Modding:Migrate to Stardew Valley 1.4

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This page describes the upcoming Stardew Valley 1.4, and may change before release.
Some text is redacted because it spoils content that hasn't been publicly announced yet.

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

This page explains how to update your mods for compatibility with Stardew Valley 1.4, which will release in May/June 2019. See also Modding:Migrate to SMAPI 3.0.

SMAPI

Possible breaking changes

Notable changes which may break SMAPI mods:

• Various method signatures have changed, notably Item.canStackWith. In most cases just recompiling with fix those. (Don't forget to update the manifest.json version!)
• Some notable field/method changes:

  class	field/method	changes
  Farm	shippingBin	This field no longer exists. Use farm.getShippingBin(Game1.player) instead, which will return the global or personal shipping bin depending on the host settings.
  Farm	shipItem(Item item)	Removed; add directly to farm.getShippingBin(Game1.player) instead.
  Farmer	money	Replaced by Money, which handles shared/individual wallets for you.
  Game1	itemsToShip	Removed; see farm.getShippingBin(Game1.player) or Game1.player.displayedShippedItems instead.
  Game1	getCharacterFromName(string name, bool mustBeVillager)	The default for mustBeVillager changed from false to true, and added an overload to get a specific NPC type like Game1.getCharacterFromName<Pet>("petName", mustBeVillager: false).
  Item	getStack	No longer exists; use Item.Stack instead.
  Item	addToStack	Now takes an Item reference instead of stack count, but otherwise equivalent (i.e. it returns the remaining stack count but doesn't change the item passed in).
  Pet	wasPetToday	Replaced by lastPetDay, which is the Game1.Date.TotalDays value when it was last pet.

Other notable changes

These are changes which might be of interest to modders, but shouldn't break any mods.

• Added ██████████.
• Added a GameLocation method to patch the location's map from another map file, and a method to force reload the map.
• Added debug commands: addQuartz, addhour, addminute, allMailRead, animationPreviewTool/apt, buff + clearBuffs, changeWallet + mergeWallets + separateWallets, clear, ██████████, ██████████, ██████████, ██████████, ██████████ / ██████████, festival, ██████████ / ██████████, ██████████, ██████████, junimogoodbye, ██████████, ██████████, <t>pauseTime, runmacro, ██████████, ██████████ / trlt, trashCan. Removed emote and fillWithPlacedObject.
• Added option for invisible NPCs gone from the game temporarily (NPC.IsInvisible and NPC.daysUntilNotInvisible).
• Added option for temporarily invisible/passable placed items (Object.isTemporarilyInvisible).
• Added farmer.isUnclaimedFarmhand to distinguish a farmhand that hasn't been customised by a player yet.
• Projectiles can now have a max travel distance.

Content Patcher

Possible breaking changes

Notable changes which may break Content Patcher packs (and XNB mods):

• The DivorceBook and MayorFridge tile actions now only work in Lewis' house.

Other notable changes

These are changes which might be of interest to modders, but shouldn't break any mods.

• The display name field is now used in English for the Data/BigCraftablesInformation and Data/ObjectInformation assets.
• Added various tilesheets for new content.
• Added ██████████. ██████████.
• Added an animation preview tool. This lets you preview player animations for your current character, optionally changing the hair/shirt/pants/gender. You can access it by entering debug animationPreviewTool or debug apt in the SMAPI console.
• Added ██████████.
• Added schedule commands: MAIL, no_schedule.
• Event command changes:
  • Added commands: bgColor, ██████████, makeInvisible, ██████████, ██████████, money, ██████████ ██████████, ██████████. Added new event reward ██████████.
  • itemAboveHead now also accepts ██████████ and ██████████ arguments argument.
  • ██████████.

Update impact

Here's a summary of the XNB files which changed in Stardew Valley 1.4.

Notes:

• This ignores text changes in non-English files for simplicity.
• New content files aren't listed, since they won't impact existing mods.
• XNB mods are disproportionately affected, since they replace the entire file. Content Patcher packs are typically unaffected unless they replace the entire file (in which case see the XNB mod column).
• I don't know what changed in affected map files (if anything), only that the files are different.

