1.6 Update Missing catalogue?

[frogking1934]

I'm new to posting here, but I've been playing Stardew with the 1.6 update since it came out and I recently got the junimo catalogue. But just the other day when I was trying to redecorate my house, I saw that it's missing. I've been trying to look at other posts and online, but I haven't seen anybody talk about this specifically. I've looked through all of my chests and my house and farm buildings, and around town and in the Lost and Found. And I don't think I can get the catalogue again since I got it once before. I've seen some people say it might not have saved if I didn't save that day, but I know I did because I decorated for a few days with the junimo catalogue. I was wondering if anybody knows what happened or anything? Thank you!!!!

 

[LRangerR]

I only ask this because it's a common problem with watering cans and the like, but are you absolutely sure it's not in any of your treasure chests? All too often that's the problem with a missing watering can, axe, etc

 

[frogking1934]

I only ask this because it's a common problem with watering cans and the like, but are you absolutely sure it's not in any of your treasure chests? All too often that's the problem with a missing watering can, axe, etc

Yes, I’m absolutely sure I checked all my chests. I have two or three around town but those are empty. I’ve checked everywhere. I have no idea what happened.

 

[Ereo]

If you upload your save file here, maybe @Pathoschild can take a look?

 

[Pathoschild]

Yep, feel free to post a zip of your save folder and I'll take a look.

 

[frogking1934]

Yep, feel free to post a zip of your save folder and I'll take a look.

How does that work?

 

[Pathoschild]

Do you mean how to find the save files, how to zip them, how to upload them, or how I can find items in the save?

 

[VampireCake]

Apologies for being that person - did you also check in the fridge? I think most of us have left something odd in there at least once.

(You can get more than one btw, there's no limit. )

 

[PoppyForPenny]

Fridge, junimo hut, autograbber, lost & found, and Adventurers Guild recovery service, are all places I have found missing items. I've also had a lost tool mailed to me. It says on the wiki lost tools can appear next to your bed the next day. Of course catalogs may behave differently. One time I threw my furniture catalog away!

 

[frogking1934]

Do you mean how to find the save files, how to zip them, how to upload them, or how I can find items in the save?

All of the above. I'm new to this side of SDV because I would only play on Switch before the 1.6 update and I started playing on PC.

 

[Ereo]

There’s a description how to find your save files on the wiki: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Saves

you can also just use the search feature on your file explorer.

once you’ve found it, you can use winzip or a similar software to create a compressed zip file.

then click on “attach files” below your post, select the right file and post it.

 

[frogking1934]

Okay, I was able to make the compressed zip file for my save. I looked through it and saw that I do have the Junimo Catalogue but I'm not sure how to find it.

 

[stardew_luv]

I'm new to posting here, but I've been playing Stardew with the 1.6 update since it came out and I recently got the junimo catalogue. But just the other day when I was trying to redecorate my house, I saw that it's missing. I've been trying to look at other posts and online, but I haven't seen anybody talk about this specifically. I've looked through all of my chests and my house and farm buildings, and around town and in the Lost and Found. And I don't think I can get the catalogue again since I got it once before. I've seen some people say it might not have saved if I didn't save that day, but I know I did because I decorated for a few days with the junimo catalogue. I was wondering if anybody knows what happened or anything? Thank you!!!!

Maybe the Junimos took it back? . But seriously that stinks. I’ve had lots of things randomly disappear from game and it’s so frustrating. Sometimes I find things that can be placed down behind furniture or behind something tall or taller than item I was looking for. Often happens behind upstairs walls too and it only takes up a square and those front upstairs walls are tall as a dresser often. Once I had a catalogue hide behind those half walls up there

 

[stardew_luv]

Apologies for being that person - did you also check in the fridge? I think most of us have left something odd in there at least once.

(You can get more than one btw, there's no limit. )

Lol Ive absentmindedly put odd things in my irl fridge! Let alone SDV!

 

[Giant Octopodes]

Ok so I'll try to keep it succinct, if this doesn't make sense, then it might be best to just attach the save or zip and we can find it for you. The very short summary is the save file is in XML format, which means you have nested attributes. So for example, there's a spot for a location, in this case the island farmhouse, and it has a bunch of attributes associated with it, one of which is the items in that location:

And you'll notice one of those item types is a chest. Note that it has a key / value pair, as well as a "tilelocation", and they match. Both show *where* the object in question is, so this chest is at the coordinates of X = 17, Y = 16. I don't know which direction it starts from with certainty but I presume the bottom left corner is x and y of 0 based on general math conventions. Either way it should be easy enough to find, only 4 possible locations based on that, if anyone knows for certainty let me know. Inside the chest, it has its own list of items:

So apparently in this chest in the IslandFarmhouse map is a stack of 3 iridium quality (quality 4) Flounders.
The point of this being, you can work backwards from any item. Search for the item name. Thankfully CA is WAY better than even major developers (*cough* looking at you Microsoft *cough*) at ensuring the "Graphical User Interface" or "GUI" name lines up with the internally used name for objects. So just search for it in your save file. Then, search "up" for "items" to find where the beginning of the item list is for the container it's in. Search "up" for the "tilelocation" to get the location of the container, and just above you'll see what it is, whether that's a chest or whatever else. Search "up" one last time for "gamelocation" to find the game location in which the container is located. Voila! You know what you're looking for and where, and should be able to find it easy enough.

