whether the currently equipped pants or shirt can be dyed.
    Monster	GetDisplayName(name)	Get the translated display name for a monster type.
    NPC	CanReceiveGifts	Get whether this NPC can receive gifts from the player (regardless of whether they've already received one today).
    	GetData NPC.TryGetData	Get the underlying data from Data/Characters for this NPC, if any.
    	NPC.GetDisplayName(name)	Get the translated display name in the current language for an NPC by their internal name.
    	hasDarkSkin	Whether this character has dark skin for the purposes of child genetics.
    Pet	GetPetData TryGetData	Get the underlying data from Data/Pets for this pet, if any.
    ShopMenu	ShopId	A key which identifies the current shop. This may be the unique shop ID in Data/Shops for a standard shop, Dresser or FishTank for furniture, etc. This is guaranteed to be set to a relevant shop ID. This replaces the former shopContext field, and will usually have the same value in cases where that was set to a unique shop ID.
    Utility	getAllVillagers	Get all villager NPCs (excluding horses, pets, monsters, player children, etc). This works just like getAllCharacters with an added filter.

  • NPCs now update on save loaded when their home data changes.
  • NPC.reloadSprite() now has an argument to only reload the appearance, without changing other data.
  • Utility.getAllCharacters() now returns a plain List<NPC> value instead of a custom DisposableList<NPC>, so you can use normal LINQ querying on it.
  • Utility.GetHorseWarpRestrictionsForFarmer(player) now returns an enum (which is more efficient and easier for mods to patch), and added a new Utility.GetHorseWarpErrorMessage(restrictions) method to get the error message to show for it.
  • Farmer.hasAFriendWithHeartLevel now has an optional max-hearts argument.
  • Removed most FarmAnimal fields/properties which just mirror the underlying data.
  • Removed invalid item IDs in Data/NPCGiftTastes.
  • Fixed NPCs sometimes duplicated on save load (particularly if their home location changed).
  • Fixed child NPCs like Jas or Vincent ignoring relative titles like "mom" in Data/NPCDispositions (now Data/Characters) for reveal-gift-taste dialogues.
  • Fixed custom NPCs ignoring dialogue when they use a subclass of NPC.
  • Fixed monsters not loading their display name from Data/Monsters for English players.
  • Fixed player children not applying the IsInvisible flag.

  What's new for everything else

  Buff overhaul

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: custom buffs.

  1.6 rewrites buffs to work more consistently and be more extensible:

  • Buff logic is unified into Game1.player.buffs, which is the single source of truth for buff data. This replaces the previous player.added* and player.appliedBuffs fields, BuffsDisplay logic, enchantment stat bonuses, and boots/ring attribute changes on (un)equip.
  • This also removes limitations on buff types (e.g. buffs can add weapon bonuses and weapons can add attribute buffs) and buffable equipment (e.g. equipped tools can have buffs too).
  • Buff effects are now fully recalculated when they change, to fix a range of longstanding bugs like attribute drift and double-debuffs. Just like before, the buffs are managed locally; only the buff IDs and aggregate attribute effects are synced.

  For C# mods:

  • Each buff now has a unique string ID. You can apply a new buff with the same ID to replace it (so you no longer need to manually find and remove previous instances of the buff).
  • The buff duration can now be set to Buff.ENDLESS to remove the duration. It'll last all day until the player sleeps.
  • You can add standard buff effects to any equipment by overriding Item.AddEquipmentEffects, or add custom behaviour/buffs by overriding Item.onEquip and Item.onUnequip.
  • You can add custom food or drink buffs by overriding Item.GetFoodOrDrinkBuffs().
  • The Buff constructor now supports a custom icon texture, sprite index, display name, description, and millisecond duration to fully support custom buffs.
  • You can change how buff attributes are displayed (or add new attributes) by extending the BuffsDisplay.displayAttributes list.
  • You can have invisible buffs by setting buff.visible = false.

  For example, here's how to add a custom buff which adds +3 speed:

  Buff buff = new Buff(
      id: "Example.ModId_ZoomZoom",
      displayName: "Zoom Zoom", // can optionally specify description text too
      iconTexture: this.Helper.ModContent.Load<Texture2D>("assets/zoom.png"),
      iconSheetIndex: 0,
      duration: 30_000, // 30 seconds
      effects: new BuffEffects()
      {
          Speed = { 10 } // shortcut for buff.Speed.Value = 10
      }
  );
  Game1.player.applyBuff(buff);
  

  You can also implement your own custom effects in code by checking if the buff is active, like Game1.player.hasBuff("Example.ModId_ZoomZoom").

  Custom audio

  See the updated docs at Modding:Audio. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  You can now add or edit music tracks or sound effects by editing the new Data/AudioChanges asset. New cues are added to the game's soundbank, so they can be used anywhere normal audio can be used (e.g. the Music map property). This supports .ogg and .wav files, and the vanilla audio features (e.g. randomizing audio from one ID).

  Audio is also more fault-tolerant in 1.6: the game no longer crashes when playing audio which doesn't exist, it now logs an error and returns a default quiet click sound instead. (If you use try..catch to check if an audio cue exists, you should check Game1.soundbank.Exists(name) instead.)

  Custom buffs

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: buff overhaul.

  You can now define custom buffs by editing the new Data/Buffs asset. You can then use the buff from other places like Data/Object's Buff field or the C# Buff constructor.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the buff.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	purpose
  DisplayName	A tokenizable string for the buff name.
  Description	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the buff name. Default none.
  IsDebuff	(Optional) >Whether this buff counts as a debuff, so its duration should be halved when wearing a sturdy ring. Default false.
  GlowColor	(Optional) The glow color to apply to the player. See color format. Default none.
  Duration	The duration in milliseconds for which the buff should be active. This can be set to value -2 for a buff that should last for the rest of the day.
  MaxDuration	(Optional) The maximum buff duration in milliseconds. If specified and larger than Duration, a random value between Duration and MaxDuration will be selected for each buff. Default none.
  IconTexture	The asset name for the texture containing the buff's sprite.
  IconSpriteIndex	(Optional) The sprite index for the buff icon within the IconTexture. Default 0.
  Effects	(Optional) The buff attributes to apply. Default none. This consists of a model with any combination of these fields: field purpose FarmingLevel FishingLevel ForagingLevel LuckLevel MiningLevel (Optional) An amount applied to the matching skill level while the buff is active. This can be negative for a debuff. Default 0. Attack Defense MagneticRadius MaxStamina Speed (Optional) An amount applied to the player's attack, defense, magnetic radius, maximum stamina, or speed while the buff is active. This can be negative for a debuff. Default 0.
  ActionsOnApply	(Optional) Run any number of trigger action strings when the buff is applied to the current player. For example, this increments a player stat: "ActionsOnApply": [ "IncrementStat {{ModId}}_NumberEaten 1" ]
  CustomFields	(Optional) The custom fields for this entry.

  Custom data fields

  See the updated docs at Modding:Common data field types#Custom fields. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  Many data assets now have a CustomFields field. This is ignored by the game, but lets mods add their own data (e.g. to enable mod framework features).

  For example, a content pack can add a crop with custom fields:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/Crops",
              "Entries": {
                  "Example.Id_CucumberSeeds": {
                      "Seasons": [ "summer" ],
                      "DaysInPhase": [ 1, 2, 2, 2 ],
                      "HarvestItemId": "Example.Id_Cucumber",
                      "Texture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/crops.png}}",
                      "SpriteIndex": 0,
  
                      "CustomFields": {
                          "Example.FrameworkMod/WetTexture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/crops-wet.png}}"
                      }
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  And then a C# mod could handle the custom field if it's set:

  if (Game1.currentLocation.IsRainingHere())
  {
      CropData data = crop.GetData();
      if (data != null && data.CustomFields.TryGetValue("Example.FrameworkMod/WetTexture", out string textureName))
      {
          // do magic
      }
  }
  

  See CustomFields in the docs for each asset type to see if it's supported. Besides the sections listed on this page, custom fields were also added to Data/AdditionalFarms, Data/AdditionalLanguages, Data/FishPondData, Data/HomeRenovations, Data/Movies, and Data/SpecialOrders.

  See Modding:Common data field types#Custom fields for the main docs.

  Custom giant crops

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now add/edit giant crops by editing the Data/GiantCrops data asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is a unique string ID for the giant crop.
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  field	effect
  FromItemId	The item ID (qualified or unqualified) for the harvest ID of the regular crop which can turn into this giant crop. For example, (O)254 is melon. Any number of giant crops can use the same FromItemId value. The first giant crop whose other fields match (if any) will spawn.
  HarvestItems	The items which can be dropped when you break the giant crop. If multiple items match, they'll all be dropped. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect common fields See item spawn fields for the generic item fields supported for harvest items. If set to an item query which returns multiple items, one of them will be selected at random. Chance (Optional) The probability that this entry is selected, as a value between 0 (never drops) and 1 (always drops). Default 1 (100% chance). ForShavingEnchantment (Optional) Whether this item is only dropped for Shaving enchantment drops (true), only when the giant crop is broken (false), or both (null). Default both. ScaledMinStackWhenShaving ScaledMaxStackWhenShaving (Optional) If set, the min/max stack size when this item is dropped due to the shaving enchantment, scaled to the tool's power level. This value is multiplied by the health deducted by the tool hit which triggered the enchantment. For example, an iridium axe which reduced the giant crop's health by 3 points will produce three times this value per hit. If both fields are set, the stack size is randomized between them. If only one is set, it's applied as a limit after the generic fields. If neither is set, the generic MinStack/MaxStack fields are applied as usual without scaling.
  Texture	The asset name for the texture containing the giant crop's sprite.
  TexturePosition	(Optional) The top-left pixel position of the sprite within the Texture, specified as a model with X and Y fields. Defaults to (0, 0).
  TileSize	(Optional) The area in tiles occupied by the giant crop, specified as a model with X and Y fields. This affects both its sprite size (which should be 16 pixels per tile) and the grid of crops needed for it to grow. Note that giant crops are drawn with an extra tile's height. Defaults to (3, 3).
  Health	(Optional) The health points that must be depleted to break the giant crop. The number of points depleted per axe chop depends on the axe power level. Default 3.
  Chance	(Optional) The percentage chance that a given grid of crops will grow into the giant crop each night, as a value between 0 (never) and 1 (always). Default 0.01 (1%). Note that the chance is checked for each giant crop that applies. If three giant crops each have a 1% chance of spawning for the same crop, then there's a 3% chance that one of them will spawn.
  Condition	(Optional) A game state query which indicates whether this giant crop is available to spawn. Defaults to always true.
  CustomFields	The custom fields for this entry.

  Custom jukebox tracks

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  You can now change jukebox audio tracks by editing the new Data/JukeboxTracks data asset.

  This consists of a string → model lookup, where...

  • The key is the audio cue ID to play (case-sensitive).
  • The value is a model with the fields listed below.

  If the player has heard a music track not listed in Data/JukeboxTracks, it's automatically available with the title set to the cue name. To disable a track, add an entry with "Available": false.

  field	effect
  Name	(Optional) A tokenizable string for the music track's in-game title. Defaults to the ID.
  Available	(Optional) Whether the track should be shown in the jukebox menu. This can be true (always shown), false (never shown), or null (show if the player has heard it before). Default null. Tracks with "Available": true are listed first in the jukebox menu.
  AlternativeTrackIds	(Optional) A list of other cue names for this audio track (not case-sensitive). If the player has heard any of these track IDs, this entry is available in the menu. Default none. For example, this can be used when renaming a track to keep it unlocked for existing players: "{{ModId}}_TrackName": { "Name": "{{i18n: track-name}}", "AlternativeTrackIds": [ "OldTrackName" ] }

  Custom movies

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Movie theater data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: custom movie concessions.

  Movie data was previously very limited and prone to mod conflicts, since (a) we needed incrementing movie IDs like spring_movie_3, (b) we were limited to one movie per season, and (c) all sprites for each movie had to be in the vanilla LooseSprites/Movies spritesheet.

  Stardew Valley 1.6 revamps how movies work to address those limitations.

  Movie selection

  Movies were previously selected based on a specific ID pattern: spring_movie_0 would play in spring the year you built the movie theater, spring_movie_1 would play in spring the next year, etc. That meant it'd take two in-game years to see the first custom movie, and ID conflicts had to be managed manually.

  In 1.6, we can now have multiple movies per month based on the new fields listed below. If multiple movies can play in the same season, each movie will be shown for an equal block of days within the month (e.g. four movies will each play for seven consecutive days). If there are more movies than days, 28 movies will be chosen at random to play that month.

  New data fields

  field	effect
  Seasons	(Optional) The seasons when the movie should play, or omit for any season. For example: "Seasons": [ "Spring", "Summer" ]
  YearModulus YearRemainder	(Optional) If set, plays the movie on alternating years based on the formula theater_age % modulus == remainder, where theater_age is the number of years since the movie theater was built. If omitted, the movie plays in any year. For example: // play in the first year, and every second year thereafter "YearModulus": 2, "YearRemainder": 0 // play in the second year, and every second year thereafter "YearModulus": 2, "YearRemainder": 1
  Texture	(Optional) The asset name for the movie poster and screen images, or omit to use LooseSprites\Movies. This must be a spritesheet with one 490×128 pixel row per movie. A 13×19 area in the top-left corner of the row should contain the movie poster. With a 16-pixel offset from the left edge, there should be two rows of five 90×61 pixel movie screen images, with a six-pixel gap between each image. (The movie doesn't need to use all of the image slots.)
  CranePrizes	(Optional) The items to add to the crane game prize pool on days when this movie is playing, if any. This consists of a list of models with these fields: field effect common fields See item spawn fields for the generic item fields supported for ammo items. If set to an item query which returns multiple items, one of them will be selected at random. Rarity (Optional) The prize pool to add the item to. The possible values are 1 (common), 2 (rare), and 3 (deluxe). Default 1.
  ClearDefaultCranePrizeGroups	(Optional) The prize pools whose default items to discard, so only those specified by CranePrizes are available. Default none. For example: "ClearDefaultCranePrizeGroups": [ 2, 3 ]

  Other changes

  • Data/Movies, Data/Concessions, and Data/MoviesReactions no longer have language variants. Instead translations were moved into Strings/* assets, and the data assets use tokenizable strings to get text.
  • Data/Movies is now a list instead of a dictionary. The order determines the order movies are shown within a season. Content packs can edit them the same way as before.
  • Added a debug movieSchedule [year] command to help troubleshoot movie selection.
  • Added methods for C# mods: MovieTheater.GetMovieToday(), GetUpcomingMovie(), and GetUpcomingMovie(afterDate).