Shorthand:

• 'broken' means removing new content or potentially important changes, or potentially causing significant display bugs. This is a broad category — the game may work fine without it or crash, depending how it uses that specific content.
• 'mostly unaffected' means mods will only be affected if they edit specific entries or fields.
• Blank means zero expected impact.

content file	changes	XNB	Content Patcher
Characters/Abigail	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dwarf	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Elliott	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Evelyn	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/George	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Gus	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Harvey	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Kent	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Krobus	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Leah	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Lewis	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Marnie	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Maru	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Pam	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Sam	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Sandy	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Sebastian	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Shane	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Wizard	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Abigail	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Elliott	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Jodi	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Krobus	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Dialogue/Krobus	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Dialogue/Linus	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogue	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueAlex	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/MarriageDialogueSam	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Pierre	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Sam	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Sebastian	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Dialogue/Sebastian	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Farmer/farmer_base	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
Characters/Farmer/farmer_girl_base	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
Characters/Farmer/hairstyles	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/Farmer/hats	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Farmer/shirts	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/Farmer/shoeColors	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/schedules/Alex	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/schedules/Alex	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/schedules/Gus	██████████	✘ broken
Characters/schedules/Kent	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Characters/schedules/Shane	██████████	✘ broken	✘ likely broken
Characters/schedules/beforePathfinding/* Characters/schedules/newSchedules/* Characters/schedules/spring/*	deleted
Data/BigCraftablesInformation	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
Data/Boots	██████████	✘ broken
Data/Bundles	██████████	✘ broken
Data/CookingRecipes	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/CraftingRecipes	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/EngagementDialogue	██████████	✘ broken
Data/ExtraDialogue	██████████	✘ broken
Data/Furniture	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/hats	██████████	✘ broken
Data/Locations	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/mail	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
Data/monsters	██████████	✘ broken
Data/NPCDispositions	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/ObjectInformation	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Quests	██████████	✘ broken
Data/weapons	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/Farm	██████████	✘ broken
Data/Events/FarmHouse	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/Forest	██████████	✘ broken
Data/Events/Mountain	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/Railroad	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/Saloon	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/SamHouse	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/SebastianRoom	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/Events/Town	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/TV/CookingChannel	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Data/TV/TipChannel	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
LooseSprites/Cursors	██████████	✘ broken	✘ possibly broken
LooseSprites/daybg	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✘ will remove changes
LooseSprites/JunimoNote	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
LooseSprites/nightbg	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✘ will remove changes
LooseSprites/temporary_sprites_1	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/{season}_town {season}_town	██████████	✘ broken
Maps/ArchaeologyHouse	██████████	?	?
Maps/Cabin Maps/Cabin1_marriage Maps/Cabin2_marriage	██████████	?	?
Maps/ElliottHouseTiles ElliottHouseTiles	██████████	✘ broken	✘ may remove cosmetic changes
Maps/Farm	██████████	?	?
Maps/FarmHouse Maps/FarmHouse1_marriage Maps/FarmHouse2_marriage	██████████	?	?
Maps/farmhouse_tiles farmhouse_tiles	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/Forest-FlowerFestival	██████████	?	?
Maps/Forest-IceFestival	██████████	?	?
Maps/HaleyHouse	██████████	?	?
Maps/ManorHouse	██████████	?	?
Maps/MenuTiles	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/MenuTilesUncolored	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/Mountain	██████████	?	?
Maps/nightSceneMaru	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/Saloon	██████████	?	?
Maps/SewerTiles SewerTiles	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/Shed	██████████	?	?
Maps/spouseRooms	██████████	?	?
Maps/springobjects	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/spring_outdoorsTileSheet spring_outdoorsTileSheet fall_outdoorsTileSheet	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Maps/Town-Fair	██████████	?	?
Maps/townInterior townInterior	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Minigames/MineCart	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
Portraits/Elliott	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Portraits/Haley	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✘ may remove changes
Portraits/Krobus	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Portraits/Maru	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Portraits/Penny	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Portraits/Sam	██████████	✘ broken	✘ will remove changes
Strings/Buildings	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/Characters	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/Events	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/Locations	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/Notes	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
Strings/StringsFromCSFiles	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Strings/StringsFromMaps	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
Strings/UI	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/Alex	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/George	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/Gus	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/Alex	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/Shane	██████████	✘ broken
Strings/schedules/spring/Penny	██████████
TerrainFeatures/mushroom_tree	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✘ may remove changes
TerrainFeatures/Quartz	██████████	✘ broken	✘ broken
TileSheets/Craftables	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected
TileSheets/projectiles	██████████	✘ will remove changes	✓ mostly unaffected
TileSheets/furniture	██████████	✘ broken	✘ may remove changes
TileSheets/tools	██████████	✘ broken	✓ mostly unaffected