Random .xmb errors in multiplayer

[ladyceil]

My friend and I have been trying to get his stardew to not hate us for a few days. We've tried everything we can think of to fix this issue including a Fresh install of mods, a fresh install of stv, and fresh install of stv on another hard drive. Pouring through all the errors to see if someone else was having the same issue. He can load in alright, it does take forever, seems like pytk is having issues right now. That's okay really if we didn't have to reload it a million times. He can play, so long as he doesn't leave the farm, soon as he does errors start spewing about being unable to find a character xmb file. These all seem to be misspelled variants of base game characters. Our only other clue is the ridgeside village cutscene with Lewis and Lenny locking him in if I go into it, he can see the dialogue but a black screen and can never leave it, skip doesn't work and it just stays black when the cutscene ends. Oh as a note when he plays with the same mods single player he doesn't get the error.

Npc xmb names that errored out that i can remember. Allegra, Vincen, Page. There have been a couple more but none of them look familiar as npcs. Vincen seems like Vincent without the T but I could be wrong.

Things to include when asking for help:
Platform: Were both on windows 10 using steam
Game version sdv 1.5.6
SMAPI log His smapi long : https://smapi.io/log/e6cfa3b09ceb460dbf1be3552782c240
Mine: https://smapi.io/log/c261b3eaea884890a26889ffca4b61c4


Thanks in advance for any help. I'm wracking my brain to figure this out~

 

[MysticTempest]

Thanks for posting both logs, and all that extra info.
From what I can see; it seems to be the "RandomNPC" mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4911?tab=description

Notice, in the link above; the config values. Like 'RNPCTotal'; which has the same 'RNPC' prefix as the error below of 'RNPC14_Page.xnb'.
The mod would also generate random names for those NPCs like you saw before.

03:26:49    ERROR    game    An error occurred in the base update loop: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentLoadException: The content file was not found.
 ---> FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content\Characters\RNPC14_Page.xnb'.
File name: 'E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content\Characters\RNPC14_Page.xnb'

The mod's gone 2 years without an update, and it doesn't mention multiplayer support. There's also some comments about compatibility with mods like RSV & SDV Expanded being luck of the draw basically.

Overall, it'd probably be best for y'all to remove that mod from both your folders.

 

[ladyceil]

From what I can see; it seems to be the "RandomNPC" mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4911?tab=description

Thanks for finding this! I wasn't really aware this was a mod we had as it came packaged with "Market Day" https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/11778
It's not a super important mod for me so we're just going to get rid of it so we can get to the game, however, I did find a comment that had the same issue and their fix was this: Turns out that this was just after I just set up another mod group! So the ErrorHandler core SMAPI mod wasn't installed in the same folder as my Market Day. Reinstalled the three main files into the same mod group and all was well!

FIgured I should post what I found incase someone else has the same issue. Thanks so much for your help!

 

[Asfandali]

Thanks for posting both logs, and all that extra info.
From what I can see; it seems to be the "RandomNPC" mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/4911?tab=description

Notice, in the link above; the config values. Like 'RNPCTotal'; which has the same 'RNPC' prefix as the error below of 'RNPC14_Page.xnb'.
The mod would also generate random names for those NPCs like you saw before.

03:26:49    ERROR    game    An error occurred in the base update loop: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentLoadException: The content file was not found.
---> FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content\Characters\RNPC14_Page.xnb'.
File name: 'E:\Steam\steamapps\common\Stardew Valley\Content\Characters\RNPC14_Page.xnb'

The mod's gone 2 years without an update, and it doesn't mention multiplayer support. There's also some comments about compatibility with mods like RSV & SDV Expanded being luck of the draw basically.

Overall, it'd probably be best for y'all to remove that mod from both your folders.

I think they stopped working on it