  For example, this content pack adds a new 'Pufferchick II' movie which plays in winter every third year:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/Movies",
              "Entries": {
                  "{{ModId}}_PufferchickII": {
                      "Id": "{{ModId}}_PufferchickII", // must specify ID again when creating a new entry
  
                      "Seasons": [ "winter" ],
                      "YearModulus": 3,
                      "YearRemainder": 0,
  
                      "Title": "Pufferchick II", // display text should usually use {{i18n}} for translations in actual usage
                      "Description": "A sequel to the breakthrough adventure anime Pufferchick. The world is saved; what happens next?",
                      "Tags": [ "family", "adventure" ],
  
                      "Texture": "{{InternalAssetKey: assets/movie.png}}", // an image in your content pack
                      "SheetIndex": 0,
  
                      "Scenes": [ ... ]
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Custom wedding event

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  The wedding event can now be changed by editing the Data\Weddings data asset, which consists of a data model with two relevant fields (listed below).

  field	effect
  EventScript	The event scripts which play the wedding. The game will use the script for the spouse NPC/player if it exists, otherwise it'll use the default script. This consists of a string → string dictionary, where... The key is an NPC internal name (like Abigail), unique player ID, or default for the default script (which handles marrying either an NPC or player); The value is a tokenizable strings for the event script to play. The event scripts also have access to three extra tokens: token effect [SetupContextualWeddingAttendees] The concatenated Setup values for each of the Attendees present in the wedding. [ContextualWeddingCelebrations] The concatenated Celebration values for each of the Attendees present in the wedding. [SpouseActor] The actor ID for the NPC or other player being married (like Abigail for an NPC or farmer2 for a player). This can be used in event commands like faceDirection [SpouseActor] 1. (You can also use spouse as an actor ID, but that will only work when marrying an NPC.)
  Attendees	The other NPCs which should attend the wedding (unless they're the spouse). This consists of a string → model lookup, where the key is the internal NPC name, and the value is a model with these fields: field effect ID The internal NPC name. Setup The NPC's tile position and facing direction when they attend. This is equivalent to field index 2 in the event basic data. Celebration (Optional) The event script to run during the celebration, like faceDirection Pierre 3 true which makes Pierre turn to face left. This can contain any number of script commands. Condition (Optional) A game state query which indicates whether the NPC should attend. Defaults to true. IgnoreUnlockConditions (Optional) Whether to add the NPC even if their entry in Data/Characters has an UnlockConditions field which doesn't match. Default false.

  Game state queries

  See the updated docs at Modding:Game state queries. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  A game state query is a new vanilla way to specify conditions for some content like shop data, inspired by Content Patcher's conditions.

  Gender changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Dialogue. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Added an inline gender-switch token to change text depending on the player's gender. This reduces duplicate text, works in more places than the ^ dialogue token, works in mail and other places where ^ has a different meaning, and supports non-binary gender.
  • For C# mod authors, added a unified Gender field for players and NPCs with the possible values Male, Female, and Unspecified. This replaces Farmer.isMale and the numeric NPC gender constants. Note that vanilla still only sets players to male or female, though mods can override it.
  • Gender-specific clothing variants can now be worn by any gender.
  • Removed French-only support for using ^ dialogue token in non-dialogue text. This is superseded by the new inline gender-switch command.

  Item queries

  See the updated docs at Modding:Item queries. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  Item queries are a new built-in way to choose one or more items dynamically, instead of specifying a single item ID. These are used in various places like machine data and shop data.

  For example, a shop can sell a random house plant using the RANDOM_ITEMS query:

  {
      "ItemId": "RANDOM_ITEMS (F) 1376 1390",
      "MaxItems": 1
  }
  

  Item spawn fields

  See the updated docs at Modding:Item queries#Item spawn fields. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  Several data assets (like machines and shops) let you configure items to create using item queries. For consistency, these all share a set of common fields.

  Color fields

  See the updated docs at Modding:Common data field types#Color. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  1.6 adds a standardized color format used in various data fields. This can be a color name, hexadecimal color code, or 8-bit RGB color code.

  For example, you can set debris color in Data/WildTrees:

  "DebrisColor": "White"
  

  modData field changes

  The modData fields are dictionaries of arbitrary string values which are synchronized in multiplayer and persisted in the save file, so mods can store custom data about the instances. The game already has the field for buildings, characters (including NPCs and players), items, locations, and terrain features.

  Stardew Valley 1.6...

  • Adds modData fields to the Crop, Projectile, and Quest types too.
  • Moves ModDataDictionary into the StardewValley.Mods namespace.
  • Fixes Item.modData not copied when performing special equipment replacement (e.g. for the copper pan work as a hat).

  Quantity modifiers

  See the updated docs at Modding:Common data field types#Quantity_modifiers. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  Quantity modifiers apply dynamic changes to a numeric field in a data asset like Data/Shops or Data/Machines. For example, you can multiply a shop item's price or increase a machine output's quality. You can specify any number of modifiers for the same field.

  Tokenizable string format

  See the updated docs at Modding:Tokenizable strings. This section below focuses on what's new in 1.6.

  Stardew Valley 1.6 adds tokenizable strings, which support any combination of literal text and token values. That includes a set of built-in tokens like FarmName, LocalizedText, etc.

  For example, previously you often needed to load text from a translation key. With this new format, you can use the literal text directly in the asset instead (including Content Patcher tokens):

  // before
  "Dialogue": "Strings\\StringsFromCSFiles:ShopMenu.cs.11488",
  
  // after: any combination of literal text and tokens
  "Dialogue": "Welcome to Pierre's, {{PlayerName}}! How is [FarmName] doing?",
  

  Tokenizable strings are only usable in specific fields (as indicated in their wiki or code docs).

  See Modding:Tokenizable strings for usage.

  Event changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Event data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  High-level changes

  • Event IDs are now unique string IDs, so mods can use a unique key instead of hoping no other mod uses the same number. Unconditional events must have an empty precondition in their key (like "Example.ModId_EventName/") to distinguish them from forks.
  • Event/festival commands with a direction argument now allow both case-insensitive names (like up) and numeric values.
  • Event script errors are now logged (in addition to being shown in the chatbox like before).
  • For C# mods:
    • You can now add custom event preconditions & commands using new Event methods (RegisterPrecondition, RegisterPreconditionAlias, RegisterCommand, and RegisterCommandAlias).
    • Added Event.fromAssetName, which indicates which data asset (if any) the event was loaded from.
    • Added Game1.eventsSeenSinceLastLocationChange to track the events that played since the player arrived in their current location.

  Precondition changes

  • Added validation for preconditions. If a format or assumption is invalid, the game now logs a detailed error.
  • Added case-insensitive readable names for all preconditions. For example, j 4/t 800 1300/a 0 54/H can now optionally be written daysPlayed 4/time 800 1300/tile 0 54/isHost.

    list of new names

    List of new event precondition names: alias | readable name ----- | ------------------------------ * | WorldState *n | HostOrLocalMail a | Tile b | ReachedMineBottom B | SpouseBed C | CommunityCenterOrWarehouseDone c | FreeInventorySlots D | Dating e | SawEvent f | Friendship g | Gender H | IsHost h | MissingPet Hn | HostMail i | HasItem j | DaysPlayed J | JojaBundlesDone L | InUpgradedHouse m | EarnedMoney M | HasMoney N | GoldenWalnuts n | LocalMail O | Spouse p | NpcVisibleHere q | ChoseDialogueAnswers r | Random R | Roommate S | SawSecretNote s | Shipped t | Time u | DayOfMonth v | NpcVisible w | Weather x | SendMail y | Year And for deprecated preconditions (e.g. NotSeason is superseded by !Season): alias | readable name ----- | --------------------------------- *l | NotHostOrLocalMail A | NotActiveDialogueEvent d | NotDayOfWeek F | NotFestivalDay Hl | NotHostMail k | NotSawEvent l | NotLocalMail o | NotSpouse Rf | NotRoommate U | NotUpcomingFestival X | NotCommunityCenterOrWarehouseDone z | NotSeason

  • Event & preconditions are now quote-aware, so you can escape spaces and slashes in arguments like /G "SEASON Spring"/.
  • Added new preconditions:

    precondition	description
    !	Prefixing ! to any other precondition will now invert it. For example, !spouse Abigail will match if the player is not married to Abigail.
    ActiveDialogueEvent <id>	The special dialogue event with the given ID (including Conversation Topics) is in progress.
    DayOfWeek <day>+	Today is one of the specified days (may specify multiple days). This can be a case-insensitive three-letter abbreviation (like Mon) or full name (like Monday).
    FestivalDay	Today is a festival day.
    GameStateQuery <query>	A game state query matches, like G !WEATHER Here Sun for 'not sunny in this location'.
    Season <season>+	The current season is one of the given values (may specify multiple seasons).
    Skill <skill name> <min level>	The current farmer has reached at least <min level> for the given <skill name> (one of Combat, Farming, Fishing, Foraging, Luck, or Mining).
    UpcomingFestival <day offset>	A festival day will occur within the given number of days.

  • Changed specific preconditions:

    name	changes
    ChoseDialogueAnswers (q)	Fixed precondition ignoring every second answer ID.
    InUpgradedHouse (L)	Added optional argument for the min upgrade level.
    MissingPet (h)	You can now specify any pet type ID. You can now omit the argument to check for a pet of any type.
    NotDayOfWeek (d)	You can now specify a full name like Monday. The day of week is now case-insensitive.
    NotSeason (z)	You can now list values (like notSeason spring summer fall instead of notSeason fall/notSeason winter/notSeason fall).
    ReachedMineBottom (b)	Argument is now optional (default 1).
    SendMail (x)	Deprecated; see Send-mail (x) precondition deprecated for more info.
    Tile (a)	Now also works when the player isn't currently warping, in which case it checks their current tile instead of their warp arrival tile.

  Command changes

  • Added validation for event commands. If a format or assumption is invalid, the game now logs a detailed error and (if applicable) skips the command, instead of crashing or silently ignoring it. This also means event arguments are stricter (e.g. you can no longer set a true/false field to an invalid value, inner quotes in quoted arguments now need to be escaped, etc).
  • Event commands are now quote-aware, so you can escape spaces and slashes in arguments like /speak "I'm running A/B tests"/.
  • Event commands now trim surrounding whitespace, so they can be multilined for readability. Line breaks must be before or after the / delimiter. For example:

    "SomeEventId/": "
        none/
        -1000 -1000/
        farmer 5 7 0/
        ...
    "
    

    This can be also combined with the comment syntax to add notes. For example:

    "SomeEventId/": "
        none/            -- music/
        -1000 -1000/     -- initial viewport position/
        farmer 5 7 0/    -- actor positions/
        ...
    "
    

  • You can now mark NPCs optional in event commands by suffixing their name with ?. For example, jump Kent? won't log an error if Kent is missing. When used in the initial event positions, the NPC is only added in they exist in Data/Characters and their UnlockConditions match.
  • Added new event commands:

    command	description
    action <action>	Run a trigger action string, like action AddMoney 500 to add data-sort-value="500">500g to the current player.
    addItem <item ID> [count] [quality]	Add an item to the player inventory (or open a grab menu if their inventory is full). The <item ID> is the qualified or unqualified item ID, and [quality] is a numeric quality value.
    addSpecialOrder <order ID> removeSpecialOrder <order ID>	Add or remove a special order to the player team. This affects all players, since special orders are shared.
    eventSeen <event ID> [seen]	Add or remove an event ID from the player's list of seen events, based on [seen] (default true to add). An event can mark itself unseen using eventSeen <event ID> false. This takes effect immediately (i.e. the event won't be added to the list when it completes), but the game will prevent the event from playing again until the player changes location to avoid event loops. The event will still replay when re-entering the location.
    mailToday <mail key>	Adds a letter to the mailbox immediately, given the <mail key> in Data/Mail.
    questionAnswered <answer ID> [answered]	Add or remove an answer ID from the player's list of chosen dialogue answers, based on [answered] (default true to add).
    replaceWithClone <NPC name>	Replace an NPC already in the event with a temporary copy. This allows changing the NPC for the event without affecting the real NPC. For example, this event changes Marnie's name/portrait only within the event: "Some.ModId_ExampleEvent/": "continue/64 15/farmer 64 15 2 Marnie 64 17 0/replaceWithClone Marnie/changeName Marnie Pufferchick/changePortrait Marnie Pufferchick/[...]/end"
    setSkipActions [actions]	Set trigger actions that should run if the player skips the event. You can list multiple actions delimited with #, or omit [actions] so no actions are run. When the player skips, the last setSkipActions before that point is applied. For example, this adds the garden pot recipe and item to the player if the event is skipped, but avoids adding the item if the event already did it: /setSkipActions AddCraftingRecipe Current "Garden Pot"#AddItem (BC)62 /skippable /... /addItem (BC)62 /setSkipActions AddCraftingRecipe Current "Garden Pot" Skip actions aren't applied if the event completes normally without being skipped.
    stopSound <sound ID> [immediate]	Stop a sound started with the startSound command. This has no effect if the sound has already stopped playing on its own (or hasn't been started). If you started multiple sounds with the same ID, this will stop all of them (e.g. startSound fuse/startSound fuse/stopSound fuse). By default the sound will stop immediately. For looping sounds, you can pass false to the [immediate] argument to stop the sound when it finishes playing the current iteration instead (e.g. stopSound fuse false).
    temporaryAnimatedSprite ...	Add a temporary animated sprite to the event, using these space-delimited fields: index field effect 0 texture The asset name for texture to draw. 1–4 rectangle The pixel area within the texture to draw, in the form <x> <y> <width> <height>. 5 interval The millisecond duration for each frame in the animation. 6 frames The number of frames in the animation. 7 loops The number of times to repeat the animation. 8–9 tile The tile position at which to draw the sprite, in the form <x> <y>. 10 flicker Causes the sprite to flicker in and out of view repeatedly. (one of true or false). 11 flip Whether to flip the sprite horizontally when it's drawn (one of true or false). 12 sort tile Y The tile Y position to use in the layer depth calculation, which affects which sprite is drawn on top if two sprites overlap. The larger the number, the higher layer the sprite is on. 13 alpha fade Fades out the sprite based on alpha set. The larger the number, the faster the fade out. 1 is instant. 14 scale A multiplier applied to the sprite size (in addition to the normal 4× pixel zoom). 15 scale change Changes the scale based on the multiplier applied on top of the normal zoom. Continues endlessly. 16 rotation The rotation to apply to the sprite, measured in radians. 17 rotation change Continuously rotates the sprite, causing it to spin. The speed is determined by input value. 18+ flags Any combination of these space-delimited flags: color <color>: apply a standard color to the sprite. hold_last_frame: after playing the animation once, freeze the last frame as long as the sprite is shown. ping_pong: Causes the animation frames to play forwards and backwards alternatingly. Example: An animation with the frames 0, 1, 2 will play "0 1 2 0 1 2" without the ping_pong flag and play "0 1 2 1 0" with the ping_pong flag. motion <x> <y>: Sprite moves based on the values set. Numbers can be decimals or negative. acceleration <x> <y>: [TODO: document what this does] acceleration_change <x> <y>: [TODO: document what this does]
    translateName <actor> <translation key>	Set the display name for an NPC in the event to match the given translation key.
    warpFarmers [<x> <y> <direction>]+ <default offset> <default x> <default> <direction>	Warps connected players to the given tile coordinates and numeric directions. The <x> <y> <direction> triplet is repeated for each connected player (e.g. the first triplet is for the main player, second triplet is for the first farmhand, etc). The triplets are followed by an offset direction (one of up, down, left, or right), and a final triplet which defines the default values used by any other player.

