SMAPI not working...HELP!

[shelbsuwu]

So I recently flew across the states and my Steam cloud wasn't working. I watched a few video tutorials and nothing worked so I ended up uninstalling steam and my games. It turns out my WIFI was the problem and now my mods will not work. I tried redownloading SMAPI and when I try opening the game the SMAPI mods window wont open like it did before, only the game will open. Does anyone know how to fix this? :(

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Can you explain the steps you followed? It should go something like this; Download the Smapi zip file, unzip it, run the installation executable and follow its instructions, then go to the Stardew Valley folder and run StardewModdingAPI.exe

[shelbsuwu]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Can you explain the steps you followed? It should go something like this; Download the Smapi zip file, unzip it, run the installation executable and follow its instructions, then go to the Stardew Valley folder and run StardewModdingAPI.exe

Hi, I am unsure of the steps I followed because this is my first time using mods and playing Stardew on steam. I found out my issue was I didnt copy the link SMAPI gives you properly. So now I get the SMAPI window popping up but the mods will not work.

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

Hi, I am unsure of the steps I followed because this is my first time using mods and playing Stardew on steam. I found out my issue was I didnt copy the link SMAPI gives you properly. So now I get the SMAPI window popping up but the mods will not work.

Okay, then how exactly are you installing the mods?

[shelbsuwu]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

Hi, I am unsure of the steps I followed because this is my first time using mods and playing Stardew on steam. I found out my issue was I didnt copy the link SMAPI gives you properly. So now I get the SMAPI window popping up but the mods will not work.

Okay, then how exactly are you installing the mods?

I am using nexus mods. I would find the mod I would want, for example Stardew Valley Expaned. Once I download it I move it into my mods folder.

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

I am using nexus mods. I would find the mod I would want, for example Stardew Valley Expaned. Once I download it I move it into my mods folder.

Did you download all of its discrepancies and read its installation instructions?

[shelbsuwu]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

I am using nexus mods. I would find the mod I would want, for example Stardew Valley Expaned. Once I download it I move it into my mods folder.

Did you download all of its discrepancies and read its installation instructions?

Yes I did.

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

Yes I did.

Have you read through the command prompt for errors while turning it on and found nothing?

[shelbsuwu]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

Yes I did.

Have you read through the command prompt for errors while turning it on and found nothing?

I don't see anything saying error, but when I open the game tab it says "Stardew Valley 1.5.6 - running SMAPI 3.18.3 with 3 mods" which I remember it didn't do before I had this issue :/

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

I don't see anything saying error, but when I open the game tab it says "Stardew Valley 1.5.6 - running SMAPI 3.18.3 with 3 mods" which I remember it didn't do before I had this issue :/

I'm out of simple solutions, if you'd like some more hands-on help we could hop in a video call over Discord so I can see what's going on for myself. Chances are it's something really simple I'd see quickly.

[shelbsuwu]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Originally posted by shelbsuwu:

I don't see anything saying error, but when I open the game tab it says "Stardew Valley 1.5.6 - running SMAPI 3.18.3 with 3 mods" which I remember it didn't do before I had this issue :/

I'm out of simple solutions, if you'd like some more hands-on help we could hop in a video call over Discord so I can see what's going on for myself. Chances are it's something really simple I'd see quickly.

Sadly I do not have discord nor am I comfortable doing that :) but I appreciate the help regardless and I hope I can find a solution soon! Have a good day/night and thank you!!

[Blazerik]

In this day and age playing games and not having discord is crazy. It's the only form of communication most people and companies will use, even when they have actual communication routes.

But judging by what you did and what your problem was in your original post, its probably not that you installed the mods or smapi wrong, but that you are launching the vanilla game because you messed with steam. smapi does have its own launcher for you to launch from to play modded. and previously you probably followed the instructions (which are on discord) to tell steam to launch the smapi launcher by default rather than the vanilla launcher

[Blazerik]

Also don't use nexus' mod manager program. use stardrop if anything (built for stardew).
The nexus site itself is fine though.
Personally I don't like stardrop because it doesn't tell you thing like download progress, instead you just suddenly get told "oops we failed to download x mod, try it again"

Nexus' program is notorious for randomly breaking mod downloads (this is not limited to just using it for stardew either, it frequently breaks for many different games), the problem is nexus is too basic, and wide range, and has some errors in it. It doesn't know how to download and prepare all the kinds of files properly.

P.S. even steam workshop has a lot of similar problems that nexus has, if only valve would take a month to fix it, but nope modding is neglected.

[Mysterious Sir Knight]

Originally posted by Blazerik:

In this day and age playing games and not having discord is crazy. It's the only form of communication most people and companies will use, even when they have actual communication routes.

But judging by what you did and what your problem was in your original post, its probably not that you installed the mods or smapi wrong, but that you are launching the vanilla game because you messed with steam. smapi does have its own launcher for you to launch from to play modded. and previously you probably followed the instructions (which are on discord) to tell steam to launch the smapi launcher by default rather than the vanilla launcher

I thought that might be the issue but no, they're getting the Smapi Console when they boot up the game, thus they aren't just launching the base game.

[Blazerik]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

Originally posted by Blazerik:

In this day and age playing games and not having discord is crazy. It's the only form of communication most people and companies will use, even when they have actual communication routes.

But judging by what you did and what your problem was in your original post, its probably not that you installed the mods or smapi wrong, but that you are launching the vanilla game because you messed with steam. smapi does have its own launcher for you to launch from to play modded. and previously you probably followed the instructions (which are on discord) to tell steam to launch the smapi launcher by default rather than the vanilla launcher

I thought that might be the issue but no, they're getting the Smapi Console when they boot up the game, thus they aren't just launching the base game.

No they did start off by launching it wrong, but then fixed it between their first post and first comment. But the rest of their issues are likely caused by using nexus. if not then they simply installed the mods wrong