why no steam workshop for mods?

[Mu la la]

title. the game was released on steam first day why not add a workshop? nexusmods sucks

[MaxKool007]

concidering Nexus mods policies lately im surprised he hasnt added support. Most modders who want/try to make money have moved on from there. Many others have as well. A lot of the major mods i use on skyrim, fallout and others have split off becuase of their assumption of rights to your mods distro.

[and1slash]

It's really easy to mod the game as long as you know the folder locations and have SMAPI installed
Or there's " Vortex " that can help out too

When you've worked things out it will be so simple to add more mods

[Toastpiratewilly]

The game also isn't designed to be able to run mods natively, and requires installing a mod loader. Even if they did offer mods on the game's workshop, they wouldn't actually be able to run or work.

Even Terraria doesn't offer mods on the game's own workshop. You have to download TModloader and use that app's workshop to install mods and launch the game. The only way we'd have workshop for Stardew Valley mods is if ape partnered with a SV mod loader to put them on steam under a separate game. Like ReLogic did with TModloader.

[Sunny]

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

From what I've heard, Vortex straight up doesn't work with SMAPI. That'll be the problem. You'll want to go straight to the site, download the mods, and place them into the games "Mods" folder, which will be there once you've installed SMAPI.

It works fine. I'm using it right now, modded the whole thing via Vortex, big mod list, everything is fine.

When I added the game, it gave me a big "SMAPI IS NOT INSTALLED. INSTALL?" warning, I said yes, it installed it. No bugs, no errors, no problems.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by MaxKool007:

concidering Nexus mods policies lately im surprised he hasnt added support. Most modders who want/try to make money have moved on from there. Many others have as well. A lot of the major mods i use on skyrim, fallout and others have split off becuase of their assumption of rights to your mods distro.

Same policy exists most places that host mods. It breaks mod packs if you suddenly decide to delete your mod so once you upload it, it stays, even older versions, because some mod packs might only work with those older versions. Nothing negates making money from the mods. The policy is just to keep stability for users. People just panicked at there being a change but the change is for the better. Curseforge is an easy example, they also keep your mods uploaded/archived forever, but no one is fleeing since it's always been that way.

Originally posted by Sunny:

Originally posted by Mysterious Sir K:

From what I've heard, Vortex straight up doesn't work with SMAPI. That'll be the problem. You'll want to go straight to the site, download the mods, and place them into the games "Mods" folder, which will be there once you've installed SMAPI.

It works fine. I'm using it right now, modded the whole thing via Vortex, big mod list, everything is fine.

When I added the game, it gave me a big "SMAPI IS NOT INSTALLED. INSTALL?" warning, I said yes, it installed it. No bugs, no errors, no problems.

Yes. It worked great for me too. I installed the 3 main town modpacks so tons of mods plus a few qol ones I like. I think Vortex was rough at first but it works smoothly now.