  • Fixed some commands assuming a boolean argument is true if present, regardless of its value. This affects the changeToTemporaryMap, emote, extendSourceRect, faceDirection, globalFade, globalFadeToClear, positionOffset, and warp commands.
  • Fixed some commands assuming any value except the exact case-sensitive string true is false. This affects the animate, glow, hideShadow, ignoreMovementAnimation, temporaryAnimatedSprite, temporarySprite, and viewport commands.
  • Fixed some commands silently ignoring values they can't parse as the expected type. This affects the addItem, makeInvisible, and removeItem commands.
  • Fixed crash when some commands are passed farmer[number] for a player who's not available, or farmer[number] when they expect farmer.
  • Fixed some commands not taking into account custom farmer actors when checking farmer* actor IDs.
  • Fixed warp-out event commands able to use NPC-only or gendered warps. They now use a valid warp for the player if possible.
  • Changed specific commands:

    command	changes
    addCookingRecipe	Fixed error if player already knows the recipe.
    addMailReceived	Renamed to mailReceived. (The old name is now an alias, so it'll still work.) You can now remove a mail received by setting the optional third argument to false, like mailReceived <id> false.
    addTemporaryActor	Underscores in the asset name are now only replaced with spaces if an exact match wasn't found. You should quote arguments containing spaces instead, like addTemporaryActor "White Chicken" …. Underscores in the display name are no longer replaced with spaces. You should quote arguments containing spaces instead. Argument 9 ([animal name]) is now [override name], and can be used to set the name for non-animals too.
    animate	Underscores in the NPC name are now only replaced with spaces if an exact match wasn't found. You should quote arguments containing spaces instead, like animate "Mr Qi" ….
    ambientLight	Removed four-argument form (which was unused and had confusing behavior). The other versions of ambientLight still work like before.
    awardFestivalPrize	Added support for arbitrary item IDs, like awardFestivalPrize (O)128 for a pufferfish.
    changeLocation	It now updates the event position offset if needed.
    changeName	Underscores in the NPC name are no longer replaced with spaces. You should quote arguments containing spaces instead, like changeName Leo "Neo Leo".
    changePortrait changeSprite	You can now omit the suffix argument to reset the NPC back to their normal portrait/sprite.
    faceDirection	You can now specify the direction in words, like faceDirection up
    ignoreMovementAnimation	Fixed its ignore argument being ignored. Underscores in the NPC name are now only replaced with spaces if an exact match wasn't found. You should quote arguments containing spaces instead, like ignoreMovementAnimation "Mr Qi" ….
    itemAboveHead	Added support for arbitrary item IDs, like itemAboveHead (O)128 for a pufferfish.
    makeInvisible	Fixed terrain features not hidden when using the default area size.
    playSound	Sounds started via playSound now stop automatically when the event ends.
    removeItem	Added argument for an optional count, like removeItem (O)128 10 to remove 10 pufferfish.
    speak	Fixed friendship & socialize quest not updated when calling it with a translation key.

  • Removed some commands:

    command	changes
    addToTable	Removed (it was unused and worked in counterintuitive ways).
    addTool	Removed (it was unused and only supported the return scepter). Use addItem instead, which supports adding tools.
    grabObject	Removed (it was unused and broken).
    showRivalFrame taxVote	Removed (they were part of unimplemented features).
    weddingSprite	Removed (it was broken and unused).

  Festival changes

  • Festivals can now have a custom festival-started notification message by setting the startedMessage field in Data/Festivals/* to a tokenizable string.
  • Festivals now set the event ID to a value like festival_fall16, instead of -1.
  • All in-festival data fields now support year variants.
  • Fixed NPCs getting duplicated in festivals if they're added to the set-up fields multiple times. Subsequent entries now move them instead.
  • Fixed year variants for festival set-up field being appended to the main script instead of replacing it.

  Send-mail (x) precondition deprecated

  Using the x event precondition as a way to send mail is now deprecated (but still works). You should use trigger actions instead to perform actions like that.

  All vanilla events which used it have been replaced by equivalent trigger actions. This event IDs below no longer exist; if you check them (e.g. via HasSeenEvent), you'll need to check the new action or the mail flag they set instead.

  old event ID	new action ID	mail flag
  68	Mail_Mom_5K	mom1
  69	Mail_Mom_15K	mom2
  70	Mail_Mom_32K	mom3
  71	Mail_Mom_120K	mom4
  72	Mail_Dad_5K	dad1
  73	Mail_Dad_15K	dad2
  74	Mail_Dad_32K	dad3
  75	Mail_Dad_120K	dad4
  76	Mail_Tribune_UpAndComing	newsstory
  706	Mail_Pierre_Fertilizers	fertilizers
  707	Mail_Pierre_FertilizersHighQuality	fertilizers2
  909	Mail_Robin_Woodchipper	WoodChipper
  2111194	Mail_Emily_8heart	EmilyClothingTherapy
  2111294	Mail_Emily_10heart	EmilyCamping
  2346091	Mail_Alex_10heart	joshMessage
  2346092	Mail_Sam_10heart	samMessage
  2346093	Mail_Harvey_10heart	harveyBalloon
  2346094	Mail_Elliott_10heart	elliottBoat
  2346095	Mail_Elliott_8heart	elliottReading
  2346096	Mail_Penny_10heart	pennySpa
  2346097	Mail_Abigail_8heart	abbySpiritBoard
  3333094	Mail_Pierre_ExtendedHours	pierreHours
  3872126	Mail_Willy_BackRoomUnlocked	willyBackRoomInvitation

  Mail changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Mail data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Mail can now have multiple items attached (using multiple %item commands). When the player grabs the top item, the next one will appear in the slot to grab next.
  • Added mail commands:

    command	effect
    %action <action>%%	Run a trigger action string, like %action AddMoney 500%% to add data-sort-value="500">500g to the current player.

  • Improved mail commands:

    command

    changes

    %item

    Added %item id <item id> [count] form which accepts a qualified or unqualified item ID. If multiple items are listed (e.g., %item id (BC)12 3 (O)34 5 %%) one set will be picked randomly. This deprecates the bigobject, furniture, object, and tools options. Added %item specialOrder <order id> [immediately] form to attach a special order to the letter. Added optional <key> argument to %item cookingRecipe <key>, to learn a specific cooking recipe. The previous %item cookingRecipe form (without a key) works the same way as before. The type argument is now case-insensitive. Fixed %item craftingRecipe not supporting recipe IDs containing underscores. It now checks for an exact match first, then tries replacing underscores with spaces like before, then logs a warning if neither was found instead of adding an invalid recipe.

  • All wallet items are now tracked via mail flags. That adds these mail flags: HasClubCard, HasDarkTalisman, HasDwarvishTranslationGuide, HasMagicInk, HasMagnifyingGlass, HasRustyKey, HasSkullKey, HasSpecialCharm, HasTownKey, and HasUnlockedSkullDoor.
  • Fixed letter viewer error when opening an invalid letter.

  Stat changes for C# mods

  The tracked stats API (e.g. Game1.stats and Game1.player.stats) has been overhauled.

  In particular, all stats are now in the underlying stat dictionary. If you use a stat field directly (like stats.dirtHoed), you'll need to use the property (like stats.DirtHoed) or method (like stats.Get(StatsKey.DirtHoed)). This lets the game or mods access all stats in a standard way without reflection. 1.6 also adds StatsKey constants for all stats tracked by the game.

  The stats API has also been redesigned:

  member	comments
  Values	The numeric metrics tracked by the game. This replaces stats_dictionary.
  Get(key)	Get the value of a tracked stat. This replaces getStat. For example: uint daysPlayed = Game1.stats.Get(StatKeys.DaysPlayed);
  Set(key, value)	Set the new value of a tracked stat. This method is new. For example: Game1.stats.Set(StatKeys.ChildrenTurnedToDoves, 5);
  Increment(key) Increment(key, amount)	Add the given amount to the stat (default 1), and return the new stat value. This improves on the original incrementStat. For example: uint stepsTaken = Game1.stats.Increment(StatKeys.StepsTaken);

  This can also be used to track custom mod stats, they doesn't need to be stats normally tracked by the game. Custom stats should be prefixed with your mod's unique ID to avoid conflicts:

  Game1.stats.Set("Your.ModId_CustomStat", 5);
  

  And finally, setting a stat to 0 now removes it from the stats dictionary (since that's the default for missing stats).

  New C# utility methods

  Stardew Valley 1.6 adds several new methods to simplify common logic.

  Argument handling

  The new ArgUtility class handles splitting, reading, and validating string[] argument lists. The main methods are:

  Splitting arrays:

  ArgUtility method	effect
  SplitBySpace	Split space-separated arguments in a string. This automatically ignores extra spaces, so " x  y " and "x y" are equivalent. For example: string[] fields = ArgUtility.SplitBySpace("a b c"); string secondField = fields[1]; // "b"
  SplitBySpaceAndGet	Get the value at an index in a space-delimited string (if found), else return the default value. For example: string thirdField = ArgUtility.SplitBySpaceAndGet("a b c", 2); // "c" string invalidFieldA = ArgUtility.SplitBySpaceAndGet("a b c", 5); // null string invalidFieldB = ArgUtility.SplitBySpaceAndGet("a b c", 5, defaultValue: "boop"); // "boop" This is more efficient than SplitBySpace when you only need a single value, but it's slower if you need multiple values.
  SplitBySpaceQuoteAware	Split space-separated arguments in a string, with support for using quotes to protect spaces within an argument. See SplitQuoteAware below for info on quote handling. For example: string buildingName = ArgUtility.SplitBySpaceQuoteAware("BUILDINGS_CONSTRUCTED Here \"Junimo Hut\"")[1]; // Junimo Hut
  SplitQuoteAware	Split delimited arguments in a string, with support for using quotes to protect delimiters within an argument. A quote in the text causes any delimiter to be ignored until the next quote, unless it's escaped like \". Unescaped quotes are removed from the string. (Remember that backslashes need to be escaped in C# or JSON strings, like "\\" for a single backslash.) For example: ArgUtility.SplitQuoteAware("A,B,C", ','); // [ "A", "B", "C" ] ArgUtility.SplitQuoteAware("A,\"B,C\",D", ','); // [ "A", "B,C", "D" ] ArgUtility.SplitQuoteAware("A,\\\"B,C", ','); // [ "A", "\"B", "C" ] You can also set the optional arguments for more advanced cases. For example, game state queries use this to split twice: string gameStateQuery = "BUILDINGS_CONSTRUCTED Here \"Junimo Hut\", SEASON Spring"; string[] queries = ArgUtility.SplitQuoteAware(gameStateQuery, ',', StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries, keepQuotesAndEscapes: true); // [ "BUILDINGS_CONSTRUCTED Here \"Junimo Hut\"", "SEASON Spring" ] string buildingName = ArgUtility.SplitBySpaceQuoteAware(queries[0]); // Junimo Hut
  EscapeQuotes	Escape quotes in a string so they're ignored by methods like SplitQuoteAware. This isn't idempotent (e.g. calling it twice will result in double-escaped quotes).
  UnsplitQuoteAware	Combine an array of arguments into a single string with a custom delimiter, using quotes where needed to escape delimiters within an argument. Calling SplitQuoteAware on the resulting string with the same delimiter will produce the original values. For example: string args = ArgUtility.UnsplitQuoteAware(new[] { "A", "B C", "D" }, ' '); // A "B C" D This isn't idempotent (e.g. calling it twice will result in double-escaped quotes).