Note that it'll look WAY less pretty than this by default, this is with an XML formatter being used. Specifically in my case VS Code is the program and XML tools is installed as an extension, formatting with shift+alt+f. But the principles are the same whether you're looking at it all nice and pretty or all messy in something as basic as notepad. I hope that helps.

 

[stardew_luv]

Ok so I'll try to keep it succinct, if this doesn't make sense, then it might be best to just attach the save or zip and we can find it for you. The very short summary is the save file is in XML format, which means you have nested attributes. So for example, there's a spot for a location, in this case the island farmhouse, and it has a bunch of attributes associated with it, one of which is the items in that location:
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And you'll notice one of those item types is a chest. Note that it has a key / value pair, as well as a "tilelocation", and they match. Both show *where* the object in question is, so this chest is at the coordinates of X = 17, Y = 16. I don't know which direction it starts from with certainty but I presume the bottom left corner is x and y of 0 based on general math conventions. Either way it should be easy enough to find, only 4 possible locations based on that, if anyone knows for certainty let me know. Inside the chest, it has its own list of items:
View attachment 25043
So apparently in this chest in the IslandFarmhouse map is a stack of 3 iridium quality (quality 4) Flounders.
The point of this being, you can work backwards from any item. Search for the item name. Thankfully CA is WAY better than even major developers (*cough* looking at you Microsoft *cough*) at ensuring the "Graphical User Interface" or "GUI" name lines up with the internally used name for objects. So just search for it in your save file. Then, search "up" for "items" to find where the beginning of the item list is for the container it's in. Search "up" for the "tilelocation" to get the location of the container, and just above you'll see what it is, whether that's a chest or whatever else. Search "up" one last time for "gamelocation" to find the game location in which the container is located. Voila! You know what you're looking for and where, and should be able to find it easy enough.

Note that it'll look WAY less pretty than this by default, this is with an XML formatter being used. Specifically in my case VS Code is the program and XML tools is installed as an extension, formatting with shift+alt+f. But the principles are the same whether you're looking at it all nice and pretty or all messy in something as basic as notepad. I hope that helps.

You just freaking amaze me with how smart you are! Just wow that you know all of that! Do you do this for a living? Or just very good with codes and math and all? You are a rock star!

 

[Giant Octopodes]

You just freaking amaze me with how smart you are! Just wow that you know all of that! Do you do this for a living? Or just very good with codes and math and all? You are a rock star!

I sincerely appreciate the compliment. Yep, I use VS Code and interact with XML files (along with scripts and other techie stuff) as part of my job. I can certainly navigate my way around a save file or write up some code to calculate things for me or automate a task. But it's nothing compared to the full programs and emulators Blade has created; there are lots of very talented and creative folks in the community. I'm just happy to be able to help

 

[VampireCake]

I sincerely appreciate the compliment. Yep, I use VS Code and interact with XML files (along with scripts and other techie stuff) as part of my job. I can certainly navigate my way around a save file or write up some code to calculate things for me or automate a task. But it's nothing compared to the full programs and emulators Blade has created; there are lots of very talented and creative folks in the community. I'm just happy to be able to help

As a completely code-knowledge-less person, do you think there's a way of making a widget item-finder, kind of like the predictor & checkup ones?

 

[Giant Octopodes]

As a completely code-knowledge-less person, do you think there's a way of making a widget item-finder, kind of like the predictor & checkup ones?

Oh definitely, a “where am I” widget with you putting in what you’re looking for and it returning a scrollable table with where the items are located is highly doable. It could show the container name, the container coordinates, and the map it’s on, for each instance of that item found. It could even contain optional toggles for other attributes like the enchantments on it, the quantity, the quality, or other attributes deemed desirable to find exactly what you’re looking for.

The only thing is, it would take some time to build. Not a super long time, but realistically it’d probably take me somewhere around 20 hours to build it the way I would want to. And with my current time constraints that’s a lot. If there’s adequate demand for it though I’ll do it - I’ll make you a deal, if this post gets 20 likes from folks who want to see it made I’ll build it up before end of year. No promises it’ll be the prettiest thing ever but it’ll function :-)

 

[VampireCake]

Oh definitely, a “where am I” widget with you putting in what you’re looking for and it returning a scrollable table with where the items are located is highly doable. It could show the container name, the container coordinates, and the map it’s on, for each instance of that item found. It could even contain optional toggles for other attributes like the enchantments on it, the quantity, the quality, or other attributes deemed desirable to find exactly what you’re looking for.

The only thing is, it would take some time to build. Not a super long time, but realistically it’d probably take me somewhere around 20 hours to build it the way I would want to. And with my current time constraints that’s a lot. If there’s adequate demand for it though I’ll do it - I’ll make you a deal, if this post gets 20 likes from folks who want to see it made I’ll build it up before end of year. No promises it’ll be the prettiest thing ever but it’ll function :-)

I'll take that deal Genuinely awesome for you even to consider it - there's 'I've lost my X' threads pop up fairly regularly. It'd be *so* useful.

Like I said, I have zero coding knowledge.. I do draw a bit, though. If you do end up doing it, maybe I could make a banner if you'd like to pretty it up?