Question Thinking of making a Stardew mod! How do?

[LizardDearest]

Hi everyone! I’m very fresh out the gate when it comes to mods, but I’m feeling overzealous and confident enough to try my hand at making a mod.

See, I was trying to find some MHA expansions for SV, as one does, and found the severe lack of them incredibly disturbing. So obviously I thought, stupidly, “Why not make my own? Seems fun.” Thinking of adding in at least one romanceable character, hopefully two. Problem is, I’ve got no experience whatsoever with coding or programming or anything like that. I feel in way over my head, but if I don’t do it the idea’s gonna drive me nuts.

What I’ve been hearing from the videos I’ve found to help is that the easiest thing to do is replace vanilla characters with your own. I don’t want to do that, since all of the vanilla characters seem vital to the story and game’s vibe. So now I’m back at square one. If anyone can offer some suggestions or advice or really any help at all, it’d be massively appreciated, thank you.

 

[stardew_luv]

Hi everyone! I’m very fresh out the gate when it comes to mods, but I’m feeling overzealous and confident enough to try my hand at making a mod.

See, I was trying to find some MHA expansions for SV, as one does, and found the severe lack of them incredibly disturbing. So obviously I thought, stupidly, “Why not make my own? Seems fun.” Thinking of adding in at least one romanceable character, hopefully two. Problem is, I’ve got no experience whatsoever with coding or programming or anything like that. I feel in way over my head, but if I don’t do it the idea’s gonna drive me nuts.

What I’ve been hearing from the videos I’ve found to help is that the easiest thing to do is replace vanilla characters with your own. I don’t want to do that, since all of the vanilla characters seem vital to the story and game’s vibe. So now I’m back at square one. If anyone can offer some suggestions or advice or really any help at all, it’d be massively appreciated, thank you.

I have no suggestions or helping on making a mod but maybe you could find someone here you can co create this with. You give the idea and be the creativity side and they be the coding/ programming/ graphics part of things. Either way I hope someone will help jump start your idea and make an awesome mod.

 

[Lucky Demos]

I've heard there are some apps that could help? I don't have any links though sorry

 

[KasualTheGamer]

Realizing this is a bit late of a reply, but If you want to throw an idea at modders, try https://github.com/StardewModders/mod-ideas/issues

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, I'm doing that right now, too, and

• Using Frameworks like Content Patcher means you don't have to learn how to write and compile C# code, so most guides are going to focus there because they're much easier for first time modders to work with.
• the Stardew Valley discord has a room set aside for modders, and they've been great about answering quick questions.
• the stardew valley wiki has an 'advanced' option under their search, and you can limit your searches to their articles in the "modding" namespace. It will be frustrating because there's some assumptions in those articles about how much you understand about the basics of the JSON format.
• If you have no experience with JSON, I recommend working through the guides at https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json.asp. While they bring in some mentions about javascript, that stuff can be ignored
• Looking is free. If you're browsing Nexus, you'll spot a lot of links to github code repositories, and you can see how other people have actually put their mods together, and what the necessary parts of the process are for the mods you're most interested in making.