  Reading arrays:

  ArgUtility method	effect
  HasIndex	Get whether an index is within the bounds of the array. For example: string[] fields = ArgUtility.SplitByString("10 5"); bool inRange = ArgUtility.HasIndex(fields, 1); // true (index 1 has the value '5')
  Get GetBool GetDirection GetEnum GetFloat GetInt	Get the value at a position in an array, parsed as the relevant type (e.g. a string, boolean, direction, enum, etc). If the index isn't in the array or the value can't be parsed as the expected type, returns a default value. For example, code like this: int value = fields.Length > 4 && int.TryParse(fields[4], out int parsed) ? parsed : -1; Can now be rewritten like this: int value = ArgUtility.GetInt(fields, 4, -1);
  TryGet TryGetBool TryGetDirection TryGetEnum TryGetFloat TryGetInt TryGetPoint TryGetRectangle TryGetVector2	Try to get a parsed value from an array by its index. If it's not found or can't be converted to the expected value, it sets the out string error argument so you can log an error if needed. For example, this parses a numeric value from a space-delimited string: string[] fields = ArgUtility.SplitByString("10 35"); if (ArgUtility.TryGetInt(fields, 1, out int value, out string error)) this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Parsed value: {value}"); // "Parsed value: 35" else this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Failed parsing value: {error}", LogLevel.Warn);
  TryGetOptional TryGetOptionalBool TryGetOptionalDirection TryGetOptionalEnum TryGetOptionalFloat TryGetOptionalInt TryGetOptionalRemainder	Equivalent to TryGet*, except that it'll return a default value if the argument is missing. For example: string[] fields = ArgUtility.SplitByString("10"); if (ArgUtility.TryGetOptionalInt(fields, 1, out int value, out error, defaultValue: 99)) this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Parsed value: {value}"); // "Parsed value: 99" else this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Failed parsing value: {error}", LogLevel.Warn);
  GetRemainder TryGetRemainder TryGetOptionalRemainder	Similar to the previous methods, but gets arguments starting from an index as a concatenated string. For example: string[] fields = ArgUtility.SplitByString("A B C D E F"); if (ArgUtility.TryGetRemainder(fields, 2, out string remainder, out string error)) this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Remainder: {remainder}"); // "Remainder: C D E F" else this.Helper.Monitor.Log($"Failed getting remainder: {error}", LogLevel.Warn);
  GetSubsetOf	Get a slice of the input array. For example: string[] subset1 = ArgUtility.GetSubsetOf(new[] { "A", "B", "C", "D" }, startAt: 1); // B, C, D string[] subset2 = ArgUtility.GetSubsetOf(new[] { "A", "B", "C", "D" }, startAt: 1, length: 2); // B, C This is fault-tolerant as long as startAt isn't negative. For example: string[] subset2 = ArgUtility.GetSubsetOf(new[] { "A", "B", "C", "D" }, startAt: 100); // <empty array> string[] subset1 = ArgUtility.GetSubsetOf(new[] { "A", "B", "C", "D" }, startAt: 1, length: 100); // B, C, D

  Content assets

  method	effect
  LocalizedContentManager.DoesAssetExist	Get whether an asset exists in the game's Content folder or is provided through SMAPI's content API. For example: bool exists = Game1.content.DoesAssetExist<Map>("Maps/Town");
  LocalizedContentManager.IsValidTranslationKey	Get whether a string is a translation key in the form <asset name>:<key>, and the asset and key both exist. For example: bool exists = Game1.content.IsValidTranslationKey("Strings\\NPCNames:Abigail");

  Filtering

  The game now has an optimized RemoveWhere method for O(n) filtering on NetCollection, NetDictionary, NetList, and (via extension) IDictionary. This also deprecates Filter methods where they existed.

  For example:

  int dirtTilesRemoved = Game1.currentLocation.terrainFeatures.RemoveWhere(pair => pair.Value is HoeDirt);
  

  Game paths

  The game folder paths were previously hardcoded throughout the code. These are now centralized with a few methods:

  method	effect
  Program.GetLocalAppDataFolder Program.GetAppDataFolder	Get the absolute path to the game's app data folder (which contains the Saves folder) or local app data folder (which contains ErrorLogs and Screenshots). These methods are equivalent on Windows, but different on Linux/macOS.
  Program.GetSavesFolder	Get the absolute path to the game's Saves folder.
  Game1.GetScreenshotFolder	Get the absolute path to the game's Screenshots folder.
  options.GetFilePathForDefaultOptions	Get the absolute path to the game's default_options file.

  Hash sets

  Since the game now uses hash sets, it has a few extensions for working with them:

  method	effect
  AddRange	Add all the values from a list or enumerable to the set.
  RemoveWhere	Remove all values matching a condition.
  Toggle	Add or remove a value in the set based on a boolean. For example: public bool hasClubCard { get { return mailReceived.Contains("HasClubCard"); } set { mailReceived.Toggle("HasClubCard", value); } }

  Iteration

  The new Utility.ForEach* methods let you check every thing of a type in the game world quickly and efficiently (with minimal allocations, boxing, etc). These are significantly faster than equivalent code using LINQ or yield methods.

  method	effect
  Utility.ForEachBuilding	Perform an action for each building in the game world.
  Utility.ForEachCharacter Utility.ForEachVillager	Perform an action for each NPC in the game world. ForEachCharacter matches all NPC types (villagers, horses, pets, monsters, player children, etc), while ForEachVillager only matches villager NPCs like Abigail.
  Utility.ForEachCrop	Perform an action for each crop in the game world planted in the ground or in a garden pot.
  Utility.ForEachItem	Perform an action for each item in the game world, including items within items (e.g. in a chest or on a table), hats placed on children, items in player inventories, etc.
  Utility.ForEachItemIn	Perform an action for each item within a given location, including items within items (e.g. in a chest or on a table).
  Utility.ForEachLocation	Perform an action for each location in the game world, optionally including building interiors and generated mine or volcano levels.

  For example, this code counts how many parsnips are planted everywhere in the world:

  int parsnips = 0;
  Utility.ForEachCrop(crop =>
  {
      if (crop.IndexOfHarvest == "24")
          parsnips++;
      return true; // whether to keep iterating after this crop
  });
  

  Or you could replace all instances of an obsolete item with a new one:

  Utility.ForEachItem((item, remove, replaceWith) =>
  {
      if (item.QualifiedItemId == "(O)OldId")
      {
          Item newItem = ItemRegistry.Create("(O)NewId", item.Stack, item.Quality);
          replaceWith(newItem);
      }
  
      return true;
  });
  

  C# mods which add custom item types can override Item.ForEachItem to add support for nested items.

  Randomization

  method	effect
  Utility.CreateDaySaveRandom	Creates a Random instance using the most common seed (based on the save ID and total days played).
  Utility.CreateRandom Utility.CreateRandomSeed	Creates a Random (or seed for a Random) by combining the given seed values, which can be any numeric type.
  Utility.TryCreateIntervalRandom	Get an RNG which produces identical results for all RNGs created with the same sync key during the given interval (one of tick, day, season, or year), including between players in multiplayer mode. For example, this will return the same number each time it's called until the in-game day changes: public int GetDailyRandomNumber() { Utility.TryCreateIntervalRandom("day", "example sync key", out Random random, out _); return random.Next(); }
  Utility.TryGetRandom	Get a random entry from a dictionary.
  random.Choose	Choose a random option from the values provided: string npcName = Game1.random.Choose("Abigail", "Penny", "Sam");
  random.ChooseFrom	Choose a random option from a list or array: string[] names = new[] { "Abigail", "Penny", "Sam" }; string npcName = Game1.random.ChooseFrom(names);
  random.NextBool	Randomly choose true or false. For example: bool flipSprite = Game1.random.NextBool(); You can optionally set the probability of true: bool flipSprite = Game1.random.NextBool(0.8);

  Other

  Here are some of the other new methods:

  method	effect
  Game1.getOfflineFarmhands()	Get all farmhands who aren't connected to the game.
  Game1.PerformActionWhenPlayerFree	Calls the provided callback next time the player is free (e.g. no menu or event is up, not using a tool, etc). If the player is already free, it's run immediately. For example, if you receive your first geode from a fishing chest, this is used to show the geode-received animation & animation when it closes.
  Game1.createRadialDebris_MoreNatural	Scatter item debris around a position with a more randomized distribution than createRadialDebris.
  Object.GetCategoryColor Object.GetCategoryDisplayName	Get the color and display name for the given category number when it's shown in a tooltip.
  Utility.distanceFromScreen	Get the pixel distance between a position in the world and the player's screen viewport, where 0 is within the viewport.
  Utility.DrawErrorTexture	Draw the game's missing-texture image (🚫) to the screen, stretched to fit a given pixel area.
  Utility.DrawSquare	Draw a square to the screen with a background color and/or borders.
  Utility.GetEnumOrDefault	Get an enum value if it's valid, else get a default value. This is mainly used to validate input from data files. For example: NpcGender gender = (NPCGender)999999; gender = Utility.GetEnumOrDefault(gender, Gender.Male); // returns Gender.Male since there's no enum constant with value 999999
  Utility.getRandomNpcFromHomeRegion	Get a random social NPC based on their HomeRegion value in Data/Characters. For example, this gets a random NPC for the Town home region: NPC npc = Utility.getRandomNpcFromHomeRegion(NPC.region_town);
  Utility.isFestivalDay	This method existed before 1.6, but you can now omit arguments to check today instead of a specific date: bool festivalToday = Utility.isFestivalToday(); Or check for a festival in specific location context: bool desertFestivalToday = Utility.isFestivalToday(LocationContexts.DesertId);
  Utility.IsPassiveFestivalDay	This method existed before 1.6, but now can now omit arguments to check today instead of a specific date: bool passiveFestivalToday = Utility.IsPassiveFestivalDay(); Or check for a specific passive festival: bool nightMarketToday = Utility.IsPassiveFestivalDay("NightMarket");
  Utility.TryGetPassiveFestivalData Utility.TryGetPassiveFestivalDataForDay	Get the passive festival data for the given ID or date.
  Utility.TryParseDirection	Parse a string into a direction value (like Game1.down), if it's valid. This supports case-insensitive direction names (one of down, left, right, or up) or numeric values.
  Utility.TryParseEnum	Parse a string into an enum value if possible, case-insensitively. Unlike Enum.TryParse, an invalid numeric value won't be cast: Enum.TryParse("999999", out DayOfWeek day); // true, even though there's no matching DayOfWeek value Utility.TryParseEnum("999999", out DayOfWeek day); // false
  Utility.fuzzyCompare	Get whether a term is a fuzzy match for a search query. Returns the numeric match priority (where lower values are a better match), or null if the term doesn't match the query.
  rectangle.GetPoints rectangle.GetVectors	Get all the integer coordinates within a given Rectangle. For example: var tileArea = new Rectangle(0, 0, 2, 2); Point[] tiles = tileArea.GetPoints(); // (0, 0), (1, 0), (0, 1), (1, 1)
  Utility.GetDeterministicHashCode	(Specialized) Get a hash code for a string key or numeric values. Unlike string.GetHashCode or HashCode.Combine, this produces a consistent hash for the same inputs between sessions and connected players.
  Utility.WrapIndex	Constrain an index to a range by wrapping out-of-bounds values to the other side (e.g. last index + 1 is the first index, and first index - 1 is the last one). For example: string[] values = new[] { "0", "1", "2" }; int index = Utility.WrapIndex(-1, values.Length); // 2

  Static delegate builder

  For C# mods, StaticDelegateBuilder is a specialized class which converts a method name into an optimized delegate which can be called by code. This is used by vanilla code to optimize methods referenced in assets like Data/Machines.

  For example, given a static method like this:

  public static bool OutputDeconstructor(Object machine, Item inputItem, bool probe, MachineItemOutput outputData, out int? overrideMinutesUntilReady) { ... }
  

  And a delegate which matches it:

  public delegate bool MachineOutputDelegate(Object machine, Item inputItem, bool probe, MachineItemOutput outputData, out int? overrideMinutesUntilReady);
  

  You can create an optimized delegate and call it like this:

  if (StaticDelegateBuilder.TryCreateDelegate("StardewValley.Object.OutputDeconstructor", out MachineOutputDelegate method, out string error))
      return method(this, inputItem, probe, outputData, out minutesUntilMorning);
  else
      Game1.log.Warn($"Machine {ItemId} has invalid output method: {error}");
  

  The TryCreateDelegate method will cache created delegates, so calling it again will just return the same delegate instance.

  Game logging changes

  The game now writes debug output through an internal Game1.log wrapper, instead of using Console.WriteLine directly. For example:

  // old code
  Console.WriteLine("Error playing sound: " + ex);
  
  // new code
  Game1.log.Error("Error playing sound.", ex);
  

  This has a few benefits:

  • For vanilla players, the game no longer uses time & resources writing to a console that's not visible anyway.
  • For modded players, SMAPI can now...
    • distinguish between the game's debug/warn/error messages (so many warnings/errors that would previously appear as hidden TRACE messages will now be shown with the correct level);
    • apply its formatting rules to exceptions logged by the game too;
    • redirect game output much more efficiently without console interception.

  Other changes

  Audio

  • Added Game1.sounds, which unifies the high-level sound effect logic (e.g. distance fading and multiplayer sync).
  • Added silence audio cue for music. This is different from none in that it suppresses both town music and ambient sounds.
  • Added Game1.soundBank.Exists(cueName) method to check if an audio cue exists.
  • Added Game1.playSound overloads to get the audio cue being played.
  • Added character.playNearbySoundAll and playNearbySoundAllLocal methods to play a sound for players near the player/character.
  • Added position argument to DelayedAction.playSoundAfterDelay.
  • Removed NetAudioCueManager and Game1.locationCues (unused).
  • Unified the methods for playing normal/pitched/positional sounds (which also adds support for pitched non-synced & pitched positional sounds):

    old methods	new method
    Game1.playSound Game1.playSoundAt Game1.playSoundPitched	Game1.playSound
    GameLocation.playSound GameLocation.playSoundAt GameLocation.playSoundPitched	GameLocation.playSound
    GameLocation.localSound GameLocation.localSoundAt	GameLocation.localSound
    NetAudio.Play NetAudio.PlayAt NetAudio.PlayPitched	NetAudio.Play
    NetAudio.PlayLocal NetAudio.PlayLocalAt	NetAudio.PlayLocal

