Does installing mods disable achievements?

[Witch ~]

Just curious

[Buffmania]

nope. mod as much or as little as you'd like nothing gets disabled.

[Witch ~]

Originally posted by Buffmania:

nope. mod as much or as little as you'd like nothing gets disabled.

*devs bursts into my house and disable my life support* oh no

[Sstavix]

Some mods actually make it easier to get certain achievements. So mod away!

[EleventhStar]

if you set it up to launch smapi through steam, you'll get steam achievements.

but if you don't launch smapi through steam, you'll only get in game achievements.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

if you set it up to launch smapi through steam, you'll get steam achievements.

but if you don't launch smapi through steam, you'll only get in game achievements.

Not true. You just need to make sure you have Steam open while using SMAPI

[Witch ~]

Another question: can I remove and add mods midsave? Never modded the game before so I don't know how sensitive the game gets

[xicewindex]

Originally posted by Witch ~:

Another question: can I remove and add mods midsave? Never modded the game before so I don't know how sensitive the game gets

That depends on the mod.
Some need a new save, others don't.
Read the mod description carefully

[Sunny]

It does not disable achievements. HOWEVER, to earn them on Steam, you must start the game through Steam, not your mod program, which means following the directions to add SMAPI to the launch that runs on the play button in Steam. Is not at ALL hard, you just have to do it.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Modding:Installing_SMAPI_on_Windows

It's under 'configure your game client'.

Originally posted by xicewindex:

Originally posted by Witch ~:

Another question: can I remove and add mods midsave? Never modded the game before so I don't know how sensitive the game gets

That depends on the mod.
Some need a new save, others don't.
Read the mod description carefully

In SMAPI, after you get it going, it prints a log when it starts. It lists a bunch of different categories of mods, and one of those categories explicitly says:

Changed save serializer
These mods change the save serializer. They may corrupt your save files

Those are the ones you absolutely cannot remove. The others should generally be fine to add/remove as you go. If you add or remove anything with a map, bushes and things will be messed up, but it's unlikely to bork your save.

Anything that's under Content Patcher or Alternative Textures can go in and out without issue from the mods themselves, provided you remove items they add from your farm before removing the mod (like if you have a modded chest with a bunch of stuff in it, get your stuff before you remove the mod). If you use a modded greenhouse, plant plants, and then remove it, it will *work*, but your plants will be in the wrong space and may or may not be reachable with your toon. That sort of stuff.

It's the changing the save serializer stuff that actively borks saves, though.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by Sunny:

It does not disable achievements. HOWEVER, to earn them on Steam, you must start the game through Steam, not your mod program

This is no longer true but is still best practices. I've gotten new achievements on steam while only having steam and smapi running and open at the same time. No need to be lunched through Steam.

[Sunny]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Originally posted by Sunny:

It does not disable achievements. HOWEVER, to earn them on Steam, you must start the game through Steam, not your mod program

This is no longer true but is still best practices. I've gotten new achievements on steam while only having steam and smapi running and open at the same time. No need to be lunched through Steam.

That has not been my experience, but I'm glad to hear that it's been changed.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Not true. You just need to make sure you have Steam open while using SMAPI

really? i thought seam wasn't spyware like that. shame

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

Not true. You just need to make sure you have Steam open while using SMAPI

really? i thought seam wasn't spyware like that. shame

I assume it's more that the game needs to be able to communicate with Steam to tell them you got the achievement, and so their both needing to be open. So maybe something in game got changed to allow it. I did the launch through Steam in the past but with the new update, it wasn't working on my new computer with fresh installation. Steam kept saying the file wasn't there, even though it clearly was.

While looking for a solution, I found someone saying it works long as you have Steam open and so I gave it a shot and I've been getting the new achievements that way just fine.