  Debug commands

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Console commands. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • All debug commands are now quote-aware, so you can pass spaces in arguments like debug build "Junimo Hut".
  • Added new debug commands:

    command	description
    action <action>	Run a trigger action string, like action AddMoney 500 to add data-sort-value="500">500g to the current player.
    artifactSpots	Spawn an artifact spot in each empty tile around the player.
    endEvent / ee	Immediately end the current event or festival, applying the event's skip logic (if any). The event is marked seen, but you can rewatch it using the eventById command if needed. This replaces the pre-1.6 commands (ee, endEvent/leaveEvent, and eventOver) which worked in different ways and had side-effects like restarting the event or clearing the player's mail.
    exportShops	Export a summary of what's in every shop in the game, taking into account their current conditions. This is saved to a file on disk, and the file path shown in the console.
    filterLoadMenu / flm	Syntax: filterLoadMenu <search text> Filter the current list of saves to those whose player name or farm name contains the given text.
    forcebuild	Equivalent to build, but disables all safety checks so you can build in a location that wouldn't normally allow buildings, build on top of farm animals or placed objects, etc.
    gamequery / gq	Syntax: gq <query> Check whether the given game state query matches in the current context. For example: gq !SEASON Spring, WEATHER Here Sun > Result: true.
    itemquery / iq	Syntax: iq <query> Open a shop menu with all the items matching an item query (all items free). For example: debug iq ALL_ITEMS shows all items; debug iq ALL_ITEMS (W) shows all weapons; debug iq (O)128 shows a pufferfish (object 128); debug iq FLAVORED_ITEM Wine (O)128 shows Pufferfish Wine.
    logFile	Begin writing debug messages to a log file at %appdata%/StardewValley/ErrorLogs/game-latest.txt to simplify troubleshooting. You can also enter /logtext into the in-game chatbox to enable it. This does nothing if SMAPI is installed, since the debug messages are already saved to SMAPI's log.
    logSounds	Log info about each sound effect played to the SMAPI console window.
    movieSchedule [year]	Lists the movies that will play in a given [year] (default this year), with the dates they'll play.
    qualifiedid	Print the held item's display name and qualified item ID.
    search	Syntax: search [term] List all debug commands that match the given search term (or all debug commands if the search term is omitted). For example: debug search backpack > Found 2 debug commands matching search term 'backpack': - Backpack - FillBackpack (fbp, fill, fillbp)
    setFarmEvent / sfe	Syntax: setFarmEvent <event id> Queue an overnight farm event if one doesn't plan naturally instead. The <event id> can be one of... dogs; earthquake; fairy; meteorite; owl; ufo; witch. Note that even if the farm event runs, it may exit without doing anything (e.g. rare events like ufo have extra condition checks when the start).
    shop	Syntax: shop <shop ID> [owner name] Open a shop defined in Data/Shops, regardless of whether one of the owners is nearby. Specifying [owner name] will use that NPC, otherwise the command will find the closest valid NPC if possible (else open with no NPC).
    skinBuilding / bsm	If the player is standing right under a building, open a menu to change the building appearance.
    testwedding	Immediately play the wedding event. This requires the player to be married first - to test specific NPCs, debug marry the NPC followed by this command.
    thishouseupgrade / thishouse / thu	Equivalent to houseupgrade, but can be used to upgrade another player's house by running it from inside or just south of its exterior.
    toggleCheats	Enable or disable entering debug commands into the in-game chat (prefixed with /).
    tokens	Syntax: tokens <tokenized string> Parses a tokenizable string and prints its output. For example: tokens [LocalizedText Strings\StringsFromCSFiles:MapPage.cs.11064 [EscapedText [FarmName]]] > Result: "Lon Lon Farm"
    worldMapLines	Toggles the world map's debug view.

  • Improved existing debug commands:

    command	changes
    build	Removed custom space handling; quote arguments with spaces instead of replacing them with 9 (e.g. Junimo9Hut → "Junimo Hut").
    clearFurniture	Now works outside the farmhouse too.
    dialogue	Removed custom space handling; quote NPC names containing spaces instead, with all text after the first argument treated as part of the dialogue (e.g. debug dialogue "Some NPC" Some dialogue text$h).
    ebi	Fixed event not played correctly if called from the same location as the event.
    fish	Fixed error if you're not holding a fishing rod. It now opens the fishing minigame with no tackle instead.
    frameOffset	Simplified usage. You can now pass negative offsets directly (like debug frameOffset -5 -10) instead of using the s number prefix. Fixed command only taking the last digit in each number.
    getStat setStat	Added argument validation.
    grass	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm.
    growAnimals growAnimalsFarm	Merged into one growAnimals command that supports any location and doesn't reset the age of animals which are already adults.
    growCrops	Fixed error growing mixed seeds or giant crops.
    itemNamed	Removed custom space handling; quote arguments with spaces instead of removing them (e.g. EelRoe → "Eel Roe").
    junimoGoodbye junimoStar	Added validation to check that you're inside the community center.
    killAll killAllHorses killNpc	These now remove matching NPCs inside constructed buildings too.
    killMonsterStat	Removed custom space handling; quote arguments with spaces instead of replacing them with 0 (e.g. Dust0Spirit → "Dust Spirit").
    mailForTomorrow	Fixed zeros in the mail ID getting replaced with underscores.
    monster	Added validation for the monster name.
    moveBuilding	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm.
    movie	Rewritten; it's now simpler, applies the normal game logic, defaults to today's movie, and avoids depending on NPC indexes in Data/NPCDispositions since those can change with custom NPCs. New usage: debug movie [movie ID] [invite NPC name] debug movie current [invite NPC name] The movie ID defaults to today's movie, and the NPC name can be omitted to watch the movie without an invitee. Specifying current as the movie uses the default value.
    panMode	The command no longer overrides debug command handling while it's active. Instead you can now turn it back off by running debug panMode again, clear with debug panMode clear, or set a time with debug panMode {time}.
    paintBuilding	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm. Added validation for the target building.
    playSound	Added an optional pitch argument, like debug playSound barrelBreak 1200. The pitch is a value from 1 (low pitch) to 2400 (high pitch) inclusively.
    question	You can now forget a selected answer (instead of adding it) by setting the second argument to false, like question <id> false.
    runTestEvent	Fixed support for Unix line endings.
    seenEvent	You can now forget an event (instead of adding it) by setting the second argument to false, like seenEvent <id> false.
    seenMail	You can now remove a mail received (instead of adding it) by setting the second argument to false, like seenMail <id> false.
    skinBuilding	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm. Added validation for the target building.
    skullGear	Fixed command setting 32 slots instead of 36. Fixed command not adding empty inventory slots as expected by some game code.
    setupFishPondFarm	Fixed error if the farm already has non-fish-pond buildings constructed.
    speech	Removed custom space handling; quote NPC names containing spaces instead, with all text after the first argument treated as part of the dialogue (e.g. debug speech "Some NPC" Some dialogue text$h).
    spreadDirt	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm.
    spreadSeeds	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm.
    thisHouseUpgrade	Now applies to the current location, instead of the farm.
    warpToPlayer	Removed custom space handling; quote arguments with spaces instead of removing them (e.g. JohnSmith → "John Smith").
    whereIs	Now lists all matching NPCs instead of the first one. Now searches the current event or festival, if any.

  • Removed some debug commands:

    command	notes
    ax bigItem/b/bi/big boots clothes hoe milkPail/mp pan pickaxe/pick/pickax ring/addRing shears/scissors slingshot tool wateringCan/can wand weapon	These are replaced by more general commands like item (O)128 (spawn item by ID), fuzzyItemNamed pufferfish (spawn by item name), or itemQuery FLAVORED_ITEM Wine (O)128 (spawn by item query).
    addQuartz blueBook blueprint end	These were part of unused features removed in 1.6.
    changeStat	Removed; use setStat instead.
    ee endEvent/leaveEvent eventOver	Replaced by the new endEvent command.
    everythingshop	Removed. You can get all items like debug iq ALL_ITEMS, or all items of a given type like debug iq ALL_ITEMS (O).
    oldMineGame	Removed along with the pre-1.4 Junimo Kart code.
    pathSpouseToMe/pstm	Removed along with the unimplemented farm activities code.

  • Added alternative names for some debug commands (new names in parentheses): bpm + bsm (paintBuilding + skinBuilding), craftingRecipe (addCraftingRecipe), db (speakTo), dialogue (addDialogue), pdb (printGemBirds), r (resetForPlayerEntry), removeLargeTf (removeLargeTerrainFeature), sb (showTextAboveHead), sl + sr (shiftToolbarLeft + shiftToolbarRight), sn (secretNote), and tls (toggleLightingScale).
  • Reworked how debug commands log output. This fixes an issue where they don't always log to the right place (e.g. a command run through the chatbox might log to the console or vice-versa), and lets mods pass a custom logger to capture or redirect output.

  Location logic

  • The desert no longer assumes the player arrived by bus unless their previous location was the bus stop.
  • The ticket price for the bus and Willy's boat can now be edited by C# mods via BusStop.TicketPrice and BoatTunnel.TicketPrice respectively.

  Menus & UI

  • Rewrote calendar menu (Billboard) to simplify custom events & event types. C# mods can now edit billboard.calendarDayData or patch billboard.GetEventsForDay to add new events.
  • Added Game1.textShadowDarkerColor field for the colors previously hardcoded in Utility.drawTextWithShadow.
  • Added MoneyDial.ShouldShakeMainMoneyBox field to simplify custom dials.
  • Partly de-hardcoded ShopMenu filter tabs. You can now change filter tabs by setting the shopMenu.tabButtons field with arbitrary Func<ISalable, bool> Filter values, or by using a predefined set of tabs like shopMenu.UseDresserTabs().
  • The SpriteText methods now accept arbitrary Color tints instead of a few predefined color IDs.
  • The DiscreteColorPicker.getColorFromSelection methods are now static for reuse.
  • Fixed DiscreteColorPicker constructor ignoring the initial color argument, and added a constructor which takes a Color value.
  • Fixed an edge case where a custom language's fonts wouldn't be loaded when switching language.

  Net fields

  • Removed implicit conversion operators for most types due to their sometimes counter-intuitive behavior. The only ones left are NetBool, NetInt, and NetString; those are now marked obsolete and will raise build warnings on use.
  • NetLocationRef now has a public LocationName and IsStructure, and its Update method allows forcing an update.

  Quests

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Quest data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.
  • Quests now have string IDs, to simplify custom quest frameworks.
  • Added validation for quest data parsing.
  • In Data/SpecialOrders, the Duration and Repeatable fields are now strongly-typed and case-insensitive.
  • For C# mods, fixed DescriptionElement not allowing more than four translation token substitutions.

  Dates & seasons

  • Added a Season enum for strongly-typed, case-insensitive season checks (like Game1.season == Season.Spring instead of Game1.currentSeason == "spring").
  • Added Game1.season, Game1.GetSeasonForLocation, Game1.WorldDate.Season, and location.GetSeason() to get the season enum.
  • Added Utility.getSeasonKey to get the key form from a season enum.
  • Improved WorldDate:
    • added Now() to get a new instance matching the current date;
    • added WorldDate.Equals and GetHashCode implementations;
    • added code docs;
    • TotalDays is no longer written to the save file.
  • Renamed some members for clarity (Game1.GetSeasonForLocation → GetSeasonKeyForLocation, location.GetSeasonForLocation → GetSeasonKey, WorldDate.Season → SeasonKey).
  • Fixed location.GetSeasonKey() not applying the greenhouse logic.

  Time

  • For C# mods, the Game1.realMilliSecondsPerGame and Game1.realMilliSecondsPerGameTenMinutes fields are no longer marked const, and the GameLocation.getExtraMillisecondsPerInGameMinuteForThisLocation() method has been replaced with a settable ExtraMillisecondsPerInGameMinute property. That lets you change the time rate used by the vanilla game code, but you should be careful doing this since it may cause unintended effects.

  Other

  • Error stack traces on Linux/macOS now have line numbers.
  • All space-delimited fields now ignore extra spaces instead of crashing. This affects map/tile properties, data assets, event commands, game state queries, etc.
  • All players and NPCs now have Tile & TilePoint properties (their cached tile position) and a StandingPixel property (the cached pixel coordinate at the center of their bounding box). These replace various deleted methods.
  • All terrain features now have Tile and Location properties, and their methods no longer have location/tile parameters in most cases.
  • All net fields now have Name and Owner fields, which are used to show informative error messages when there's a sync issue and validate common mistakes (e.g. a net field not added to the NetFields collection).
  • The game now tracks the locations a player has visited. Mods can check the list in C# (via Game1.player.locationsVisited) or game state queries (via PLAYER_VISITED_LOCATION). For pre-existing saves, the list is retroactively populated based on accessible locations, events seen, mail flags set, etc.
  • Added menu queuing (via Game1.nextClickableMenu in C#). For example, this applies if you try to take an item from a mail letter when your inventory is full.
  • Added C# code docs in many places.
  • Added Id fields to simplify content pack edits in fish pond, movie concession, random bundle, and tailoring recipe data.
  • Added Game1.Multiplayer to get the game's low-level handler. (Most code should still use SMAPI's multiplayer API though.)
  • Added Game1.versionBuildNumber with the build number (like 26039).
  • Added field-changed events to NetPosition.
  • Added LocalizedContentManager.CurrentLanguageString, which caches the language code like pt-BR).
  • The game now uses [XmlInclude] on its types more consistently. That means the default save serializer can handle more types (e.g. all monsters), and it's easier to create custom serializers.
  • Refactored many parts of the code to make it more moddable for C# mods. This includes marking all classes public, changing private members to protected or public, marking members virtual, rewriting or splitting code so it's easier to extend, etc.
  • The startup_preferences file is now formatted to simplify troubleshooting.
  • Fixed many cases where the game used Game1.player instead of the provided player.

  Breaking changes for C# mods

  This section only describes how this update may break existing mods. See the what's new sections above for more info, including new functionality mods can use.

  See also Breaking changes for content packs, which affect C# mods too.

  .NET 6

  See also: .NET 6 under what's new.

  Stardew Valley 1.6 updates from .NET 5 to .NET 6. SMAPI can still load .NET 5 mods fine, but you'll get a build error when compiling them. To update a C# mod:

  1. Make sure you have Visual Studio Community 2022 or later. (Compiling .NET 6 with earlier versions of Visual Studio isn't officially supported.)
  2. In Visual Studio, click Help > Check For Updates and install the latest version.
  3. Fully exit Visual Studio.
  4. Open each mod's .csproj file in a text editor, then find this line:

     <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
     

     And change it to this:

     <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
     

  5. Delete your solution's hidden .vs folder, and every project's bin and obj folders.
  6. Reopen the solution in Visual Studio, click Build > Rebuild Solution, and make sure it still loads into the game fine.

  Item ID changes

  See also: custom items in what's new.

  The main Item properties have changed. To migrate existing code:

  • Don't use ParentSheetIndex to compare items. For example, item.ParentSheetIndex == 0 will match both weeds and any custom item whose sprite is the first one in its custom spritesheet. You should compare items using their new ItemId and QualifiedItemId properties instead. For example, here's how to migrate various common forms:

    old code	new code
    item.ParentSheetIndex == 848	item.QualifiedItemId == "(O)848"
    IsNormalObjectAtParentSheetIndex(item, 74)	item.QualifiedItemId == "(O)74"
    !item.bigCraftable && item.ParentSheetIndex == 128	item.QualifiedItemId == "(O)128"
    item is Boots && item.ParentSheetIndex == 505	item.QualifiedItemId == "(B)505"

  • Don't assume item sprites are in the vanilla spritesheets. For example, instead of rendering Game1.objectSpriteSheet for an object, call ItemRegistry.GetMetadata(item.QualifiedItemId).GetTexture() to get its texture.
  • Creating items works just like before, except that you now specify the item's ItemId (not QualifiedItemId) instead of its ParentSheetIndex. This is the same value for vanilla items. For example:

    new Object("634", 1);                      // vanilla item
    new Object("Example.ModId_Watermelon", 1); // custom item
    

    You can also use the new ItemRegistry API to construct items from their QualifiedItemId:

    Item item = ItemRegistry.Create("(B)505"); // Rubber Boots
    

  Other ID changes

  Many other things in the game now have unique string IDs too (including buffs, events, and fruit trees). To migrate existing code:

  • When referencing numeric IDs, you usually just need to convert them into a string (like Game1.player.hasBuff("1590166") or Game1.player.eventsSeen.Contains("1590166")).
  • When creating buffs, see buff overhaul for how to create buffs now.
  • For pre-existing content pack data, see migration steps in the unique string IDs section.

  Building and animal changes

  See also: build anywhere in what's new.

  • Since all locations now allow buildings and animals, mod code which handles BuildableGameLocation and IAnimalLocation won't detect all buildable locations. You can replace them with location.IsBuildableLocation() (or just access location.buildings directly) and location.animals.Any() instead. Mods should no longer have any reference at all to BuildableGameLocation and IAnimalLocation.
  • Since buildings can be built anywhere, you can no longer assume a building is on the farm. You can check the new building.buildingLocation field instead.
  • You should review direct references to the farm (like Game1.getFarm() or Game1.getLocationFromName("Farm")) to see if it needs to be rewritten to allow other locations.
  • Utility.numSilos() should no longer be used to calculate available hay, since it doesn't account for custom buildings with hay storage. Use Game1.getFarm().GetHayCapacity() instead.
  • The Cat and Dog classes are now unused; all pets are now Pet directly.

  Player changes

  See also: buff overhaul in what's new.

  • Several Game1.player / Farmer fields changed as part of the buff overhaul:

    old field	how to migrate
    appliedBuffs appliedSpecialBuffs	Use Game1.player.hasBuff(id) instead.
    attack immunity	Use Attack and Immunity instead.
    addedCombatLevel addedFarmingLevel addedFishingLevel addedForagingLevel addedLuckLevel addedMiningLevel attackIncreaseModifier critChanceModifier critPowerModifier knockbackModifier weaponPrecisionModifier weaponSpeedModifier	Use equivalent properties under Game1.player.buffs instead (e.g. Game1.player.buffs.CombatLevel).
    resilience	Use buffs.Defense instead.
    addedSpeed CombatLevel CraftingTime FarmingLevel FishingLevel ForagingLevel LuckLevel MagneticRadius MaxStamina MiningLevel Stamina	These are now readonly and can't be set directly. You can change them by adding a buff (which can be invisible), equipment bonus, etc instead.

  • Buffs are now recalculated automatically, and you can reset a buff by just reapplying it. See buff overhaul for more info.
  • Buff logic has been centralized into Game1.player.buffs. This replaces a number of former fields/methods like Game1.buffsDisplay.

  Collision changes

  The game's tile collision logic has been overhauled and merged into a simpler set of methods on GameLocation instances:

  method	effect
  CanSpawnCharacterHere	Get whether NPCs can be placed on the given tile (e.g. it's within the map bounds and tile is walkable), there's no placed object there, and the NoFurniture tile property isn't set.
  CanItemBePlacedHere	Get whether items can be placed on the given tile in non-floating form (e.g. it's within the map bounds and not blocked by a non-walkable item), and the NoFurniture tile property isn't set.
  isBuildable	Get whether buildings can be placed on the given tile.
  IsTilePassable	Get whether the tile can be walked on (ignoring collisions with in-game objects, NPCs, etc).
  IsTileOccupiedBy	Get whether the tile contains a player, object, NPC/monster/pet/etc, terrain feature, building, etc. You can choose which entities to check, and which ones to ignore if they don't block movement.
  IsTileBlockedBy	Equivalent to calling both IsTilePassable and IsTileOccupiedBy.
  IsLocationSpecificOccupantOnTile IsLocationSpecificPlacementRestriction	Generally shouldn't be used directly. Checks for location-specific collisions (e.g. ladders in the mines or parrot platforms on Ginger Island).

  Other breaking API changes

  (This section is meant as a quick reference if you have build errors; there's no need to read through it otherwise.)

  Removed unused code

  1.6 removes a lot of unused code. That includes these classes:

  namespace	class name
  StardewValley	BuildingUpgrade DisposableList FurniturePlacer ListPool OneTimeRandom
  StardewValley.Characters	BotchedNetBool BotchedNetField BotchedNetInt BotchedNetLong
  StardewValley.Menus	FarmInfoPage MiniatureTerrainFeature
  StardewValley.Monsters	LavaCrab
  StardewValley.Objects	ObjectFactory (replaced by ItemRegistry)
  StardewValley.TerrainFeatures	Quartz
  StardewValley.Tools	Blueprints ToolFactory (replaced by ItemRegistry)

  And these class members:

  type	members
  Axe	StumpStrength
  Bush	alpha lastPlayerToHit
  Chest	chestType coins
  CosmeticPlant	scale
  CraftingRecipe	itemType
  Critter	InitShared()
  Crop	daysOfUnclutteredGrowth
  Dialogue	dialogueToBeKilled
  Farm	GetSpouseOutdoorAreaSpritesheetIndex()
  FarmAnimal	homeLocation
  Farmer	barnUpgradeLevel and BarnUpgradeLevel blueprints coalPieces and CoalPieces coopUpgradeLevel and CoopUpgradeLevel copperPieces and CopperPieces eyeColor feed and Feed furnitureOwned goldPieces and GoldPieces hasBusTicket hasGreenhouse iridiumPieces and IridiumPieces ironPieces and IronPieces newSkillPointsToSpend overallsColor ownsFurniture quartzPieces and QuartzPieces shirtColor skinColor stonePieces and StonePieces theaterBuildDate woodPieces and WoodPieces
  Game1	boardingBus chanceToRainTomorrow checkForNewLevelPerks cloud coopDwellerBorn cropsOfTheWeek currentBarnTexture currentBillboard currentCoopTexture currentFloor currentHouseTexture currentWallpaper dealerCalicoJackTotal FarmerFloor farmerWallpaper fertilizer floorPrice greenhouseTexture inMine jukeboxPlaying keyHelpString listeningForKeyControlDefinitions littleEffect logoScreenTexture mailboxTexture menuChoice menuUp nameSelectUp nameSelectType numberOfSelectedItems particleRaining pickingTool pickToolDelay pickToolInterval priceOfSelectedItem progressBar removeSquareDebrisFromTile(…) selectedItemsType shiny shippingTax showKeyHelp slotResult startedJukeboxMusic tinyFontBorder toolHeld toolIconBox tvStation tvStationTexture wallpaperPrice
  GameLocation	boardBus(…) checkForMapChanges() getWallDecorItem(…) removeBatch(…) removeDirt(…) removeStumpOrBoulder(…) tryToBuyNewBackpack()
  GiantCrop	forSale
  IClickableMenu	currentRegion
  MeleeWeapon	attackSwordCooldownTime doStabbingSwordFunction(…)
  Monster	doHorizontalMovement(…) durationOfRandomMovements coinsToDrop
  NPC	idForClones
  Object	attachToSprinklerAttachment(…) canBePlacedInWater() consumeRecipe(…) copperBar goldBar iridiumBar ironBar isHoeDirt and IsHoeDirt
  PathFindController	CheckClearance(…) limit
  SaveGame	cropsOfTheWeek currentFloor currentWallpaper FarmerFloor farmerWallpaper shippingTax
  Spiker	GetSpawnPosition
  Stats	barsSmelted and BarsSmelted coalFound and CoalFound coinsFound and coinsFound starLevelCropsShipped and starLevelCropsShipped
  Tool	batteredSwordSpriteIndex copperColor GetSecondaryEnchantmentCount() goldColor iridiumColor nonUpgradeable parsnipSpriteIndex Stackable startOfNegativeWeaponIndex steelColor
  Utility	buyFloor() buyWallpaper() cropsOfTheWeek() facePlayerEndBehavior(…) getRandomSlotCharacter() plantCrops(…) showLanternBar()

  Renamed classes

  These classes were renamed in 1.6:

  old name	new name
  Game1.MusicContext	MusicContext (in StardewValley.GameData)
  LocationContext	LocationContexts
  SpecialOrder.QuestStatus	SpecialOrderStatus (in StardewValley.SpecialOrders)

  And these were moved to a different namespace:

  type	old namespace	new namespace
  AmethystEnchantment AquamarineEnchantment ArchaeologistEnchantment ArtfulEnchantment AutoHookEnchantment AxeEnchantment BaseEnchantment BaseWeaponEnchantment BottomlessEnchantment BugKillerEnchantment CrusaderEnchantment DiamondEnchantment EfficientToolEnchantment EmeraldEnchantment FishingRodEnchantment GalaxySoulEnchantment GenerousEnchantment HaymakerEnchantment HoeEnchantment JadeEnchantment MagicEnchantment MasterEnchantment MilkPailEnchantment PanEnchantment PickaxeEnchantment PowerfulEnchantment PreservingEnchantment ReachingToolEnchantment RubyEnchantment ShavingEnchantment ShearsEnchantment SwiftToolEnchantment TopazEnchantment VampiricEnchantment WateringCanEnchantment	StardewValley	StardewValley.Enchantments
  Extensions	StardewValley	StardewValley.Extensions
  ModDataDictionary ModHooks	StardewValley	StardewValley.Mods
  PathFindController PathNode PriorityQueue SchedulePathDescription	StardewValley	StardewValley.Pathfinding
  SpecialOrder	StardewValley	StardewValley.SpecialOrders
  CollectObjective DeliverObjective DonateObjective FishObjective GiftObjective JKScoreObjective OrderObjective ReachMineFloorObjective ShipObjective SlayObjective	StardewValley	StardewValley.SpecialOrders.Objectives
  FriendshipReward GemsReward MailReward MoneyReward OrderReward ResetEventReward	StardewValley	StardewValley.SpecialOrders.Rewards

  Other API changes

  These class members changed in 1.6:

  type	member	migration
  BigSlime	heldObject	Replaced by heldItem, which allows non-object items too.
  Bush	overrideSeason	Removed; use bush.Location.GetSeason() instead.
  	greenhouseBush	Removed; use bush.IsSheltered() or bush.currentLocation.IsGreenhouse instead.
  	inBloom	Remove the arguments, like bush.inBloom(Game1.currentSeason, Game1.dayOfMonth) → bush.inBloom().
  Character	getStandingX getStandingY getStandingXY	Removed; use character.StandingPixel instead.
  	getTileLocation getTileX getTileY	Removed; use character.Tile instead.
  	getTileLocationPoint	Removed; use character.TilePoint instead.
  Chest	MoveToSafePosition	Replaced by the simpler TryMoveToSafePosition
  Dialogue	dialogues	Changed from List<string> to List<DialogueLine>. The Text field on each dialogue line is equivalent to the old value.
  	isOnFinalDialogue()	This now indicates whether it's showing the last dialogue with message text; there may still be entries in dialogues which apply side-effects without message text.
  Farmer	changePants(…)	Renamed to changePantsColor(…) for consistency with change[Eye|Hair|Shoe]Color.
  	isMarried()	Renamed to isMarriedOrRoommates() for clarity.
  	visibleQuestCount	Replaced by hasVisibleQuests.
  Flooring	GetFloorPathLookup	Use Game1.floorPathData instead.
  Forest	log	Moved into Forest.resourceClumps.
  FruitTree	GreenHouseTree	Replaced by IgnoresSeasonsHere().
  Game1	bigCraftableInformation	Overhauled into Game1.bigCraftableData.
  	clothingInformation	Overhauled into Game1.shirtData and Game1.pantsData.
  	objectInformation	Overhauled into Game1.objectData.
  GameLocation	getCharacters	Removed; use the characters field instead.
  	GetMapPropertyPosition	Replaced by TryGetMapPropertyAs, which supports multiple data types (not just Point).
  	isTileOccupied isTileOccupiedForPlacement isTileOccupiedIgnoreFloors isTileLocationOpenIgnoreFrontLayers isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceable isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceableIgnoreFloors	Removed. The collision logic has been significantly rewritten and uses a new set of methods (mainly isTilePassable, IsTileOccupiedBy, and CanItemBePlacedHere). Mods should ideally be updated to use the new methods. Here's a drop-in set of extension methods which re-add the older methods. This lets you temporarily fix code until you can update it properly, but depending on these isn't recommended since they won't be maintained in future versions. expand for non-recommended code  public static class GameLocationExtensions { public static bool isTileOccupiedForPlacement(this GameLocation location, Vector2 tileLocation, Object toPlace = null) { return location.CanItemBePlacedHere(tileLocation, toPlace != null && toPlace.isPassable()); } public static bool isTileOccupied(this GameLocation location, Vector2 tileLocation, string characterToIgnore = "", bool ignoreAllCharacters = false) { CollisionMask mask = ignoreAllCharacters ? CollisionMask.All & ~CollisionMask.Characters & ~CollisionMask.Farmers : CollisionMask.All; return location.IsTileOccupiedBy(tileLocation, mask); } public static bool isTileOccupiedIgnoreFloors(this GameLocation location, Vector2 tileLocation, string characterToIgnore = "") { return location.IsTileOccupiedBy(tileLocation, CollisionMask.Buildings | CollisionMask.Furniture | CollisionMask.Objects | CollisionMask.Characters | CollisionMask.TerrainFeatures, ignorePassables: CollisionMask.Flooring); } public static bool isTileLocationOpenIgnoreFrontLayers(this GameLocation location, Location tile) { return location.map.RequireLayer("Buildings").Tiles[tile.X, tile.Y] == null && !location.isWaterTile(tile.X, tile.Y); } public static bool isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceable(this GameLocation location, int x, int y) { return location.isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceable(new Vector2(x, y)); } public static bool isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceableIgnoreFloors(this GameLocation location, Vector2 v) { return location.isTileOnMap(v) && !location.isTileOccupiedIgnoreFloors(v) && location.isTilePassable(new Location((int)v.X, (int)v.Y), Game1.viewport) && location.isTilePlaceable(v); } public static bool isTileLocationTotallyClearAndPlaceable(this GameLocation location, Vector2 v) { Vector2 pixel = new Vector2((v.X * Game1.tileSize) + Game1.tileSize / 2, (v.Y * Game1.tileSize) + Game1.tileSize / 2); foreach (Furniture f in location.furniture) { if (f.furniture_type != Furniture.rug && !f.isPassable() && f.GetBoundingBox().Contains((int)pixel.X, (int)pixel.Y) && !f.AllowPlacementOnThisTile((int)v.X, (int)v.Y)) return false; } return location.isTileOnMap(v) && !location.isTileOccupied(v) && location.isTilePassable(new Location((int)v.X, (int)v.Y), Game1.viewport) && location.isTilePlaceable(v); } }
  GiantCrop	which	Replaced by itemId.
  Item	SanitizeContextTag	Replaced by ItemContextTagManager.SanitizeContextTag.
  LocalizedContentManager	LanguageCodeString	Now static.
  LocationContextData	Name	Removed; use its dictionary key in Game1.locationContextData instead.
  NetFields	AddFields	Removed; use AddField instead. For example: // old code NetFields.AddFields(textureName, spriteWidth, spriteHeight); // new code NetFields .AddField(textureName) .AddField(spriteWidth) .AddField(spriteHeight); Note that the second argument (name) should usually be omitted, since it'll be auto-populated from the value passed to the first argument.
  NPC	canReceiveThisItemAsGift(…)	Removed. The closest equivalent is item.canBeGivenAsGift(), or you can check if the NPC will accept the player's held object (as a gift or otherwise) using npc.tryReceiveActiveObject(Game1.player, probe: true).
  	Gender female male undefined	The Gender field now uses a Gender enum instead of numeric constants. For example, npc.Gender == NPC.female becomes npc.Gender == Gender.Female in 1.6.
  	homeRegion	Removed; use npc.GetData()?.HomeRegion instead. Change 0 to "Other" or NPC.region_other, 1 to "Desert" or NPC.region_desert, and 2 to "Town" or NPC.region_town.
  	isBirthday	Remove the arguments, like npc.isBirthday(Game1.currentSeason, Game1.dayOfMonth) → npc.isBirthday().
  	isVillager()	Deprecated; use the character.IsVillager property instead.
  	populateRoutesFromLocationToLocationList	Replaced by WarpPathfindingCache.PopulateCache.
  	Schedule	No longer assignable, use one of the TryLoadSchedule overloads instead.
  Object	GetContextTagList()	Replaced by GetContextTags(), which returns a hash set instead of a list.
  	HasBeenPickedUpByPlayer	Removed; use HasBeenInInventory instead.
  	isPotentialBasicShippedCategory	The second argument should now be an integer (like -75 or Object.VegetableCategory) instead of a string (like "-75").
  Utility	doesItemWithThisIndexExistAnywhere	Replace with Utility.doesItemExistAnywhere, which takes a string item ID. For example: Utility.doesItemWithThisIndexExistAnywhere(128) → Utility.doesItemExistAnywhere("(O)128"); Utility.doesItemWithThisIndexExistAnywhere(128, true) → Utility.doesItemExistAnywhere("(BC)128").
  	ForAllLocations iterateAllCrops iterateAllItems	Removed; use the equivalent Utility.ForEach* methods instead.
  	GetHorseWarpRestrictionsForFarmer	This now returns a flag enum instead of a list of integer values. The equivalent values are 1 → NoOwnedHorse, 2 → Indoors, 3 → NoRoom, and 4 → InUse. For example: // old code bool inUse = Utility.GetHorseWarpRestrictionsForFarmer(player).Any(p => p == 4); // new code bool inUse = Utility.GetHorseWarpRestrictionsForFarmer(player).HasFlag(Utility.HorseWarpRestrictions.InUse); Or to check if no restrictions apply: bool canSummon = Utility.GetHorseWarpRestrictionsForFarmer(player) == Utility.HorseWarpRestrictions.None; C# mods can patch Utility.GetHorseWarpErrorMessage if they need to add an error message for a custom restriction value.
  	getRandomTownNPC(…)	Replaced by either Utility.GetRandomWinterStartParticipant(…) or Utility.getRandomNpcFromHomeRegion(NPC.region_town).
  	getTodaysBirthdayNPC	Remove the arguments, like Utility.getTodaysBirthdayNPC(Game1.currentSeason, Game1.dayOfMonth) → Utility.getTodaysBirthdayNPC().
  	getPooledList returnPooledList	The game no longer uses a list pool. In most cases you should use the Utility.ForEach* methods instead, which don't need it.
  	numObelisksOnFarm	Renamed to GetObeliskTypesBuilt, which searches all locations.
  	numSilos	Removed. If you're using this to calculate hay capacity, it's a bit more complicated in 1.6 since hay storage can be enabled for custom buildings and building construction can be enabled for any location. To get capacity for the current location, use Game1.currentLocation.GetHayCapacity() instead. To get total hay capacity in the world, use Utility.ForEachLocation to call it on every location. If you actually need the number of silos, use location.getNumberBuildingsConstructed("Silo") (one location) or Game1.GetNumberBuildingsConstructed("Silo") (all locations).
  	removeThisCharacterFromAllLocations	Removed; use Game1.removeCharacterFromItsLocation instead.
  ShopMenu	storeContext	Replaced by ShopId.
  Stats	averageBedtime beveragesMade bouldersCracked caveCarrotsFound cheeseMade chickenEggsLayed copperFound cowMilkProduced cropsShipped daysPlayed diamondsFound dirtHoed duckEggsLayed fishCaught geodesCracked giftsGiven goatCheeseMade goatMilkProduced goldFound goodFriends individualMoneyEarned iridiumFound ironFound itemsCooked itemsCrafted itemsForaged itemsShipped monstersKilled mysticStonesCrushed notesFound otherPreciousGemsFound piecesOfTrashRecycled preservesMade prismaticShardsFound questsCompleted rabbitWoolProduced rocksCrushed seedsSown sheepWoolProduced slimesKilled stepsTaken stoneGathered stumpsChopped timesFished timesUnconscious totalMoneyGifted trufflesFound weedsEliminated	Removed; use the equivalent property or methods. For example, Game1.stats.daysPlayed can be replaced with Game1.stats.DaysPlayed or methods like Game1.stats.Get(StatKeys.DaysPlayed). See stat changes for C# mods.
  	getStat(…) incrementStat(…)	Replaced by Get(…) and Increment(…). See stat changes for C# mods.
  	stat_dictionary	Renamed to Values. See stat changes for C# mods.
  Woods	stumps	Moved into resourceClumps.

  Check for obsolete code

  Perform a full rebuild of your mod (in Visual Studio, click Build > Rebuild Solution), then check the Error List pane for any warnings like "'X' is obsolete". Anything from the vanilla game code which is marked obsolete won't work anymore and is only kept for save migrations. Usually the warning will include an explanation of what you should use instead.

  Breaking changes for content packs

  This section only describes how this update may break existing mods. See the what's new sections above for more info, including new functionality mods can use.

  Standardized ID fields

  Stardew Valley 1.6 adds an Id field to these assets. For Content Patcher content packs, these replace the previous synthetic ID:

  asset	old key	new key	migration steps
  Data/ConcessionTastes Data/MovieReactions Data/RandomBundles (area) Data/RandomBundles (bundle)	Name NPCName AreaName none	Id	None. The Id field is set automatically to the same value (or Name for bundles), so there's no change for content packs. Omit the new field when creating a new entry.
  Data/FishPondData Data/RandomBundles (bundle set)	RequiredTags none	Id	Use the new Id field to target an entry, and add it when creating a new entry. Required.
  Data/TailoringRecipes	FirstItemTags and SecondItemTags	Id	Use the new Id field to target an entry, and add it when creating a new entry. Defaults to the CraftedItemIds (comma-delimited) or CraftedItemId value if omitted, but there's a high chance of conflicts so mods should always specify a unique ID.

  For example, let's say you have a patch like this using Content Patcher:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/TailorRecipes",
              "Entries": {
                  "item_cloth|item_pufferchick": {
                      "FirstItemTags": [ "item_cloth" ],
                      "SecondItemTags": [ "item_pufferchick" ],
                      "CraftedItemId": "(S)1260"
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  When updating to Stardew Valley 1.6, replace the synthetic ID (item_cloth|item_pufferchick) with a real one:

  • To edit an existing entry, unpack the asset and get its new Id value.
  • To add a custom entry, use a unique string ID.

  For example:

  {
      "Format": "2.0.0",
      "Changes": [
          {
              "Action": "EditData",
              "Target": "Data/TailorRecipes",
              "Entries": {
                  "ExampleAuthor.ModId_RainCoatFromPufferchick": {
                      "Id": "ExampleAuthor.ModId_RainCoatFromPufferchick", // need to specify ID again when creating it
                      "FirstItemTags": [ "item_cloth" ],
                      "SecondItemTags": [ "item_pufferchick" ],
                      "CraftedItemId": "(S)1260"
                  }
              }
          }
      ]
  }
  

  Event ID changes

  These docs should be merged into Modding:Event data. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: string event IDs in what's new.

  Events now have unique string IDs.

  When creating an event:

  • New events should use a globally unique ID in the form Your.ModId_EventName. Existing events should be fine as-is, but it may be worth migrating them to avoid future conflicts.
  • Every non-fork event must have a precondition in its key (even if it's empty). For example, change "Your.ModId_EventName": "..." to "Your.ModId_EventName/": "...". This is needed for the game to distinguish between events and fork scripts.

    "Example.ModId_EventName/": "...", // event: loaded automatically by the game
    "SomeFork": "..."                  // event fork: ignored unless it's loaded through an event script
    

  Monster eradication goal flag changes

  These docs should be merged into a new doc page. When copying content, make sure you attribute the original authors.

  See also: Custom monster eradication goals.

  The game now tracks Adventurer's Guild monster eradication goal completion by the goal ID, instead of the produced item. You'll need to replace these mail flags if you check them:

  old flag	new flag
  Gil_Slime Charmer Ring	Gil_Slimes
  Gil_Savage Ring	Gil_Shadows
  Gil_Vampire Ring	Gil_Bats
  Gil_Skeleton Mask	Gil_Skeletons
  Gil_Insect Head	Gil_Insects
  Gil_Hard Hat	Gil_Duggy
  Gil_Burglar's Ring	Gil_DustSpirits
  Gil_Crabshell Ring	Gil_Crabs
  Gil_Arcane Hat	Gil_Mummies
  Gil_Knight's Helmet	Gil_Dinos
  Gil_Napalm Ring	Gil_Serpents
  Gil_Telephone	Gil_FlameSpirits

  XNB impact

  Overview

  This section provides a summary of the XNB files which changed in Stardew Valley 1.6. This doesn't include new files (since they won't impact existing mods), or text changes in non-English files.

  XNB mods are disproportionately affected, since...

  1. they replace the entire file;
  2. they're loaded through the MonoGame content pipeline which is less tolerant of format changes;
  3. they don't benefit from the compatibility rewrites Content Patcher provides for its content packs.

  Content Patcher packs are typically unaffected (and Content Patcher will try to rewrite content packs automatically). However if a content pack replaces an entire asset instead of editing, it's more likely to be affected like an XNB mod.

  Changed assets

  Compatibility is broadly grouped into four categories:

  • "✘ broken": mods will remove new content or significant changes, or the mod's intended changes will no longer work. Effects may range from display bugs to crashes, depending how the game uses that specific content.
  • "✘ will remove changes": mods will remove minor changes in 1.6 (e.g. typo fixes).
  • "✓ mostly unaffected": mods will only be affected if they replace the entire asset, or edit specific entries or fields.
  • Blank: no expected impact for the vast majority of mods.

  content asset	changes in 1.6	compatibility for pre-1.6 mods
  		XNB mods	Content Patcher packs
  Buildings/houses	fixed missing pixels	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Abigail Characters/Dialogue/Alex	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Caroline Characters/Dialogue/Demetrius	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Elliott	added flower dance dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Emily	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos updated %revealtaste format (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/George	added Winter Star gift exchange dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Gus	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Haley	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Harvey	added flower dance dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Jas Characters/Dialogue/Jodi	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Krobus	added roommate stardrop dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Leah	added flower dance dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Lewis	updated %revealtaste format (backwards-compatible)
  Characters/Dialogue/Linus	added dumpster dive dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Marnie	added Stardew Valley Fair dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogue Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueAbigail Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueElliott	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueEmily	changed spring_Maru key to spring_Emily fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueKrobus Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueLeah Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueMaru Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialoguePenny Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueSam	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Maru	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Penny	added flower dance dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Pierre	added Stardew Valley Fair dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Robin	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Sam	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Sandy	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Sebastian	added flower dance dialogue fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Willy	added Stardew Valley Fair dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Dialogue/Shane	added flower dance dialogue	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Farmer/hats	removed stray pixel on chicken mask	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/schedules/Elliott	fixed order of Fri_6 and Fri entries	✘ broken
  Characters/schedules/Lewis	fixed winter_Sun schedule	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/schedules/Maru	fixed summer_Mon and summer_Sun schedules	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/schedules/Penny	fixed summer_Sun schedule	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Characters/Schedules/Shane	fixed dialogue key	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/animationDescriptions	fixed frame in Lewis' Saloon drinking animation	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/AquariumFish	changed key type added hat position for Sea Urchin	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/BigCraftablesInformation	asset replaced by Data/BigCraftables: migrated to data model format added new features	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/Blueprints	asset replaced by Data/Buildings: migrated to data model format added new features	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/Boots	changed key type added display name	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/Bundles	can no longer omit empty fields before display name added display name field in English removed meat items in animal bundle	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/ClothingInformation	asset replaced by Data/Pants and Data/Shirts: migrated to data model format added new features	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/Concessions	added new required fields (Texture and SpriteIndex) replaced translations with tokenizable strings changed IDs to strings	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/ConcessionTastes	added automatic ID field	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/CookingRecipes	replaced translations with tokenizable strings display names can now be omitted to use item name	✘ will remove changes	✓ may remove unaffected
  Data/CraftingRecipes	replaced translations with tokenizable strings display names can now be omitted to use item name added default unlock condition fixed typo in Cookout Kit entry	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Crops	completely overhauled	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/Events/AnimalShop	updated command syntax (backwards-compatible)
  Data/Events/Farm	replaced send-mail events with trigger actions updated pet event to support custom pet types	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ may cause duplicate mail if they edit send-mail events)
  Data/Events/FishShop	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/Forest	fixed typos updated Jas faceDirection command for sewer event	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/IslandHut	updated how Leo's name is translated	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/IslandNorth	updated quote format fixed blank music field (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ likely broken if they edit the 6497421 event)
  Data/Events/IslandSouth	fixed blank music field (backwards-compatible) fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/JoshHouse	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/LeahHouse	fixed move command format in Leah's 2-heart event fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/Mountain	fixed skipped dialogue in Maru's 14-heart event fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/Saloon Data/Events/ScienceHouse Data/Events/SebastianRoom	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/Town	fixed warp command format in community center completed event fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Events/WizardHouse	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/ExtraDialogue	split SummitEvent_Dialogue1_Spouse entry fixed event command formats in some summit dialogue moved dumpster dive dialogue into NPC files removed unused entries fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/FarmAnimals	completely overhauled	✘ broken	✘ broken
  Data/Festivals/fall16	updated command syntax (backwards-compatible) fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Festivals/fall27	removed shop field (moved into Data/Shops)	✓ mostly unaffected	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Festivals/spring13	migrated to new warpFarmers command removed shop field (moved into Data/Shops) updated faceDirection syntax fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ broken if they edit mainEvent or afterEggHunt fields)
  Data/Festivals/spring24 Data/Festivals/summer11 Data/Festivals/summer28	migrated to new warpFarmers command removed shop field (moved into Data/Shops)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ broken if they edit mainEvent field)
  Data/Festivals/winter8	migrated to new warpFarmers command removed shop field (moved into Data/Shops) removed broken loadActors MainEvent command	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ broken if they edit mainEvent or afterIceFishing field)
  Data/Festivals/winter25	removed shop field (moved into Data/Shops)	✓ mostly unaffected	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Fish	no longer has per-language versions changed key type field 13 now refers to whether fish can be tutorial catch	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/FishPondData	added required Id & optional Precedence fields standardized ID→Id naming changed to qualified item IDs moved fallback entries to bottom	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/fruitTrees	completely overhauled	✘ broken	✘ broken
  Data/Furniture	changed key type replaced translations with tokenizable strings changed key type can no longer omit empty fields before display name	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/hats	changed key type can no longer omit empty fields before display name added display name field in English	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Data/Locations	completely overhauled	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/mail	migrated to %item id (backwards-compatible) removed unused entries fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Monsters	changed Dust Spirit display name to Dust Sprite	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/Movies	significantly overhauled	✘ broken	✘ broken
  Data/MoviesReactions	replaced translations with tokenizable strings standardized ID→Id naming fixed typo	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/NPCDispositions	asset replaced by Data/Characters	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/NPCGiftTastes	removed invalid item IDs	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/ObjectContextTags	asset removed (replaced by ContextTags field in Data/BigCraftables and Data/Objects)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration, except context tags defined before their objects and context tags for bigcraftables.)
  Data/ObjectInformation	asset replaced by Data/Objects: migrated to data model format added new features added new entries adjusted litter items fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  Data/PaintData	fixed trailing slash in Deluxe Barn entry
  Data/Quests	changed key type to string migrated to use item IDs (backwards-compatible) fixed typo	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/RandomBundles	add optional Id field	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/SecretNotes	updated %revealtaste format (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/SpecialOrders	changed type of Repeatable and Duration fields added optional CustomFields and Conditions fields	✘ broken
  Data/SpousePatios Data/SpouseRooms	removed asset (merged into Data/Characters)	✘ broken	✘ broken
  Data/TailoringRecipes	changed to string item IDs (backwards-compatible) added optional Id and CraftedItemIdFeminine fields removed CraftedItemColor field adjusted recipes for gender-variant shirts standardized ID→Id naming	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (MoveEntries may break, but fallback entries are now checked last automatically)
  Data/TV/CookingChannel Data/TV/TipChannel	fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Data/weapons	completely overhauled	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected (covered by runtime migration)
  LooseSprites/Cursors	new sprites in empty area moved mailbox to Buildings/Mailbox	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  LooseSprites/Cursors2	new sprite in empty area	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  LooseSprites/map	redrawn to better match in-game locations added more detail	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
  Maps/AbandonedJojaMart Maps/AdventureGuild	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/AnimalShop	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/ArchaeologyHouse	removed unused pathfinding tiles moved Music property into Data/Locations
  Maps/Backwoods Maps/Backwoods_GraveSite Maps/Backwoods_Staircase	removed unused tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Barn Maps/Barn2	removed unused map properties
  Maps/Barn3	added AutoFeed map property removed unused map properties	✘ broken
  Maps/BathHouse_Entry Maps/BathHouse_MensLocker	moved Music property into Data/Locations removed unused pathfinding tiles	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/BathHouse_Pool	removed unused pathfinding tiles removed unused map & tile properties
  Maps/BathHouse_WomensLocker	moved Music property into Data/Locations removed unused pathfinding tiles	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Beach	removed unused map properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Beach-Jellies Maps/Beach-Luau Maps/Beach-NightMarket	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Blacksmith	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/BoatTunnel	standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/BugLand	moved Music property into Data/Locations standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/BusStop	removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles changed Action BusTicket to Action None standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Caldera	removed unused map property
  Maps/Cellar	standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Club	added LocationContext map property moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Coop Maps/Coop2	removed unused map properties
  Maps/Coop3	added AutoFeed map property removed unused map properties	✘ broken
  Maps/Desert	added LocationContext map property removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken
  Maps/ElliottHouse	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Farm Maps/Farm_Combat Maps/Farm_Fishing Maps/Farm_Foraging Maps/Farm_FourCorners Maps/Farm_Island Maps/Farm_Mining	added new tilesheet added cabin positions for players 5–8 added PetBowlLocation map property (for Maps/Four_Corners and Farm/Island only) added SpouseAreaLocation map property (for Maps/Farm_Island only) significant tile & tile property changes removed farmhouse + pet bowl areas (now moveable) removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✘ may remove changes
  Maps/Farm_Greenhouse_Dirt Maps/Farm_Greenhouse_Dirt_FourCorners	removed unused map properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/FarmHouse Maps/FarmHouse_Bedroom_Normal Maps/FarmHouse_Bedroom_Open Maps/FarmHouse_Cellar Maps/FarmHouse_ChildBed_0 Maps/FarmHouse_ChildBed_1 Maps/FarmHouse_CornerRoom_Add Maps/FarmHouse_CornerRoom_Remove Maps/FarmHouse_SouthernRoom_Add Maps/FarmHouse_SouthernRoom_Remove Maps/FarmHouse1 Maps/FarmHouse1_marriage Maps/FarmHouse2 Maps/FarmHouse2_marriage	removed unused map properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/FishingGame	standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/FishShop	fixed broken DayTiles and NightTiles values removed unused pathfinding tiles	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Forest	removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Forest-FlowerFestival	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Forest-IceFestival	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops fixed warp positions removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Forest-SewerClean	removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/HaleyHouse Maps/HarveyRoom	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Hospital	removed deprecated UniquePortrait & UniqueSprite map properties removed unused pathfinding tiles	✘ will remove changes (This may cause mod conflicts)	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_Bridge_Broken Maps/Island_Bridge_Repaired Maps/Island_House_Cave	removed unused map properties
  Maps/Island_N	update walnut bush tile so it still works in 1.6 removed unused tile property	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/IslandNorthCave1 Maps/IslandSouthEastCave Maps/IslandSouthEastCave_pirates Maps/IslandWestCave1	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_Bridge_Broken Maps/Island_Bridge_Repaired	removed unused map property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Island_E Maps/IslandFarmCave	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_House_Cave	removed unused map property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Island_Hut	moved Music property into Data/Locations standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_N	added a NowSpawn False tile property to fix tree that hides a golden walnut removed unused tile property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_N_Trader Maps/Island_Secret	removed unused tile property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Island_Shrine	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Island_W	removed unused tile property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/IslandFarmHouse	removed unused tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/JojaMart Maps/JoshHouse Maps/LeahHouse Maps/ManorHouse	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/MarnieBarn	removed unused map properties
  Maps/Mine	updated for minecart changes removed unused map properties	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Mountain	removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Mountain-BridgeFixed Maps/Mountain_Shortcuts	removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/MovieTheater	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/MovieTheaterScreen	updated for tilesheet changes	✘ broken visuals (e.g. missing chairs)	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ broken visuals if they edit the affected tiles)
  Maps/MovieTheaterScreen_TileSheet	improved light cone moved chair sprite to make room for new light cone	✘ broken visuals (e.g. missing chairs)	✓ mostly unaffected (✘ broken visuals if they edit the affected sprites)
  Maps/paths	added icon for custom wild tree spawn removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/QiNutRoom	moved Music property into Data/Locations standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Railroad	removed unused map property removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Saloon Maps/SamHouse	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/SandyHouse	added LocationContext map property	✘ broken
  Maps/ScienceHouse Maps/SebastianRoom	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/SeedShop	removed unused tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Sewer	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Shed Maps/Shed2	added FloorIDs and WallIDs map properties	✘ broken
  Maps/SkullCave	added LocationContext map property moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/SlimeHutch	removed unused tile property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/spousePatios	removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/spring_outdoorsTileSheet Maps/summer_outdoorsTileSheet Maps/fall_outdoorsTileSheet Maps/winter_outdoorsTileSheet	pet bowl moved to Buildings/Pet Bowl	✓ mostly unaffected	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Submarine	removed unused tile property
  Maps/Sunroom	added IsGreenhouse</samp map property	✘ broken
  Maps/Tent	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Town	updated garbage can IDs (backwards-compatible) removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Town-Christmas	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Town-DogHouse	removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Town-EggFestival	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops fixed Elliott appearing twice during egg hunt removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Town-Fair	removed unused map/tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Town-Halloween	updated for festival shops now in Data/Shops removed unused map/tile properties removed unused pathfinding tiles standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Town-Theater Maps/Town-TheaterCC Maps/Town-TrashGone	removed unused tile properties standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Maps/Trailer	removed unused tile property removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Trailer_big	removed unused pathfinding tiles
  Maps/Tunnel	moved Music property into Data/Locations removed unused map property	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/WitchHut	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/WitchSwamp	moved Music property into Data/Locations standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/WitchWarpCave	moved Music property into Data/Locations	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/WizardHouse	moved Music property into Data/Locations removed unused pathfinding tiles	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/WizardHouseBasement	moved Music property into Data/Locations removed unused map property	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Maps/Woods	removed unused tile property standardized T for boolean tile property values (backwards-compatible)
  Minigames/boatJourneyMap	asset replaced by redrawn seasonal variants like fall_boatJourneyMap	✘ broken	✘ broken
  Strings/Characters	added new entries	✘ broken
  Strings/BundleNames	removed unused entries
  Strings/Characters	added new entries removed unused entry	✘ broken
  Strings/credits	updated for 1.6 various changes	✘ will remove changes	✘ will remove changes
  Strings/Events	moved flower dance dialogue for Emily and Shane to their NPC dialogue files	✓ mostly unaffected	✓ mostly unaffected
  Strings/FarmAnimals	added new entries	✘ broken
  Strings/Lexicon	removed unused entries
  Strings/Locations	added new entries added placeholder to BusStop_BuyTicketToDesert renamed BoatTunnel_BuyTicket to BuyTicket updated how Professor Snail's name is translated, removed unused entries fixed typos	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Strings/NPCNames	added new entries removed unused entry	✘ broken
  Strings/Notes	trimmed trailing whitespace
  Strings/Objects	added new entries removed unused entries	✘ broken
  Strings/schedules/Caroline	fixed typo	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Strings/SpecialOrderStrings	renamed Dust Spirits to Dust Sprites fixed typos	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
  Strings/StringsFromCSFiles	added new entries removed unused entries reworked FarmComputer_* translations merged some gendered translations merged ItemDeliveryQuest.cs.13533 into ItemDeliveryQuest.cs.13534–13536 changed some player names from {0} to @ fixed typo	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
  Strings/StringsFromMaps	fixed typos removed unused entries	✘ will remove changes
  Strings/UI	added new entries added placeholder for cabin count in Character_CoopHelpString fixed typos removed unused entries	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected

  Removed unused assets

  Stardew Valley 1.6 deletes assets which weren't used by the game. Mods usually aren't affected by this.

  Removed assets:

  • Characters/Dana
  • Characters/Dick
  • Characters/femaleRival
  • Characters/maleRival
  • Characters/shirts
  • Characters/WeddingOutfits
  • Data/TV/InterviewShow
  • Effects/BrightWhite
  • Fonts/tinyFontBorder
  • Maps/Cabin
  • Maps/Cabin1
  • Maps/Cabin1_marriage
  • Maps/Cabin2
  • Maps/Cabin2_marriage
  • Maps/Island_Boulder_Removed
  • Maps/qiNutRoom_tilesheet_0
  • Maps/spring_outrdoorsTileSheet_lightergrass
  • Portraits/Dobson
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_basic
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_basic_dark
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_frost
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_frost_dark
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_lava
  • TerrainFeatures/DiggableWall_lava_dark
  • TerrainFeatures/Quartz

  Vanilla release notes

  Moved to Version History#1.6.

  See also

  • Modding wishlist items done in Stardew Valley 1.6 lists a few specialized changes not mentioned on this page.